Blackadder Season 1 · Episode 3

The Archbishop

29th June 1983 33 mins Season 1 Episode 3

Edmund is appointed to the post of Archbishop of Canterbury after the King has the last one killed.

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Season 1 · Episode 4

The Queen of Spain's Beard

The King decides that Edmund should marry a Spanish princess, who Edmund finds unattractive, in order to secure a treaty between Spain and England which will allow an invasion of France.

Talent

Cast

Rowan Atkinson

Captain Edmund Blackadder

Tony Robinson

Private S. Baldrick

Hugh Laurie

Lieutenant The Honourable George Colthurst St. Barleigh

Tim McInnerny

Captain Kevin Darling

Stephen Fry

General Sir Anthony Cecil Hogmanay Melchett