Blackadder

British television show

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  • Rowan Atkinson
    In Rowan Atkinson: Blackadder and stardom

    …1983 the first installment of Blackadder, written by Atkinson and Curtis, slithered onto British TV screens. Comic actor and writer Ben Elton joined the writing team beginning with Blackadder II (1986). The show featured the twisted relationship between four incarnations of the opportunistic, spineless Edmund Blackadder and his long-suffering retainer,…

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