Blackadder's Christmas Carol (TV 1988)

Pleasant Ebenezer Blackadder is turned into a cruel and witty miser after seeing visions of his ancestors and descendants.

Director:

Richard Boden

Writers:

Richard Curtis (by), Ben Elton (by),

Stars:

Rowan Atkinson, Tony Robinson, Miranda Richardson

Cast

Cast overview, first billed only:
Rowan Atkinson	...	Ebenezer Blackadder / Lord Edmund Blackadder / Edmund Blackadder, Esq. / Cmdr. Edmund Blackadder
Tony Robinson	...	Baldrick / Baldrick / Sod-Off Baldrick / Baldrick
Miranda Richardson	...	Queen Elizabeth I / Asphyxia XIX
Stephen Fry	...	Lords Melchett / Frondo
Hugh Laurie	...	Princes Regent / Pigmot
Robbie Coltrane	...	Spirit of Christmas
Miriam Margolyes	...	Queen Victoria
Jim Broadbent	...	Prince Albert
Patsy Byrne	...	Nursie / Bernard
Denis Lill	...	Beadle
Pauline Melville	...	Mrs Scratchit
Philip Pope	...	Lord Nelson
Nicola Bryant	...	Millicent
Ramsay Gilderdale	...	Ralph
David Barber	...	Enormous Orphan

Storyline

Edmund Blackadder and Baldrick his dogsbody are transplanted this time to Dickensian England in this one-off episode. He is kind, gentle and caring, but visits from an assortment of ghosts soon have him back to his old ways.

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Plot Keywords:

christmas | ghost | alternative comedy | reverse footage | 19th century | 

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Genres:

Comedy | History

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Details

Country:

UK

Language:

English

Release Date:

23 December 1988 (UK)

Also Known As:

A Fekete Vipera karácsonyi éneke

Company Credits

Production Co:

British Broadcasting Corporation (BBC)

Technical Specs

Runtime:

43 min

Color:

Color

Did You Know?

Trivia

This film and Blackadder Back & Forth are the only two to actively reprise characters from previous Blackadder incarnations (namely new segments for Black-Adder II and Black Adder the Third).

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Quotes

Edmund Blackadder, Esq.: Shall I begin the Christmas story?
George, the Prince Regent: Absolutely, as long as it's not that terribly depressing one about the chap who gets born on Christmas Day, shoots his mouth off about everything under the sun, and then comes a cropper with a couple of rum coves on top of a hill in Johnny Arab land.
Edmund Blackadder, Esq.: You mean *Jesus,* Sire...?
George, the Prince Regent: Yes, that's the fellow! Keep him out of it. He always spoils the X-mas atmos!

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Crazy Credits

After the list of the cast and crew at the end of the movie, we see the words "A Merry Messy Kweznuz" scribbled, "Kweznuz" replacing "Kwelfnuve" which is stricken out.

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Connections

Version of The Christmas Carol (1949)

User Reviews

brilliant

Very funny. British humour at its best once again. The reversal of the christmas carol is a brilliant idea with good imagination put into it. The other added bonus this one off episode offers is that it goes back to the past era's used in the series in small snip-its and shows us once again how the cunning Lord and the money obsessed butler spent there christmases (usually involving beating baldrick up) plus a view of the blackadder family in the distant future. definately check this out. 9 out of 10.