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17 December 2010 12:00 AM, PST | The Guardian - TV News | See recent The Guardian - TV News news »

From castle to first world war trenches, Blackadder was inspired comedy

Is Blackadder the most influential TV series ever? Look who came out of it: Richard Curtis, its original scriptwriter, who revolutionised the British film industry in the mid-1990s; regular guest Stephen Fry, now the unofficial leader of the Twitter generation; and, strangest of all, Hugh Laurie, once the dorkish Prince Regent, now arguably the biggest TV star in the Us. In fact, the one person relatively untouched by the Blackadder gold dust is its central figure, Rowan Atkinson; he's had his successes since, but nothing so brilliant and funny.

The basic premise barely needs repeating: the oily title character is reborn in successive historical epochs, accompanied by his much dumped-on sidekick Baldrick (Tony Robinson). Many episodes are now classics, but that's no reason not to revisit them: the one where Blackadder falls in love with "Bob"; the one »

- Andrew Pulver

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