Blackadder Back & Forth (1999)

At a New Millennium Eve party Blackadder and Baldrick test their new time machine and ping pong through history encountering famous characters and changing events rather alarmingly....

Director:

Paul Weiland

Writers:

Richard Curtis, Ben Elton,

Stars:

Rowan Atkinson, Tony Robinson, Stephen Fry

1 nomination.

Cast

Cast overview:
Rowan Atkinson	...	Lord Edmund Blackadder / King Edmund III / Blackaddercus (All Blackadders)
Tony Robinson	...	Sod-Off Baldrick / Baldrickus (All Baldricks)
Stephen Fry	...	Bishop Flavius Melchett / Melchett / General Melchecus (All Melchetts) / Wellington
Hugh Laurie	...	Viscount George Bufton-Tufton / Georgius
Tim McInnerny	...	Archdeacon Darling / Duc de Darling / Duke of Darling (All Darlings)
Miranda Richardson	...	Lady Elizabeth / Queen Elizabeth (All Elizabeths)
Tyrannosaurus Rex	...	Dinosaur
Patsy Byrne	...	Nursie
Colin Firth	...	William Shakespeare
Rik Mayall	...	Robin Hood
Kate Moss	...	Maid Marian
Crispin Harris	...	Friar Tuck
Simon Russell Beale	...	Napoleon (as Simon Russell-Beale)
Hordes of Scots	...	Scottish Hordes
Jennie Bond	...	Royal Reporter (as Jenny Bond)

Storyline

It's Millennium Eve and Blackadder is hosting a dinner party for a few select friends, Lady Elizabeth, Viscount George, Archbishop Melchett and Archbishop Darling. Baldrick devises yet another of his infamous cunning plans to help his ever greedy master Edmund Blackadder con money from his gullible friends. The pair build a "time machine" from empty cereal packets and place bets with their friends as to when in history they will travel, retrieving various artifacts from their travels as proof, items which Blackadder already owns! However, in a strange twist of fate the time machine actually works and the pair are thrown back in history initially to the Jurassic period. Gradually the pair start to return to their own time stopping off at various famous times in history such as Sherwood Forest and the Battle of Waterloo but will they make it home?

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Plot Keywords:

friend | time machine | millennium | con | gullible | 

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Taglines:

The final episode in the saga of the Blackadder family, who have forever been at the very center of British history and society.

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Genres:

Short | Comedy | History | Sci-Fi

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Details

Country:

UK

Language:

English

Release Date:

6 December 1999 (UK)

Also Known As:

Untitled Blackadder Millennium Project

Filming Locations:

Shepperton Studios, Shepperton, Surrey, England, UK

Box Office

Budget:

£3,000,000 (estimated)

Company Credits

Production Co:

New Millennium Experience Company, Sky, Tiger Aspect Productions

Technical Specs

Runtime:

33 min

Sound Mix:

DTS 70 mm (as dts Digital Sound)

Color:

Color

Aspect Ratio:

2.20 : 1

Did You Know?

Trivia

Was shown at SkyScape attraction at London's Millenium Dome eight times a day for the whole of 2000.

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Goofs

When Blackadder walks down the stairs showing Leonardo Da Vinci's sketchbook, we hear him talking about it, but his lips don't move.

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Quotes

Blackadder: And here is a front page of Macbeth, signed by William Shakespeare himself.
Lady Elizabeth, George, Darling: Who?
Melchett: Oh, come on, you know this... he's the fellow who invented the ball-point pen.

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Crazy Credits

There is a statement in the opening credits: "Blackadder Films in association with Baldrick Dodgy Catering Co. presents..."

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Connections

References Blackadder Goes Forth (1989)

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Soundtracks

"Robin Hood"
Written by Carl Sigman (as Carl Stigman)
Published by Memory Lane Music Ltd.

User Reviews

A wonderful end to a wonderful series

This being hyped as the last Blackadder story is a great end to a very funny series. The plot has Edmund Blackadder trying to con his friends (played by series regulars Stephen Fry, Hugh Laurie Miranda Richardson, and Tim Mcinnery) by claiming he has built a time machine on the eve of the new century, the year 2000. That opening alone is a tip of the hat to the classic George Pal film, "The Time Machine" where Rod Taylor as George does the same thing at the turn of the century the year 1900. But what Edmund thought of as just a con turned out to be a real time machine, put together by his usually incompetent servant Baldrick. The two travel thru time and change history in hysterical ways to funny to mention here. The ending is classic and will have you applauding at the end.

My favorite series of Black Adder was a tie with the "Blackadder III", and "The Blackadder Christmas Carol", but now this one surpasses them. I can't believe the comments that I read on this site, who didn't like it or felt it was far from the best, because I thought they have done a great job with this show. I think it might be that they would rather had a full series on TV and not have to pay to see it at the Millennium dome as they had to. I just saw this on my local PBS station and I now want to go out and buy the tape of it. I recommend this show to all fans of Black Adder and of good time travel stories as well. It's a hoot.