Blackadder's Christmas Carol

TV Movie
19881988
43m

After a genial spirit shows the benevolent Ebenezer Blackadder visions of his unscrupulous ancestors, he resolves to mend his generous ways.After a genial spirit shows the benevolent Ebenezer Blackadder visions of his unscrupulous ancestors, he resolves to mend his generous ways.After a genial spirit shows the benevolent Ebenezer Blackadder visions of his unscrupulous ancestors, he resolves to mend his generous ways.

8.0/10

13K

Director
- Richard Boden
Writers
- Richard Curtis(by)
- Ben Elton(by)
- Charles Dickens(short story "A Christmas Carol")
Stars

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Jim Broadbent and Miriam Margolyes in Blackadder's Christmas Carol (1988)

Rowan Atkinson in Blackadder's Christmas Carol (1988)

Jim Broadbent, Miriam Margolyes, and Tony Robinson in Blackadder's Christmas Carol (1988)

Nicola Bryant and Ramsay Gilderdale in Blackadder's Christmas Carol (1988)

Rowan Atkinson and Robbie Coltrane in Blackadder's Christmas Carol (1988)

Director
- Richard Boden
Writers
- Richard Curtis(by)
- Ben Elton(by)
- Charles Dickens(short story "A Christmas Carol") (uncredited)
All cast & crew
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In Victorian England, merchant Ebenezer Blackadder is a kind and generous man. He enjoys Christmas-time and is generous with friends and freely gives whatever he can to the poor. That night, he is visited by the Spirit of Christmas who shows him some of his less likeable ancestors. When shown the options for the future, he decides that being bad is the best way forward. —garykmcd

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Taglines
- Blackadder's Christmas Carol by Ben and Dick.
Genres
- Comedy
- History
Parents guide

Trivia
Ebenezer Blackadder is the only incarnation of Blackadder who is not named Edmund.

Goofs
Queen Victoria is depicted wearing her stereotypical black clothing; however, Victoria did not actually begin to dress all in black until after her husband, Prince Albert, died in 1861.

Quotes
Baldrick: Well, it went all right until the shepherds came on. See, we haven't been able to get any real sheep, so we had to stick some wool...
Ebenezer Blackadder: On some other dogs!
Baldrick: Yeah. And the moment Jesus got a whiff of them, he's away! While the angel's singing "peace on earth, good will to mankind," Jesus scampers across and tries to get one of the sheep to give him a piggy-back ride!
Ebenezer Blackadder: Scarcely appropriate behavior for the Son of God, Mister Baldrick! Weren't the children upset?
Baldrick: No, they loved it! They want us to do another one at Easter. They want to see us nail up the dog!

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. As Blackadder correctly had noted this is spelling Christmas without getting a single letter right.

Alternate versions
In some copies, the line "They want us to do another one at Easter - they want to see us nail up the dog" has been cut.

Connections
Featured in The 100 Greatest Christmas Moments (2004)

Top review

8/10

Funny Anytime Of The Year

Edmund Blackadder is one of the greatest characters British television has ever produced . He`s cruel , selfish and oh so cunning and it`s a bit of a shock to see him undergo a character change and be the kindest man in all of England . But don`t worry , in this reworking of Dickens A CHRISTMAS CAROL Blackadder soon turns into the anti hero we all know and hate

This is a side splitting Christmas feast for fans of the BLACKADDER series and we get flashbacks to series two and three of the historical sit-com and a glimpse of how the show might have looked if it continued into the space age . To be honest I don`t think a science fiction version of BLACKADDER would have worked well but I did find the concept interesting and highly amusing at the same time .

Don`t worry if you watch it in the height of summer , you`ll still find it funny

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