Blackadder: The Cavalier Years

Name: Blackadder: The Cavalier Years
Genre: Short, Comedy, History
Released: 1988-02-05
Duration: 15 min
Rating: 8
Cast: Rowan Atkinson, Tony Robinson, Stephen Fry

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19881988
15min

8.0/10

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Sir Edmund Blackadder must protect, and later rescue, King Charles I from the Roundheads.Sir Edmund Blackadder must protect, and later rescue, King Charles I from the Roundheads.Sir Edmund Blackadder must protect, and later rescue, King Charles I from the Roundheads.

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Rowan Atkinson and Tony Robinson in Blackadder: The Cavalier Years (1988)

Rowan Atkinson, Stephen Fry, Hugh Laurie, and Tony Robinson in Blackadder: The Cavalier Years (1988)

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In 1648, Sir Edmund Blackadder, descendant of Prince Edmund Plantagent and currently the sole member of the noble dynasty, is one of two people who stayed loyal to King Charles I after Oliver Cromwell's threat, the other being Baldrick, descendant of a pig farmer and a bearded lady. To protect his liege, Sir Edmund has hid the king (the series has already proven to us that the royals are insane) in Blackadder Hall, but Baldrick unwittingly betrays the ruler when Cromwell arrives at the Hall. Blackadder decides he must save the king when he is sentenced to execution, and becomes frustrated when Baldrick cluelessly accepts a job as executioner- until he realizes he may be able to use it to save Charles... —Bloggers!

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Trivia
Filmed as part of the British version of the "Comic Relief" charity show.

Goofs
The baby is an obvious doll.

Quotes
Baldrick: I have a cunning plan to save the king.
Edmund Blackadder: Ha! Well forgive me if a don't do a cartwheel of joy; your family's history in the department of cunning planning is about as impressive as Stumpy O'Leg McNolegs' personal best in the Market Harborough marathon.

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Edited into Comic Relief: Behind the Nose (1992)

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9/10

Save the king

"Blackadder: The Cavalier Years" is a very short, and very funny, episode of the adventures of one of the Blackadder's characters as played by the legendary Rowan Atkinson.

The story doesn't really matter, but goes around King Charles I being on the run from Cromwell and hiding at Blackadder's place. Of course, Cromwell discovers quite fast that King Charles I is there and apprehends him. Edmund will try to save... will try to do what interests him best, as always.

For a very short episode, just 15 minutes long, this "The Cavalier Years" pucks a punch and it's full of very funny jokes. The delivery is great, and all the actors do an amazing job on keeping the things funny and very silly. Probably at this stage they could all have played the characters in their sleep, but still do a great job in making them funny for the viewer. The production values and the camera work are just OK, but that is not what really matters.

A great extra in the "Blackadder"'s world.

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