Blackadder

Blackadder
Genre	Period sitcom
Created by	Richard Curtis Rowan Atkinson
Written by	Richard Curtis Rowan Atkinson (series 1) Ben Elton (series 2–4)
Directed by	Geoff Posner (pilot) Martin Shardlow (series 1) Mandie Fletcher (series 2 and 3) Richard Boden (series 4)
Starring	Rowan Atkinson Tony Robinson Tim McInnerny Miranda Richardson Stephen Fry Hugh Laurie
Theme music composer	Howard Goodall
Country of origin	United Kingdom
Original language	English
No. of series	4
No. of episodes	24 (plus 3 specials) (list of episodes)
Production
Producer	John Lloyd
Camera setup	Multi-camera
Running time	30 minutes approx
Production company	BBC
Original release
Network	BBC1
Release	15 June 1983 (1983-06-15) – 2 November 1989 (1989-11-02)

Blackadder is a British sitcom that first broadcast on BBC1 between 1983 and 1989. There were four parts to the sitcom. All of them were set in different parts of history. All of the series starred Rowan Atkinson, as Edmund Blackadder; and Tony Robinson, as Baldrick. The four series were The Blackadder, set at the end of the British Middle Ages; Blackadder II, set in England during Queen Elizabeth I's rule; Blackadder the Third, set during the British Regency; and Blackadder Goes Forth, set during World War I.

Blackadder Goes Forth was at number 16 in the 100 Greatest British Television Programmes, which was a list made by the British Film Institute. Blackadder was at number 2 in the TV poll Britain's Best Sitcom in 2004. Empire magazine said it was the 9th-best television show of all time.

Rowan Atkinson said Blackadder is "the thing he found the least stressful" to do.