Blackadder

…iconic BBC period sitcom series Blackadder (1983–89), starring Rowan Atkinson, for its second series (Blackadder II, 1986). He continued with the project for two more series after that and won a BAFTA award for the final series, the World War I-set Blackadder Goes Forth (1989).

…1983 the first installment of Blackadder, written by Atkinson and Curtis, slithered onto British TV screens. Comic actor and writer Ben Elton joined the writing team beginning with Blackadder II (1986). The show featured the twisted relationship between four incarnations of the opportunistic, spineless Edmund Blackadder and his long-suffering retainer,…