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Authors: J. F. Roberts

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Written by

RICHARD CURTIS & BEN ELTON

Music by

HOWARD GOODALL

Director

MANDIE FLETCHER

Producer

JOHN LLOYD

BLACKADDER: THE WOMAN’S HOUR INVASION

TX 18/11/88, BBC Radio 4
Blackadder

ROWAN ATKINSON

Baldrick

TONY ROBINSON

Also Featuring

JENNI MILLS, JOHN SESSIONS

 

Written by

RICHARD CURTIS & ROWAN ATKINSON

Production Assistant

BEE DAVIES

Producer

JOHN LLOYD

BLACKADDER’S CHRISTMAS CAROL

Recorded 4–11, 18 December 1988; TX 23/12/88 BBC1
Blackadders

ROWAN ATKINSON

Baldricks

TONY ROBINSON

Queens Elizabeth I/Asphyxia XIX

MIRANDA RICHARDSON

Lords Melchett/Frondo

STEPHEN FRY

Princes Regent/Pigmot

HUGH LAURIE

Spirit of Christmas

ROBBIE COLTRANE

Queen Victoria

MIRIAM MARGOLYES

Prince Albert

JIM BROADBENT

Nursie/Bernard

PATSY BYRNE

Beadle

DENIS LILL

Mrs Scratchit

PAULINE MELVILLE

Lord Nelson

PHILIP POPE

Millicent

NICOLA BRYANT

Ralph

RAMSAY GILDERDALE

Enormous Orphans

DAVID BARBER, ERKAN MUSTAFA, DAVID NUNN

 

Written by

BEN &
CHARLES
DICK
ENS

Music by

HOWARD GOODALL

Graphic Designer

TOM BROOKS

Properties Buyer

JOHN WATTS

Visual Effects Designer

STEVE LUCAS

Vision Mixer

ANGELA BEVERIDGE

Videotape Editor

CHRIS WADSWORTH

Lighting Director

HENRY BARBER

Costume Designer

RICHARD CROFT

Make-Up Designer

VICKY POCOCK

Production Assistant

JANE SPOONER

Production Secretary

HILARY CHARLES

Production Manager

SARAH COWERS

Assistant Floor Manager

LINDSAY TRENHOLME

Designer

ANTONY THORPE

Director

RICHARD BODEN

Producer

JOHN LLOYD

A merry messy Kweznuz.

BLACKADDER GOES FORTH

Recorded 20 August

24 September 1989

1) CAPTAIN COOK – TX 28/09/89 BBC1

Captain Edmund Blackadder

ROWAN ATKINSON

Private S. Baldrick

TONY ROBINSON

General Sir Anthony Cecil Hogmanay Melchett

STEPHEN FRY

Lt the Hon. George Colthurst St Barleigh

HUGH LAURIE

Captain Kevin Darling

TIM McINNERNY

2) CORPORAL PUNISHMENT – TX 05/10/89

Corporal Perkins

JEREMY HARDY

Corporal Jones

STEVEN FROST

Private Fraser

LEE CORNES

Private Robinson

PAUL MARK ELLIOTT

Private Tipplewick

JEREMY GITTINS

3) MAJOR STAR – TX 12/10/89

Driver Parkhurst

GABRIELLE GLAISTER

4) PRIVATE PLANE – TX 19/10/89

Squadron Commander Lord Flashheart

RIK MAYALL

Baron von Richthoven

ADRIAN EDMONDSON

Lieutenant von Gerhardt

HUGO BLICK

5) GENERAL HOSPITAL – TX 26/10/89

Nurse Mary Fletcher-Brown

MIRANDA RICHARDSON

Brigadier Smith

BILL WALLIS

6) GOODBYEEE – TX 02/11/89

Field Marshall Haig

GEOFFREY PALMER

SERIES CREDITS

Written by

RICHARD CURTIS & BEN ELTON

Title Music Composed and Arranged by

HOWARD GOODALL

Bandmaster, the Band of the 3
rd
Battalion the Royal Anglian Regiment (the Pompadours)

WOI TIM PARKINSON

Production Design

CHRIS HULL

Graphic Designer

GRAHAM McCALLUM

Properties Buyer

JAYNE LIBOTT

Costume Designer

ANNIE HARDINGE

Make-Up Designer

CAROLINE NOBLE

Production Assistant

VANESSA SHARPLES

Production Manager

DUNCAN COOPER

Assistant Floor Manager

J. KENNEDY

Vision Mixer

CAROL ABBOTT

Visual Effects

ROGER TURNER

Technical Coordinator

MIKE CHISLETT

Videotape Editor

CHRIS WADSWORTH

Lighting

HENRY BARBER

Sound

MARTIN DEANE

Director

RICHARD BODEN

Producer

597602 LLOYD, J.

BLACKADDER: THE KING’S BIRTHDAY

Recorded at the Lyceum Theatre, 13 January 1998; TX 14/11/98, ITV
Sir Edmund Blackadder

ROWAN ATKINSON

King Charles I

STEPHEN FRY

Written by

RICHARD CURTIS & BEN ELTON

BLACKADDER BACK AND FORTH

Filmed June–July 1999, debuted 06/12/99, SkyScape Cinema, Millennium Dome; TX 01/10/00, Sky One; Terrestrial TX 21/04/02, BBC1
All Blackadders

ROWAN ATKINSON

All Baldricks

TONY ROBINSON

All Melchetts

STEPHEN FRY

All Georges

HUGH LAURIE

All Darlings

TIM McINNERNY

All Elizabeths

MIRANDA RICHARDSON

Dinosaur

TYRANNOSAURUS REX

Nursie

PATSY BYRNE

William Shakespeare

COLIN FIRTH

Robin Hood

RIK MAYALL

Maid Marian

KATE MOSS

Friar Tuck

CRISPIN HARRIS

Napoleon

SIMON RUSSELL BEALE

Wellington

STEPHEN FRY

Scottish Hordes

HORDES OF SCOTS

Royal Reporter

JENNY BOND

 

Written by

RICHARD CURTIS & BEN ELTON

Make-up Designer

JAN SEWELL

Costume Designer

HAZEL PETHIG

Production Designer

ANDREW HOWE-DAVIS

Director of Photography

TONY PIERCE-ROBERTS, BSC

Music Composed by

HOWARD GOODALL

Editor

GUY BENSLEY

Executive Producers
PETER BENNETT-JONES, GEOFFREY PERKINS
Director

PAUL WEILAND

Producer

SOPHIE CLARKE-JERVOISE

Produced for the New Millennium Experience Company, in association with Sky TV, with grateful thanks to the BBC. A Tiger Aspect Production.

BLACKADDER: THE ARMY YEARS

Royal Variety Performance recorded at the Dominion Theatre on 5 December 2000; TX 17/12/00, BBC1
Compère/Writer

BEN ELTON

Captain, The Lord Blackadder

ROWAN ATKINSON

THE ROYAL GARDENER

‘Party at the Palace’ trailers TX May

June 2002, BBC1
Sir Osmund Darling-Blackadder

ROWAN ATKINSON

Directed by

JOHN LLOYD

THE JUBILEE GIRL

A clip show reviewing the Summer’s Jubilee events with Sir Osmond Darling-Blackadder and Dame Edna Everage. TX 29/12/02, BBC1

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