Blackadder - Season 3 (1987-1988)
Alternative title: The Black Adder
IMDb score:
8,0 (44.271)
Episodes: 7
Playing time: 3 hour and 42 minutes
Developed by: Richard Curtis, Rowan Atkinson and Ben Elton
Stars: Rowan Atkinson, Hugh Laurie and Tony Robinson
Origin:
United Kingdom / Australia
Releasedate: Thursday 17 September 1987
First aired on: BBC One (Verenigd Koninkrijk)
This season is not available on US streaming services.
Actors and Actresses
Captain Edmund Blackadder
Lieutenant The Honourable George Colthurst St. Barleigh
Private S. Baldrick
King Richard IV
Queen Elizabeth I
Captain Kevin Darling
General Sir Anthony Cecil Hogmanay Melchett
The Queen
Minstrel
Harry Prince of Wales
Narrator
Nursie
Mrs. Miggins
Reviews & comments
rcuppen79
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Third season of the hit British TV series Black Adder and probably the most fun too, thanks in part to Hugh Laurie's hilarious role as the oily-dumb Prince Regent. The rest of the cast is also excellent and the dialogues are hilarious.
Each episode is top notch, but the standouts are "Dish and Dishonesty", in which BlackAdder tries to fake the local elections and "Amy and Amiability" in which the Prince Regent falls in love with a young lady, who later turns out to be England's most wanted bandit.
The series was awarded a BAFTA award for best comedy series in 1988.
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Dievegge
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In this third season, Blackadder is at its most vicious. He is opportunistic, selfish, cynical, jealous and manipulative. The Prince Regent, son of the insane George III, is ignorant, but retains his enthusiasm despite all the blunders, insults and humiliations. For the sake of humor, the historical facts are taken for granted here and there. In reality, Pitt the Younger was forty-four when he became prime minister, and Samuel Johnson's dictionary appeared as early as 1755. Conscious anachronisms are nods to modern TV culture.
It is mainly verbal humor: ingenious one-liners, witty replies, absurd comparisons, original swear words and crazy dictionary definitions. Jane Austen's titles are parodied, as are The Scarlet Pimpernel and Cyrano de Bergerac. It's a satire on the class system. The vanity of aristocrats and actors is ridiculed. In the final episode, the reunited duo of Fry and Laurie add some physical humor. As a sitcom, this remains unparalleled.
Favorite Episodes: 2 and 3. Favorite Quote: "He's the most overrated human being since Judas Iscariot won the AD 31 Best Disciple Competition!"
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