Blackadder consists of four series with six episodes each, along with an unaired pilot and three specials.
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The Black Adder
Unaired pilot episode, written by Richard Curtis and Rowan Atkinson, taped in 1982, set in sixteenth-century England
The first series, written by Richard Curtis and Rowan Atkinson, broadcast in 1983, set in late fifteenth-century England
Blackadder II
The second series, written by Richard Curtis and Ben Elton, broadcast in 1985, set in Elizabethan England
Blackadder The Third
The third series, written by Richard Curtis and Ben Elton, broadcast in 1987, set in Regency England
Blackadder Goes Forth
The fourth series, written by Richard Curtis and Ben Elton, broadcast in 1989, set in the trenches of World War I
The Specials
- Blackadder: The Cavalier Years — a one-off special for Comic Relief, written by Richard Curtis and Ben Elton, broadcast in 1988, set during the English Civil War
- Blackadder's Christmas Carol — the Christmas Special, written by Richard Curtis and Ben Elton, broadcast in 1988, set in Victorian London
- Blackadder Back & Forth — the last instalment, written by Richard Curtis and Ben Elton, first released in 1999, set in the present and the past
