Cast in Order of Reverence
Herbert, Archbishop of Canterbury
PAUL McDOWELL
Godfrey, Archbishop of Canterbury
ARTHUR HEWLETT
Percy, Bishop of Ramsgate
TIM McINNERNY
William, Bishop of London
ARTHUR HEWLETT
Mother Superior
JOYCE GRANT
Sister Sara
CAROLYN COLQUOHOUN
Harry, Prince of Wales
ROBERT EAST
The Queen
ELSPET GRAY
The Duke of Winchester
RUSSELL ENOCH
Cain, A Peasant
BERT PARNABY
Abel, A Peasant
ROY EVANS
Messenger
DAVID NUNN
Sir Justin de Boinod
BILL WALLIS
Sir George de Boeuf
DAVID DELVE
Lord Graveney
LESLIE SANDS
Brother Baldrick
TONY ROBINSON
King Richard IV
BRIAN BLESSED
Edmund, Archbishop of Canterbury
ROWAN ATKINSON
4) THE QUEEN OF SPAIN’S BEARD – TX 22/06/83
Cast in Affable Order
Edmund, Duke of Edinburgh
ROWAN ATKINSON
King Richard IV
BRIAN BLESSED
The Queen
ELSPET GRAY
Harry, Prince of Wales
ROBERT EAST
Percy
TIM McINNERNY
Baldrick
TONY ROBINSON
Infanta Maria Escalosa of Spain
MIRIAM MARGOLYES
Don Speekingleesh, An Interpreter
JIM BROADBENT
Mrs Applebottom
JANE FREEMAN
Rev. Lloyd
JOHN RAPLEY
Mr Applebottom
HOWARD LEW LEWIS
Lord Chiswick
STEPHEN TATE
1st Messenger
KENN WELLS
2nd Messenger
RICHARD MITCHLEY
3rd & 4th Messengers
DAVID NUNN
Archbishop
WILLOUGHBY GODDARD
Princess Leia of Hungary
NATASHA KING
Lady on Ramparts
HARRIET KEEVIL
5) WITCHSMELLER PURSUIVANT – TX 13/07/83
Cast in Order of Witchiness
The Great Grumbledook
ROWAN ATKINSON
The Witchsmeller Pursuivant
FRANK FINLAY
The Witch Queen
ELSPET GRAY
Percy, A Witch
TIM McINNERNY
Baldrick, A Witch
TONY ROBINSON
Ross, A Lord
RICHARD MURDOCH
Angus, A Lord
VALENTINE DYALL
Fife, A Lord
PETER SCHOFIELD
Soft, A Guard
STEPHEN FROST
Anon, A Guard
MARK ARDEN
Daft Ned, A Peasant
PERRY BENSON
Dim Cain, A Peasant
BERT PARNABY
Dumb Abel, A Peasant
ROY EVANS
Dopey Jack, A Peasant
FORBES COLLINS
Officer, An Officer
PATRICK DUNCAN
Jane Firkettle
BARBARA MILLER
Princess Leia
NATASHA KING
Piers, A Yeoman
HOWARD LEW LEWIS
Mrs Field, A Goodwife
SARAH THOMAS
Mrs Tyler, A Goodwife
LOUISE GOLD
Richard IV, A King
BRIAN BLESSED
Stuntman
GARETH MILNE
6) THE BLACK SEAL – TX 20/07/83
Cast in Order of Disappearance
Murdered Lord
JOHN CARLISLE
Cain, A blind beggar
BERT PARNABY
Abel, A blind beggar
ROY EVANS
Trusting Father
FORBES COLLINS
Person of unrestricted growth
DES WEBB
Old Man
JOHN BARRARD
Mad Gerald
HIMSELF (RIK MAYALL)
Pigeon Vendor
PERRY BEVON
Friar Bellows
PAUL BROOKE
Jack Large
BIG MICK
Three-Fingered Pete
ROGER SLOMAN
Guy de Glastonbury
PATRICK MALAHIDE
Sir Wilfred Death
JOHN HALLAM
The Hawk
PATRICK ALLEN
Sean the Irish Bastard
RON COOK
Harry
ROBERT EAST
The Queen
ELSPET GRAY
Richard IV
BRIAN BLESSED
The Black Adder
ROWAN ATKINSON
Baldrick
TONY ROBINSON
Percy
TIM McINNERNY
SERIES CREDITS
Written by RICHARD CURTIS & ROWAN ATKINSON
With additional dialogue by WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE
Music by
HOWARD GOODALL
Graphic Designer
STEVE CONNELLY
Production Assistant
JAN HALLETT
Assistant Floor Manager
HILARY BEVAN-JONES
Costume Designer
ODILE DICKS-MIREAUX
Make-Up Designer
DEANNE TURNER
Technical Manager
TERRY BRETT
Lighting
BRIAN CLEMETT
Sound
RICHARD CHAMBERLAIN
Production Manager
MARCUS MORTIMER
Videotape Editor
MYKOLA PAWLUK
Vision Mixer
ANGELA WILSON
Designers
NIGEL CURZON, CHRIS HULL
Director
MARTIN SHARDLOW
Producer
JOHN LLOYD
A BBC TV Production in association with the Seven Network, Australia. Made in glorious TELEVISION.
BLACKADDER II
Recorded 30 May (EXT), 9 June–7 July 1985
1) BELLS – TX 09/01/86 BBC1
Edmund Blackadder
ROWAN ATKINSON
Lord Percy
TIM McINNERNY
Baldrick
TONY ROBINSON
Queen Elizabeth I
MIRANDA RICHARDSON
Lord Melchett
STEPHEN FRY
Nursie
PATSY BYRNE
AND
Kate
GABRIELLE GLAISTER
Flashheart
RIK MAYALL
Dr Leech
JOHN GRILLO
Kate’s Father
EDWARD JEWESBURY
Wisewoman
BARBARA MILLER
Young Crone
SADIE SHIMMIN
2) HEAD – TX 16/01/86
Lady Farrow
HOLLY DE JONG
Gaoler Ploppy
BILL WALLIS
Mrs Ploppy
LINDA POLAN
Earl Farrow
PATRICK DUNCAN
3) POTATO – TX 23/01/86
Captain Rum
TOM BAKER
Sir Walter Raleigh
SIMON JONES
4) MONEY – TX 06/02/86
Bishop of Bath and Wells
RONALD LACEY
Molly
CASSIE STUART
Mrs Pants
LESLEY NICOL
Mr Pants
BARRY CRAINE
Arthur the Sailor
JOHN PIERCE JONES
Mad Beggar/Minstrel
TONY AITKEN
Leonardo A
cropolis
PHILIP POPE
Messenger
PIERS IBBOTSON
5) BEER – TX 13/02/86
Lady Whiteadder
MIRIAM MARGOLYES
Lord Whiteadder
DANIEL THORNDIKE
Simon Partridge
HUGH LAURIE
Geoffrey Piddle
ROGER BLAKE
Monk
WILLIAM HOOTKINS
6) CHAINS – TX 20/02/86
Prince Ludwig
HUGH LAURIE
Torturer
MAX HARVEY
1st Guard
MARK ARDEN
2nd Guard
LEE CORNES
SERIES CREDITS
Written by
RICHARD CURTIS & BEN ELTON
Music by
HOWARD GOODALL
Graphic Designer
GRAHAM KERN
Costume Designer
ANNIE HARDINGE
Make-Up Designer
VICKY POCOCK
Production Assistant
AMITA LOCHAB
Assistant Floor Manager
SARAH GOWERS
Videotape Editor
CHRIS WADSWORTH
Technical Co-Ordinator
RAY HIDER
Lighting
DON BABBAGE
Sound
NEIL SADWICK
Production Manager
PRUE SAENGER
Designer
ANTONY THORPE
Director
MANDIE FLETCHER
Producer
JOHN LLOYD
© BBC MCMLXXXV A.D.
BLACKADDER THE THIRD
Recorded 5 June–20 July 1987
For the BENEFIT of SEVERAL VIEWERS MR CURTIS & MR ELTON’S Much Admir’d Comedy … was performed with appropriate Scenery, Dresses etc. by …
1) DISH AND DISHONESTY – TX 17/09/87 9.30pm BBC1
Edmund Blackadder, butler to the Prince
MR ROWAN ATKINSON
Baldrick, a dogsbody
MR TONY ROBINSON
The Prince Regent, their master
MR HUGH LAURIE
Mrs Miggins, a coffee shoppekeeper
MISS HELEN ATKINSON-WOOD
AND
Mr Vincent Hanna, his own great-great-great-grandfather
MR VINCENT HANNA
Sir Talbot Buxomly, a Member of Parliament
MR DENIS LILL
Pitt the Younger, the Prime Minister
MR SIMON OSBORNE
Ivor Biggun, a candidate
MR GEOFF McGIVERN
Pitt the Even Younger, a tiny Whig
MASTER DOMONIC MARTELLI
2) INK AND INCAPABILITY – TX 24/09/87
Dr Samuel Johnson, noted for his fat dictionary
MR ROBBIE COLTRANE
Shelley, romantic junkie poet
MR LEE CORNES
Byron, romantic junkie poet
MR STEVE STEEN
Coleridge, romantic junkie poet
MR JIM SWEENEY
3) NOB AND NOBILITY – TX 01/10/87
Lord Topper, fop
MR TIM McINNERNY
Lord Smedley, fop
MR NIGEL PLANER
Ambassador, a fearsome revolutionary
MR CHRIS BARRIE
4) SENSE AND SENILITY – TX 08/10/87
Keanrick, thespian
MR HUGH PADDICK
Mossop, thespian
MR KENNETH CONNOR
Anarchist
MR BEN ELTON
5) AMY AND AMIABILITY – TX 15/10/87
Amy Hardwood, the elusive Shadow
MISS MIRANDA RICHARDSON
Mr Hardwood, her father
MR WARREN CLARKE
Sally Cheapside, a young lady of doubtful virtue
MISS BARBARA HORNE
The Duke of Cheapside, her father
MR ROGER AVON
6) DUEL AND DUALITY – TX 22/10/87
The Duke of Wellington, a famous soldier
MR STEPHEN FRY
King George III, a mad Monarch
MR GERTAN KLAUBER
SERIES CREDITS
Music (never perform’d before)
MR HOWARD GOODALL
Designer of graphics
MR GRAHAM McCALLUM
Buyer of properties
MISS JUDY FARR
Designer of costumes
MISS ANNIE HARDINGE
Designer of make-up
MISS VICKY POCOCK
Mixer of vision
MISS SUE COLLINS
Designer of visual effects
MR STUART MURDOCH
Editor of videotape
MR CHRIS WADSWORTH
Assistant to production
MISS NICKY COCKCROFT
Assistant manager of floors
MR DUNCAN COOPER
Manager of production
MISS OLIVIA HILL
Designer
MR ANTONY THORPE
Director
MISS MANDIE FLETCHER
Producer
MR JOHN LLOYD
To conclude with Rule Britannia in full chorus.
NO MONEY RETURN’D
BLACKADDER: THE CAVALIER YEARS
Recorded 10 January 1988, TX 05/02/88 BBC1
Sir Edmund Blackadder
ROWAN ATKINSON
Baldrick
TONY ROBINSON
King Charles I
STEPHEN FRY
Oliver Cromwell
WARREN CLARKE
Narrator
HARRY ENFIELD
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 DICKENS
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
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