The True History of the Blackadder: The Unadulterated Tale of the Creation of a Comedy Legend
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pilot 96, 98
politics and charity work 375–6, 380
potential Blackadders 395–9
on Richardson 187–9
writing 228, 282, 283
Roland Rat 228
Room 101 378
Ross, Jonathan 257
Ross, Sandy 143
Rothwell, Talbot 84, 85
‘Rotten Boroughs’ 240, 245
Rowan Atkinson Live in Belfast 69
Rowan Atkinson’s Presents … Canned Laughter 43–6
Rowan Atkinson’s Profiles 40
Rowley, Laurie 46
Royal Family 369–70
Royal Variety Performances 69, 176, 369, 370, 373
Royle Family, The 377
Rudman, Michael 33
Rudner, Rita 347
Russell Beale, Simon 150, 365
Russian revolution, the 393
Sabotage! 365
Sacred Cows 40
Sam on Boff’s Island 95
Sarchet, Tony 25, 130, 227
Sastry, Sunetra 203, 204, 326
Saturday Live 158, 217, 219, 223, 229, 341
Saturday Night Fry 227
Saunders, Jennifer 171, 172, 275n, 280, 284, 338, 384, 389
Savident, John 93
Sawalha, Julia 362
Sax, Geoffrey 44
Sayle, Alexei 73, 75, 166, 215, 284
Scacchi, Greta 101
‘Scarlet Pimpernel’ 240
Schofield, Philip 258
‘Schoolmaster’ sketch 33, 34, 50, 70, 73
science fiction 396
Scooby Doo 335
Secret Diary of Desmond Pfeiffer 259
Secret Policeman’s Ball, The 50, 72, 88, 213, 282
sets 31, 192, 232, 319
Seven Network 111
Severance 232
Shakespeare 16, 64, 151, 244n, 401
Atkinson and 21
Back and Forth 306, 364
and Blackadder 102, 110, 117, 134, 181, 231, 311
Blessed on 104
Curtis and 41, 82
influence of 339–40
Mayall and 74
‘So That’s the Way You Like it’ sketch 87
‘Shakespeare Masterclass’ 151, 166
‘Shakespeare Sketch, The’ 309
Shand, Neil 215
Shardlow, Martin 105, 116, 128, 129, 185, 335
Shaw, Sandie 350
Shearer, Paul 150, 156
Shelley 246
Sherrin, Ned 86
Shue, Larry 176
Silly Cow 342
Six Wives of Blackadder, The 392
Sky 368
Slattery, Tony 150
Sleepy Hollow 384
Slings and Arrows 378n
Sloman, Roger 76, 121
‘Small Sketch, A’ 309
Smith, Mel 22, 48, 56, 59, 71, 79, 80, 129, 167, 267, 268
Smith, Mike 256
Sno 7 and the White Dwarfs 13
‘So That’s the Way You Like it’ sketch 87
songs 59, 79, 248–9, 268n, 279, 312, 334
sound effects 70, 247
Sparks, Richard 33, 73
Spider-Plant Man 380
Spitting Image 46–7, 130, 161, 163, 201, 203, 222, 229, 249, 268n, 325, 355
St Mary’s Street Hall 30
Stalag Luft 347
Stanshall, Vivian 157
Staradder 396
Stark 266, 267
Stay Tooned 284
Steadman, Alison 56
Steadman, Ralph 166
Steed, Maggie 53
Steen, Steve 243
Stephenson, Pamela 56, 80, 90
Stephenson’s Rocket 90
Stewart, Rod 379
Stigwood, Robert 13
Stilgoe, Richard 42, 76
Story of Elsie and Jane, The 228
Stroud, John 391
Sun, The 81, 323
Sunday People 367
Sunday Times 358
Sweeney, Jim 243
Tales from Fat Tulip’s Garden 228
Tales from the Poopdeck 251, 390
Talkback 80
Tall Guy, The 41n, 267–9, 370
Tambor, Jeffrey 258
Tarses, Jay 390
Tati, Jacques 19, 28, 176
Tatler 204
Tavener, Mark 382
Taylor, Tim 357
Telegraph, The 25, 51, 204
Tesco 364
Tewson, Jane 167, 213, 214
Thames TV 332
That Was the Week That Was 129
Thatcher era 49, 222, 245, 394–5
That’s Life 10
That’s Love 285
theatre 270, 379
There’s Nothing to Worry About 143, 157
Theseus and Odysseus: The Greatest Hero of Them All 228
Thick of It, The 383
Thin Blue Line, The (TTBL) 341–7, 377
This is David Lander 227–8
Thomas, Hugh 41
Thompson, Emma 144–5, 149
Alfresco 159–60
Cellar Tapes, The 151, 153
Happy Families 172
Me and My Girl 165, 172
Saturday Live 223
Tall Guy, The 269
Thorndike, Daniel 201
Thorpe, Antony 192, 231
Three of a Kind 76
Tickets for the Titanic 246
Tiger Aspect 332, 342, 357
Time Bandits 119
Time Out 35, 176
Time Team 357
Times, The 12, 99, 244n, 296
Tiswas 238
To the Manor Born 39
Toksvig, Sandi 144
‘Tom, Dick and Harry’ 282
Tonight’s the Night 379
‘Top of the Form’ sketch 73
Townshend, Pete 50
‘Trouble’ 167
Troughton, Michael 248
Turvey, Kevin 76–7
TVAM 228
Twice a Fortnight 88
UKTV Gold 389
Ullman, Tracey 76
undergraduate humour 126
University Challenge 154, 165
Unpleasantness at Brodie’s Close, The 14, 27
Unstead, R.J. 102
UNTV 162
Unwin, Stanley 166
Up franchise 86, 87, 89, 123, 250, 288
USA 74, 77, 80, 224, 258–9, 333, 335
Vicar of Dibley, The 339–41, 345
Vidal, Gore 166
video games 388
Vincent and the Doctor 362
vinyl see albums
Wadsworth, Chris 198, 276, 319, 320
Walker, Elspeth 33
Wallis, Bill 120, 193, 285, 311, 363
War Horse 380
Wax, Ruby 171
We Will Rock You 379
Webb, Nick 13, 37
‘Wedding, the’ sketch 70
Week Ending 11, 12, 38, 47, 120, 161, 163
Weiland, Paul 357
‘Welcome to Hell’ 70
‘Well Hung Jury’ 52
West, Adam 258
what might have been … 392–6
Whatever Happened to Bernard Fripp 100–1
Whatever Happened to the Likely Lads? 398
White, Michael 99, 100
Whitehouse, Paul 218n, 350
Who Dares Wins 129, 130, 228, 282
Whole Rotten Saga, The 389
Who’s Had Who 216n
Whose Line is it Anyway? 227
Wild West Blackadder 392
Wilde 353
Wilmut, Roger 76, 221
Wilson, Peter 33, 41
Wilton House 180, 181
Wireworks 55, 144
Wish You Were Here 13, 37
‘Witchsmeller Pursuivant, The’ 111–2, 305
‘With friends like these’ sketch 70
Wodehouse, P.G. 348, 349
Wogan 203, 254–5
Woman’s Hour 255
Wood, Victoria 56, 73, 280, 377
Woolwich Tramshed 75
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Working Title 267
‘Wow Show, The’ 218, 305
Wright, Steven 334
writing 10, 72, 241–2, 297, 300, 306
Atkinson 107
Curtis 17, 128, 163–4
Elton 138, 140, 143, 163–4, 174
Robinson 228, 282–3
sketches 32
Wyman, Bill 166
Yentob, Alan 213, 217, 276–7
Yes, Prime Minister 246, 281
Yes Minister 53, 101, 248
Young Ones, The 98–9, 103, 165, 214, 216n, 238
and Elton 138, 159, 164, 219, 333
influence of 107, 121, 171, 284
Robinson 128
Your Cheating Heart 251
Zanzibar 157, 194
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