The Black Adder
Full Show Summary Set in England at the end of the War of the Roses, we soon find out that the history we know is a Tudor fiction. In fact, Henry VII did not actually win the battle of Bosworth Field; he lost and though Richard III died in the battle, his nephew King Richard IV (who certainly was not smothered while still a boy in the Tower of London) reigned on for some years. The story focuses on Richard IV's younger son Prince Edmund, a sniveling coward who calls himself the 'Black Adder'. Assisted by his grungy servant Baldrick and the moronic Lord Percy, Edmund plots his rise to greatness. |

Last Episode, 20 July 1983:
Season 1, Episode 6: The Black Seal
When Edmund loses his title of Duke of Edinburgh, he snaps, fires Baldrick and Percy and hires some of the most cruel men in England; Sir Wilfred Death, Three-Fingered Pete, Guy de Glastonbury, Sean the Irish Bastard, Friar Bellows and Jack Large to help him take over the kingdom.
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Date Aired | The Black Adder Episodes |
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Season 1 | |
1982 | Season 1, Episode 0: Original Pilot |
15 June 1983 | Season 1, Episode 1: The Foretelling |
22 June 1983 | Season 1, Episode 2: Born to Be King |
29 June 1983 | Season 1, Episode 3: The Archbishop |
6 July 1983 | Season 1, Episode 4: The Queen of Spain's Beard |
13 July 1983 | Season 1, Episode 5: The Witchsmeller Pursuivant |
20 July 1983 | Season 1, Episode 6: The Black Seal |
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