Black-Adder The Third (1987)

Running Time: 30 minutes (approx)

Production Year: 1987

Production Country: UK

The Black-Adder sitcom series moves to the Regency period for what some consider to be its finest hour. No longer aristocracy, Mr E Blackadder (Rowan Atkinson) is the butler to the foppish, faddish and intellectually challenged Prince Regent (Hugh Laurie). Baldrick (Tony Robinson) - even more stupid than before - plays Blackadder's own servant. And adding spice to the mix is raucous Cockney Mrs Miggins (Helen Atkinson-Wood), the local pie-shoppe proprietor who has her heart set on Blackadder.

Although there were less regular characters in this six-parter, there were plenty of fine cameos to compensate. Robbie Coltrane was especially memorable as Doctor Johnson, Kenneth Connor and Hugh Paddick were on top form as actors Mossop and Keanrick, while Nigel Planer and Tim McInnerny played fops. Good fun all round.

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Main Cast

	Rowan Atkinson		Edmund Blackadder Esq Butler to the Prince, Mad McAdder Cousin of Edmund Blackadder Esq
	Tony Robinson		Sod-Off Baldrick A Dogsbody
	Hugh Laurie		George Prince of Wales Prince Regent
	Helen Atkinson-Wood		Mrs. Miggins A Coffee-Shoppe Keeper
	Robbie Coltrane		Dr. Samuel Johnson
	Vincent Hanna		Vincent Hanna His Own Great Great Great Grandfather
	Stephen Fry		The Duke of Wellington
	Roger Avon		The Duke of Cheapside
	Kenneth Connor		Mossop
	Chris Barrie		Ambassador - Fearsome Revolutionary
	Warren Clarke		Josiah Hardwood
	Tim McInnerny		Lord Topper/Le Comte de Frou-Frou
	Denis Lill		Sir Talbot Buxomly MP
	Lee Cornes		Shelley
	Gertan Klauber		King George III
	Ben Elton		Anarchist
	Hugh Paddick		Keanrick
	Nigel Planer		Lord Smedley
	Steve Steen		Byron
	Dominic Martelli		Pitt the Even Younger
	Barbara Horne		Sally Cheapside
	Miranda Richardson		Amy Hardwood
	Jim Sweeney		Coleridge
	Geoffrey McGivern		Ivor Biggun
	Simon Osborne		Pitt the Younger the Prime Minister