Blackadder: The Cavalier Years

Blackadder: The Cavalier Years (1988)

A short movie, made for Comic Relief, in which Blackadder (Rowan Atkinson) and Baldrick (Tony Robinson) must help protect King Charles I (Stephen Fry) from the machinations of Oliver Cromwell and his Roundheads

Date of release
1988-02-05
TMDB
7.2 / 10 (91)
Runtime
15m
Genres
Comedy
Director
Mandie Fletcher
Collection
Blackadder Collection

Casting

Interesting facts

Blackadder: The Cavalier Years is a 15-minute one-off edition of Blackadder set during the English Civil War, shown as part of the first Comic Relief Red Nose Day on BBC1, broadcast on Friday 5 February 1988. The show featured Warren Clarke as a guest star.

Production

"Blackadder: The Cavalier Years" was recorded on 10 January 1988.

Fry based his interpretation of King Charles on the then Prince of Wales, but now King Charles III. In series chronology, this episode takes place between the second and third series of the show, although it was produced after the third series had aired. The kitchen set is a redress of the servants' quarters from the third series. A behind the scenes studio tape was found in 2019 and was released by Kaleidoscope on their YouTube channel.

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