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"Blackadder the Third" (1987) More at IMDbPro »

• Surprisingly, this is an accurate portrayal of Prince George IV. When his father, King George III went mad, he rose to prominence as the Prince Regent and was immediately hated by his subjects. He was seen as a foppish, immature, money-wasting imbecile and several attempts were made by Parliament to oust him.
  
  
• Among the books that Blackadder peruses during the opening titles are: - (Morte D'Edmund?) - The Blackadder's Progress - Rise and Fall - Bath on 5p a Day - Encyclopaedia Blackaddica Vol XIX FUN to HUG - Chelsea Arts Club (...) - Blackadder Unbound - Landscape Gardening by Capability Brownadder - From Black Death to Blackadder - Blackadder's Bedside Cockfighting Companion - The Blackadder of Calcutta - (...) - Blackadder Book of Martyrs - The Blackobite Rebellion - Old Blackamore's Almanac Second Edition - Sir Francis Blackadder (Letters?)
  
  
• This series of Blackadder marked a change in the traditional line-up of characters. The two previous series, "The Black Adder" (1983) and "Blackadder II" (1986) included different historical incarnations of Edmund Blackadder (Rowan Atkinson), Baldrick (Tony Robinson) and Lord Percy (Tim McInnerny). This time round the character of Lord Percy wasn't in at all, his role as the foppish fool of the group being replaced by the character of George, Prince Of Wales/The Prince Regent. McInnerny was actually offered the part of George but turned it down as he feared that he would become typecast. He did appear in one episode, playing Lord Topper, The Comte d'Frufru in Nob And Nobility. Hugh Laurie eventually got the part of George, having played two characters in the previous series Blackadder II (Simon Partridge in "Beer" and Prince Ludwig in "Chains").
  
  
• Blackadder does not sport a beard in this season of the show because Rowan Atkinson's girlfriend hated it.
  
  

• SPOILER: The only one of the Blackadder series where Edmund Blackadder does not die at the end of the last episode. Actually, we never see Blackadder die in the fourth series. In all probability he did die, but we never see it happen.
  
  

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