"Blackadder Goes Forth" (1989) TV series

Seasons:

1

Release Date:

28 September 1989 (UK)

Genre:

Comedy | History | War

Plot:

In this final series, Blackadder is a World War I army captain trying to survive at the front lines at the Western Front.

Plot Keywords:

Officer | Army Life | Sexual Innuendo | Cult Favorite | Cross Dressing

Awards:

3 wins

Cast

Rowan Atkinson	...	Captain Edmund Blackadder (6 episodes, 1989)
Tony Robinson	...	Private S Baldrick / ... (6 episodes, 1989)
Stephen Fry	...	General Sir Anthony Cecil Hogmanay Melchett (6 episodes, 1989)
Hugh Laurie	...	Lieutenant The Honourable George Colthurst St. Barleigh (6 episodes, 1989)
Tim McInnerny	...	Captain Kevin Darling / ... (6 episodes, 1989)

Series Directed by
Richard Boden		(6 episodes, 1989)

Series Writing credits
Richard Curtis		(6 episodes, 1989)
Ben Elton		(6 episodes, 1989)

Series Produced by
John Lloyd	....	producer (6 episodes, 1989)

Series Film Editing by
Chris Wadsworth		(1 episode, 1989)

Series Production Design by
Chris Hull		(6 episodes, 1989)

Series Costume Design by
Annie Hardinge		(6 episodes, 1989)

Series Makeup Department
Caroline Noble	....	makeup designer (6 episodes, 1989)

Series Production Management
Duncan Cooper	....	production manager (6 episodes, 1989)

Series Art Department
Jayne Libotte	....	props buyer (6 episodes, 1989)
Graham McCallum	....	graphic designer (4 episodes, 1989)

Series Sound Department
Martin Deane	....	sound supervisor (6 episodes, 1989)
Nick Way	....	deputy sound supervisor (6 episodes, 1989)

Series Visual Effects by
Roger Turner	....	visual effects (6 episodes, 1989)

Series Camera and Electrical Department
John Hoare	....	camera supervisor (6 episodes, 1989)
Henry Barber	....	lighting director (5 episodes, 1989)

Series Editorial Department
Carol Abbott	....	vision mixer (6 episodes, 1989)
Chris Wadsworth	....	video tape editor (5 episodes, 1989)

Series Music Department
Howard Goodall	....	composer: title music / music arranger: title music (6 episodes, 1989)
The Band of the 3rd Battalion The Royal Anglian Regiment {The Pompadours}	....	title music played by (5 episodes, 1989)
Tim Parkinson	....	bandmaster (5 episodes, 1989)

Series Other crew
J. Kennedy	....	assistant floor manager (6 episodes, 1989)
Vanessa Sharples	....	production assistant (6 episodes, 1989)
Mike Chislett	....	technical coordinator (5 episodes, 1989)
Mark Shelley	....	weapons armorer (unknown episodes)

Production Companies

• British Broadcasting Corporation (BBC)

Distributors

• British Broadcasting Corporation (BBC) (original airing)

Runtime:

30 min (6 episodes)

Country:

UK

Language:

English

Color:

Color

Sound Mix:

Mono

Certification:

UK:15 | Ireland:15 | Australia:PG | Singapore:PG | Portugal:M/6

Company:

British Broadcasting Corporation (BBC)

Trivia:

In-joke: In "General Hospital", General Melchett ('Stephen Fry') tells Blackadder (Rowan Atkinson) that "Oxford is a right dump". Like Melchett, Fry went to Cambridge University while Atkinson went to Oxford.

Quotes:

Lord Flasheart: [off stage] Hey girls, look at my machinery!
[feminine squeals of delight off stage - cue to Flasheart entering room buttoning up his files]

Movie Connections:

Featured in "De wereld draait door: (#4.49)" (2008)

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My favorite of the Blackadder series (I love 'em all!). A very funny series about a rather grim subject. Rowan Atkinson, better known in the States for his Mr. Bean character, shows here (as in his other Blackadder incarnations) that he's as good at verbal comedy as he is at physical comedy. This series is funny all the way up to its somewhat surprising ending. Also, very illuminating to me as an American regarding the British slant on the war to end all wars...