BLACKADDER THE THIRD {BLACK ADDER III}: INK AND INCAPABILITY (TV)
Summary
One in the third installment of this British comedy series in which Rowan Atkinson plays the scheming Edmund Blackadder, doomed to serve idiot rulers throughout the ages. In this series, Blackadder is butler to the Prince Regent George IV in eighteenth-century England. In this episode, Samuel Johnson seeks the Prince Regent's patronage for his newly completed dictionary. Blackadder, who despises Johnson for ignoring his own submission, a novel called "Edmond, A Butler's Tale," persuades the prince to turn Johnson down, after which the idiot servant Baldrick uses the dictionary as kindling. When it turns out that Johnson also seeks the prince's patronage for Blackadder's book, Blackadder must find a way to replace Johnson's work, lest he's murdered by Johnson's champions, the poets Shelley, Coleridge, and Byron, or worse, his own novel goes unpublished and his genius remains uncelebrated.
(This program originally aired on the BBC on September 24, 1987.)
Details
- NETWORK: A&E
- DATE: January 10, 1988 11:30 PM
- RUNNING TIME: 0:29:42
- COLOR/B&W: Color
- CATALOG ID: T:15170
- GENRE: Comedy
- SUBJECT HEADING: Comedy
- SERIES RUN: A&E - TV series, 1988
- COMMERCIALS: N/A
CREDITS
- John Lloyd … Producer
- Mandie Fletcher … Director
- Richard Curtis … Created by, Writer
- Ben Elton … Created by, Writer
- Howard Goodall … Music by
- Rowan Atkinson … Cast, Edmund Blackadder
- Helen Atkinson-Wood … Cast, Mrs. Miggins
- Robbie Coltraine … Cast, Dr. Samuel Johnson
- Lee Cornes … Cast, Shelley
- Hugh Laurie … Cast, The Prince Regent
- Tony Robinson … Cast, Baldrick
- Steve Steen … Cast, Byron
- Jim Sweeney … Cast, Coleridge