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John Byrne
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LINK(Sadly, notice how the idiots in programming slap a blurb for the next show across the most poignant scene from the final series ending! Idiots!)
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Michael Penn
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| Posted: 19 June 2018 at 8:19am | IP Logged | 2
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One of the great TV series ever. Thank you for this, JB!
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Robbie Moubert
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It's a shame they didn't cover the original pilot (with John Savident in place of Brian Blessed and a different Baldrick) which sadly doesn't seem to be on YouTube anymore. It was remade as episode four of the first series.
"One more guess!"
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Bryan White
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| Posted: 28 June 2018 at 5:19pm | IP Logged | 4
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My favorite TV ever. Other than my kids might be the best thing the ex ever gave me.
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Rebecca Jansen
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I liked it from start to finish. I think the best episode was the one with Robbie Coltrane, where Baldrick seems to have burnt his sausage-less (and aardvark-less) dictionary, and is seconded by three romantic poets.
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Greg Kirkman
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This show has been on my "to watch" list, like, forever. Need to see if I can VoD it, or something.
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Bill Collins
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| Posted: 29 June 2018 at 8:51am | IP Logged | 7
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Greg, series 2 is where it hits it`s stride.
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James Woodcock
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Soooo many good lines in series 2, & it hadn’t yet fallen into ‘tick the box’ formula where you were waiting for the same lines to crop up each episode.
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Jason Scott
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| Posted: 29 June 2018 at 4:42pm | IP Logged | 9
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I can't stand the first season. (It's way too different to what follows, and I only saw it after the later seasons, so the differences stood out even more.) But Blackadder II, I genuinely believe is the funniest series there has ever been of any show.
It's just sheer perfection to me, with each episode being a true classic. The balance of personalities in that era was complete genius, and Edmund was never better. Such a wonderfully selfish character that somehow you couldn't help but admire. I wish we'd had more of him.
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Bill Collins
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| Posted: 30 June 2018 at 12:27am | IP Logged | 10
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Just think, if it had been cancelled after the
underwhelming first series!
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John Byrne
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| Posted: 30 June 2018 at 5:10am | IP Logged | 11
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Let's not be too hard on the first series. It was not as good as what followed, but it was better than a lot of what was around it. If I ranked the series in order it would be S2, S3, S4.......... S1. S1 suffers mostly in comparison to what followed. (And while I consider S2 best overall, S3 is my favorite Adder.)
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Bill Collins
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| Posted: 30 June 2018 at 5:22am | IP Logged | 12
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That is the beauty of the BBC, it gave it a chance!
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Jason Scott
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That is true. I suppose there is some quality in the first season, but yeah, way behind the others. Thank goodness it wasn't cancelled after that first series!
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