What was a cunning plan from Lord Edmund Blackadder V to fake a time machine on his gullibly incompetent friends, turns out to be the real thing and hurls him and his imbecile underling, Baldrick, through the course of human history.
Rowan Atkinson
Blackadder
Tony Robinson
Baldrick
Stephen Fry
Melchett
Hugh Laurie
George
Tim McInnerny
Darling
Miranda Richardson
Queenie
Tyrannosaurus Rex
Dinosaur
Patsy Byrne
Nursie
Colin Firth
William Shakespeare
Rik Mayall
Robin Hood
Kate Moss
Maid Marian / King Blackadder's Wife
Crispin Harris
Friar Tuck
Simon Russell Beale
Wellington
Hordes of Scots
Scottish Hordes
Jennie Bond
Royal Reporter (voice) (as Jenny Bond)
Sacha Bennett
Will Scarlett (uncredited)
Kevin Hudson
Policeman (uncredited)
Ross Larkin
Viking (uncredited)
Amanda Jane Manning
Lady in Waiting (uncredited)
Margaret Thatcher
Self (archive footage) (uncredited)
Paul Weiland
Director
Richard Curtis
Writer
Ben Elton
Sophie Clarke-Jervoise
Producer
Oct 5, 1961
Oct 10, 1985
Aug 14, 2020
Nov 2, 1990
Mar 17, 1993
Feb 17, 1989
Jul 19, 1991
May 20, 1971
Sep 1, 2015
Oct 17, 1999
May 23, 2012
Jul 17, 2007
Feb 11, 2021
Jul 3, 1985
Nov 15, 1987
Jun 25, 2025
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