Black Adder traces the deeply cynical and self-serving lineage of various Edmund Blackadders throughout British history, from the muck of the Middle Ages to the frontline of the First World War.
The peaks and the valleys. Find the essential episodes — and the ones to skip.
The King decides that Edmund should marry a Spanish Princess, who Edmund finds unattractive, in order to secure a treaty between Spain and England which will allow an invasion of France.
Edmund is appointed to the post of Archbishop of Canterbury after the king has the last one killed.
After the King takes away Edmund's title of Duke, he recruits the 6 most evil men in the land to take the crown by force.
Set in Elizabethan times, Prince Edmund plots to kill McAngus after the King gives him all of Edmund's Scottish lands.
Each point is an episode, plotted in order. Colored bands mark season boundaries. Look for the rise, the plateau, or the decline.
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