Title:
Black Adder : the complete collector's set.
Publication Information:
[Place of publication not identified] : BBC Video ; Burbank, CA : Distributed in the USA by Warner Home Video, [2005]
Physical Description:
5 videodiscs (approximately 860 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
ISBN:
9781419821066
General Note:
Set title from container.
Originally broadcast on the BBC in 1983, 1985, 1987 and 1999.
Full screen (4:3 aspect ratio).
Special features: Who's who in BlackAdder; Footnotes to history, trailers (disc 1-5) ; BlackAdder sing-along (disc 1) ; Blackadder, the cavalier years / 1988; ca. 15 min. (disc 2); Blackadder's Christmas carol / 1988; ca. 43 min. (disc 3); archival Richard Curtis interview (disc 4); (disc 5).
Abstract:
The many generations of the Blackadder family: one Edmund, Duke of Edinburgh (alias the Black Adder), the Elizabethan bastard Lord Edmund, the Regency-era Edmund (valet & butler to the Prince Regent), and Captain Blackadder, fighting a losing battle in WWI.
Subject Term:
Added Author:
Added Corporate Author:
Added Title Contained Works:
Blackadder, the cavalier years.
Blackadder's Christmas carol.
Blackadder back & forth.
Blackadder back and forth.
Added Uniform Title:
Black Adder.
Blackadder II.
Blackadder the Third.
Blackadder goes forth.
Variant Title:
BlackAdder : the complete collector's set
Contents:
[disc 1] The Black Adder / by Richard Curtis and Rowan Atkinson; director, Martin Shardlow; producer, John Lloyd; a BBC TV production, in association with the Seven Network, Australia. [episodes] The foretelling; Born to be king; The archbishop; The queen of Spain's beard; Witchsmeller pursuivant; The black seal; special features.
[disc 2] Blackadder II / by Richard Curtis & Ben Elton; director, Mandie Fletcher; producer, John Lloyd ; BBC. [episodes] Bells; Head; Potato; Money; Beer; Chains; special features.
[disc 3] BlackAdder the third / by Richard Curtis & Ben Elton; director, Mandie Fletcher; producer, Mr. [John] Lloyd; BBC. [episodes] Dish and dishonesty; Ink and incapability; Nob and nobility; Sense and senility; Amy and amiability; Duel and duality; special features.
[disc 4], Blackadder goes forth / by Richard Curtis and Ben Elton; dir., R. [Richard] Boden; prd., J. [John] Lloyd ; BBC. [episodes] Captain cook; Corporal punishment; Major star; Private plane; General Hospital; Goodbyeee; special features.
[disc 5], Blackadder back and forth / written by Richard Curtis & Ben Elton; produced by Sophie Clarke-Jervoise ; directed by Paul Weiland ; produced for New Millennium Experience Company ; Tiger Aspect Productions (1985 ; ca. 33 min.) -- Baldrick's diary: the making of Back & forth (1985; ca. 18 min.).
Credits:
Film editor, Mike Jackson, Chris Wadsworth (disc 3-4) ; music composer, Howard Goodall.
Performer:
Rowan Atkinson, Tony Robinson, Tim McInnerny, Hugh Laurie, Stephen Fry; with Brian Blessed, Robert East, Miranda Richardson, Patsy Byrne, Helen Atkinson-Wood, Robbie Coltrane.
Technical Details:
DVD, NTSC.
Language:
Closed-captioned.