Blackadder Specials

[RichardNH]

Does anybody know of the whereabouts of the last remaining Blackadder specials that are missing from the box sets and other DVD collections? The short specials I'm looking for are:



•Women's Hour Invasion

•The Royal Gardener

•The Army Years

•The King's Birthday





They are fully described at the Blackadder fansite:

Blackadder Hall - The Specials



I am keen to see and hear these last remaining gems.

[loudonsmum]

have you searched youtube?

i know there are one or two hard to find items on there,i just watched the children in need 1988 sketch.

[RichardNH]

I recorded 'Blackadder: The Cavalier Years' on its' premiere broadcast, so I got all the phone numbers all over the screen as well. I have seen the 'Blackadder Meets Shakespeare' sketch on You Tube. It looked like there was a link to 'Blackadder: The Royal Gardener' on You Tube yesterday dinnertime, but I couldn't find it in the evening. I saw 'Blackadder: The Pilot Episode' a few years back.

The rest I've only seen transcriptions of, but they're missing from my collection. Does anybody know where I could get them from?

[image45]

name='RichardNH']Does anybody know of the whereabouts of the last remaining Blackadder specials that are missing from the box sets and other DVD collections? The short specials I'm looking for are:



�Women's Hour Invasion

�The Royal Gardener

�The Army Years

�The King's Birthday





They are fully described at the Blackadder fansite:

Blackadder Hall - The Specials



I am keen to see and hear these last remaining gems.

I know the Blackadder pilot episode & raw studio session exist in the BBC archive but have not been release in an official version by the BBC. Are these considered to be rare too?

[GoggleboxUK]

I have the Ubaired Pilot and The Cavalier Years but that's about it for the rare stuff I'm afraid.

[image45]

name='GoggleboxUK']I have the Ubaired Pilot and The Cavalier Years but that's about it for the rare stuff I'm afraid.

What do you think to the style of how he plays Blackadder?

[GoggleboxUK]

To be honest I thought it was a good decision not to show the pilot episode. Its bad enough that there's no Tony Robinson but I felt like Blackadder just stepped out of the Tardis and come vack from series 2.



I wonder if the director made him play Blackadder differently in series 1 and then, because he was playing a different person, Rowan Atkinson went back to his original concept of the character in series 2?



If you ever get copies of the 4 special you're missing I'd be very interested to see them.

[image45]

I watched Episode 6: The Black Seal of the Black Adder yesterday direct from the BBC digital master. The original VT clock was in place from 1983 showing its programme number to be LLCE010N/71, the first edit from the location work and studio recording session. Nice to see nothing was cut or feel needing to be re-ordered for a 72 edit as most shows end up been.