Blackadder
decides that he can wait no longer to seize his destiny. He sets out to recruit
the six most evil men in the Kingdom - The Black Seal - to help him take control
of the country. His plans are thwarted by the arrival of his oldest enemy:
the Hawk. This implacable foe throws Edmund into a dungeon and goes off to take
over the kingdom himself. Edmund eventually escapes and summons the Black
Seal ...
Review:The six most evil men in the Kingdom are not
a bunch to be trifled with, and Edmund is out-evilled at every turn. Mad Gerald
(Rik Mayall) provides a little light relief in this web of treachery and intrigue
... but it is the last few minutes, when all the threads come together, that the
real action takes place. An entirely appropriate ending to the first series,
leaving the BBC a range of options ... Credits:
| Director | Martin Shardlow |
| Writers | Richard Curtis and Rowan Atkinson |
| Additional Dialogue | William Shakespeare |
| John Carlisle | Murdered Lord | |
Forbes Collins | Trusting Rather | | Des
Webb | Person of Unrestricted Growth | | John
Barrard | Retired Morris Dancer | | Rik Mayall
| Mad Gerald | | Perry Benson |
Pigeon Vendor | | Paul Brooke | Friar
Bellows | | Big Mick | Jack Large |
| Roger Sloman | Three Fingered Pete |
| Patrick Malahide | Guy of Glastonbury |
| John Hallam | Sir Wilfred Death | |
Patrick Allen | Hawk | | Bert Parnaby |
Colin | | Roy Evans | Abel |
| Ron Cook | Sean | | 
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