The Black Adder pilot episode resurfaces

On the face of it, this is an unimportant piece of TV trivia - extremely unimportant to be brutally honest. Unless it's to show that they so nearly got this so very very wrong. Tony Robinson is Baldrick, Brian Blessed is Richard IV - you know where I'm coming from. So, from that point of view it really is very important as a piece of archive which helps to show the development from an idea, through to the full televised production that we all know and love.

via The Medium is Not Enough TV blog by Rob Buckley on 01/06/10


Did you know Blackadder had a pilot episode? Me neither, but it's just surfaced on YouTube and now you, too, can see it. You might notice one or two casting changes, including a different Baldrick (Philip Fox), a different Harry (Robert Bathurst), a different King (John Savident) and the fact it seems a whole lot more like Blackadder II than The Black Adder. Interesting, no?

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