Page 1 of Blackadder - any good?

Thinking of getting the boxset for my birthday as I think I`ll like it but I`ve only really seen clips from the WW1 series. Are the others as good?

I like Rowan Atkinson in a lot of stuff so presume I`ll like it, but if the series I`ve seen is much better than the others I`ll just go for that by itself.

So what do people think? If I like other Rowan stuff like Bean, Not the nine o clock news etc is it worth a gamble?

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Thinking of getting the boxset for my birthday as I think I`ll like it but I`ve only really seen clips from the WW1 series. Are the others as good?

I`d say so, but that`s on the basis that I used to like it when I was young, but can`t remember it and keep meaning to get it myself. I did watch the documentary thing on xmas day which reminded me it`s on my "to do" list.

Hotukdeals were showing it as £14.99 somewhere the other day.

Edit- Sainsbury`s instore deal, from the replies doesn`t seem to be regional but will depend on you having Sainsburys plus them having some in stock.

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The first series is rubbish, but the others are gems. Get it now!!




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Series 2 is the best of the bunch

Tom Baker as the drunken captain - classic :D

I only liked the last series, the one set in the WW1 trenches.
Stephen Fry and Rik Mayalls` characters made it.
Atkinson, in my book, lost all credibility with his `Bean` character.
It is, to me, about as funny as the script writers from Only Fools and Horses asking Lenny Henry to run some discarded material past me. :¦

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The first series has the highest budget and production values, and it`s also the weakest, with the original Edmund Blackadder sort of a cunning weasly Mr Bean, with Baldrick as the smart one. It has some good moments though, and I love the Archbishop of Canterbury episode. Also it has Peter Cook and Brian Blessed in.

Series 2, 3 and 4 are alltime classics. No doubt about it.Just have to be seen.


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Yeah, just want to confirm what the others have said. Series 2 is by far my favourite, with 3 and 4 in equal second. The first one was not particularly memorable. But if you can get the boxset for under £20, it`s well worth it. 8)

As above, series one was the weakest but 2,3 and 4 are must see television.

I managed to find one in Sainsburys for the £14.99 but I think I was lucky.

As for Mr Bean, it was dreadful but made Atkinson very, very rich indeed.

why take life so seriously..its not like you are going to make it out alive

Try and find the Region 1 collection. It`s on five discs, and it has extras which the BBC never bothered to give us in the UK

It also has the Cavalier Years Comic Relief Special, Blackadder`s Christmas Carol, and Blackadder Back and Forth

EDIT: Doh! They finally got round to releasing something similar in the UK. They could have advertised it!

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