Potato (Blackadder) described his own performance in this episode as "appalling". Baker was quoted: "Someone should have taken away my Equity Card. It was terrible and the buggers keep playing it." Potato (Blackadder) "Potato" is the third episode of the BBC sitcom "Blackadder II", the second series of "Blackadder", which was set in Elizabethan England from 1558 to 1603. The episode opens with Blackadder at home, preparing to go to court to celebrate the return of Sir Walter "Oooh what a big ship I've got" Raleigh (Simon Jones). Blackadder is typically sarcastic and embittered, refusing to join in the festivities and endures
TSS Sir Walter Raleigh (1908) were made to her superstructure for use as a mining tender. She returned to the GWR at the end of 1945 but the following year was sold and found use with various salvage operators until cut up in 1968. TSS Sir Walter Raleigh (1908) TSS "Sir Walter Raleigh" was a passenger tender vessel built for the Great Western Railway in 1908. TSS "Sir Walter Raleigh" was built by Cammell Laird as one of a pair of vessels, with TSS "Sir Francis Drake". She was on trial in the Mersey during April 1908. She was hired to the Admiralty as a