Blackadder: Back & Forth Blackadder: Back & Forth Blackadder: Back & Forth is a 1999 sci-fi comedy film based on the BBC period sitcom "Blackadder" that marks the end of the "Blackadder" saga. It was commissioned for showing in the specially built 'SkyScape' cinema, erected southeast of the Millennium Dome on the Greenwich peninsula in South London. The film follows Lord Edmund Blackadder and his idiotic servant, Baldrick, on a time travel adventure that brings the characters into contact with several figures significant to British history. In a 1999 interview, Richard Curtis described it as "an irreverent trek through British history – a time
Edmund Blackadder Edmund Blackadder Edmund Blackadder is the single name given to a collection of fictional characters who appear in the BBC mock-historical comedy series "Blackadder", each played by Rowan Atkinson. Although each series is set within a different period of British history, each character is part of the same familial dynasty and is usually called Edmund Blackadder. Each character also shares notable personality traits and characteristics throughout each incarnation. Each Blackadder is positioned in a different place in British society over each series, with the character mostly falling in social rank through history. He moves from a prince ("The Black Adder")