Blackadder: Back & Forth finds it has actually worked. They are now in the Cretaceous Period, where they are attacked by a "Tyrannosaurus". They throw away their wager items but are eventually able to knock it out using the underpants. Blackadder comments that one of lifes mystery has been solved and that the dinosaurs were actually wiped out by Baldrick's underpants. Baldrick admits that, as he never got round to writing the dates on the dials, they cannot return to the present. Blackadder and Baldrick return to Blackadder Hall but during the reign of Queen Elizabeth I (Miranda Richardson) who, mistaking him for his
Miranda Richardson (1987). In an episode of the TV series "The Storyteller" ("The Three Ravens", 1988), she played a witch. Meanwhile, she had returned in guest roles in one episode each in "Blackadder the Third" (1987) and "Blackadder Goes Forth" (1989). She returned to play Queenie in the Christmas special "Blackadder's Christmas Carol" (1988) and, later, a special edition for the millennium "". Her portrayal of a troubled theatre goer in "Secret Friends" (BBC 2, 1990) was described as "a miniature tour de force... Miranda Richardson's finest hour, all in ten minutes" ("The Sunday Times"). Other television roles include Pamela Flitton in