General Hospital (Blackadder) General Hospital (Blackadder) "General Hospital", or "Plan E: General Hospital", is the fifth episode of "Blackadder Goes Forth", the fourth series of the BBC sitcom "Blackadder". The episode opens with George and Baldrick playing "I spy", to Blackadder's great annoyance and boredom. However, the game is interrupted when a bomb lands on their trench, injuring George and sending him to the field hospital. There he meets the sweet-natured Nurse Mary Fletcher-Brown (Miranda Richardson), who helps George write letters to his relatives. Blackadder is ordered to General Melchett's HQ. There, Melchett and Captain Darling explain that there is a German spy
Blackadder Goes Forth the cast, with Richard Curtis having the final say on the content. Fry, Laurie and Atkinson were comic writers and performers themselves, and having worked together on previous series were not afraid to question the script and make suggestions. For example, Captain Darling was originally called "Captain Cartwright" and was renamed when Stephen Fry recalled a boy at his school with the surname "Darling", who had found the name a constant embarrassment. Curtis recalls that he was initially reluctant to change the name, as he considered it a one-off joke. Speaking to "The Times" about the ending of the show