Money (Blackadder) Money (Blackadder) "Money" is the fourth episode of the BBC sitcom "Blackadder II", the second series of "Blackadder", which was set in Elizabethan England from 1558 to 1603. Blackadder owes one thousand pounds to the Baby-eating Bishop of Bath and Wells, who threatens to have him killed if he does not pay. Blackadder tries unsuccessfully to blackmail the Bishop. He has only 85 pounds, which he loses when the Queen wins a bet about him with Lord Melchett. Blackadder and Baldrick then try prostitution and only manage to get sixpence from a sailor called Arthur, which is also taken by
Edmund Blackadder in which he was supposedly organising a birthday show for Charles II (also Fry). Edmund Blackadder, Esq., is the Blackadder appearing in the Regency period of British history. His family having fallen on hard times, he is reduced to a life of servitude, a fall made even more insufferable by his position as butler to the oafish and uncouth George, the Prince Regent. Despite this, he remains keenly intelligent (by far sharper than most of the people he associates with), and is usually found stealing from his employer. This is the only one of the main four incarnations not to