Blackadder from this series ranked number three in a list of the top 25 television "putdowns" of the last 40 years by the "Radio Times" magazine: "The eyes are open, the mouth moves, but Mr. Brain has long since departed, hasn't he, Percy?" "Blackadder the Third" is set in the late 18th and early 19th centuries, a period known as the Regency. In the series, Edmund Blackadder Esquire is the butler to the Prince Regent, the Prince of Wales (the prince is played by Hugh Laurie as a complete fop and idiot). Despite Edmund's respected intelligence and abilities, he has no
Cash and Carry (TV series) her husband). Home viewers could call in during the show to guess what was hidden under a barrel. No episodes are known to exist, as almost all television broadcasts from the first year of United States network television are lost due to a lack of means to preserve such content. The known exceptions are a few episodes of "Kraft Television Theatre" from early 1947 which were made to test the kinescope process which allowed television series to be preserved. Even after the kinescope process was created, many shows were still not regularly preserved until the late 1960s. Cash and Carry