Ade Edmondson to the adverse reaction of both press and viewers, however, ITV withdrew the series after two episodes and the remaining episodes have never been shown. In 1988, Edmondson released a follow up to "How To Be A Complete Bastard" called "The Bastard's Book of the Worst". In 1989 he made an appearance in an episode of "Blackadder Goes Forth" as The Red Baron, nemesis to Mayall's character, Lord Flashheart. Edmondson played Brad Majors in the 1990 West End run of "The Rocky Horror Show", alongside Tim McInnerny as Frank-N-Furter and Ed Tudor-Pole as Riff-Raff. He also appears on the soundtrack
Blackadder Goes Forth battlefield. On viewing the original studio rushes for the 20th anniversary documentary "Blackadder Rides Again", John Lloyd recalls that originally the final scene was "all very embarrassing", as the actors only had to run before they reached the barbed wire in front of the camera, where they had to pretend to die, an effect described by Atkinson as "somewhat unconvincing". It was only in post-production that the final effect was achieved by running the video and audio in slow motion and fading another video of the empty set over the top to make it appear as if the characters had