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
Blackadder essentially to play himself. Political commentator Vincent Hanna played a character billed as "his own great-great-great grandfather" in the episode "Dish and Dishonesty" of "Blackadder the Third". Hanna was asked to take part because the scene was of a by-election in which Baldrick was a candidate and, in the style of modern television, Hanna gave a long-running "live" commentary of events at the count (and interviewed candidates and election agents) to a crowd through the town hall window. Howard Goodall's theme tune has the same melody throughout all the series, but is played in roughly the style of the period