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 noted that the television series has become a pervasive view of the war in the public's perception of World War I, with Max Hastings calling the common British view of the war "the "Blackadder" take on history." Military historian Richard Holmes commented in his book "The Western Front": "Blackadder's aphorisms have become fact...A well turned line of script can sometimes carry more weight than all the scholarly footnotes in the world." Stephen Badsey, analysing trends in television programmes about the war, remarked that "Blackadder Goes Forth" as a popular comedy series was subject to particular criticism from historians, remarking that