Blackadder's Christmas Carol Edition" DVD set and, as of 2016, is on Hulu Plus. The original uncut version can be seen on the UK channel Gold, the Region 1 U.S. DVD set, and on the U.S. and UK versions of Netflix. Blackadder's Christmas Carol Blackadder's Christmas Carol is a one-off episode of "Blackadder", a parody of Charles Dickens' "A Christmas Carol". It is set between "Blackadder the Third" (1987) and "Blackadder Goes Forth" (1989), and is narrated by Hugh Laurie. Produced by the BBC, it was first broadcast on BBC1 on 23 December 1988. Ebenezer Blackadder (Rowan Atkinson), the Victorian proprietor of a
John Blackadder (preacher) preaching. On one occasion Blackadder preached at a conventicle on the crag beside Balcarres House in Fife. There was "a great confluence of people, and many of distinction". Blackadder took for his text "O that I knew where I might find Him" (Job 23:3). At the meeting, a notorious sinner was converted. Blackadder said that instances of the power and irresistible grace of God such as this rejoiced his heart, and did him more good than twenty years’ stipend. On another occasion Blackadder preached to a large crowd at Kinkell, near St Andrews. When Archbishop Sharp asked the provost to