Tim McInnerny He reprised his role in the second series "Blackadder II" but declined to do so for the third series for fear of being typecast, though he did make a guest appearance in one episode. The following year, he returned to the cast for the fourth series "Blackadder Goes Forth" as Captain Kevin Darling. McInnerny has also starred in various films including "Wetherby", "101 Dalmatians", where he was reunited with "Blackadder" co-star Hugh Laurie, and "Notting Hill", written by "Blackadder" creator Richard Curtis. He also had a minor but significant role in the highly acclaimed 1985 BBC TV serial "Edge of
Blackadder Goes Forth the series "consciously traded on every cliche and misremembered piece of history about the Western Front, and was influential enough to draw a surprising degree of angry criticism from professional historians as a result." The series has prompted debate among politicians in the UK. In 2014, it was the subject of a public dispute between Conservative politician Michael Gove, then serving as Secretary of State for Education, and Labour activist Tony Robinson, after Gove had written that it presented the war as "a misbegotten shambles - a series of catastrophic mistakes perpetrated by an out-of-touch elite. Even to this day