The Black Adder
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The Archbishop
Edmund is less than pleased when he's appointed to the dangerous post of Archbishop of Canterbury, but there's no wriggling out of the job. Can he avoid the sort of grisly fate that has befallen three previous incumbents?

 
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Aired On: Wednesday 29th of June 1983 on BBC One
 
Written by: TBA
 
Directed by: TBA
 
Starring: Rowan Atkinson as Edmund Blackadder
Patrick Allen as Narrator
Carolyn Colquohoun as Sister Sara
David Delve as Sir George de Boeuf
Robert East as Harry, Prince of Wales
Roy Evans as Abel, A Peasant
Joyce Grant as Mother Superior
Elspet Gray as Gertrude, Queen of Flanders
Arthur Hewlett as Godfrey, Archbishop of Canterbury
Paul McDowell as Herbert, Archbishop of Canterbury
Tim McInnerny as Percy, Duke of Northumberland
David Nunn as Messenger
Bert Parnaby as Cain, A Peasant
Tony Robinson as Baldrick, Son of Robin the Dung Gatherer
William Russell as The Duke of Winchester
Leslie Sands as Lord Graveney
Bill Wallis as Sir Justin de Boinod
 

 

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