The Black Adder - #1.5 - Witchsmeller Pursuivant

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Witchsmeller Pursuivant Season 1 - Episode 5


The cruel witchsmeller pursuivant is sent to root out the source of an outbreak of witchcraft - and quickly lays the blame on Edmund, Lord Percy and Baldrick. If they can't prove their innocence, they'll be burned at the stake.


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Aired On:	Wednesday 13th of July 1983 on BBC One

Written by:	Rowan Atkinson ( Writer ) Richard Curtis ( Writer )

Directed by:	Martin Shardlow

Starring:	Rowan Atkinson as Edmund Blackadder Patrick Allen as Narrator Mark Arden as Anon, A Guard Perry Benson as Daft Ned, A Peasant Forbes Collins as Dopey Jack, A Peasant Patrick Duncan as Officer, An Officer Valentine Dyall as Angus, A Lord Roy Evans as Abel, A Peasant Frank Finlay as The Witchsmeller Pursuivant Stephen Frost as Soft, A Guard Louise Gold as Mrs. Tyler, A Goodwife Elspet Gray as Gertrude, Queen of Flanders Natasha King as Princess Leia of Hungary Howard Lew Lewis as Piers, A Yeoman Tim McInnerny as Percy, Duke of Northumberland Barbara Miller as Jane Firkettle Richard Murdoch as Ross, A Lord Bert Parnaby as Cain, A Peasant Tony Robinson as Baldrick, Son of Robin the Dung Gatherer Peter Schofield as Fife, A Lord Sarah Thomas as Mrs. Field, A Goodwife


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