Blackadder - The Whole Damn Dynasty ! - Richard Curtis

I'm probably the wrong person the review this book because I cannot step back and be either objective or critical.My favourie comedies of all time would be Fawlty Towers and the Blackadder series (I couldn't possibly choose between the two!!) closely followed by Red Dwarf and Only Fools and Horses.Given to me as a christmas present - '98 I believe - by my younger brother,this book has to be a prized possesion. My hardback edition,published in 1998,is 460 pages long that not only contains the full and original scripts to all four series of this legendary comedy but also many illustrations photos of the characters and additional sections dubbed ...  Read the complete review

Lord Percy: My Lord, they say that the Infanta's eyes are bluer than the famous Bluestone of Galviston. Blackadder: And have you ever seen this Bluestone of Galviston Lord Percy? Lord Percy: No, My Lord. Blackadder: And have you ever seen the Infanta's eyes? Lord Percy: No, My Lord. Blackadder: So what you are telling me Percy, is that something you have never seen is -slightly- bluer than something else you've never seen? Lord Percy: ........yes My Lord. Blackadder- The Whole Damn Dynasty is a collection of all the Blackadder scripts across the four series set in Medieval, Elizabethan and ...  Read the complete review

"I'm quite pleased with my definition of 'Dog'." "Which is?" "Not a cat." Baldrick and Blackadder (Blackadder the Third: Ink and Incapability) Blackadder. Without doubt one of the BBC jewels of the crown in the 1980s, this comedy series starred Rowan Atkinson as the despicable Blackadder and Tony Robinson as his smelly underling Baldrick in four series from 1983 to 1989. Although the series lasted only 24 episodes, the series was immensely popular, being re-run on television countless times and selling well on both video and DVD. In the late 1990s, Penguin ...  Read the complete review

The four series are preceeded by fully detailed cast lists, and the pleasant 'additions' to the book are the frequent articles inspired by episodes and characters between some episodes. These include double page spreads on topics such as "Medieval Medicine," the options of which are apparently 1. herbs, 2. leeches, 3. saw it off, "Duties of an Underscrogsman" and the hilarious "Baldrick's Family Tree." The book ends with a very useful and entertaining list of "Blackadder's Finest Insults"- usually following the 'stickiest situation since sticky the stick insect got stuck to a sticky bun' formula, and a brief history of the BBC?s ...  Read the complete review

BlackAdder, The Whole Damn Dynasty 1485-1917 is a superb addition to any book collection. One of the funniest books I have had the pleasure of reading, the humour starts on the dust cover with a quote from the great Edmund Blackadder himself "The greatest work of fiction since vows of fidelity were included in the French marriage service", and the stupid, but much loved, Baldrick whose opinion of the book is simply "Not bad". The book is a collection of the scripts written by Ben Elton, Richard Curtis, John Lloyd, and Rowan Atkinson, for the Blackadder series'. The first series 'The Black Adder' came to our screens in 1983, ...  Read the complete review