Talk:Blackadder

Date of regency

This article says that "Black Adder the Third" was set in the late eighteenth and early nineteenth centuries and then says this was a period known as "the regency". My understanding is that the Regency was between 1811 and 1820, and so was only in the nineteenth century. Vorbee (talk) 17:17, 10 June 2019 (UTC)

From Regency era: The term Regency (or Regency era) can refer to various stretches of time; some are longer than the decade of the formal Regency which lasted from 1811 to 1820. The period from 1795 to 1837, which includes the latter part of the reign of George III and the reigns of his sons George IV and William IV, is sometimes regarded as the Regency era, characterised by distinctive trends in British architecture, literature, fashions, politics, and culture. It ended in 1837 when Queen Victoria succeeded William IV. DonQuixote (talk) 17:41, 10 June 2019 (UTC)

The Black Adder (Season 1) gives a specific year for each of its episodes, even though it is an alternate history series. Blackadder the Third (Season 3) does not, and it uses anachronisms much more often.

• • Dish and Dishonesty depicts the then-recently appointed Prime Minister William Pitt the Younger, who Blackadder keeps insulting about his age. And the plot in part depends on an impending war with Napoleon. The historical Pitt did become the youngest Prime Minister in British history (only 24-years-old), but he was appointed in 1783. Napoleon did not rise to power until the Coup of 18 Brumaire (1799).
  • In Ink and Incapability, Blackadder is somehow meeting with Samuel Johnson (d. 1784), Samuel Taylor Coleridge (b. 1772), Lord Byron (b. 1788), and Percy Bysshe Shelley (b. 1792). Johnson died decades before the regency proper, and he was not a contemporary with either Byron or Shelley.
  • Nob and Nobility in part depicts the French Revolution in its Reign of Terror phase (1793-1794). And the plot involves Blackadder assassinating The Scarlet Pimpernel.
  • Amy and Amiability concerns the Prince Regent seeking a wife, because he desperately needs a dowry. And Caroline of Brunswick is mentioned as a prospective bride. George IV and Caroline married each other in 1795, years before he became a regent.
  • Duel and Duality depicts Arthur Wellesley, 1st Duke of Wellington taking a leave from the Peninsular War (1808-1814) to pursue a revenge scheme against the Prince Regent. Yet, Horatio Nelson, 1st Viscount Nelson (d. 1805) is still alive, and Blackadder is depicted orchestrating the British victory at the Battle of Trafalgar (1805). And a subplot in the same episode concerns information on portraits, gained by an apparently still living Thomas Gainsborough (d. 1788). Dimadick (talk) 19:31, 10 June 2019 (UTC)

Statement on the Lost Pilot show that the main actors had fallen out

As one explanation of why no new series. I can’t find a source. Doug Weller talk 20:33, 16 June 2023 (UTC)

added a cite but it's from the Daily Mail

the quote from Stephen Fry "perhaps it's best to leave these things..." really does seem to be from The Daily Mail. I felt dirty inserting it but that seems to be the original source. Someone more involved than I can decide whether to take the whole quote out or leave it in, icky origins and all. Thanks AthenaBear (talk) 19:59, 9 February 2024 (UTC)