TV Series· 1983· Comedy

Blackadder

by Richard Curtis, Rowan Atkinson

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Fawlty Towers

TV Series · 1975

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Richard Curtis has said Blackadder was "written out of fear" of Fawlty Towers: he and Rowan Atkinson knew any modern sitcom they wrote would be rubbish beside it, so they set theirs in the past.

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Blackadder

A scheming, permanently thwarted nobleman and his revolting servant reappear in a different century each series, from the Wars of the Roses to the trenches of the First World War, losing every time. It ends on a final scene British television still measures itself against.

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