# The BBC has finally updated their Blackadder page **URL:** \ **Category:** Cafe Society\ **Created:** [May 31, 2003, 4:48pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-bbc-has-finally-updated-their-blackadder-page/178785 "2003-05-31T16:48:18Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 17\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![jeanster](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/9fc348/32.png) [@jeanster](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/jeanster)\ **Post date:** [May 31, 2003, 4:48pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-bbc-has-finally-updated-their-blackadder-page/178785/1 "2003-05-31T16:48:18Z")
Check it out [here](http://www.bbc.co.uk/comedy/blackadder/). There’s a great picture of Edmund and Bob/Kate on [this page](http://www.bbc.co.uk/comedy/blackadder/epguide/two_bells.shtml). ---
**Author:** ![percypercy](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/8baadc/32.png) [@percypercy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/percypercy)\ **Post date:** [May 31, 2003, 10:35pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-bbc-has-finally-updated-their-blackadder-page/178785/2 "2003-05-31T22:35:33Z")
ah finally I have lord percy on my desktop. It seemed appropriate since I took my name from him. That’s a great site, **jeanster**. ---
**Author:** ![green\_bladder](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/73ab20/32.png) [@green\_bladder](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/green_bladder)\ **Post date:** [June 1, 2003, 3:22am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-bbc-has-finally-updated-their-blackadder-page/178785/3 "2003-06-01T03:22:01Z")
Sweetness! (This is where I got the ‘bladder’ in my name from). Nice find, **jeanster** 😃 \*Blackadder: Everything goes over your head, doesn’t it, George? You should go to Jamaica and become a limbo dancer. \* ---
**Author:** ![Desmostylus](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/c57346/32.png) [@Desmostylus](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Desmostylus)\ **Post date:** [June 1, 2003, 3:40am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-bbc-has-finally-updated-their-blackadder-page/178785/4 "2003-06-01T03:40:20Z")
Am I pleased to see you, or did I just put a canoe in my pocket? ---
**Author:** ![JonScribe](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/3be4f8/32.png) [@JonScribe](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/JonScribe)\ **Post date:** [June 1, 2003, 4:26am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-bbc-has-finally-updated-their-blackadder-page/178785/5 "2003-06-01T04:26:50Z")
But, but, where’s the listing for “Blackadder’s Christmas Carol?” Baldrick: But what about the ‘milk of human kindness?’ Blackadder: It’s gone off. ---
**Author:** ![jeanster](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/9fc348/32.png) [@jeanster](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/jeanster)\ **Post date:** [June 1, 2003, 4:55am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-bbc-has-finally-updated-their-blackadder-page/178785/6 "2003-06-01T04:55:37Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by JonScribe \* > \*\*But, but, where’s the listing for “Blackadder’s Christmas Carol?” > > Baldrick: But what about the ‘milk of human kindness?’ > Blackadder: It’s gone off. \*\* OMG. I hadn’t noticed the Christmas special wasn’t there. Perhaps they’ll add it later, along with the Blackadder Back & Forth special and The Cavalier Years. ---
**Author:** ![hawthorne](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/h/c89c15/32.png) [@hawthorne](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/hawthorne)\ **Post date:** [June 1, 2003, 2:27pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-bbc-has-finally-updated-their-blackadder-page/178785/7 "2003-06-01T14:27:02Z")
Same thought here: “Baldrick, I want you to go out and get a turkey so large you’d think it’s mother was rogered by an omnibus”. ---
**Author:** ![hawthorne](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/h/c89c15/32.png) [@hawthorne](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/hawthorne)\ **Post date:** [June 1, 2003, 2:29pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-bbc-has-finally-updated-their-blackadder-page/178785/8 "2003-06-01T14:29:31Z")
Damn. I suppose if you cut and paste without proofreading you deserve to look like an ignorant bastard. ---
**Author:** ![Czarcasm](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/czarcasm/32/4050_2.png) [@Czarcasm](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Czarcasm)\ **Post date:** [June 1, 2003, 6:17pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-bbc-has-finally-updated-their-blackadder-page/178785/9 "2003-06-01T18:17:28Z")
If you want the complete list, go [here](http://www.blackadderhall.com) . ---
**Author:** ![jeanster](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/9fc348/32.png) [@jeanster](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/jeanster)\ **Post date:** [June 1, 2003, 9:36pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-bbc-has-finally-updated-their-blackadder-page/178785/10 "2003-06-01T21:36:50Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by Czarcasm \* > \*\*If you want the complete list, go [here](http://www.blackadderhall.com) . \*\* Thanks, **Czarcasm**. Did you see the Blackadder comic strips (Manga) at that site? Written and drawn by a Japanese Blackadder fan. ---
**Author:** ![Chimera](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/8e8cbc/32.png) [@Chimera](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Chimera)\ **Post date:** [June 1, 2003, 10:45pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-bbc-has-finally-updated-their-blackadder-page/178785/11 "2003-06-01T22:45:47Z")
Somewhere out there is a book of all the Blackadder scripts. I know, because I own one. It’s somewhere in my 7-8 storage bins full of books. ---
**Author:** ![jeanster](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/9fc348/32.png) [@jeanster](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/jeanster)\ **Post date:** [June 1, 2003, 10:51pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-bbc-has-finally-updated-their-blackadder-page/178785/12 "2003-06-01T22:51:21Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by Chimera \* > \*\*Somewhere out there is a book of all the Blackadder scripts. > > I know, because I own one. It’s somewhere in my 7-8 storage bins full of books. \*\* I own a copy, too. **Black-Adder : The Whole Damn Dynasy 1485-1917** published by Penguin Books. Contains scripts of all four series, but not of the specials. ---
**Author:** ![Leaper](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/4bbf92/32.png) [@Leaper](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Leaper)\ **Post date:** [June 1, 2003, 11:02pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-bbc-has-finally-updated-their-blackadder-page/178785/13 "2003-06-01T23:02:24Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by jeanster \* > \*\*Thanks, **Czarcasm**. Did you see the Blackadder comic strips (Manga) at that site? Written and drawn by a Japanese Blackadder fan. \*\* Uh, well, I didn’t. Couldn’t find it. Where is it? 🙂 ---
**Author:** ![jeanster](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/9fc348/32.png) [@jeanster](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/jeanster)\ **Post date:** [June 1, 2003, 11:09pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-bbc-has-finally-updated-their-blackadder-page/178785/14 "2003-06-01T23:09:30Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by Leaper \* > \*\*Uh, well, I didn’t. Couldn’t find it. Where is it? 🙂 \*\* Go [here](http://www.blackadderhall.com/), then scroll down just a wee bit until you see the box that reads **NEW! Blackadder: The Manga** ---
**Author:** ![jeanster](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/9fc348/32.png) [@jeanster](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/jeanster)\ **Post date:** [June 1, 2003, 11:16pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-bbc-has-finally-updated-their-blackadder-page/178785/15 "2003-06-01T23:16:01Z")
For those of you who still had trouble finding the Blackadder comic strips (Manga), here are the direct links: [http://turnip.easter.ne.jp/blackaddermanga2.jpg](http://turnip.easter.ne.jp/blackaddermanga2.jpg) [http://turnip.easter.ne.jp/blackaddermanga3.jpg](http://turnip.easter.ne.jp/blackaddermanga3.jpg) [http://turnip.easter.ne.jp/blackaddermanga4.jpg](http://turnip.easter.ne.jp/blackaddermanga4.jpg) [http://turnip.easter.ne.jp/blackaddermanga5.jpg](http://turnip.easter.ne.jp/blackaddermanga5.jpg) The first two are of the Elizabethan age. The last two are of WWI. ---
**Author:** ![Doomtrain](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/0ea827/32.png) [@Doomtrain](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Doomtrain)\ **Post date:** [June 2, 2003, 5:43am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-bbc-has-finally-updated-their-blackadder-page/178785/16 "2003-06-02T05:43:08Z")
There’s also a BlackAdder book out called “Cunning” that’s very good. Episode synopses for the whole series, along with info on other shows the cast has done. ---
**Author:** ![jeanster](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/9fc348/32.png) [@jeanster](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/jeanster)\ **Post date:** [June 2, 2003, 2:52pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-bbc-has-finally-updated-their-blackadder-page/178785/17 "2003-06-02T14:52:55Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by GMRyujin \* > \*\*There’s also a BlackAdder book out called “Cunning” that’s very good. Episode synopses for the whole series, along with info on other shows the cast has done. \*\* Yep. I have a paperback copy of that book, too.