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Dom Robinson reviews

Black Adder The Third

The Historic Third Series

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If I was to say that Black Adder The Third was the third series of Black Adder, that may throw up no surprises for anyone. Now entering the Regency period (1760-1815), Edmund Blackadder (Rowan Atkinson) is accompanied once again by his dimwitted servant Baldrick (Tony Robinson) and both serve under the "thick as a whale omelette" Prince Regent (Hugh Laurie), with occasional interruptions from Mrs Miggins (Helen Atkinson-Wood).

Six more episodes are presented, starting with Dish and Dishonesty where the new Prime Minister Pitt The Younger (Simon Osborne) wants the Prince Regent out and the only way out is to control the single-voter consistuency of Dunny-on-the-Wold is to make Baldrick its MP, but he'll have some competition from Pitt The Even Younger; Ink and Incapability finds the arrival of Doctor Johnson (Robbie Coltrane) with his manuscript for a new tome entitled, the dictionary. However, a slight accident involving fire leaves Edmund with the unenviable task of rewriting the entire work; and in the Nob and Nobility the French Revolution brings about The Scarlet Pimpernel and two poncy aristocrats (Tim McInnery and Nigel Planer) to the Prince's side, much to Edmund's disgust.

Sense and Senility is the episode where anarchists are out to kill the Prince, so a couple of idiotic actors are hired to help out, but beware of mentioning the real name of "the Scottish play", that is Macbeth. In Amy and Amiability, the Prince must marry for financial convenience but when everything goes all to cock, Edmund changes career to become a highwayman with Baldrick as his horse; and in Duel and Duality after the Prince has slept with the Duke of Wellington's two nieces, it is Black Adder who finds himself in a duel in place of his master.

The picture is better than the first two discs, with a few scratches on the print from time to time but nothing major. It's presented in its original fullscreen ratio and the average bitrate falls between 5.5-6.0Mb/s, depending on which episode you're watching. The soundtrack is in stereo this time, but again it's purely functional, giving clear dialogue.

36 chapters spread out the series, the menus have some animation showing clips from the episodes but only the main one has the theme tune, while English-only applies to both the dialogue and subtitles.

As with the second series, there are no extras, but it's still worth £19.99 for the full series.

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Review copyright © Dominic Robinson, 2001.

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