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The first episode, Captain Cook, begins with the stupid Baldrick (Tony Robinson)
explaining the first of his cunning plans, by carving his own name on a bullet
because "you know when they say there's a bullet with your name on it?" -
and you can guess the rest. General Melchett (Stephen Fry) has a plan
of his own to invite one of the men to paint a cover for the next issue of
"King and Country" to inspire the men for that final big push. The following
episodes continue to be packed with one-liners, the second one, Corporal
Punishment finding Blackadder eating the pigeon messenger in an attempt
to avoid the firing squad, while the next, Major Star, brings a new
playmate for Edmund in the form of "Bob" aka Driver Parkhurst (Gabrielle
Glaister)
Another attempt to escape going over the top comes in Private Plane after Lord Flasheart
(Rik Mayall on first-rate form) appears and teaches the men to fly
in the Royal Air Corps, aka the "Twenty Minuters", the life expectancy of
a new pilot(!) Could be worse - you could be captured by Baron von Richthoven
(Adrian Edmondson) after you crash-land. In General Hospital,
Blackadder seeks out a German spy on behalf of the British service in the local
hospital under the care of Nurse Mary (Miranda Richardson), but when
the final episode, Goodbyeee comes around it's a last-ditch attempt
to avoid the big push when Blackadder sees a way out: claim insanity by
wearing underpants on your head and sticking two pencils up your nose. When
that fails he has to call in a favour from Field Marshall Dougie Haig (Geoffrey Palmer),
but when even that doesn't work, Baldrick might just have one last cunning
plan...
If you plan to watch this DVD while drinking a brew make sure it's real and
not concocted from coffee substitute (mud), milk substitute (saliva) and
sugar substitute (dandruff).
Quotable quotes include Blackadder's "I think the phrase rhymes with
clucking bell." and on Captain Darling's arrival at the trench in episode
six, "I only wrote one word in my diary today. It simply says... 'Bugger'"
Just time for one more cunning plan?
The picture is better than the first two discs and as good as the third.
There are no visible print scratches but it can occasionally look a little
dark. The soundtrack is in stereo like the last disc, 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
the subtitles come in English and Dutch.
As with the second series, there are no extras, but it's still worth
£19.99 for the full series.
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