The objects seized during the raids were later returned; they included a videotape of the TV show Blackadder, a detective novel by Ngaio Marsh, and a model aeroplane made by one of the children from two pieces of wood, which was identified by social workers as a "wooden cross".
Amy Hardwood (played by Miranda Richardson), daughter of a powerful, if bad-tempered, industrialist, seems the only option despite the fact that she is incredibly childish and soppy, or as Blackadder puts it; "wetter than a haddock's bathing costume".
William Francis Blackadder played in the Scottish rugby team in 1938, and was awarded the DSO and OBE as an RAF ace in World War II.
In the 1999 comedy Blackadder: Back & Forth, Lord Blackadder (Rowan Atkinson) subjects Baldrick (Tony Robinson) to dunking in a toilet so that he can experience a near-death life review to recover details neither of them can remember.
Blackadder studied early Byzantine art while at university, where she was influenced by William Gillies, Penelope Beaton and Robert Henderson Blyth, as well as by her lecturers.
Lord Herries wrote in 1656 that Blackadder rushed out of a tavern at the Tron on the Royal Mile at the sound of the explosion and was arrested.
The bride stolen by Flashheart is Kate (known as Bob, played by Gabrielle Glaister), who spends most of the episode posing as a man to earn money as Blackadder's valet.
In spite of Bob's more convincing and better received 'drag' act, and Baldrick's now seemingly "feeble impression of Buster Keaton," Melchett proclaims the second night's show a disaster, recognising Bob and still not realising she is a female, and immediately stops any possibility of a tour (and Blackadder leaving).
In the Blackadder the Third episode "Dish and Dishonesty," Blackadder mockingly asks if William Pitt the Younger's little brother is called "Pitt the Toddler," "Pitt the Embryo," or "Pitt the Glint in the Milkman's Eye."
Mocking the Admiral's signal at the Battle of Trafalgar, Blackadder announces that Nelson used a similar signal at the Battle of the Nile: "England knows Lady Hamilton is a virgin. Poke my eye out and cut off my arm if I'm wrong."
In "Potato", she is mentioned when Percy tells Blackadder that everyone is going to honour Sir Walter Raleigh.
On meeting Blackadder, he claims to have been disguised as "Big Sally", a barmaid Blackadder knew at a pub in Dover called The Old Pizzle he once frequented.
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He appears in "Chains", the final episode of Blackadder II, as a German master of disguise who kidnaps Lord Blackadder and Lord Melchett, in 1566 and imprisons them in his dungeon under the watch of German guards and a Spanish inquisitorial co-conspirator.
Shortly after takeoff, both Blackadder and Baldrick are shot down by a red plane, and captured by Baron von Richthofen (Adrian Edmondson), who wants to learn the subtleties of British humour.
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He informs them of their fate, which entails teaching home economics to young German girls in a convent outside Heidelberg, which he thinks will be a fate worse than death to a British soldier; Blackadder feigns sorrow, but he is, of course, overjoyed.
Archbishop Robert Blackadder died on July 28, 1508 while en route to Jerusalem on pilgrimage.
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Robert Blackadder was a medieval Scottish cleric, diplomat and politician, who was abbot of Melrose, bishop-elect of Aberdeen and bishop of Glasgow; when the last was elevated to archiepiscopal status in 1492, he became the first ever archbishop of Glasgow.
The Skinhead Hamlet is a short parody of the play Hamlet by Richard Curtis, a co-author of Blackadder.
In the fourth series of Blackadder (Blackadder Goes Forth), theme composer Howard Goodall incorporated the first few bars of the march into the series theme song.
Richard asks his eldest (and favourite) son, Lord Harry Plantagenet, Earl of March, for his younger son's name, but mistakenly calls him "Edna", starting a long-running gag throughout the series.
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In the Black Adder, Richard IV's Queen is Gertrude of Flanders; from 1482 to 1506, the County of Flanders was in fact ruled by Philip the Handsome, Count of Flanders.
The cleansing rituals have been parodied numerous times in popular culture, including in Blackadder, Slings and Arrows, and The Simpsons.
which was inspired by such diverse influences as the absurd humour of Monty Python; the nonsensical, wordy Blackadder; Not the Nine O'Clock News; the childlike mime-esque Mr. Bean, made famous by Rowan Atkinson; and even the slapstick of the silent movie era and the quick-fire wise-cracking of the Marx Brothers.
Quiet biker Malcolm, who lived with his domineering mother (played by Patsy Byrne - Nursie from Blackadder), was accompanied on his birdwatching trips by loud scouser Brenda, who was forced to ride in the sidecar of his Norton motorbike.