8.2/1013 votesLoading...#1 - Plan B: Corporal Punishment
Season 4 Episode 2 - Aired 10/5/1989
Edmund is sentenced to death by firing squad for shooting and eating the General's favorite messenger pigeon.
Director: Richard Boden
Writer: N/A
8.1/1014 votesLoading...#2 - Plan F: Goodbyeee
Season 4 Episode 6 - Aired 11/2/1989
Blackadder tries everything he can think of to get sent back to England when orders come in to go over the top in the first charge against the Germans since 1914.
Director: Richard Boden
Writer: N/A
7.9/101,128 votesLoading...#3 - The Queen of Spain's Beard
Season 1 Episode 4 - Aired 7/6/1983
The King decides that Edmund should marry a Spanish Princess, who Edmund finds unattractive, in order to secure a treaty between Spain and England which will allow an invasion of France.
Director: Martin Shardlow
Writer: N/A
7.8/1014 votesLoading...#4 - Plan D: Private Plane
Season 4 Episode 4 - Aired 10/19/1989
Blackadder and the boys join the Royal Air Corps, where they are promptly shot down behind enemy lines.
Director: Richard Boden
Writer: N/A
7.7/101,107 votesLoading...#5 - The Archbishop
Season 1 Episode 3 - Aired 6/29/1983
Edmund is appointed to the post of Archbishop of Canterbury after the king has the last one killed.
Director: Martin Shardlow
Writer: N/A
7.6/101,042 votesLoading...#6 - Witchsmeller Pursuivant
Season 1 Episode 5 - Aired 7/13/1983
Percy and Baldrick are to be burned at the stake with Edmund, when he is accused of being a witch.
Director: Martin Shardlow
Writer: N/A
7.6/101,040 votesLoading...#7 - The Black Seal
Season 1 Episode 6 - Aired 7/20/1983
After the King takes away Edmund's title of Duke, he recruits the 6 most evil men in the land to take the crown by force.
Director: Martin Shardlow
Writer: N/A
7.6/1014 votesLoading...#8 - Plan C: Major Star
Season 4 Episode 3 - Aired 10/12/1989
Blackadder grabs yet another opportunity to return to England by organizing a morale-raising music hall show, including Baldrick's Charlie Chaplin impersonation and George's appearance as a lady songstress who captures the General's heart.
Director: Richard Boden
Writer: N/A
7.5/1011 votesLoading...#9 - Chains
Season 2 Episode 6 - Aired 2/20/1986
Blackadder and Lord Melchett are kidnapped by a German spy right after the Queen decides she will pay no more ransom to kidnappers.
Director: Mandie Fletcher
Writer: N/A
7.5/1012 votesLoading...#10 - Nob and Nobility
Season 3 Episode 3 - Aired 10/1/1987
After the Scarlet Pimpernel gets high praises Blackadder makes a bet that he can go to France and rescue aristocrats, too.
Director: N/A
Writer: N/A
7.5/1013 votesLoading...#11 - Plan E: General Hospital
Season 4 Episode 5 - Aired 10/26/1989
Blackadder is assigned to find the spy working out of the hospital.
Director: Richard Boden
Writer: N/A
7.4/101,356 votesLoading...#12 - The Foretelling
Season 1 Episode 1 - Aired 6/15/1983
After arriving late for the Battle of Bosworth Field, Edmund kills King Richard III (whom he thinks is stealing his horse) and secures the crown for his father.
Director: Martin Shardlow
Writer: N/A
7.4/101,160 votesLoading...#13 - Born to Be King
Season 1 Episode 2 - Aired 6/22/1983
With his father away at the Crusades, Edmund comes up with a plan to prove his brother is illegitimate, thus making him Prince Regent.
Director: Martin Shardlow
Writer: N/A
7.4/1016 votesLoading...#14 - Head
Season 2 Episode 2 - Aired 1/16/1986
After the Queen appoints Blackadder Lord High Executioner, he finds himself in trouble when the Queen pardons someone he executed ahead of schedule.
Director: Mandie Fletcher
Writer: N/A
7.4/1014 votesLoading...#15 - Potato
Season 2 Episode 3 - Aired 1/23/1986
After Sir Walter Raleigh takes the Queen's fancy by bringing her a potato, Blackadder decides to become an explorer with the aid of a legless sea captain.
Director: Mandie Fletcher
Writer: N/A
7.4/1013 votesLoading...#16 - Ink and Incapability
Season 3 Episode 2 - Aired 9/24/1987
Blackadder has one weekend to rewrite a dictionary the Prince Regent is sponsoring after Baldrick burns the only copy.
Director: N/A
Writer: N/A
7.4/1012 votesLoading...#17 - Duel and Duality
Season 3 Episode 6 - Aired 10/22/1987
The Duke of Wellington has challenged the Prince to a duel for seducing his daughters and the Prince offers Blackadder anything he wants to take his place.
Director: N/A
Writer: N/A
7.3/1015 votesLoading...#18 - Plan A: Captain Cook
Season 4 Episode 1 - Aired 9/28/1989
Blackadder tries painting and cooking as ploys to avoid the scheduled big push out of the trenches.
Director: Richard Boden
Writer: N/A
7.1/1012 votesLoading...#19 - Sense and Senility
Season 3 Episode 4 - Aired 10/8/1987
The Prince Regent hires a pair of actors to teach him to give better speeches and earn the people's respect after an anarchist tries to blow him up at the theatre.
Director: N/A
Writer: N/A
7.0/1018 votesLoading...#20 - Bells
Season 2 Episode 1 - Aired 1/9/1986
Blackadder feels a funny attraction for his manservant and decides to marry when he discovers he is a she.
Director: Mandie Fletcher
Writer: N/A
7.0/1014 votesLoading...#21 - Beer
Season 2 Episode 5 - Aired 2/13/1986
Blackadder's rich and Puritanical aunt and uncle pay him a visit to discuss his inheritance the same night he has a beer drinking contest.
Director: Mandie Fletcher
Writer: N/A
7.0/1012 votesLoading...#22 - Amy and Amiability
Season 3 Episode 5 - Aired 10/15/1987
After Parliament cuts off the Prince's money he decides to marry a rich lady who obtains her money by moonlighting as a notorious highwayman.
Director: N/A
Writer: N/A
6.9/1014 votesLoading...#23 - Dish and Dishonesty
Season 3 Episode 1 - Aired 9/17/1987
Blackadder becomes involved in politics by getting Baldrick elected MP, in an effort to stop the new Prime Minister, Pitt the Younger, from striking the Prince off the Civil List.
Director: N/A
Writer: N/A
6.6/1014 votesLoading...#24 - Money
Season 2 Episode 4 - Aired 2/5/1986
The Queen hampers Blackadder's efforts to raise cash to pay off a debt to a sadistic bishop.
Director: Mandie Fletcher
Writer: N/A
The Best Episodes of Blackadder
Every episode of Blackadder ranked from best to worst. Let's dive into the Best Episodes of Blackadder!
Black Adder traces the deeply cynical and self-serving lineage of various Edmund Blackadders throughout British history, from the muck of the Middle Ages to the...
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Best Episodes Summary
"Plan B: Corporal Punishment" is the best rated episode of "Blackadder". It scored 8.2/10 based on 13 votes. Directed by Richard Boden and written by N/A, it aired on 10/5/1989. This episode scored 0.1 points higher than the second highest rated, "Plan F: Goodbyeee".