TV-PGSeason 4
The most gripping sitcom since 1380.
Synopsis
Blackadder (1989), Season 4 — watch online on iFILM: six episodes of the BBC sitcom that drop the scheming Edmund Blackadder into a muddy trench in Flanders during the First World War.
The orders are simple and lethal. Sooner or later General Melchett will send everyone over the top, straight into machine-gun fire, and Captain Blackadder spends the whole run dodging that moment. He volunteers as cook, then as a war artist, then stages a music-hall revue with Baldrick doing Charlie Chaplin and George in a dress — anything for a ticket back to England. A court-martial over the General's pet pigeon nearly ends him first. Across all six episodes the absurdity of the army tightens around three men who know the war is mad.
Rowan Atkinson, Stephen Fry and Hugh Laurie play the farce flat out, yet the final episode, "Goodbyeee", lands quiet and devastating — the reason many call this the best Blackadder. Stream Blackadder Season 4 online on iFILM.
6 episodes
S4·E1Captain Cook
Blackadder tries painting and cooking as ploys to avoid the scheduled big push out of the trenches.
S4·E2Corporal Punishment
Edmund is sentenced to death by firing squad for shooting and eating the General's favourite carrier pigeon.
S4·E3Major Star
Blackadder grabs yet another opportunity to return to England by organising 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.
S4·E4Private Plane
Blackadder and the boys join the Royal Air Corps, where they are promptly shot down behind enemy lines.
S4·E5General Hospital
Blackadder is assigned to find the spy working out of the hospital.
S4·E6Goodbyeee
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.
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