"The Black Adder"
The Archbishop (1983)

Regisseur:

Martin Shardlow

Drehbuchautoren:

Richard Curtis (written by) and
Rowan Atkinson (written by) ...

TV-Serie:

"The Black Adder" (1983)

Erstausstrahlung:

29. Juni 1983 (Staffel 1, Folge 3)

Genre:

Komödie | Historienfilm

Plot:

Someone is assassinating the archbishops of England. Blackadder hopes that Harry will become the next archbishop of Canterbury...

Plot Keywords:

Shakespeare | King Richard III | Shakespeare's Richard III | Royalty | Cult Favorite

Nutzerkommentare:

Despite a dull start, "The Archbishop" delivers the laughs!

Besetzung

Paul McDowell	...	Herbert, Archbishop of Canterbury
Arthur Hewlett	...	Godfrey, Archbishop of Canterbury / William, Bishop of London
Tim McInnerny	...	Percy, Bishop of Ramsgate
Joyce Grant	...	Mother Superior
Carolyn Colquhoun	...	Sister Sara
Robert East	...	Harry, Prince of Wales
Elspet Gray	...	The Queen
William Russell	...	The Duke of Winchester (as Russell Enoch)
Bert Parnaby	...	Cain, A Peasant
Roy Evans	...	Abel, A Peasant
David Nunn	...	Messenger
Bill Wallis	...	Sir Justin de Boinod
David Delve	...	Sir George de Boeuf
Leslie Sands	...	Lord Graveney
Tony Robinson	...	Baldrick

Produktionsland:

UK

Farbe:

Farbe

Dialogzitate:

King Richard IV: If you cross me, now or ever, I shall do unto you what God did unto the Sodomites, understand?

Despite a dull start, "The Archbishop" delivers the laughs!

*** This comment may contain spoilers ***

"Baldrick's been looking at ways on how we can make a bit of money on this job!"

The Archbishop's first 5-6 minutes are not particularly funny. The opening scene is not at all funny, Blackadder's receiving of the news and the plans for the ceremony aren't that funny, but from the "Black Russian" codpiece scene onwards, things do get funnier, and more gripping. However, the scenes of dying bishops aren't that funny, and could have been done better.

But it was the final ten or fifteen minutes that made this episode great. Baldrick's intelligence that only lasted this series was put at its best here, the two knights also did good jobs in their roles, and the final battle scene between Baldrick, Percy, Blackadder and the two knights was good as well. This series may have been the oldest, but it is definitely the one with the best effects and most epic scenes, which only serve to make it better. On the whole, "The Archbishop" delivers the laughs.

This episode gets an 8, once again losing out on a 9, which could have been earned if the dying bishop scenes were both scrapped (especially the first one). A long way have Atkinson and Curtis come since The Foretelling.

A good Blackadder!