Blackadder: The Cavalier Years – Watch The Hilarious Blackadder Special Set in the English Civil War

Ask anyone of a certain age and disposition in the UK about Blackadder, and they will be able to trot off several facts. It was spread over four series, each in a different time, culminating in Blackadder Goes Forth, set at the height of the First World War. They might also add – although opinion on this is somewhat divided - that contrary to the law of diminishing return, each series was better than the last (and the first was bloody good to start with). What they sometimes overlook, of course, is that there were two short specials made for charity, with Blackadder – The Cavalier Years being the one this little post is about. Now, chronologically it nestles between seasons 2 (Elizabethan) and 3 (Georgian), being set at the time of the English Civil War – and you can watch it in full below. However, it was filmed after the third series had aired. Created for the Comic Relief charity in 1988 (good grief, has it really been almost forty years?), it tells the story of how Edmund…