Blackadder
Season 4
6 listed hours · 1983–1989 · BBC One
From the desk
How this season is filed
Rowan Atkinson's historical snark escalator: medieval, Elizabethan, Regency, then the trenches. Baldrick's cunning plans, Hugh Laurie's upper-class vacancy, and a final Goes Forth episode that still drops the floor out of the joke. Peak 1980s UK comedy export — start anywhere, but finish in the mud. Tony Robinson's dogsbodies are the secret engine.
TV Flash files Season 4 of Blackadder (1983–1989) on BBC One as the last listed season of 4 — 6 listed hours, 1989-09-28–1989-11-02 from “Captain Cook” (S04E01) to “Goodbyeee” (S04E06). Titles, dates, and synopses on file — no invented recaps.
Desk essentials in this season
- S04E01 Captain Cook
Captain Cook is Goes Forth's first trench: the last series' open, the floor not yet dropped out of the joke.
- S04E06 Goodbyeee
Goodbyeee is the hour that drops the floor: in the mud. Start anywhere; finish here. Peak export, no encore required.
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S04E01 Captain Cook
Edmund cheats to win a competition to be named Official War Artist, thinking it's his ticket out of the trenches. So he's furious when his reward turns out to be going into no man's land to sketch the German positions.
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S04E02 Corporal Punishment
Blackadder faces court-martial for eating a carrier pigeon. With the pigeon's owner, Melchett, as judge and Darling as prosecutor, Edmund's relying on George and Baldrick to save his skin.
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S04E03 Major Star
The October Revolution in Moscow produces three appalling results: a ceasefire by Russia, an offensive by Germany, and a Charlie Chaplin impression by Baldrick.
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S04E04 Private Plane
Edmund, George and Baldrick join the Royal Flying Corps. However, Edmund and Baldrick are shot down soon afterwards and are taken prisoner by the Red Baron. George persuades dashing pilot Lord Flashheart to mount a rescue attempt, but when they hear what the Red Baron has planned for them, Blackadder and Baldrick are in no hurry to be saved.
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S04E05 General Hospital
Melchett orders Blackadder to unmask a spy working in the hospital where George is recovering from a bomb blast. Edmund sets to work, interrogating Darling, seducing a nurse and asking Baldrick to keep an eye on a patient with a pronounced German accent.
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S04E06 Goodbyeee
When Blackadder, George and Baldrick are told they are going over the top the next day, Blackadder decides to feign madness.
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