Wow, I did not know Geoff McGivern played Ford Prefect. I assume this was in the radio show? I just checked IMDB, and a different actor is listed for the tv version. And Simon Jones (aka Arthur Dent), of course, was in BAII.

It's ironic that Edmund is in the least danger in this series, yet is simultaneously at his most murderous. I figure he had a particularly bad attitude this time out because of the situation he finds himself in, and I'm actually not unsympathetic. Working for someone as stupid as the Prince Regent would drive almost…

"Or alternatively, the greatest work of fiction since Vows of Fidelity were included in the French marriage ceremony."

Gotta love Baldrick's novel:

"Up Your Pavement," the bit where Palin and Jones are introduced as the two happy-go-lucky tramps, only to be killed immediately, really made me laugh when I was a kid. It's also somewhat similar to a sequence on the Holy Grail soundtrack, "the Story of the Film So Far," which has Idle adding ever more and more…

A few years back, I was watching some historical program about prominent Elizabethan families on TVO, a local educational channel, and wouldn't you know it? There really was a Percy family. They interviewed his modern-day descendant, who was/is actually rather a good looking man, and (unlike Lord Percy Percy of…

The only other casting note of interest in the guest characters this time - apart from Hugh Laurie's first appearances in the series, obviously - is William Hootkins, who plays the monk Freddy Frobisher (aka "the flatulent hermit of Lindisfarne"), in Beer. He's probably best known for playing the corrupt cop Eckhardt…

It's a terrific performance from Atkinson. You can literally see Edmund weighing the pros and cons of various stratagems, rejecting one after another until he hits upon one that he knows will work, and the sheer smugness on his face at that moment is absolutely priceless.

Has anyone ever told you you're a giggling imbecile?!?!

Sad to think these reviews are almost at an end, though I look forward to Zack covering the feature films and albums as well. (If he chooses to include the latter.) I suppose Python was the sort of show that couldn't go on indefinitely. Bugger!

It was Shaw in the tv version, Wilde in the record album version.

I dunno about budget-tightening; much of the reason for the third series being so different is probably due to the simple fact of Tim McInnerny not wanting to play Percy again, fearing he'd be typecast. He wasn't in the Christmas special, either.

My own basic analysis of the Blackadder formula - and land sakes, can I happily blather on worse than a hardcore Trekkie yapping about the merits of Kirk vs. Picard once I get going? You bet I can! - is fairly simple stuff: In every series, Edmund is a corrupt and self-serving figure who's technically supporting…

" The premise itself- making fun of TV and TV production by setting the show in a cheap, small town station in Rutland…"

Blackadder parodies it in their Scarlet Pimpernel episode. It was cut, due to copyright problems (or so I assume), but was re-inserted in the most recent DVD box release. As Baldrick recites:

The sign Baldrick holds is perfect: "Get It Here."

"Edmund was right: You do smell of fish. Pooey!"

"'HAVE YOU ANY CHILDREN, BLACKADDER?"

A couple of interesting casting notes from Money, and their significance in the overall BA universe:

Two lines I absolutely love: