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SERIES CREDITS

Written by
RICHARD CURTIS & ROWAN ATKINSON

With additional dialogue by
WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE

Music by	HOWARD GOODALL
Graphic Designer	STEVE CONNELLY
Production Assistant	JAN HALLETT
Assistant Floor Manager	HILARY BEVAN-JONES
Costume Designer	ODILE DICKS-MIREAUX
Make-Up Designer	DEANNE TURNER
Technical Manager	TERRY BRETT
Lighting	BRIAN CLEMETT
Sound	RICHARD CHAMBERLAIN
Production Manager	MARCUS MORTIMER
Videotape Editor	MYKOLA PAWLUK
Vision Mixer	ANGELA WILSON
Designers	NIGEL CURZON, CHRIS HULL
Director	MARTIN SHARDLOW
Producer	JOHN LLOYD
A BBC TV Production in association with the Seven Network, Australia. Made in glorious TELEVISION.

BLACKADDER II

Recorded 30 May (EXT), 9 June
–
7 July 1985

1) BELLS – TX 09/01/86 BBC1

2) HEAD – TX 16/01/86

3) POTATO – TX 23/01/86

Captain Rum	TOM BAKER
Sir Walter Raleigh	SIMON JONES

4) MONEY – TX 06/02/86

5) BEER – TX 13/02/86

6) CHAINS – TX 20/02/86

SERIES CREDITS

BLACKADDER THE THIRD

Recorded 5 June
–
20 July 1987

For the BENEFIT of SEVERAL VIEWERS MR CURTIS & MR ELTON’S Much Admir’d Comedy … was performed with appropriate Scenery, Dresses etc. by …

1) DISH AND DISHONESTY – TX 17/09/87 9.30pm BBC1

Edmund Blackadder , butler to the Prince	MR ROWAN ATKINSON
Baldrick, a dogsbody	MR TONY ROBINSON
The Prince Regent, their master	MR HUGH LAURIE
Mrs Miggins, a coffee shoppekeeper	MISS HELEN ATKINSON-WOOD
AND
Mr Vincent Hanna, his own great-great-great-grandfather	MR VINCENT HANNA
Sir Talbot Buxomly , a Member of Parliament	MR DENIS LILL
Pitt the Younger, the Prime Minister	MR SIMON OSBORNE
Ivor Biggun, a candidate	MR GEOFF McGIVERN
Pitt the Even Younger, a tiny Whig	MASTER DOMONIC MARTELLI

2) INK AND INCAPABILITY – TX 24/09/87

Dr Samuel Johnson, noted for his fat dictionary	MR ROBBIE COLTRANE
Shelley, romantic junkie poet	MR LEE CORNES
Byron, romantic junkie poet	MR STEVE STEEN
Coleridge, romantic junkie poet	MR JIM SWEENEY

3) NOB AND NOBILITY – TX 01/10/87

Lord Topper, fop	MR TIM McINNERNY
Lord Smedley, fop	MR NIGEL PLANER
Ambassador, a fearsome revolutionary	MR CHRIS BARRIE

4) SENSE AND SENILITY – TX 08/10/87

5) AMY AND AMIABILITY – TX 15/10/87

Amy Hardwood, the elusive Shadow	MISS MIRANDA RICHARDSON
Mr Hardwood, her father	MR WARREN CLARKE
Sally Cheapside, a young lady of doubtful virtue	MISS BARBARA HORNE
The Duke of Cheapside, her father	MR ROGER AVON

6) DUEL AND DUALITY – TX 22/10/87

The Duke of Wellington, a famous soldier	MR STEPHEN FRY
King George III, a mad Monarch	MR GERTAN KLAUBER

SERIES CREDITS

Music (never perform’d before)	MR HOWARD GOODALL
Designer of graphics	MR GRAHAM McCALLUM
Buyer of properties	MISS JUDY FARR
Designer of costumes	MISS ANNIE HARDINGE
Designer of make-up	MISS VICKY POCOCK
Mixer of vision	MISS SUE COLLINS
Designer of visual effects	MR STUART MURDOCH
Editor of videotape	MR CHRIS WADSWORTH
Assistant to production	MISS NICKY COCKCROFT
Assistant manager of floors	MR DUNCAN COOPER
Manager of production	MISS OLIVIA HILL
Designer	MR ANTONY THORPE
Director	MISS MANDIE FLETCHER
Producer	MR JOHN LLOYD
To conclude with Rule Britannia in full chorus.
NO MONEY RETURN’D