Blackadder the Third: Dish and DishonestyBBC
17 September 1987
Historical Comedy
VHS
B
Curtis & Elton wrote this first episode of the Regency Period saga, where Blackadder and Baldrick work for the Prince Regent (28-year-old Hugh Laurie so vivid here and on Jeeves & Wooster as the ultimate upper-class twit that it's hard for me to accept him on, for instance, House). In this story, which like all from B3rd has a Jane-Austen-ish title, scene-stealer Simon Osborne as Pitt the Younger is an adolescent politician bent on taking the Prince off the dole. Blackadder comes up with an elaborate scheme, involving fraud, bribery, and murder, but Pitt is a worthy, and hilarious, opponent. I'd have gone with a B+ but it felt like there were too many "endings."
Helen Atkinson-Wood plays Mrs. Miggins, a Coffee Shoppekeeper, throughout the series. Dennis Lill, who's Sir Talbot Buxomly, a Member of Parliament, would be a Beadle in Blackadder's Christmas Carol. Mandie Fletcher directed this series as she did Blackadder II.
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