Blackadder the Third: Ink and IncapabilityBBC
24 September 1987
Historical Comedy
VHS
C+
This second episode, also written by Curtis & Elton, just isn't as funny or interesting. Maybe it's that literature and writing don't lend themselves to satire as well as politics do. I find it mainly notable for the guest cast, from Robbie Coltrane as Samuel Johnson (who besides becoming Hagrid down the road, would in '88 be the Spirit of Christmas who visits Blackadder) to the comedy team of Jim Sweeney and Steve Steen, later to be seen on Whose Line Is It Anyway?, here playing Coleridge and Byron respectively.
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