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After the 1485 Battle of Bosworth Field, a brave and kindly King Richard III returns victorious, only to be accidentally killed by Edmund Plantagenet. The first series of the classic historical comedy about the venomous but luckless Blackadder was almost its last.

Lord Edmund Blackadder, great grandson to the original, is a Tudor courtier attempting to win the favour of Queen Elizabeth l while avoiding execution by decapitation.

In the Regency era, Mr E. Blackadder serves as butler to the foppish numskull Prince George.

Stuck in the middle of World War I, Captain Edmund Blackadder does his best to escape the banality of the war.

A parody of Charles Dickens, a time machine based on Leonardo da Vinci's original plans, and some random dips into history. Daniel Tessier rather cunningly rounds up the whole Blackadder saga.

Dan Tessier looks back at three million years of comedy...and it's smegging fantastic!

"In every generation there is a chosen one... she alone will stand against the vampires, the demons and the forces of darkness. She is the slayer."

The emotional stakes are raised as Buffy and Angel fall in love. But their union will lead to the unleashing of terrifying and deadly consequences...

Exploring the history of the scripted crime shows that we watch on our TV screens today which owe much to television's innovation of the 1950s.

Peter Lewis' contemporary article from the Summer of 1962 looks at the series that broke new ground in police procedurals in its first year