Blackadder: Back & Forth

by Richard Curtis and Ben Elton, directed by Paul Weiland

Release: 6 December 1999
Format: Short Film
Genre: Comedy
Audience: Adults
Content: Definite Time Travel
Original Language: English

Rowan Atkinson’s historically funny Blackadder character comes to the big screen for a final 30-minute episode. Each of the earlier TV series followed one of Lord Edmund Blackadder′s many ancestors in a famous time period, but now the modern-day Blackadder announces to his dinner party that he’s just built a time machine based on da Vinci’s specification, after which he wagers each of guests £10,000 that he can use the machine to retrieve any named object from history. Of course, Blackadder himself thinks it’s all going to be nothing more than the best New Year’s Eve prank ever, but the dinosaurs, Queen Elizabeth I, Will Shakespeare, Robin Hood, Maid Marion, Napoleon, Wellington, Hadrian, and others have different ideas.

Now, if only we could get Mr. Bean into a time machine.

— Michael Main

Elizabeth: How on Earth can one look at the past? You can’t see something that’s already happened.
The Bishop: Unless you’re on the lavatory.
The Viscount: Uh! Good point, Bish!
Blackadder: Yes, or. . . or unless one’s got a time machine.

DEBUT

Blackadder: Back and Forth (premiered at the Skyscape Cinema at the Millennium Dome, London, 6 December 1999).

VARIANTS

1 English variant

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INDEXER NOTES (SPOILERS!)

Credits—The <a href='https%3A%2F%2Fwww.imdb.com%2Ftitle%2Ftt0212579%2Ffullcredits%2F'>IMDb</a> lists Rowan Atkinson, Richard Curtis, and Ben Elton as uncredited creators of <i>Blackadder</i>; however, we don’t record uncredited creators unless there is a previously established pattern of crediting the creators of the series.