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Yes Minister
1980 · Comedy · War & Politics
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The most gripping sitcom since 1380.
Blackadder traces the deeply cynical and self-serving lineage of various Edmund Blackadders throughout British history, from the muck of the Middle Ages to the frontline of The Great War.
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Rowan Atkinson
Edmund Blackadder, Edmund, Duke of Edinburgh, Captain Edmund Blackadder
Tony Robinson
Baldrick, Private S. Baldrick
Brian Blessed
King Richard IV
Elspet Gray
The Queen
Robert East
Harry Prince of Wales
Patsy Byrne
Nursie
Helen Atkinson-Wood
Mrs. Miggins
Frank Finlay
The Witchsmeller Pursuivant
Patrick Malahide
Guy of Glastonbury
Alex Norton
McAngus, Duke of Argyll
Paul Brooke
Friar Bellows
Peter Cook
Richard III
Jim Broadbent
Don Speekingleesh, an Interpreter
Tim McInnerny
Lord Percy, Captain Kevin Darling, Lord Topper
Stephen Fry
General Sir Anthony Cecil Hogmanay Melchett, Lord Melchett, The Duke of Wellington
Hugh Laurie
The Prince Regent, Lieutenant The Honourable George Colthurst St. Barleigh, Prince Ludwig, Simon Partridge
Tony Aitken
Minstrel, Mad Beggar
Patrick Allen
Narrator, The Hawk
Miriam Margolyes
Lady Whiteadder, Infanta Maria Escalosa of Spain
Miranda Richardson
Queen Elizabeth I, Nurse Mary, Amy Hardwood, the elusive shadow
