Commercial Break Time…
Rowan Atkinson Joins The Secret Service
Watching an old VHS video (yes remember them!) I came across an ad for Barclaycard within the trailers. I'd quite forgotten about these little gems, yes it's the multi ...
Comic Relief, The Early Years
Comic Relief, The Early Years, 1986, 1988
Today is Red Nose Day, raising money for Comic Relief. We thought we'd look back to the launch of the charity and it's first telethon.Comic Relief was launched li...
Blackadder – The Cavalier Years
Blackadder - The Cavalier Years - 1988
The Cavalier Years was a 15 minute one-off edition of Blackadder set during the English Civil War, shown as part of Comic Relief's Red Nose Day in 1988.It is set betw...
Not The Nine O’Clock News
Not The Nine O'Clock News, 1979
A true classic of it's time, that's still just as funny today. This comedy sketch show ran for 27 episodes over 4 series between 1979 and 1982 as an alternative to the BBC1 Nin...
Rowan Atkinson Joins The Police, In The Thin Blue Line
The Thin Blue Line, 1995
Running for two series of 7 episodes each between 1995 and 1996, The Thin Blue Line was a BBC sitcom written by Ben Elton, who of course had written for Rowan Atkinson on Blackadder.
...
Happy Birthday Mr Bean
Happy Birthday Mr Bean, 2021
Happy Birthday Mr Bean is a one off documentary made to mark 30 years since the first episode was broadcast in January 1990.Has it really been 30 years? and on the back of the ...
Merry Christmas From Mr Bean
Merry Christmas Mr Bean, 1992
Merry Christmas Mr Bean was the seventh episode in the popular series. On it's first transmission it was watched by 18.48 million viewers.Merry Christmas Mr Bean was signific...
Blackadder – The Third
Blackadder - The Third - 1987
Set in Britain's Regency Period, late 18th and early 19th centuries. The third series of the hugely popular comedy sees the Blackadder family fortunes drop further.In serie...
Rowan Atkinson Is Johnny English
Johnny English, 2003
Twenty years after his cameo role as an inept secret agent in the James Bond film Never Say Never Again, Rowan Atkinson returns to British Intelligence, this time he's the star in the Jame...
Blackadder II
Blackadder II - 1986
In the second series of the highly successful comedy our hero has come down in the world a little. No longer a Prince the main character is now Lord Edmund Blackadder, the great-grandson o...