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Blackadder Goes Forth
S1.E6
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  • Episode aired Nov 2, 1989
  • TV-PG
  • 30m
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Rowan Atkinson, Hugh Laurie, Tim McInnerny, and Tony Robinson in Blackadder Goes Forth (1989)
ComedyWar

Blackadder pretends that he's insane to avoid certain death carrying out the General's order for the "big push".Blackadder pretends that he's insane to avoid certain death carrying out the General's order for the "big push".Blackadder pretends that he's insane to avoid certain death carrying out the General's order for the "big push".

  • Director
    • Richard Boden
  • Writers
    • Richard Curtis
    • Ben Elton
  • Stars
    • Rowan Atkinson
    • Tony Robinson
    • Stephen Fry
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  • IMDb RATING
    9.4/10
    2K
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    • Director
      • Richard Boden
    • Writers
      • Richard Curtis
      • Ben Elton
    • Stars
      • Rowan Atkinson
      • Tony Robinson
      • Stephen Fry
    • 18User reviews
    • 3Critic reviews
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    Rowan Atkinson
    Rowan Atkinson
    • Captain Edmund Blackadder
    Tony Robinson
    Tony Robinson
    • Private S Baldrick
    Stephen Fry
    Stephen Fry
    • General Sir Anthony Cecil Hogmanay Melchett
    Hugh Laurie
    Hugh Laurie
    • Lieutenant The Honourable George Colthurst St. Barleigh
    Tim McInnerny
    Tim McInnerny
    • Captain Kevin Darling
    Geoffrey Palmer
    Geoffrey Palmer
    • Field Marshal Haig
    • Director
      • Richard Boden
    • Writers
      • Richard Curtis
      • Ben Elton
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    10pete-67362

    Genius

    Just Wow.. wouldn't change a second of this episode. If you really watch and I mean really watch around the comedy aspect of it. It says it all about the mindset and general moral of the various type of ranked men from lower class to upper class that fought in the worst war of the 'modern era'. Never again please.
    10Sleepin_Dragon

    It still rates as one of the best things ever made.

    Blackadder and his team are set for the big push, efforts to escape the trenches by pleading insanity are the only option.

    Not much you can say about this, other than it's exquisite, for me it rates as one of the best things ever made. Is it the show's best ever episode? It's surely a contender.

    Thirty years on, I still remember its original transmission, my family and I all sat in silence, as that astonishing ending delivered its powerful hammer blow.

    The jokes are great, once again the performances are phenomenal, the script is about as good as it can get.

    Powerfully moving, Darling's appointment, and that final scene, I hadn't forgotten it, absolutely heart breaking, it's staggering how a sitcom can move like this.

    Clucking Bell that was good, 10/10.

    I don't mind admitting, I had tears in my eyes.
    10mindbender2302

    That ending...

    ...Bravo.... Comedy fans must watch it... Enough said.
    9bgajunkie

    Watching during Remembrance period

    I stood silently for the 2 minute silence during Armistice Day 2014, as I have always done ever year when and wherever possible. I have observed on Facebook how much this episode has on its viewers with respect to remembering those lost during WWI, and by extension during any of the conflicts that followed, right up to today. This episode most resonates with a viewer during the annual Remembrance period.

    I felt that doing WW1 in Blackadder Goes Forth was the best series of all Blackadders. I loved the ending especially as it was silent, which made it more poignant and respectful.

    This is where the writers and actors showed their own respect and humility in regards to the sacrifices of all those who gave their lives for their countries; but in the right context - made light of the casual brutality, senseless wastage and callous disregard for life by the generals & politicians of the age in the conduct of war. An amazing feat in a comedy, after all. One of the best "entertainment" programmes made by the BBC ever.
    10langtonio

    Gallows Humour With A Poignant Message

    Who are the winners of war? Not the men (or women) who toil on the front line. This is the message that echoes through time regardless of whatever war is fought.

    The final episode of this EPIC British comedy is timeless as the message it conveys. Blackadder is black humour at it's best. War is banal. Stupid. Ridiculous. The perfect subject for comedy with writing at it's best and delivered by a stellar cast.

    Utterly peerless. As are the men and women who gave their lives. What a fitting ending for this wonderful series. What a fitting epitaph to the memory of The Greatest Generation. How could anyone miss the point of how important this comedy is. *blows whistle and climbs into no man's land*

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    • Trivia
      Hugh Laurie said that filming was sad because "even for comic effect, we were representing the deaths of hundreds of thousands of people".
    • Goofs
      When Darling gives his "bugger" line toward the end, he's still wearing an overcoat. After a two-second cut to Blackadder's response, we see Darling again, now without the overcoat.
    • Quotes

      Private Baldrick: I have a plan, sir.

      Captain Blackadder: Really, Baldrick? A cunning and subtle one?

      Private Baldrick: Yes, sir.

      Captain Blackadder: As cunning as a fox who's just been appointed Professor of Cunning at Oxford University?

      Private Baldrick: Yes, sir.

      Captain Blackadder: Well, I'm afraid it'll have to wait. Whatever it was, I'm sure it was better than my plan to get out of this by pretending to be mad. I mean, who would have noticed another madman round here?

      Captain Blackadder: [whistle blows] Good luck, everyone.

    • Crazy credits
      This episode has no closing credits, save for the title "Blackadder" (not "Blackadder Goes Forth") and the copyright date, over a field of poppies.
    • Connections
      Featured in Blackadder Exclusive: The Whole Rotten Saga (2008)

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      • November 2, 1989 (United Kingdom)
    • Country of origin
      • United Kingdom
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      • English
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      • British Broadcasting Corporation (BBC)
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      • 30m
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