Forty years ago, Rowan Atkinson's historical rotter Edmund Blackadder slithered onto our screens in the first episode of what would become one of the best-loved and most-quoted British sitcoms of all time. But the path to comedy greatness was, as Lord Melchett (Stephen Fry) might say, as twisty and turny as a "twisty turny thing"!
To mark the anniversary, Sir Tony Robinson, who played Blackadder's downtrodden but loyal servant Baldrick across four series of the BBC hit, is turning back the clock to tell the story of the previously unseen pilot for the show, which is rather different from the first season, The Black Adder, that aired in 1983. Most notably, Sir Tony himself is not in it!
