What is Blackadder?
{{Infobox television | genre = [[Period piece|Period]] sitcom | creator = [[Richard Curtis (screenwriter)|Richard Curtis]]<br />[[Rowan Atkinson]] | writer = Richard Curtis<br />Rowan Atkinson {{small|(series 1)}}<br />[[Ben Elton]] {{small|(series 2–4)}} | director = [[Geoff Posner]] {{small|(pilot)}}<br>Martin Shardlow {{small|(series 1)}}<br>[[Mandie Fletcher]] {{small|(series 2 and 3)}}<br>[[Richard Boden]] {{small|(series 4)}} | presenter = | starring = Rowan Atkinson<br />[[Tony Robinson]]<br />[[Tim McInnerny]]<br />[[Miranda Richardson]]<br />[[Stephen Fry]]<br/>[[Hugh Laurie]] | voices = | narrated = | theme_music_composer = [[Howard Goodall]] | opentheme = | endtheme = | country = United Kingdom | company = [[BBC]] | language = English | num_series = 4 | num_episodes = 24 (plus 3 [[Television special|specials]]) | list_episodes = List of Blackadder episodes | producer = [[John Lloyd (producer)|John Lloyd]] | executive_producer = | camera = [[Multi-camera]] | runtime = 30 minutes approx | network = [[BBC One|BBC1]] | first_aired = {{Start date|1983|6|15|df=y}} | last_aired = {{End date|1989|11|2|df=y}} | related = }} '''''Blackadder''''' is a British [[sitcom]] that first broadcast on [[BBC One|BBC1]] between 1983 and 1989. There were four parts to the sitcom. All of them were set in different parts of [[history]]. All of the series starred [[Rowan Atkinson]], as [[Edmund Blackadder]]; and [[Tony Robinson]], as [[Baldrick]]. The four series were ''[[The Blackadder]]'', set at the end of the British [[Middle Ages]]; ''[[Blackadder II]]'', set in [[England]] during [[Queen Elizabeth I]]'s rule; ''[[Blackadder the Third]]'', set during the [[British Regency]]; and ''[[Blackadder Goes Forth]]'', set during [[World War I]]. ''Black