baldrick is a septic tank cleaner to the 20th century lord blackadder in "". his first appearance is serving blackadder's millennium dinner, which he does wearing nothing but an amusing apron, on a whim. his cooking is similar to private baldrick's; he prepared dinner by coughing over an avocado. his underpants may date from the 18th century, or in any case smell as though they do, and turn out to be the cause of the extinction of the dinosaurs. rather surprisingly he builds a working time machine, making him "the greatest genius who ever lived". or it would do, if he knew "how" it worked and had not just built it using a combination of the plans of leonardo da vinci and an apparent skill at building airfix models being able to make up for his inability to read the plans. following his master's rewriting of history, he becomes prime minister of the united kingdom – and possibly dictator, as the television commentator observes that elections have been abolished (although how much power he has with edmund as king is questionable). his intelligence appears to be between that of the medieval baldrick and the elizabethan baldrick. his "cunning plan" was possibly the only plan which a blackadder ever thought was a good plan, albeit with a slight modification to it.