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>From: Dennis Fischer [mailto:[log in to unmask]]
>Sent: 11 July 2001 19:51
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>Subject: [SF-LIT] Black Adder Back and Forth
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>Just recently caught up with a science fictional
>segment of the famed Black Adder series starring Rowan
>Atkinson. Atkinson has portrayed the bilious character
>in numerous time periods and decided to revisit him
>after ten years as a lord in 1999 whose bumbling
>servant accidentally invents a real time machine. It's
>far from the funniest segment the series has ever done
>(though the slight on Hadrian's wall was fairly
>amusing among other bits), but it was fun to see the
>old supporting cast reassembled and playing variations
>on their previous characters (not to mention the
>encounter with William Shakespeare where Black Adder
>gives the boot on behalf of all English schoolchildren
>forced to read his plays). The production has been
>released on tape and DVD in the U.S. as BLACK ADDER V.
Don't know if any of this is explained in the US packaging so:
Calling it Black Adder V is a little mischievous (and may cause confusion if
there should ever be a fifth series). Back & Forth was a one-off made as an
exhibit for the Millennium Dome in London. It was co-produced by Rupert
Murdoch's Sky TV and has been shown on Sky (satellite) TV in the UK. Don't
know if the BBC retained any rights for terrestrial broadcast. The UK video
release had a couple of extra features to encourage purchase by anyone who'd
already taped it: a "making of" documentary and "Baldrick's Video Diary",
both of which somehow contrived to be even less funny than the main feature.
Alasdair.
Alasdair Montgomery
Science & Engineering Librarian
Library & Information Services
University of Wales Swansea
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