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===Series 3: ''Blackadder the Third''===
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''Blackadder the Third'', the third series of ''Blackadder'', originally aired on BBC1 from 17 September to 22 October 1987.<ref name="BaIII">{{cite web|title=BBC Programme Index - Blackadder the Third|url=https://genome.ch.bbc.co.uk/search/0/20?filt=b006xxw7#top|publisher=BBC|accessdate=10 February 2025}}</ref> The series is set in the late 18th and early 19th centuries, a period known as the [[English Regency|Regency]]. In the series, [[Mr. E. Blackadder|Mr. Edmund Blackadder Esquire]] (Rowan Atkinson) is a butler to [[List of Blackadder characters#George|George IV]], who at this time is the Prince Regent, played by [[Hugh Laurie]] as a buffoonish [[fop]]. Despite Edmund's respected intelligence and abilities, he has no personal fortune to speak of, apart from his frequently fluctuating wage packet from the Prince (“If I’m running short of cash, all I have to do is go upstairs and ask Prince Fathead for a raise”), and from (it seems) stealing the Prince's socks and selling them off. The episode titles were puns on [[Jane Austen]]’s novels ''[[Sense and Sensibility]]'' and ''[[Pride and Prejudice]]''. As usual, Blackadder also has his own servant [[List of Blackadder characters#Balrick|Baldrick]] (Tony Robinson).

Along with Atkinson, Robinson, and Laurie, this series also starred  [[Helen Atkinson-Wood]] as [[List of Blackadder characters#Mrs. Miggins|Mrs. Miggins]]. The series features [[Samuel Johnson|Dr. Samuel Johnson]] ([[Robbie Coltrane]]); [[William Pitt the Younger]] (Simon Osborne); the [[French Revolution]] (with [[Chris Barrie]], Tim McInnerny as [[the Scarlet Pimpernel]], and [[Nigel Planer]]); hammy [[English Renaissance theatre|theatrical actors]] ([[Kenneth Connor]] and [[Hugh Paddick]]); [[Samuel Taylor Coleridge]] ([[Jim Sweeney (comedian)|Jim Sweeney]]); [[Percy Shelley|Shelley]] ([[Lee Cornes]]); [[George Gordon Byron, 6th Baron Byron|Lord Byron]] ([[Steve Steen]]); Amy Hardwood (aka "The Shadow") (Miranda Richardson); and the [[Arthur Wellesley, 1st Duke of Wellington|Duke of Wellington]] (Stephen Fry).