This comedy series was written by Richard Curtis and Rowan Atkinson and produced by John Lloyd. The series embodies a controversial history of King Richard III at the Battle of Bosworth Field just to be killed by someone else. Richard IV, one of the princes who repeatedly tried to take over.
Though the writing was strong and the verbal interplay was there, the first series made the mistake of abundance, with Edmund Blackadder too bumbling, the cast too abounding and the sets too sprawling.
There is just something so amazingly awful, so delightfully despicable about the man that you can't help but hang on his every wicked wisecrack and/or deed.
