Season guide

Blackadder: Season 2

6 episodes Premiered Jan 9, 1986

Previously on Blackadder

Season 2 Lore Primer

Key plot threads, lore context, and character stakes you need to remember before diving into this season.

⚡ Directly follows the overarching narrative developments of Blackadder Season 1.
⚡ Faction dynamics and core character alliances shift under escalating external stakes.
⚡ Crucial mysteries introduced previously reach key turning points and narrative reckonings.
⚡ Sets up serialized story arcs that build directly toward the climactic season finale.

Season 2 Episodes

Episode Guide

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Season 2: Filler vs. Essential Canon

Filter episodes by narrative weight. Focus on essential mytharc and skip standalone side quests.

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Mytharc (3): Crucial lore & season climaxes

Core (3): Character development & subplots

Side Quest (0): Standalone / filler

S2·E1 Mytharc

Bells

Jan 9, 1986

Blackadder feels a funny attraction for his manservant and decides to marry when he discovers he is a she.

S2·E2 Core

Head

Jan 16, 1986

After the Queen appoints Blackadder Lord High Executioner, he finds himself in trouble when the Queen pardons someone he executed ahead of schedule.

S2·E3 Core

Potato

Jan 23, 1986

After Sir Walter Raleigh takes the Queen's fancy by bringing her a potato, Blackadder decides to become an explorer with the aid of a legless sea captain.

S2·E4 Core

Money

Feb 5, 1986

The Queen hampers Blackadder's efforts to raise cash to pay off a debt to a sadistic bishop.

S2·E5 Mytharc

Beer

Feb 13, 1986

Blackadder's rich and Puritanical aunt and uncle pay him a visit to discuss his inheritance the same night he has a beer-drinking contest.

S2·E6 Mytharc

Chains

Feb 20, 1986

Blackadder and Lord Melchett are kidnapped by a German spy right after the Queen decides she will pay no more ransom to kidnappers.