Blackadder: Season 4
Season 4 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 3.
- 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.
Episode Guide
Season 4 Progress Shield
Captain Cook
Sep 28, 1989
Blackadder tries painting and cooking as ploys to avoid the scheduled big push out of the trenches.
Corporal Punishment
Oct 5, 1989
Edmund is sentenced to death by firing squad for shooting and eating the General's favourite carrier pigeon.
Major Star
Oct 12, 1989
Blackadder grabs yet another opportunity to return to England by organising a morale-raising music hall show, including Baldrick's Charlie Chaplin impersonation and George's appear
Private Plane
Oct 19, 1989
Blackadder and the boys join the Royal Air Corps, where they are promptly shot down behind enemy lines.
General Hospital
Oct 26, 1989
Blackadder is assigned to find the spy working out of the hospital.
Goodbyeee
Nov 2, 1989
Blackadder tries everything he can think of to get sent back to England when orders come in to go over the top in the first charge against the Germans since 1914.