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Blackadder: Season 4

6 episodes Premiered Sep 28, 1989
Previously on Blackadder

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.
Season 4 Episodes

Episode Guide

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Season 4: 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
S4·E1 Mytharc

Captain Cook

Sep 28, 1989

Blackadder tries painting and cooking as ploys to avoid the scheduled big push out of the trenches.

S4·E2 Core

Corporal Punishment

Oct 5, 1989

Edmund is sentenced to death by firing squad for shooting and eating the General's favourite carrier pigeon.

S4·E3 Core

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

S4·E4 Core

Private Plane

Oct 19, 1989

Blackadder and the boys join the Royal Air Corps, where they are promptly shot down behind enemy lines.

S4·E5 Mytharc

General Hospital

Oct 26, 1989

Blackadder is assigned to find the spy working out of the hospital.

S4·E6 Mytharc

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.