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Baldrick (left) and Blackadder (right) plotting and scheming in the Elizabethan age. Allstar Picture Library Limited/Alamy

Blackadder at 40: the difficult birth of a classic TV comedy

The first series had the characters’ roles all the wrong way round. Blackadder was dim, Baldrick clever and the queen was dull. Thankfully they got a second try.

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