...he Black Adder]]'', the first serial in the ''[[Blackadder]]'' series. Set in late 15th-century [[Kingdom of England|England]], the episode parodies the ...] who "singed the beard of the King of Spain" when he attacked the country in 1587.<ref>Lewis, p. 123</ref>

...ni died on June 14, 1994 and Edwards retired from film-making a year later in 1995. ...While investigating her disappearance in the South of France, he has a run-in with the kidnappers, and a local ''gendarme'', named Jacques Gambrelli ([[R

...on]] as his [[sidekick]] [[Baldrick]], together with numerous other actors in one-off parts. ...lly dethroned as Duke of Edinburgh and gathers the other six most evil men in all England to form the Black Seal. They plan to kill the rest of the royal