Blackadder
The 'Blackadder' Characters Were Real People. Oh, You Didn't Know?
By Michael West in Movies / TV / Theatre on 25 June 2014
Turns out Captain Blackadder and his cohorts really did serve in World War I.
Captain Blackadder, Lieutenant George and Private Baldrick, some of the most enduring comedy characters of all time, had real-life namesakes, it has emerged.
Image caption The Blackadder characters were...actually...real people.
The BBC comedy Blackadder, which covered four periods of history enduring with a series, set in the trenches, was invented by Richard Curtis, Rowan Atkinson and Ben Elton. However, it seems the trio's defining creations really did 'go forth' in World War I after a specialist military genealogy website traced real life counterparts of Captain Blackadder and his cohorts.
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