Blackadder's Christmas Carol (TV Movie 1988)

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Rowan Atkinson

Blackadders

Tony Robinson

Baldricks

Miranda Richardson

Queens Elizabeth I…

Stephen Fry

Lords Melchett…

Hugh Laurie

Princes Regent…

Robbie Coltrane

Spirit of Christmas

Miriam Margolyes

Queen Victoria

Jim Broadbent

Prince Albert

Patsy Byrne

Nursie…

Denis Lill

Beadle

Pauline Melville

Mrs Scratchit

Philip Pope

Lord Nelson

Nicola Bryant

Millicent

Ramsay Gilderdale

Ralph

David Barber

Enormous Orphan

Erkan Mustafa

Enormous Orphan

David Nunn

Enormous Orphan

Martino Lazzeri

Boy
(uncredited)

Director
- Richard Boden
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Trivia
Ebenezer Blackadder is the only incarnation of Blackadder who is not named Edmund.

Goofs
Queen Victoria is depicted wearing her stereotypical black clothing; however, Victoria did not actually begin to dress all in black until after her husband, Prince Albert, died in 1861.

Quotes
Baldrick: Well, it went all right until the shepherds came on. See, we haven't been able to get any real sheep, so we had to stick some wool...
Ebenezer Blackadder: On some other dogs!
Baldrick: Yeah. And the moment Jesus got a whiff of them, he's away! While the angel's singing "peace on earth, good will to mankind," Jesus scampers across and tries to get one of the sheep to give him a piggy-back ride!
Ebenezer Blackadder: Scarcely appropriate behavior for the Son of God, Mister Baldrick! Weren't the children upset?
Baldrick: No, they loved it! They want us to do another one at Easter. They want to see us nail up the dog!

Crazy credits
After the list of the cast and crew at the end of the movie, we see the words "A Merry Messy Kweznuz" scribbled, "Kweznuz" replacing "Kwelfnuve" which is stricken out. As Blackadder correctly had noted this is spelling Christmas without getting a single letter right.

Alternate versions
In some copies, Baldrick's line "Nah, they loved it. They want us to do another one at Easter - they want to see us nail up the dog" (at 3:23) has been cut.

Connections
Featured in The 100 Greatest Christmas Moments (2004)

Edmund Blackadder is one of the greatest characters British television has ever produced . He`s cruel , selfish and oh so cunning and it`s a bit of a shock to see him undergo a character change and be the kindest man in all of England . But don`t worry , in this reworking of Dickens A CHRISTMAS CAROL Blackadder soon turns into the anti hero we all know and hate

This is a side splitting Christmas feast for fans of the BLACKADDER series and we get flashbacks to series two and three of the historical sit-com and a glimpse of how the show might have looked if it continued into the space age . To be honest I don`t think a science fiction version of BLACKADDER would have worked well but I did find the concept interesting and highly amusing at the same time .

Don`t worry if you watch it in the height of summer , you`ll still find it funny