Money (Blackadder)
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| "Money" | |
|---|---|
| Blackadder episode | |
| Episode no. | Series 2 (Blackadder II) Episode 4 |
| Directed by | Mandie Fletcher |
| Written by | Ben Elton Richard Curtis |
| Original air date | 6 February 1986 |
| Guest appearances | |
| Ronald Lacey - The Bishop of Bath and Wells Cassie Stuart - Molly Lesley Nicol - Mrs. Pants John Pierce Jones - Arthur the Sailor Tony Aitken - Poor Tom[Disputed - Discuss] Philip Pope- Leonardo Acropolis Piers Ibbotson - Messenger Barry Craine - Mr. Pants | |
"Money" is the fourth episode of the BBC sitcom Blackadder II, the second series of Blackadder, which was set in Elizabethan England from 1558 to 1603.
Plot
Blackadder owes £1,000 to the baby-eating Bishop of Bath and Wells, who threatens to sodomise him with a hot poker if he does not pay. Blackadder tries unsuccessfully to blackmail the Bishop. Blackadder has only £85, which he loses when the Queen wins a bet about him with Lord Melchett.
Blackadder and Baldrick then try prostitution but only manage to get sixpence from a sailor named Arthur, which the Queen also takes. Lord Percy tries to make them money by alchemy, without success, only producing a green substance, which he seems convinced is valuable. Blackadder manages to bully a couple into buying his house for £1,100, but is again tricked out of the money by the Queen.
Finally, as Blackadder is visited by the Bishop for failing to repay his debt, Blackadder drugs the Bishop and has a painting made of him in a highly compromising position. He uses this to successfully blackmail the Bishop into writing off the debt and giving him enough money to buy back his house and live in comfort. The Bishop is impressed by his treachery but asks who the other figure in the painting is, at which point Blackadder reveals Percy.
Cast
- Rowan Atkinson as Lord Edmund Blackadder
- Tim McInnerny as Lord Percy Percy
- Tony Robinson as Baldrick
- Miranda Richardson as Queen Elizabeth I
- Stephen Fry as Lord Melchett
- Patsy Byrne as Nursie
- Ronald Lacey as the Bishop of Bath and Wells
- Cassie Stuart as Mollie
- Lesley Nicol as Mrs. Pants
- John Pierce Jones as Arthur the Sailor
- Tony Aitken as the Mad Beggar
- Philip Pope as Leonardo Acropolis
- Piers Ibbotson as the Messenger
- Barry Craine as Mr. Pants
Legacy
- Bishop of Bath and Wells' Lingering torment of Blackadder, from the Telegraph (7 Dec 2008)
External links
- "Money" at BBC Online
- "Money" at IMDb
