Black Adder - The Complete Collector's Set

What can you say about a TV show that still holds up to and surpasses anything still being produced today? Rowan Atkinson is perfect in each of the Blackadder characters he portrays. Each succeding generation of Blackadder just gets better and funnier. We watch these DVDs as often as we can. If you like any of the Black Adder series or Rowan Atkinson, Tony Robinson, Miranda Richardson, Hugh Laurie (Yes...House) you will love these DVDs. Have fun!

The Black Adder series was on British TV and is REALLY very funny if you like it dry and even more so if you can catch all the British historical/Shakespearean references. Many American viewers may not be completely familiar with those.

There are occasional bits of vocabulary which have not crossed the pond and in most episodes there are sexual references/intimations/overt images which make the episodes a little racy for family viewing if your kids are under 16 or 17.

I would highly recommend this DVD set. If you are a Black Adder fan you can't go far wrong. All the episodes are here and there are even some extra Christmas specials and things that I was not expecting. It would have been nice to have some more extra features but that is a very small complaint and probably not a driving force in getting this in the first place.

The product arrived as promised on time and in excellent shape. All disks worked fine. It had been years since I had seen any of the Black Adder programs and this was my first chance to see all of them.

As one of the 1st reviewer said "if you are here you probably know and love the series". I came looking for reviews of the quality of the dvd's (I have all of the VHS including a Blackadder Christmas). I'm writing this review for Mr. Bean fans who haven't seen Bladder (ie. the negative reviews). Don't! You will not like it if you are here because you like Mr. Bean. This series has dialog, lots of it, witty, rude, funny dialog, where Mr. Bean has none.

I am not a fan of Mr. Bean at all, but I respect Rowan Atkinson and your right to like the bumbling dullard (I'm kidding!). He has two extremely successful series where the fans of one will probably not be fans of the other. I really can't imagine any other comic pulling that off and therein lies the genius of Mr. Atkinson.

Oh and for Bladder fans, I'm only giving it 4 stars because I thought series 4 was weak. The 1st series set the foundation for the evolution and when Edmund was finally king I think it should have ended the series. (the prince regent died in a duel and his daffed father thought Blackadder was his son and crowned him king). The best is series 2 (nursie & queenie what more is there to say...ploppy!)