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Blackadder :: Witchsmeller Pursuivant (01x05)
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| Title: | Witchsmeller Pursuivant |
| Episode #: | 01x05 |
| Original Airdate: | Wednesday July 13th, 1983 |
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Episode Summary |
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The King has fallen ill and there is something evil in the air, perhaps witchcraft. At least, that is everyone but Blackadder's perception. A 'witchsmeller' is brought in to find and bring to justice the perpetrators using his own brand of methodology and logic.
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| Guest Stars | | •Barbara Miller (2) | played | Jane Kirkettle | Recurring (second appearance) | | •Bert Parnaby | played | Dim Cain, A Peasant | Recurring (second appearance) | | •Forbes Collins | played | Dopey Jack, A Peasant | Recurring (first appearance) | | •Howard Lew Lewis | played | Piers, A Yeoman | Recurring (second appearance) | | •Mark Arden | played | Anon, A Peasant | Recurring (first appearance) | | •Natasha King | played | Princess Leia | Recurring (second appearance) | | •Patrick Duncan | played | Officer, An Officer | Recurring (first appearance) | | •Perry Benson | played | Daft Red, A Peasant | Recurring (first appearance) | | •Roy Evans | played | Dumb Abel, A Peasant | Recurring (second appearance) | | •Stephen Frost (1) | played | Soft, A Guard | Recurring (first appearance) | | •Frank Finlay | played | The Witchsmeller Pursuivant | | | •Louise Gold | played | Mrs. Tyler, A Goodwife | | | •Peter Schofield | played | Kife, A Lord | | | •Richard Murdoch | played | Ross, A Lord | | | •Sarah Thomas | played | Mrs. Field, A Goodwife | | | •Valentine Dyall | played | Angus, A Lord | |
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| •Rowan Atkinson | played | Prince Edmund, Duke of Edinburgh / Lord Edmund Blackadder / Edmund Blackadder, Esq. / Captain Edmund Blackadder | | •Tony Robinson | played | Baldrick, son of Robin the Dung Gatherer / Baldrick / S. Baldrick / Private S. Baldrick | | •Tim McInnerny | played | Lord Percy Percy, Duke of Northumberland / Lord Percy Percy, heir to the Duchy of Northumberland / Captain Kevin Darling | | •Brian Blessed | played | King Richard IV of England | | •Robert East | played | Harry, Prince of Wales | | •Elspet Gray | played | Queen Gertrude of Flanders | | •Patrick Allen (1) | played | Narrator (uncredited) |
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Rowan Attkinson is credited in this episode as 'The Great Grumbledook'.
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Edmund: Does anybody know what happened?
Peasant: (raising his hand) No. I don't.
| Harry: Witchsmeller, my dear, uh, if you do happen to come across someone who's a bit, you know, um, 'witchy', how do you prove him guilty?
Witchsmeller: By trial or by ordeal.
Edmund: Ah! The ordeal by water!
Witchsmeller: No, by axe.
Edmund: (interestedly) Oh!
Witchsmeller: The suspect has his head placed upon a block, and an axe aimed at his neck. If the man is guilty, the axe will bounce off his neck: so we burn him. If the man is not guilty, the axe will simply slice his head off.
Edmund: What a very fair test that is!
| Percy: Look, look, I just can't take the pressure of all these omens anymore!
Edmund: Percy!
Percy: No, no, really, I'm serious! Only this morning in the courtyard I saw a horse with two heads and two bodies!
Edmund: Two horses standing next to each other?
Percy: (hesitates) Yes, I suppose it could have been...
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It is claimed that Geoffrey Chaucer was recently seen acting like a cow. However, Chaucer died in 1400, 95 years before this episode is set.
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