Blackadder is a British sitcom that first broadcast on BBC1 between 1983 and 1989. There were four parts to the sitcom. All of them were set in different parts of history. All of the series starred Rowan Atkinson, as Edmund Blackadder; and Tony Robinson, as Baldrick. The four series were "The Blackadder", set at the end of the British Middle Ages; "Blackadder II", set in England during Queen Elizabeth I's rule; "Blackadder the Third", set during the British Regency; and "Blackadder Goes Forth", set during World War I.