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Blackadder Goes Forth
Blackadder Goes Forth is the fourth and final series of the BBC sitcom "Blackadder", written by Richard Curtis and Ben Elton, which aired from 28 September to 2 November 1989 on BBC One. The series placed the recurring characters of Blackadder, Baldrick and George in a trench in Flanders during World War I, and followed their various doomed attempts to escape from the trenches to avoid certain death under the misguided command of General Melchett. Aside from its references to a number of famous figures of the age
- "Blackadder Goes Forth" – The Melchett dynasty has changed quite a bit in "Blackadder Goes Forth"; rather than being the snivelling, slimy, reserved, intelligent, obsequious sycophant that Lord Melchett was, General Sir Anthony Cecil Hogmanay Melchett, VC KCB is a loud, childish, unintelligent, incompetent, pompous warmonger who appears in the fourth series. The General Melchett character appearing in "Blackadder Goes Forth" reflects the popular caricature of First World War generals in that his preferred battle tactics and general attitudes towards warfare