Blackadder Goes Forth, Plan E: General Hospital
Season 4, Episode 5
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With Field Marshal Haig's latest plan appearing to be to move his drinks cabinet a few inches towards Berlin, Blackadder volunteers to be official war artist.
Plan B: Corporal PunishmentWhen orders for Operation Insanity arrive, Blackadder breaches security by eating the messenger - a pigeon who happens to be Melchett's pet. Baah!
Plan C: Major StarThe October Revolution in Moscow produces three appalling results: a ceasefire by Russia, an offensive by Germany, and a Charlie Chaplin impression by Baldrick.
Plan D: Private PlaneThe late, great Rik Mayall guest stars as the outrageous Flashheart, a man with a healthy libido. In WWI, our hero Blackadder joins the Royal Flying Corps.
Plan E: General HospitalOrdered to find a spy in the hospital, Blackadder spends three weeks chasing a nurse and ignoring a man with a German accent. Miranda Richardson guest stars.
Plan F: GoodbyeeeThe immensely moving final episode of the WWI sitcom, ending with one of the best moments in TV history. With Fry and Laurie, and guest star Geoffrey Palmer.
- About this episode
- Capt. Edmund Blackadder (played yet again by Rowan Atkinson) is dodging bullets in the trenches during World War I in this incarnation of the `Blackadder' series. Blackadder is aided in his attempts to stay alive by his batman, Private Baldrick, and the idealistic Lieutenant George, as they wait for a planned `big push' against the Germans on the Western Front.
- CastRowan Atkinson, Tony Robinson, Hugh Laurie
- GenreComedy
- Seasons1
- StudioU&Gold