Money (Blackadder)

"Money"
Blackadder episode
Episode no.	Series 2 (Blackadder II) Episode 4
Directed by	Mandie Fletcher
Written by	Ben Elton Richard Curtis
Original air date	6 February 1986
Guest appearance(s)
Ronald Lacey - The Bishop of Bath and Wells Cassie Stuart - Molly Lesley Nicol - Mrs. Pants John Pierce Jones - Arthur the Sailor Tony Aitken - Poor Tom Philip Pope- Leonardo Acropolis Piers Ibbotson - Messenger Barry Craine - Mr. Pants
Episode chronology

"Money" is the fourth episode of the BBC sitcom Blackadder II, the second series of Blackadder, which was set in Elizabethan England from 1558 to 1603.

Plot

Blackadder owes one thousand pounds to the Bishop of Bath and Wells, who threatens to have him killed if he does not pay. Blackadder tries unsuccessfully to blackmail the Bishop. He has only 85 pounds, which he loses when the Queen wins a bet about him with Lord Melchett.

Blackadder and Baldrick manage to get sixpence from a sailor, which is also taken by the Queen. Lord Percy tries to make them money by alchemy, without success, only producing a green substance, which he seems convinced is valuable. Blackadder manages to bully a couple into buying his house for 1100 pounds, but is again tricked out of the money by the Queen.

Finally, Blackadder drugs the Bishop and has a painting made of him in a highly compromising position. He uses this to successfully blackmail the Bishop into writing off the debt and giving him enough money to buy back his house and live in comfort. The Bishop is impressed by his treachery, but asks who the other figure in the painting is, at which Blackadder reveals Percy.

Cast

Rowan Atkinson as Lord Edmund Blackadder
Tim McInnerny as Lord Percy Percy
Tony Robinson as Baldrick
Miranda Richardson as Queen Elizabeth I
Stephen Fry as Lord Melchett
Patsy Byrne as Nursie
Ronald Lacey as the Bishop of Bath and Wells
Cassie Stuart as Mollie
Lesley Nicol as Mrs. Pants
John Pierce Jones as Arthur the Sailor
Tony Aitken as the Mad Beggar
Philip Pope as Leonardo Acropolis
Piers Ibbotson as the Messenger
Barry Craine as Mr. Pants

External links

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"Money" at the Internet Movie Database

Blackadder

Episodes

The Black Adder	Pilot "The Foretelling" "Born to Be King" "The Archbishop" "The Queen of Spain's Beard" "Witchsmeller Pursuivant" "The Black Seal"

Blackadder II	"Bells" "Head" "Potato" "Money" "Beer" "Chains"

Blackadder the Third	"Dish and Dishonesty" "Ink and Incapability" "Nob and Nobility" "Sense and Senility" "Amy and Amiability" "Duel and Duality"

Blackadder Goes Forth	"Captain Cook" "Corporal Punishment" "Major Star" "Private Plane" "General Hospital" "Goodbyeee"

Specials	Blackadder: The Cavalier Years Blackadder's Christmas Carol Blackadder: Back & Forth

Characters

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