Tonight at a glance
- Runtime
- 33 min
- Age rating
- PG
- Language
- English
- Country
- United Kingdom
Why tonight?
- Under two hours — there is still an evening on the other side of it.
The story
What was a cunning plan from Lord Edmund Blackadder V to fake a time machine on his gullibly incompetent friends, turns out to be the real thing and hurls him and his imbecile underling, Baldrick, through the course of human history.
- time travel
The bill
- Tim McInnerny — Darling
- Miranda Richardson — Queenie
- Tyrannosaurus Rex — Dinosaur
- Patsy Byrne — Nursie
- Colin Firth — William Shakespeare
- Rik Mayall — Robin Hood
- Kate Moss — Maid Marian / King Blackadder's Wife
- Crispin Harris — Friar Tuck
- Simon Russell Beale — Wellington
- Hordes of Scots — Scottish Hordes
- Jennie Bond — Royal Reporter (voice) (as Jenny Bond)
- Directed
- Paul Weiland
- Written
- Ben Elton, Richard Curtis
Production
- Rating
- 7.0 / 10 · 189 ratings
- Studio
- Tiger Aspect, BBC, Sky, NMEC
If this stayed with you
Then these are the nearest things Cue holds — chosen for what they share with it, not for what happens to be popular.
