Corporal Punishment

This Episode: Season 4, Episode 2
Black Adder Overall: Episode 20
Airdate: 5 Oct 1989
Written by Ben Elton & Richard Curtis
Directed by Richard Boden

Notes

• The leader of the firing squad is played by Steven Frost.  I know Frost well from 30 or so episodes of the UK version of “Whose Line is it Anyway”.  He was also in the Series I episode “Witchsmeller Pursuivant“.  He also appeared (uncredited) in the fourth episode of the Doctor Who serial “Warrior’s Gate“.
• When Blackadder says “Massingbird”, it is dubbed (close examination shows his mouth doesn’t match the words). The originally spoken line had to be dubbed when it was realized that using the name of a real life lawyer would be constituted as advertising (Robert Moxon Browne).
• The names of the men in the firing squad are a reference to the BBC sitcom “Dad’s Army“.

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