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This Episode: Season 4, Episode 3
Black Adder Overall: Episode 21
Airdate: 12 Oct 1989
Written by Ben Elton & Richard Curtis
Directed by Richard Boden

Notes

• Features the return of Gabrielle Glaister from Series II’s “Bells” as “Bob”.  It’s the same bit, that people can’t figure out her gender properly.
• There’s a reference to Buster Keaton here, but Keaton’s first ever role of any kind was 1917, and he didn’t become well known until later than that. Black Adder IV takes place in 1917, so it’s unlikely they would have had widespread impressions of Keaton.
• Rowan Atkinson delivers the word “Bob” (for the first time) using the exact same cadence he did in “Bells“.  I always loved that.

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