Dish and Dishonesty

This Episode: Season 3, Episode 1
Black Adder Overall: Episode 13
Airdate: 17 Sep 1987
Written by Ben Elton & Richard Curtis
Directed by Mandie Fletcher

“Socks are like sex – tons of it about and I never seem to get any”.

Notes

• The first episode of Hugh Laurie’s “George” – here the Price Regent in the late 18th / early 19th century.  It is also the first episode with Hugh Laurie as part of the main cast.
• The pattern of calling Baldrick “Mr. S. Baldrick” starts here – the S stands for “sod off”.
• Mrs. Miggins is finally shown.  The character (or more to the point an ancestor) by the same name was spoken about a couple of times in Series II, but never seen there.
• The “Standing in the Back Dressed Stupidly and Looking Stupid Party” is apparently a parody of the real life “Official Monster Raving Loony Party” – who has continually run for office since 1983.
• The reporter at the election results is the late Vincent Hanna (died in 1997).  He’s effectively playing himself here as in real life he’s very well known for by-election reporting.  His character here is said to be the great-great-great-grandfather of the real life Hanna.
• The first time we hear someone call Black Adder “bladder”.

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