First broadcast on 20 July 1983. Featuring Rik Mayall as Mad Gerald (credited as 'Himself').
Blackadder decides that he can wait no longer to seize his destiny.
He sets out to recruit the six most evil men in the Kingdom - The Black Seal - to help him take control of the country.
His plans are thwarted by the arrival of his oldest enemy: the Hawk. This implacable foe throws Edmund into a dungeon and goes off to take over the kingdom himself.
Edmund escapes and summons the Black Seal, but they betray him and help the Hawk to imprison Edmund in a hideous torture device.
Dear Lord, who made the birds and the bees... and the snails, presumably, erm, please help me, a little animal too, in my despair.
Blackadder
Percy and Baldrick kill the villains with poisoned wine, but unfortunately they manage to murder the entire royal family - Edmund included - with the same batch. Whoops.
Brush Up Your Shakespeare
Blackadder calls the Black Seal, "we few, we happy few, we band of ruthless bastards" - an echo of Henry V's speech before the Battle of Agincourt.
