First broadcast on 24 September 1987. Featuring Robbie Coltrane as Dr Johnson.
Prince George decides he needs to shake off his reputation as England's greatest thicky, so he agrees to patronise Dr Johnson's new dictionary.
Now I've got my lovely fire I'm happy as a Frenchman who's invented a pair of self-removing trousers.
George
Unfortunately, Baldrick doesn't recognise the infinite value of the manuscript, which took the finest mind in England 10 years to complete, and he throws it on the fire.
Dr Johnson and his poet friends are on the point of killing Blackadder for losing the dictionary when George miraculously appears with it in his hands.
As it turns out, Baldrick burnt Blackadder's own manuscript, a novel which would have made him a millionaire.
Insult of the Episode
George: Do you think he's a genius?
Blackadder: No sir, I do not. Unless, of course, the definition of genius in his ridiculous dictionary is 'a fat dullard or wobble-bottom; a pompous ass with sweaty dewflaps'.
