Happy birthday, Blackadder!

To mark 40 years of the hit sitcom, Sir Tony Robinson takes a look back at how it began...

- JAN MACEWAN, HANNAH DAVIES

BLACKADDER: THE LOST PILOT

Thursday, 9pm, Gold Factual

Blackadder was one of the most successful comedies of the 1980s. Beginning in 1983, with Rowan Atkinson in the lead role, the four series covered different periods in history, and always by Blackadder's side was Baldrick, played by Sir Tony Robinson.