The fourth series of Blackadder sees him as a Captain in the trenches of World War One, with Baldrick as his dogsbody. In "Captain Cook" Blackadder volunteers to be a war artist. In "Corporal Punishment" he faces the death squad after killing a pigeon. In "Major Star" he has to put on a Music Hall show. In "Private Plane" he volunteers to be trained as a pilot by Rik Mayall. In "General Hospital" he has to uncover a spy in the wardrooms. In "Goodbyeee" the final big push is looming too close find out more...
The object of this massive tribute died as he had always lived, without wealth, without property, without official title or office. Mahatma Gandhi was not the commander of armies, nor the ruler of vast lands, he could not boast any scientific achievement or artistic gift, yet men, governments, dignitaries from all over the world, have joined hands today to pay homage to the little brown man in the loin cloth who led his country to freedom. This quote is from his funeral, one of the greatest s find out more...
It's the off-season at the lonely Beauregard Hotel in Bournemoth, and only the long-term tenants are still in residence. Life is stirred up, however, when the beautiful Ann Shankland arrives to see her alcoholic ex-husband, John Malcolm, who is secretly engaged to Pat Cooper, the woman who runs the hotel. Meanwhile, snobbish Mrs Railton-Bell discovers that the kindly if rather doddering Major Pollock, played by David Niven, who won an Oscar for his performance, a retired officer who likes to find out more...