Summary:

Filmed on Hankley Common, Elstead near Farnham, Surrey, UK June 1999, Blackadder Back and Forth is an irreverent trek through British history. At the 1999 New Year's Eve dinner party given by Edmund Blackadder to some familiar old friends, Sir Edmund's faithful sidekick Baldrick builds a time-machine, from Leonardo da Vinci's designs, using old cereal packets. As it happens.... the machine is difficult to control, and the duo spin randomly through history, causing chaos.

Colin's Shakespeare scene available below

(Movie)

Excerpts from the screenplay* - the scene where Blackadder bumps into a hairy playwright by the name William Shakespeare [Colin Firth]

SCENE 6:  Elizabethan Corridor

Blackadder exits into the corridor, rushes around the corner and runs straight into a fellow with a ruff - papers go everywhere.

Blackadder: Oh, I'm so sorry...

Blackadder makes a token effort at helping - picks up a couple of sheets. The frontispiece says 'Macbeth'. 

I am sorry. Wait a minute - you're not...?

Shakespeare: Will Shakespeare, yes. Don't say it! I know - you hated 'Two Gentlemen of Verona'. This one's much better.

Blackadder: Well, bugger my giddy aunt. You couldn't just sign something for me, could you?

Shakespeare: Certainly. 

He looks around for a pen.

Blackadder produces one from his jacket.  

Blackadder: Sorry, it's just a biro.

Shakespeare, though puzzled by the pen, signs the 'Macbeth' frontispiece.

Thank you. Blackadder moves away - then has a thought. 

Oh, and just one more thing...

Shakespeare: Yes?

Blackadder turns and knocks Shakespeare down with one clean punch.

Blackadder: This is for every schoolboy and schoolgirl for the next four hundred years. Have you any idea how much suffering you are going to cause. Hours spent at school desks trying to find one joke in 'A Midsummer Night's Dream'? Years wearing stupid tights in school plays and saying things like 'What ho, my lord' and 'Oh, look, here comes Othello, talking total crap as usual.' Oh, and...

He kicks Shakespeare, who's still on the ground. 

... that is for Ken Branagh's endless uncut four-hour version of 'Hamlet'.

Shakespeare: Who's Ken Branagh?

Blackadder: I'll tell him you said that. And I think he'll be very hurt.

Blackadder leaves. 

Shakespeare is devastated.

Later, as Blackadder makes it back to modern times, he finds home is not the same: life have been drastically changed due to his adventures. So he sets off again to put everything right. 

SCENE 20: Elizabethan Corridor

Blackadder: I'm a very big fan, Bill.

Shakespeare: Thank you.

Blackadder: Keep up the good work. 'King Lear' - very funny.

*With thanks to  Elise for Colin Firth Career Timeline

Thanks to Steffi

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Runtime: 33 min

Country: UK

Language: English

Color: Color

Sound Mix: DTS 70 mm

Certification: Australia:PG / Singapore:PG

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Also with thanks te Colin Firth Career Timeline