Claim: Rowan Atkinson stars in at least one TV series.

Blackadder is a series of four BBC1 period British sitcoms , along with several one-off instalments . All television episodes starred Rowan Atkinson as the anti-hero Edmund Blackadder , and Tony Robinson as Blackadder 's dogsbody , Baldrick . Each series was set in a different historical period , with the two protagonists accompanied by different characters , though several reappear in one series or another , for example Melchett -LRB- Stephen Fry -RRB- and Lord Flashheart -LRB- Rik Mayall -RRB- .   The first series , The Black Adder , was written by Richard Curtis and Rowan Atkinson , while subsequent episodes were written by Curtis and Ben Elton . The shows were produced by John Lloyd . In 2000 , the fourth series , Blackadder Goes Forth , ranked at 16 in the `` 100 Greatest British Television Programmes '' , a list created by the British Film Institute . Also in the 2004 TV poll to find `` Britain 's Best Sitcom '' , Blackadder was voted the second-best British sitcom of all time , topped by Only Fools and Horses . It was also ranked as the 20th-best TV show of all time by Empire magazine .