Blackadder the Third - Part 2 - Sense and Senility

**Blackadder the Third - Part 2 - Sense and Senility** is a UK VHS release by BBC Enterprises Ltd on 6th June 1988 and 6th March 1989.

## Description

Three more brilliantly funny instalments from the annals of the Blackadder family, whose fortunes have rather plummeted with the advent of the Regency period – an England of power-puff wigs, appalling theatre and transvestite highwaymen.
Against this backdrop Edmund Blackadder, butler to the Prince Regent, veers from calamity to disaster with very little in the way of constructive help from his imbecilic Lord and master and Baldrick, of whom the least said, the better.

## Opening (original 1988 release)

* BBC Video copyright warning (1984-1988)
* BBC Video Diamond ident (1981-1988) (opening version with 1984-1988 music)
* Blackadder the Third opening titles
* Start of Sense and Senility (1987)

## Closing (original 1988 release)

* End of Duel and Duality (1987)
* Blackadder the Third closing credits
* BBC Video Diamond ident (1981-1988) (closing version with 1984-1988 music and 1988 copyright stamp)
* BBC Video copyright warning (1984-1988)

## Trivia

* This Blackadder the Third video was originally scheduled to have been released by BBC Enterprises Ltd in Summer 1988 because the original version of this video contains the BBC Video 1981-1988 ident at the start and end of the video but for unknown reasons, the release got delayed by a year if that's the true reason for the copyright being classified as 1989 on the back of the cover although, all versions of this video have the copyright classified as 1988 on the label and the end of the video.
* There are three versions of Blackadder the Third video ("Sense and Senility") with each version of this video containing a different BBC Video ident at the start and end of the video.
	+ 1: Version 1 is the original release, which contains the BBC Video 1981-1988 ident at the start and end of the video and this video would have it from when it was originally scheduled to have been released in 1988 until it was re-released with the BBC Video 1988-1991 ident in 1990.
	+ 2: Version 2 is the 1990 re-release, and it contains the BBC Video 1988-1991 ident at the start and end of the video and up until 1994, this video would have it until it was replaced by the BBC Video 1991-1997 ident, although, this video got re-released on a double video pack entitled "Blackadder the Third: The Complete Third Series" (BBCV 4786) in 1992, however, the 1992 re-release of this video remains unchanged from the 1990 re-release of this video as it keeps the BBC Video 1988-1991 ident at the start and the end of the video.
	+ 3: Version 3 is the 1994 re-release, and it contains the BBC Video 1991-1997 ident at the start and end of the video from this point onwards, including the double video pack entitled Blackadder the Third: The Complete Third Series (BBCV 4786) which would get re-released with a repackaged cover in 1998, however, the 1998 re-release of this video remains unchanged from the 1994 re-release of this video as it still has the BBC Video 1991-1997 at the start and the end of the video, with the copyright notice and the warning screen still keeping the mention of BBC Enterprises.
* Surprisingly, this is the only Blackadder video release to have the BBC Video 1981-1988 ident at the start and end of it between the three episodes until it was reissued with the BBC Video 1988-1991 ident in 1990 and it was reissued again with the BBC 1991-1997 ident in 1994.

## Mistakes

On the back of the cover, the copyright said BBC Enterprises Ltd 1989, but when you look at the label and watch the end of the video, the copyright said BBC Enterprises Ltd 1988.