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Blackadder Goes Forth
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Blackadder Goes Forth is the forth and final series of the critically acclaimed historical television show Blackadder, set in 1917 World War One on the Western Front. Captain Blackadder (Rowan Atkinson) joined the British Army when it was little more than a travel agency for gentlemen with an abnormally high sex drive. Now he's twenty yards away from a lot of heavily armed people who want to ill him. Worse still, his brother officer (Hugh Laurie) is a man whose family brain cell is gathering dust in a pawn shop in Dunstable, and Baldrick (Tony Robinson) is in charge of cooking. As he gets closer and closer to the big push, Blackadder attempts to cook up numerous schemes to escape the trenches and his idiotic commanding officer, General Melchett (Stephen Fry).
The following firearms were seen in the British comedy series Blackadder Goes Forth:
Rifles
Lee-Enfield No.1 Mk III*
Private S. Baldrick (Tony Robinson), the only one of the main characters whom is not an officer, is seen with the Lee-Enfield No.1 MkIII* rifle throughout the series. Blackadder's Company use them in drill in the opening credits of each episode.
Machine Guns
Lewis machine gun
A Lewis Gun is mounted on a British biplane flown by Capt. Edmund Blackadder and Private Baldrick in the episode "Private Plane." (Note that this is stock footage with voice-overs by the cast).
Maxim MG08/15
Two Maxim MG08/15 machine guns were seen mounted on the plane flown by the Red Baron Von Rictofen (Adrian Edmondson). Like Blackadder's plane, this is stock footage.
Sidearms
Webley Mk VI
The Webley Mk VI revolver, the main service revolver of the British Army in World War One, is used by Captain Edmund Blackadder (Rowan Atkinson), Lt. George (Hugh Laurie), Captain Darling (Tim McInnerny, General Melchett (Stephen Fry) and other characters throughout the series. The most notable use of the Webley is when Captain Blackadder uses one to shoot General Melchett's personal carrier pigeon which results in him being court-martialed in "Corporal Hospital" and when Melchett pulls one out and shoots Captain Darling in the foot so he can go undercover in the field hospital in the episode "General Hospital". Lord Flashheart (Rik Mayall) uses one, in the episode, "Private Plane" notably, just holding it around while boasting. He fires it once, at the Baron Von Rictofen (Adrian Edmondson).
Grenades
Mills Bomb
A pair Mills Bomb hand grenades (referred to by General Melchett as "Pineapples") are part of a painting brushed by Captain Blackadder (Rowan Atkinson) in one of his numerous attempts to get out of the trenches.
