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Royal Mail has launched its latest stamps to celebrate a legendary BBC comedy show. Royal Mail is celebrating Blackadder’s 40th anniversary with a set of stamps.
Eight of the stamps capture moments from all four series of the classic sitcom. Four depict Edmund Blackadder, played by Rowan Atkinson, in his various guises over each of the series.
The stamps feature some of the show’s best-loved characters, played by stars including Sir Tony Robinson, Hugh Laurie, Stephen Fry, Tim McInnerny, Miranda Richardson, Brian Blessed and the late Patsy Byrne. Writer Richard Curtis said: “We’re very amused and delighted. It’s a great relief for Blackadder to have his head on a stamp, instead of on a stake.”
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One stamp shows Blackadder in the first series from 1983, with Edmund, Duke of Edinburgh who dubbed himself the Black Adder. Another stamp shows Miranda Richardson as Queenie and Patsy Byrne as nursie in Blackadder II.
Hugh Laurie’s Prince George, with his butler Edmund Blackadder and servant Baldrick played by Sir Tony Robinson in the third show’s incarnation, is also available. Producer Lloyd added: “The entire team behind Britain’s leading situation tragedy is deeply honoured by Royal Mail’s magnificent stamps of approval. In the words of General Sir Anthony Cecil Hogmanay Melchett, VC KCB: ‘Let’s give them a damn good licking!”‘
David Gold, director of external affairs and policy at Royal Mail, said: “The epic saga of Blackadder spans six centuries of British history and four decades of British television and is still loved and revered by audiences old and new. We are delighted to mark the 40th anniversary of Blackadder with a set of special stamps.”
The stamps are available to pre-order at www.royalmail.com/blackadder, by telephone on 03457 641 641, and at 7,000 Post Office branches across the UK. The stamps go on general sale on May 17.
