With Peter Cook as King Richard III.

"From out of the swirling mists of the Dark Ages comes a lone horseman with a most ridiculous haircut. It's the ghost of Richard III, back to haunt the hapless Prince Black Adder!"

"An orange-faced, kilt-clad Scotsman sends waves of shock through the court of England with his treachery, murder and Scottish dancing."

"The landscape is littered with dead Archbishops of Canterbury... and Edmund the Reluctant is next in line for this rather precarious position!"

With Miriam Margolyes as Princess Maria.

"When one of Europe's most eligible princesses is up for grabs, the scheming Edmund tries to lure her into his lascivious clutches."

"The King contracts a nasty case of the Black Death and blames it on witchcraft. Only one man can sniff out the hocus-pocus... he's the cruel, corrupt and thoroughly incorrigible Witchsmeller!"

With Rik Mayall as Mad Gerald.

"Forever devious, Edmund hatches a hapless, hilarious plot to dethrone the king... with the help of the Seven Most Evil Men in the Land."