rowan archives on Instagram: "Prince Edmund and the peasants. 📺: Rowan Atkinson, Tim McInnerny, and Tony Robinson in The Black Adder, S1E5 “The Witchsmeller Pursuivant” (1983) Though, in many ways, the first series of Blackadder does not fit the formula that developed in series two and beyond, it did straightaway introduce the theme of hierarchy and socioeconomic class. In a 2023 interview with British GQ, Rowan shared that much of the comedy in the Blackadder family’s situation comes from clas