Private Plane
- Episode aired Oct 19, 1989
- TV-PG
- 29m
Blackadder and his friends join the Air Corps, wrongly believing it will be less dangerous than being in the trenches.Blackadder and his friends join the Air Corps, wrongly believing it will be less dangerous than being in the trenches.Blackadder and his friends join the Air Corps, wrongly believing it will be less dangerous than being in the trenches.
- Lieutenant von Gerhardt
- (as Hugo E Blick)
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Did you know
- TriviaFor the flying sequences, footage from Aces High (1976) was re-edited and dubbed over with the actors' voices.
- GoofsDuring the end scene, Captain Darling is backing to the table with Flasheart standing atop of it. Rik Mayall bends his left knee out to signal Tim McInnerny to stop.
- Quotes
Lord Flasheart: All right men, let's do-oo-oo it! The first thing to remember is: always treat your kite
[Flashheart taps the picture of the Sopwith Camel with his cane]
Lord Flasheart: like you treat your woman!
[Flashheart whips the air with his cane]
Lieutenant George: How, how do you mean, Sir? Do you mean, do you mean take her home at weekends to meet your mother?
Lord Flasheart: No, I mean get inside her five times a day and take her to heaven and back.
Captain Blackadder: I'm beginning to see why the suffragette movement want the vote.
Lord Flasheart: Hey! Any girl who wants to chain herself to *my* railings and suffer a jet movement gets *my* vote!
- ConnectionsEdited from Aces High (1976)
One other good thing about this episode is that we actually do get to see Baldrick and Blackadder in the air - the flight scene was obviously filmed in the sky, using authentic-looking WWI planes. I found this great because it shows that Blackadder has not been confined to the studio only, after the slight flop of Series 1. Not even Blackadder's plane getting shot down was done badly - it actually looked relatively well-done. Though this scene won't be winning any Oscars any time soon, it is good to see that Blackadder has once again made it beyond the studio boundaries, and while the flight scene is only one minute or-so long, it is relatively well-done and a credit to this episode - if this were like previous episodes, then there would have never been a flight scene, and Blackadder would have updated us by speech once again. A huge thumbs-up to the Blackadder crew for once again filming outdoors. Studios in the late 80s/early 90s would have not been able to do the flight scene like it was, especially for a low-budget comedy production, so I am fully sure it WAS done outdoors. Anyway, enough of this banter...
What is good about this episode is that Blackadder actually reveals a truth about himself in the prison cell - he wants to get out of the trenches and the war, and live a cushy life once more. Even if it means spending the rest of the war in Germany teaching convents how to cook. This, and the following 2 episodes, will start to reveal truths about Blackadder, truths that he himself would be ashamed to admit. But Flashheart's appearance keeps things wild again.
Adrian "Vyvyan" Edmondson (I say "Vyvyan" because that was his character in "The Young Ones", and possibly the biggest role of his life) stars as the Baron von Richthoven, German flying ace, who was made out to be a bit of a poof in this episode who couldn't stomach death. ("You are ze two English flying aces responsible for ze spilling of ze precious German blood of many of my finest, and my blondest, friends," was possibly his best line.) It would have been better to have seen more of him, but his performance was memorable, well played, and with a very funny German accent. Flashheart's best bit was when he bullied Darling towards the end of the episode: ("Captain Darling! Funny name for a guy, isn't it?! Last person I called Darling was pregnant 20 seconds later!"). A hugely hilarious and witty line. And this basically sums Private Plane up - rude, hilarious, and rough.
On the whole - Private Plane is easily the funniest of the Blackadder episodes, but it isn't the most meaningful - get a couple of your mates around and pop it on is my advice. A spiffing job, and another hilarious Blackadder addition. Bravo! 10/10
- general-melchett
- Nov 8, 2006
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- Runtime29 minutes