The Black Adder premiered

June 14, 1983


The BBC comedy series The Black Adder starring Rowan Atkinson and Tony Robinson premiered on this date.

Rowan Atkinson has a stutter, which causes him to struggle with the letter ‘B.’ He has to visualise the letter before he says it – which is why he puts extra emphasis on words containing that letter. Eg Bob. Later he created the character Mr. Bean for this reason.

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