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Baldrick
Baldrick Apron
Nationality British
Occupation Septic Tank Cleaner
First appearance Blackadder: Back & Forth
Last appearance Blackadder: Back & Forth
Episode count 1 Special
Played by Tony Robinson

Baldrick is a septic tank cleaner to the late 20th century Lord Edmund Blackadder V. His first appearance is serving Blackadder's millennium dinner, which he does wearing nothing but an amusing apron, on a whim. His cooking is similar to Private Baldrick's; he prepared dinner by coughing over an avocado. His underpants may date from the 18th century, or in any case smell as though they do, and turn out to be the cause of the extinction of the dinosaurs. His intelligence appears to be between that of the medieval Baldrick and the Elizabethan Baldrick. Rather surprisingly he builds a working time machine, making him "the greatest genius who ever lived." Or it would do, if he knew how it worked and hadn't just built it using a combination of the plans of Leonardo Da Vinci and an apparent skill at building Airfix models being able to make up for his inability to read the plans. His "cunning plan" was possibly the only plan which a Blackadder ever thought was a good plan, albeit with a slight modification to it.

Following his master's rewriting of history, he becomes Prime Minister of the United Kingdom.

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