Series: 4 Episode: 1
First broadcast on 28 September 1989.
Captain Blackadder is in the trenches on the Western front of the First World War, with comrades Lieutenant George and Private S. Baldrick.
General Melchett is on the lookout for a talented artist who can do an especially stirring painting for the cover of King and Country magazine. This is a publication which George calls "damn inspiring stuff" and Blackadder calls "soft, strong and thoroughly absorbent".
George produces a picture of genius, but Blackadder passes it off as his own, believing that Melchett will send the successful artist to Paris and away from the trenches.
However, Melchett's secret plan is in fact to make Blackadder go into No Man's Land and sketch what he sees.
