Blackadder tries painting and cooking as ploys to avoid the scheduled big push out of the trenches.

Edmund is sentenced to death by firing squad for shooting and eating the General's favourite carrier pigeon.

Blackadder grabs yet another opportunity to return to England by organising a morale-raising music hall show, including Baldrick's Charlie Chaplin impersonation and George's appearance as a lady songstress who captures the General's heart.

Blackadder and the boys join the Royal Air Corps, where they are promptly shot down behind enemy lines.

Blackadder tries everything he can think of to get sent back to England when orders come in to go over the top in the first charge against the Germans since 1914.