Born Simon Trevor Kent on 25 October 1958 into a show-business family, Simon Gipps-Kent was a prolific stage and screen juvenile actor before his untimely and unexplained death from a morphine overdose in 1987.
Sir Tony Robinson takes a journey back in time to find out where Blackadder really began, and to uncover the story of the previously-unseen pilot episode.
When he finds himself plagued with nightmares about a historic battle fought on the site of the village he lives in, delinquent Cornish teenager Jonah Grattan becomes obsessed with a potential link to a local homeless man.
A humble orphan suddenly becomes a gentleman with the help of an unknown benefactor.