If you have never seen Blackadder I suggest skipping series 1 and begin at 2. In the first series the Blackadder was played with a different personality to the latter, and was generally considered to be inferior.
The story was inspired by an incident during the Second World War, when the maternity ward of Ottawa Civic Hospital was temporarily declared extraterritorial by the Canadian government so that when Princess Juliana of the Netherlands gave birth, the baby was born on Dutch territory, and would not lose her right to the throne.
I tagged this one as "Vietnam War" although it is set in the Korean war. It was common knowledge at the time that everything was really referring to Vietnam, but for political reasons they set it in Korea.
Kitchen sink realism is a British cultural movement that developed in the late 1950s and early 1960s in theatre, art, novels, film and television plays.
