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The third picture is taken from Troy Daily News, March 1, 1989.

On March 1, 1989, Icelanders raised glasses of beer for the first time in 74 years as a prohibition on suds ended. Total prohibition on beer went into effect in 1915. A few years later, wine was legalized in 1922 and other spirits, like Vodka, in 1935.

Beer, however, remained prohibited due to “an administrative blunder” that stated beer with alcoholic content above 2.25 percent couldn’t be sold. Although people couldn’t buy beer in Iceland, they could bring beer into the country from their travels around the world.

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During a gathering in Ben Horne’s office in Season 1, Episode 6 (aired May 10, 1990), Ben Horne is seen eating ice cream while Jerry Horne and the Icelandic delegation are holding beer steins and singing “99 Bottles of Beer on the Wall” in Icelandic.

Intelligent comedy at its very best.

For anyone who hasn’t seen it, it’s only four short seasons with six episodes each, so you can honestly finish the whole thing over a weekend. Every season takes place in a different period of history, with Rowan Atkinson playing another wonderfully horrible version of Blackadder.

Stephen Fry, Hugh Laurie, Miranda Richardson, Tony Robinson, Brian Blessed… everybody seems to show up at some point. Watch out for Rik Mayall as Lord Flashheart - My favourite!

And Blackadder Goes Forth (The 4th season) is just perfection.

1. ABC Photography Department, March 20, 1990
2. Full-color image (Lipton and Amick looking directly at Craig Sjodin’s camera.)
3. Palladium Item, April 8, 1990
4. The Tallahassee Democrat, April 8, 1990