Way Outward Bound (Goodies episode)

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The Goodies episode
"Way Outward Bound"
Episode № 26
Airdate 11 March 1973
(Sunday — 8.15 pm)
Director
Producer
Guest star(s) Joan Sims as the Matron
Bill Frazer as the
Sergeant Major Bullcock
Series III
February 3July 12, 1973
  1. The New Office
  2. Hunting Pink
  3. Winter Olympics
  4. That Old Black Magic
  5. For Those in Peril on the Sea
  6. Way Outward Bound
  7. Superstar
List of The Goodies episodes


Way Outward Bound is an episode of the British comedy television series The Goodies.

This episode is also known as "Outward Bounds".

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Spoiler warning: Plot and/or ending details follow.

A 'flyer' arrives at the Goodies office from the Lock Jaw school, advertising for school children to take part in a "Way Outward Bound" adventure course. The Goodies are interested — especially in the bounty fees being offered for any children who are brought to the school — but the Goodies are unable to get any children to go with them .

The Goodies dress as children — with Graeme dressed as a schoolgirl (complete with plaits), Tim dressed in shorts and cap as a schoolboy, and Bill dressed as a small child, complete with a teddy bear. The Goodies are accepted as children and admitted to the school by the school's Matron and an Army Sergeant Major. Bill proves to be a precocious 'small child' by flirting with the Matron.

The Goodies later discover the true reason why the children are wanted by the school — the Matron wants to take over the world and has been conditioning several babies to obey orders (for a baby army). The Sergeant Major is unaware of the true reason why the Matron wants the children and babies to be trained for warfare — he just wants to train them.

When the Goodies escape from the clutches of the Matron, they take the babies with them — and find that they have their work cut out with feeding the babies and washing nappies etc. — they discondition the babies and turn them back into normal babies, with the aid of milk, and Tim discovers that he has the knack of being able to get the babies to burp on demand.

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The Goodies episodes (in alphabetical order)

2001 and a Bit | Alternative Roots | Animals | Animals Are People Too | The Baddies | Big Foot | Black and White Beauty |
Bunfight at the O.K. Tea Rooms | Camelot | Caught in the Act | Cecily | Change of Life | Charity Bounce | Chubbie Chumps | Clown Virus |
Come Dancing | Commonwealth Games| | Culture for the Masses | Daylight Robbery on the Orient Express | Dodonuts | Earthanasia | The End |
Farm Fresh Food | Fleet Street Goodies | Football Crazy | For Those in Peril on the Sea | Frankenfido | Gender Education | Give Police a Chance |
The Goodies – Almost Live | Goodies and Politics | The Goodies and the Beanstalk | Goodies in the Nick | The Goodies Rule – O.K.? |
The Greenies | Holiday | Hospital for Hire | Hunting Pink | Hype Pressure | Invasion of the Moon Creatures | It Might as Well Be String |
A Kick in the Arts | Kitten Kong | Kung Fu Kapers | Lighthouse Keeping Loonies | Lips, or Almighty Cod | The Lost Tribe | The Movies |
The Music Lovers | The New Office | Pollution | Punky Business | The Race | Radio Goodies | Robot | Rome Antics | Royal Command |
Saturday Night Grease | Scatty Safari | Scotland | Scoutrageous | Snooze | Snow White 2 | South Africa | The Stone Age | Superstar |
That Old Black Magic | Tower of London | U-Friend or UFO? | Wacky Wales | War Babies | Way Outward Bound | Winter Olympics | Women's Lib |


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