Fort Boyard

Episode 6 - 1.58million viewers (4th that week)

Mel: "Fort Boyard, a Napoleonic fortress which still to this day tests men and women to their very limits. Tonight another team try to take away its gold."

Team: Plymouth
Captain Ken Ord, 34, a Police Officer from Plymouth. Likes: Cross-country ski-ing. Hates: Nothing!

Sarah Williams, 28, a Police Officer from Plymouth. Likes: Horse riding and Tennis. Hates: Spiders and Lizards.

Stephen Foale, 26, a Police Officer from Plymouth. Likes: Rugby and Surfing. Hates: Snakes.

Sally Hatfield, 28, a Police Officer from Plymouth. Likes: Squash and Tennis. Hates: Creepy Crawlies.

David 'Shirley' Temple, 35, a Police Officer from Plymouth. Likes: Running and Squash. Hates: Lycra.

Boyard: "So you think you're going to be leaving here with the Fort's gold? Well judging by the look of you lot you won't be leaving here at all."

Challenge 1: The Watchtower
Steven is sent up to the watchtower.

Prof: "One moment please... I've got a song in my mind and I can't quite remember what it is [Sings 'God Save Our Gracious Queen'] ... I think it was from an old film with Nelson Eddy and Malcolm MacDonald."

The Riddle
"This English town has a famous jail but said in a different way,
It's what many people do at night as soon as they hit the hay."

Sadly nothing. The answer was Reading and so David has to go and swim for it. Tut tut, a policeman who doesn't know a jail. I mean, some people, eh?

Prof: I used to have an imaginary friend... or was I his imaginary friend?
KEYS: 1 PRISONERS: 0

Challenge 2: The Web
Boyard: "Well you're a fair cop so you can go next and this is where you get a dose of your own medicene because if you're still in there when the time runs out you'll be dragged kicking and screaming to the dungeon. And here's a little poem to set you on your way: 'Oh what a tangled web we weave when at first you try and get my keys.'"

Sally manages to get the tool quite quickly but can't quite open the box properly even though she has quite a lot of time to do it in. If you see this episode repeated look out for the double take at the end: Melinda and team say 'Well done!' when she comes out but Melinda's the first person to notice that she hasn't actually got the key and improvises 'bad luck, it was a good effort'. It's quite funny. Really!
KEYS: 1 PRISONERS: 0

Challenge 3: Capstan Pole Push
Boyard: "Get a move on you're not patrolling the beat now. You missed it? It wasn't a fair cop then, was it? Is it cold up there mate? Well, you've heard the expresstion 'when push comes to shove'? Well 'when' is now, so here's your chance to use the srtong arms of the law."

Steven never really gets more than halfway here so no key.
KEYS: 1 PRISONERS:0

Challenge 4: The Mystery Pots
Boyard: "I bet the villains clap their hands together when you lot are in town, don't they? Right, you. This is called a game of Cat and Mouse, except there's no cat. Now you know what it's like when you poke your fingers into other people's business..."

Sarah manages to find the key in a pot in the end.
KEYS: 2 PRISONERS: 0

Challenge 5: The Watchtower
Steven is sent back to The Watchtower.

The Riddle
"This fruit is a shrivelled and juiceless thing,
But your roses will need one in the Spring."

It's not a terribly tough riddle but he required a bit of a hint from The Professor. He did get it though, it was Prune. Tut, some people, eh?

Professor: "Vive le sport, whatever that means..."
KEYS: 3 PRISONERS: 0

Challenge 6: Overhang Climb
Boyard: "Don't get smug it's not over yet."
Melinda: "We've got three, that's not bad. We only need to get one more!"
Boyard: "That might be a tall order for this lot. Do you have a desk job?"
Ken: "No."
Boyard: "Well judging by your gut it looks like you do. Best put this corset on! Normally when you start at the bottom of a ladder you can only go up. This time, you take the ladder with you."

Sadly, Ken seems to suffer a complete lack of hand-eye coordination and spends about five minutes trying to get the rungs in. He gets locked in. My faith in the Police force has dropped dramatically.
KEYS: 3 PRISONERS: 1

Challenge 7: The Granary
Boyard: [Cackles]
Melinda: "I knew you'd cackle! We're not beaten yet, we've got three keys."
Boyard: "Well... Steven isn't it? Hardly Capstan Full Strength was it you pathetic wimp."
Everyone: "He did very well."
Boyard: "Ugh, typical. Right, you haven't done that well either have you? Well I think I'm going to give you the sack. Several in fact. [LaBouille comes in with Ken on the way to the dungeon] Oh look, off you go, neenah neenah neenah! So you, get ready."
Everyone: "Go on, Shirley."
Boyard: "Shirley!?! Your time starts now."

Thankfully Shirley manages it with a nice little dive through the entrance/exit hatch at the end. Not bad for an old bloke who has a nice and imaginative nickname as well. Hurrah for the Police force!
KEYS: 4 PRISONERS: 0 (Released)

The Treasure Room
Boyard: "I can see into their futures... and that makes me want to smile!"

Adventure 1: The Watchtower
Professor: "You must excuse me, I've thought of something... It's so funny! [Outburst of laughter. Calms down]. Yes..."

The Riddle:
"It's the way you get juice from a fridge.
You can't pop a champagne cork with it on.
The place to see a high one is in the circus."

This one was, in fact, easy. But David couldn't get it anyway. The answer was WIRE.

Professor: "Well I thought it was funny. [Shouts down] I thought it was funny!"

Adventure 2: The Snake Pit
Boyard: "How about a snake in the grass? 'Cause down there are a couple of my partners in crime and somewhere about their posession is two halves of your word. So you get two halves of a word to make a whole word. Understand, Lofty? As Geronimo said, beware of any man who speak with forked tongue."

Steven doesn't like snakes. Isn't it funny how they seem to match people with things they don't like and not things they do like? They could have made a cracking game combining Rugby and Surfing. Anyway, he wins the game and the clue is Battery.

Clues so far: [Wire], Battery.

Adventure 3: Arianne
Boyard: "Have you got a good sense of direction? It's about the only sense you have got. You, I bet you save the Police force a lot of money, they don't have to give you a helmet they just paint your head blue... When you find the lady you'll find the word on her body. The body of evidence in your case!"

Ken gets off to a great start by putting on his helmet the wrong way. "Call yourself a Policeman!" says Melinda [You can hear Leslie calling to Melinda to point this out]. After this embarrassment they actually do this game pretty well, earning themselves the clueword Run.

Clues so far: [Wire], Battery, Run.

Adventure 4: The Searching Head
Boyard: "Have fun..."

Sally doesn't seem to have to much trouble or pain with this. For those who care, the fake words were foriegn, frighten, fraction, frown, freshen, leaving the clueword frozen.

Clues so far: [Wire], Battery, Run, Frozen.

Adventure 5: The Leap
Boyard: "The good news is your clue is just a short walk away. The bad news, you've got to bounce up for it. I'm going to hand over to Antoine, this is only his second job but he hasn't lost anyone yet."

Sarah is very brave - in fact overly so because she jumps too far thereby instead of swinging down and picking it up the bungee bounced her backwards at the bottom instead. Bad luck!

Clues so far: [Wire], Battery, Run, Frozen.

The Treasure Room

Boyard: "Well that was pathetic, wasn't it?"

Clues so far: [Wire], Battery, Run, Frozen
They had a pretty good idea that it was 'Chicken' after the Searching Head so without any sacrifices, that's what they went for. And the gold tumbled! My faith in the Police force has been restored.

Codeword explanation:
Wire as in Chicken wire.
Battery as in Battery Chicken.
Run as in Chicken run.
Frozen as in Frozen Chicken.
The codeword was CHICKEN.

Nobody gets caught and they win a grand total of:

3760 doubloons!

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