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Outnumbered Season 1 Episodes
Season 1 Episode Guide
6 Episodes 2007 - 2007
Episode 1
The School Run
Tue, Aug 28, 200730 mins
Schoolmaster Pete Brockman and his wife Sue, a part-time P.A.,feel 'outnumbered' by their three children - Jake,a worrier,about to start secondary school,five-year-old Karen,inquisitive about everything and Ben,at seven already a compulsive liar. It's back to school and Ben is claiming it's Show and Tell. He wants to take Pete's drill to school and Pete has to give him a fiver to stop him. Having demonstrated the use of a fork as a weapon Karen is discovered to have nits in her hair and wants to keep one as a pet. Sue sends her boss Veronica a less than polite email and blames it on Ben though she comes clean to Pete,who also admits to the bribe. He then makes a secret phone call.
Episode 2
The Special Bowl
30 mins
Dinner-time at the Brockmans is a noisy affair, as Ben's friend Deion joins them and proves to be another liar - with his stories of a drunken father who puts rats in his bed, and a mother in jail for attempted murder. Ben doesn't help by wrapping him in toilet paper to make him into an Egyptian mummy, and blaming him for hiding his meal under a cushion. Karen refuses to eat as she has not been given her usual bowl - in fact it is a replacement for one Sue broke, and hoped Karen wouldn't notice. A remark from Jake forces Pete to admit that a joke he made about a Muslim boy's eating habits has had him reported as a racist. After Deion has left, trick or treaters turn up - but are sent away as it is only September. Sue's unmarried sister Angela also arrives, back from America and intending to look after their widowed father.
Episode 3
The City Farm
29 mins
On Karen's birthday, Sue brings her, Ben and Jake to a farm park along with Granddad and Angela. She gets stuck in traffic, and Ben makes rude gestures to other drivers. Upon arrival, they are eventually joined by Pete, who was asked to write a statement of regret by his headmaster for his supposedly racist comments - which have now featured him on a website. Sue and Angela argue over her care of Granddad, who goes missing for a while, and Sue and Pete are further put out when Angela gives all the children ten pounds to spend. Whilst washing their hands, Karen notices bruises on Jake's arm and asks if he is being bullied, but he wants her to say nothing. Towards the end of the day, when the family arrive home, Pete realises Ben has brought a rabbit home with him.
Episode 4
The Quiet Night In
29 mins
Pete comes home from watching Ben play football,having learned that his son has told people that his father knows the prime minister and is terminally ill. He and Sue decide to have a quiet night in during which he will write his letter of regret. However he refuses to back down over calling Kamal,the boy in question, fat. Sue's divorced friend Jane turns up to collect Alexa,her little girl who has been playing with Karen. She is a nervous,intense soul who pours out all her troubles,at first to Sue and then to Angela when she pops round. After everybody has gone Pete takes a call from Jake's school-teacher,confirming his fear that his elder son is being bullied.
Episode 5
The Mystery Illness
30 mins
Ben claims that he is too sick to go to school but Pete packs him off anyway. Ben however returns early having convinced the new school nurse that he was ill - in order to get out of swimming. Angela arrives,upset that her boyfriend Trent has dumped her. The family rallies round. Sue gives up her efforts to clear the waste disposal unit and calls a plumber after a trying day in which her boss Veronica has kept on at her to find a printer supplier. Eventually Sue resigns over the phone. Pete too looks like he might be unemployed after an 'accidental' conversation with a reporter over the Ramadan affair appears on the front page of the local paper.
Episode 6
The Dinner Party
29 mins
Having stopped Karen from leaving home Sue tells Veronica that she will not be returning to work. At least Pete has kept his job and Jake solved his bullying problem,by engaging a bully of his own. The Brockmans hold a dinner party for friends Ravi and Kuj and Angela, which goes well,despite Ben's breaking the eggs into the mixing bowl shells and all and Sue's need to con Angela into thinking they are eating a free range chicken. Ben acts as waiter and asks for a drink of gin. His parents' allowing him to do so does not have the desired salutary effect. Angela announces that she cannot cope with looking after Grandad and is returning to America,thus preventing the Brockmans from taking their planned holiday. Sue tells her that the chicken was not free range after all.
