Captain Cook (Blackadder) Captain Cook (Blackadder) "Captain Cook", or "Plan A: Captain Cook", is the first episode of "Blackadder Goes Forth", the fourth series of the BBC sitcom "Blackadder". The episode starts with Blackadder and Baldrick discussing the latter's latest feeble cunning plan: namely, Baldrick carving his name on a bullet to get around the fact that "there's a bullet with [his] name on it". Lt. George enters and provides Blackadder with a copy of the propaganda magazine "King and Country", which Blackadder uses for toilet paper, and a new service revolver. Blackadder deduces from these ominous signs that an advance against the
Clan Blackadder a territorial name derived from the lands of Blackadder in Berwickshire. The lands, in turn, are named after the Blackadder Water, a river which is part of the River Tweed system, and which runs through the Scottish Borders. The name "Blackadder" is derived from the Old English "awedur" which means "running water" or "stream". George Fraser Black states that in 1426, Blakadir de Eodem (of that Ilk) held the lands in the earldom of March. Early bearers of the surname are Adam "of Blacathathir" in 1477, Robert "Blackader" in the 15th century, and Charles "Blakater" in 1486. A junior branch