'Allo 'Allo!: Series 5: Part 1

Episode 1- There is a plan afoot to micro-photograph Hitler’s invasion plans and to send them off to London. But first, Yvette and Mimi are to distract the Colonel in order that they might obtain the necessary film.

Episode 2- Gruber rescues Rene from his cell. Flick orders Helga to collect evidence of supposed plot to blow up Hitler. The plan to steal the Colonel’s film is put into operation at the café.

Episode 3- Helga informs the Colonel and Gruber that Flick suspects they are plotting to kill Hitler. Rene and his staff develop a plan whereby Leclerc can enter Gruber’s room disguised as a fireman to create a diversion so they can blow up the safe.

Epiosde 4- During the pandemonium caused by the fire at the chateau, Leclerc breaks into the safe and finds the Fallen Madonna and the van Gogh instead of the invasion plans. He nicks these and escapes disguised as a German.

Epiosde 5- Rene announces to Edith that he will marry the head of the Communist Resistance, Denise, who was his childhood sweetheart. But no man has ever said "No" to Edith before and lived to tell about it.

Episode 6- Rene’s wedding to Denise is on Saturday. Edith plots with Michelle to capture the bride and to stand in her place at the altar. Alphonse still hopes to marry Edith once Rene is out of the picture.

Episode 7- In the aftermath of her wedding day, Denise has escaped and is out for blood. The café is machine gunned. Rene wisely takes on the disguise of his father and seeks sanctuary from the Colonel.

Episode 8- Rene tells Edith, Yvette and Mimi that Denise is out to get them. Edith is frightened into disguising herself first as her mother and then as Leclerc. Helga reports the whereabouts of the paintings to the Colonel.

Epiosde 9- Michelle gives Rene an outfit in which he can conceal the camera so he can take pictures of the invasion plans. Café Rene is doing the catering for the Meeting of the Generals, so the stage is set for photographic intrigue.

Episosde 10- The successful photographic attempt from last week was, after all, unsuccessful. Seems there were not any actual invasion plans on the map which Rene photographed. Michelle reveals her love for Rene.

Episode 11- Gruber informs von Klinkerhoffen that it was the collaborating French General who blew up Flick and is suspected of trying to poison the other Generals. Rene is reprieved. Michelle tells Yvette she is faking her love for Rene so he will remain in the Resistance.

Episode 12- Fearing being blamed for the ten Generals who were sent to the coast, Rene sets out to brick himself into his cellar. Michelle arrives with a medal for his bravery but also with a suicide pill since he knows too much.

Episode 13- The Colonel, Gruber, Bertorelli and Leclerc are held ransom by Denise and the Communists. Michelle learns of the situation and decides this an opportune time to do away with both the Germans and the Communists.

Cast
Blackadder. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Rowan Atkinson
Baldrick. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Tony Robinson
Percy and Captain Darling. . . . . . . . . .Tim McInnerny
King Richard IV. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .Brian Blessed
The Queen. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .Elspet Gray
Prince Harry. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Robert East
Queen Elizabeth I. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Miranda Richardson
Lord Melchett and General Melchett. . . . . . . . . Stephen Fry
Nursie. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .Patsy Byrne
Production Credits
Directed by. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Martin Shardlow, Mandie Fletcher, Richard Boden
Produced by. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . John Lloyd

For René, the end of the war just cannot come soon enough. Relying on a camera hidden inside a potato, a long distance duck, and of course, his unparalleled charm, he aids the French Resistance in their outlandish plots to fool the Germans and end the war. But if René doesn't marry Denise, the leader of the Communist Resistance, it could mean the end of him! With his trusty piano player at his side, René manages to escape a giant circular saw, blast his way into the bank's vault, and poison the team of Generals. Can René obtain the plans for the German invasion in time to save everyone? Or will the overbearing passion of his female collaborators force him to save himself? Find out in this explosive sitcom from the BBC!

This DVD is Part 1 in this 2-Part Series.

Includes the episodes:
Desperate Doings in the Dungeon
The Camera in the Potato
The Sausage in the Wardrobe
Dinner with the General
The Dreaded Circular Saw
Otherwise Engaged
A Marriage of Inconvenience
No Hiding Place
The Arrival of the Homing Duck
Watch the Birdie
René - Under an Assumed Nose
The Confusion of the Generals
Who's for the Vatican
Ribbing the Bonk

Meet Rene, the most wanted man in Occupied France: Women want his body. The Resistance wants his brain. And the Nazis want his sausage!

In a small café in occupied France the harassed proprietor, Rene, is fighting his own war. With the German Army in residence at the bar, Rene is risking his neck to aid the Resistance by hiding two British airmen and a radio transmitter upstairs. As if this wasn't enough, Rene has also got involved in hiding a priceless painting in a garlic sausage, which even now is being sniffed out by the Gestapo. But Rene's real problem is his wife, Edith, and what she will do to him when she finds out about the affairs he is having with two sexy waitresses!