- Format:
- DVD Fullscreen
- Region:
- 1 - More Details
- Run time:
- About 5 1/3 hours
- Number of Discs:
- 2
Episode 1- The stolen money from the bank robbery is hidden in the cuckoo clock. Concerned because her singing is driving away the paying customers, Rene tries to convince Edith instead to mime to a Jeanette McDonald record.
Episode 2- Flick and von Smallhausen disguise themselves as fish traders to trace his stolen money. Michelle arrives at the café with the microfilm of the invasion plans to attach to the long-distance duck which must leave today.
Episode 3- Despite the unsuccessful attempt to launch the long-distance duck, Rene hopes life can return to normal. But he hasn’t reckoned with the passions of Yvette, Mimi, Denise and now Louise.
Episode 4- Rene returns from the hospital to learn from Gruber that Alphonse has been eliminated by an exploding bed pan. Michelle has concocted a new plan to drop Carstairs and Fairfax back into England.
Episode 5- Helga informs the Colonel that Leclerc will be shot if the stolen money is not returned. So the Colonel sends Gruber to tell Rene to give back the money which is hidden in the café’s oven. Meanwhile, Fanny decides to bake a potato.
Episode 6- Michelle tells Rene he must hide one thousand kilos of high explosive in the café. The materials will be brought in by Alphonse, Crabtree and "pregnant" resistance girls. The charges will be disguised as Christmas puddings.
Episode 7- Helga has been spying on von Smallhausen and knows the land mines are in the builder’s yard. When these are removed to the air base, Michelle tells Rene that the airmen will be smuggled in barrels disguised as beer for the Sergeant’s mess.
Episode 8- Rene decides to take the paintings and elope to Switzerland with Yvette. But Flick finds out that Hitler does not want the paintings for himself. It’s a trick by von Klinkerhoffen to get them for himself.
Episode 9- Rene is on the night train to Geneva, and while he is seeking to avoid Edith, he bumps into Mimi, the Colonel and Gruber. Rene eventually finds Yvette, but the train is then blown up by exploding Christmas puddings.
Episode 10- Rene hides his gold in the cuckoo clock, then at the Colonel’s order disguises himself and his Resistance friends as a string quartet to play at the Officer’s dance. Flick and von Smallhausen attend the same dance disguised as maids.
Episode 11- Rene hides the missing paintings in packets of spaghetti. Edith tells Rene that she is marrying Mssr. Alphonse. Meanwhile, mine detector in hand, von Klinkerhoffen scans the Colonel’s office. He finds no gold, but he does find the Colonel’s toupee.
Episode 12- Yvette and Edith both question Rene about the whereabouts of the gold, but he is not talking. The Colonel and Gruber search Café Rene searching for the missing Enigma machine, but all they turn up is Yvette’s new underwear.
Episode 13- Michelle calls an emergency meeting. She tells Rene and the others that two British experts are coming disguised as policemen to examine the Enigma machine. The Colonel is ordered to arrest and execute six most prominent town members if the machine is not returned.
Cast
René Artois . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .Gorden Kaye
Edith Artois . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .Carmen Silvera
Yvette Carte-Blanche . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .Vicki Michelle
Mimi Labonq . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .Sue Hodge
Madame Fanny La Fan (Edith's mother) . . .Rose Hill
Michelle (of the Resistance) Dubois . . . . . .Kirsten Cooke
Monsieur Roger Leclerc . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .Derek Royle
Colonel von Strohm . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .Richard Marner
Lieutenant Hubert Grüber . . . . . . . . . . . . .Guy Siner
General Erich von Klinkerhoffen . . . . . . . .Hilary Minster
Private Helga Geerhart . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .Kim Hartman
Herr Otto Flick . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .Richard Gibson
Herr Engelbert von Smallhausen . . . . . . . .John Louis Mansi
Monsieur Alphonse . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .Kenneth Connor
RAF Flight Lt Fairfax . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .John D Collins
RAF Flight Lt Carstairs . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .Nicholas Frankau
Officer Crabtree . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .Arthur Bostrom
Captain Alberto Bertorelli . . . . . . . . . . . . .Gavin Richards
Louise . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .Carole Ashby
Production Credits
Produced and Directed by.......................................David Croft
Written by................................................................ Jeremy Lloyd, David Croft, Paul Adam, John Chapman, Ian Davidson, Ronald Wolfe, Ronald Chesney
René Artois is a man on the run. Acting as a pawn for the French Resistance, he spends his days running from the Gestapo, the Generals, and naturally, from all of the women who desperately yearn for his affection. But unfortunately for René, he is also running out of time! If he wants to make it out of France alive, he must fake the death of the undertaker, fit a million Francs down Lieutenant Gruber's trousers, and diffuse a bomb disguised as a Christmas pudding. But will René's own antics catch up with him when he least expects it? Or is he quick enough to elude his friends and enemies before its too late? Find out in this hilarious BBC comedy classic!
This DVD is Part 2 in this 2-Part Series.
Includes the episodes:
The Reluctant Millionaires
A Duck for Launch
The Exploding Bedpan
Going Like a Bomb
Money to Burn
Puddings Can Go Off
Landmines for London
Flight to Geneva
Train of Events
An Enigma Variation
Wedding Bloss
Down the Drain
All in Disgeese
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!