- Format:
- DVD Fullscreen
- Region:
- 1 - More Details
- Run time:
- About 4 hours
- Number of Discs:
- 2
Episode 1- A powerful radio transmitter has been erected beneath the tomb of René’s dead “twin brother”. René tries to
send a message to London to inform them of the plan to return the British airmen, but he gets a little carried away
and Gruber sees a ghost.
Episode 2. Herr Flick and von Smallhausen of the Gestapo plan to infiltrate the Resistance disguised as British airmen. So do
the Italians, led by Captain Bertorelli. Little do they know that René and friends are waiting for them, heavily disguised.
Little does Boris Karloff know that his former make-up artist is now working for the Resistance...
Episode 3- Ordered by the von Klinkerhoffen to keep tabs on Flick’s every move and also to rise to the rank of Corporal,
Helga undertakes to marry him. Meanwhile, René and his staff (disguised as the Nouvion Oars) are searching for a
British submarine in the estuary, and the British airmen are trying to make their way down the canal to the
rendezvous, which they will recognise by a goose with flashing eyes and smoke coming out of its tail.
Episode 4- The British Airmen have been captured and are to be put on a train for Berlin in the morning. Gruber warns René,
and gives him the keys to the château and the cell. Michelle devises a plan to fool the German guards by dressing as
undertakers and carrying out the ‘dead’ airmen in coffins. But Herr Flick and von Smallhausen are also after the airmen
themselves, and the Resistance plan backfires when Alphonse challenges Leclerc to a duel.
Episode 5- Michelle of the Resistance concocts another plan to infiltrate German Headquarters and rescue the British Airmen,
this time using hijacked German uniforms. Who will the uniforms fit? Officer Crabtree reckons René's chances are
about 'fart' to one.
Episode 6- Café René is the venue for a clandestine deal involving a solid gold cuckoo clock weight, the Portrait of the Fallen
Madonna with the big Boobies by Von Klomp, and five anonymous characters wearing paper bags over their heads who
answer to the names of Colonel X, Lieutenant X, Captain X, Private X and X.
Episode 7- The wedding of Edith’s mother Fanny to Monsieur Leclerc is brought forward to coincide with the execution of
Michelle's most audacious escape plan to date...
Episode 8- General von Klinkerhoffen is threatening to blow up Nouvion unless the British Airmen surrender. Michelle of the
Resistance, however, has an audacious plan for their escape, involving a barrage balloon, a wedding marquee and 24
cylinders of helium disguised as prize-winning Algerian vegetable marrows.
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 simple man. He runs a quiet café in Nouvion, France, and his only desire is to keep his trysts with the café's two beautiful waitresses secret from his wife. But ever since he was drafted by the Resistance to be hero of all France and was shot dead by the Germans, René's life is in constant turmoil. The Germans have captured the British airmen and only René can save them. But not before he becomes impaled upon a 20 foot radio tower, disguises himself as the hunchback of Notre Dame, and brokers a clandestine deal involving a solid gold cuckoo clock and the Portrait of the Fallen Madonna with the Big You-Know-Whats. What a tangled web of deceit, distress and double entendre! Will things ever sort themselves out? Find out in the sixth season of this outrageously funny sitcom from the BBC.
Includes the following episodes:
Desperate Doings in the Graveyard
The Gestapo for the High Jump
The Nouvion Oars
The Nicked Airmen The Airmen De-Nicked
The Crooked Fences
Crabtree's Podgeon Pist
Rising to the Occasion
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!