Gavin Richards as Captain Alberto Bertorelli

Episodes 40

Prisoners of War

75%
November 7, 198730m
4x1

Having been trapped in the POW camp, René is enlisted in the plan to re-dig the tunnel, by getting rid of the dirt. Hans and the Colonel are playing cricket, though not very well, and Herr Flick and Von Smallhausen are digging their own tunnel into the camp. Monsieur Alphonse arrives at the café to report to Fanny the news that René has been captured, but René and Company join in on the British prisoners' plan to escape – though only one person can escape in this way.

Meanwhile, Helga reports the situation to Gruber, and together they decide on a plan to rescue the Colonel, the Captain, and René, involving Gruber dressing as a nun.

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Camp Dance

75%
November 14, 198730m
4x2

Dressed as girls from the Folies Bergère, the entire gang (the staff and the Germans) escape from the prisoner of war camp, and completely against plans bring the two British airmen with them. Outside again, the Colonel finds that the Captain is missing, only his glasses are found.

Herr Flick and von Smallhousen intercept a message from London and try to send their own message, but René catches on and tosses the radio out the window, which leaves the Resistance without a means to contact London, until Michelle thinks of the radio in Lieutenant Gruber's little tank.

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Good Staff Are Hard to Find

80%
November 21, 198730m
4x3

Since Maria's disappearance, the café needs another waitress, but René and Edith has somewhat different ideas about who should fill the position, but finally Michelle from the Resistance brings tiny Mimi from another cell, to be René's bodyguard.

In the meantime, General von Klinkerhoffen gives the Colonel a new assistant, Italian liaison Bertorelli.

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The Flying Nun

75%
November 28, 198730m
4x4

The Gestapo suspects that the Colonel and the General are in on a plot to assassinate Hitler, so Herr Flick goes undercover as Private Irma Von Kinkenrotten and plants a somewhat bizarre daffodil-shaped microphone in the Colonel's office, where Gruber and Von Strohm are making plans to get rid of Bertorelli in some way.

Meanwhile, as Edith prepares for her wedding, René & Co. must get the aerial for their new radio above the jamming signal of Herr Flick, so they disguise Mimi as a small nun to obtain a box kite which they fly to contact London and request plastic explosive to blow up the safe in the General's chateau to get the British Invasion plans.

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The Sausage in the Trousers

80%
December 5, 198730m
4x5

There is still no batteries for the wireless radio underneath the bed of René's mother in law, so Michelle's newest hairbrained scheme is to have René and Yvette powering the radio with the generator from a bicycle until the stolen batteries from a German midget submarine are delivered.

The Lieutenant is finished copying the paintings (The Fallen Madonna and the Van Gogh), and delivers them as sausages. Sausages also comes from Captain Bertorelli (real ones), Monsieur Leclerc (submarine batteries), and Officer Crabtree (explosives), and soon they're all mixed up in the German officers pants.

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The Jet-Propelled Mother-in-Law

80%
Season Finale
December 12, 198730m
4x6

The Germans arrest René, and the Colonel demands an explanation for the knockwursts with explosives in them. After a small lie, René is sent home with around a dozen knockwursts to hang in his kitchen.

Meanwhile, the British have sent a spy camera with which the Resistance should be able to photograph the plans for the German invasion of Great Britain, but the camera landed in the vineyard of Monsieur Alphonse's, and since the Germans commandeered the vineyard, the Resistance cannot go and look for the camera. This problem is solved when the General orders every peasant in Nouvion to work on the vineyard, which also leaves room for some assassination attempts on the General's life.

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Desperate Doings in the Dungeon

80%
September 3, 198830m
5x1

René is forced to masquerade as the head of the Gestapo, Heinrich Himmler himself, in an attempt to rescue Frau Von Kinkenrotten from prison. Of course, this is actually Herr Flick, still in his earlier disguise.

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The Camera in the Potato

80%
September 10, 198830m
5x2

Armed with a camera disguised as a potato, René has to get into the chateau so he can photograph plans for the German invasion of Britain.

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Dinner with the General

80%
September 17, 198830m
5x3

Leclerc and René plan to blow the safe in Lieutenant Gruber's bedroom. Edith's job is to drop a smoke canister down his chimney, but will she get the right one?

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The Dreaded Circular Saw

80%
September 24, 198830m
5x4

Having blown the safe in Lieutenant Gruber's bedroom, René and Leclerc are surprised by its contents. The Communist Resistance lies in wait for their escape, and holds them hostage in a sawmill.

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Otherwise Engaged

80%
October 1, 198830m
5x5

Denise, the head of the Communist Resistance, who was René's sweetheart in his childhood in Nancy, and who's now determined to marry René.

Meanwhile, Edith and the servant girls have to explain to the Lieutenant why his little tank has crashed into the public toilet, and ends up getting Gruber's compassion.

René has a difficult time telling Edith that he will marry Denise, since Monsieur Alphonse has asked for Edith's hand, and Yvette has it in her heart to tell Edith that René will marry her instead.

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A Marriage of Inconvenience

90%
October 8, 198830m
5x6

René's friends rally round to try and save him from his impending marriage to the formidable leader of the Communist Resistance.

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No Hiding Place

70%
October 15, 198830m
5x7

René disguises himself as his father in order to escape the wrath of Denise Laroque.

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The Arrival of the Homing Duck

80%
October 22, 198830m
5x8

René and the Resistance find another novel way to return the British airmen to England.

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Watch the Birdie

90%
October 29, 198830m
5x9

René and his staff prepare the long-distance duck for its vital flight to England.

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René - Under an Assumed Nose

90%
November 5, 198830m
5x10

Monsieur Leclerc comes to the rescue when orders are given for René to be arrested. René tries to escape using a unique disguise.

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The Confusion of the Generals

80%
November 12, 198830m
5x11

René is in even more trouble as the generals gather round at the chateau.

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Who's for the Vatican?

80%
November 19, 198830m
5x12

A medal for bravery, a suicide pill and a hide-out in the Vatican introduce an old habit to René.

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Ribbing the Bonk

80%
November 26, 198830m
5x13

René and the Resistance need to find a huge amount of money quickly to save Mimi from the Communists.

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The Reluctant Millionaires

80%
December 3, 198830m
5x14

When it is revealed that the one million francs stolen from the bank belong to Herr Flick of the Gestapo, the best place to hide them seems to be down René's trousers.

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A Duck for Launch

80%
December 10, 198830m
5x15

René has got rid of the Gestapo's money, next is the secret microfilm, but he is hampered by the Resistance girls in the cupboard.

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The Exploding Bedpan

80%
December 17, 198830m
5x16

While under interrogation, Alfonse's dicky ticker starts playing up, and he is whisked to hospital. He must be either rescued or eliminated before he can spill the beans about the stolen Gestapo money.

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Going Like a Bomb

70%
December 24, 198830m
5x17

Michelle and Crabtree hatch another plot to get the British airmen back to Blighty. Captain Bertorelli has stolen Gestapo money planted on him.

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Money to Burn

70%
December 31, 198830m
5x18

Edith is in a romantic mood, and René is playing the piano.

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Pudding Can Go Off

80%
January 7, 198930m
5x19

Faced with the problem of hiding 1,000 kilos of stolen high explosive, Michelle of the Resistance decides on a simple but daring course of action. It will be hidden in 500 Christmas puddings.

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Land Mines for London

70%
January 14, 198930m
5x20

Not only does René nearly get blown up by an exploding Christmas pudding, he also gets roped into another Resistance plan to smuggle out the British airmen.

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Flight to Geneva

80%
January 21, 198930m
5x21

René tries to sneak off to Switzerland with Yvette on the night train.

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Train of Events

80%
January 28, 198930m
5x22

René attempts to sneak off to Switzerland with Yvette and four gold bars, but discovers the Resistance are intending to blow up their train.

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An Enigma Variation

80%
February 4, 198930m
5x23

Chaos engulfs René as he attempts to hide the stolen gold. Meanwhile, the Resistance plan to steal the Enigma encoder.

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Wedding Bloss

80%
February 11, 198930m
5x24

René asks Edith to marry him after hearing Monsieur Alphonse's intentions of asking for her hand in marriage. Meanwhile, General Von Klinkerhoffen suspects Colonel Von Strohm of stealing his gold, while Herr Flick suspects René.

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Down the Drain

80%
February 18, 198930m
5x25

René is still hiding the four bars of gold he has stolen and decides it is time he left his dangerous life in Nouvion.

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All in Disgeese

80%
Season Finale
February 25, 198930m
5x26

René is still harbouring the German Enigma machine as well as the four bars of gold he has stolen, two British airmen and the painting of the Cracked Vase with the Big Daisies by Van Gogh. So the café is now full and getting more crowded by the minute.

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Desperate Doings in the Graveyard

80%
September 2, 198930m
6x1

The latest escape plan for the British airmen involves them wading along the canal underneath a tin bath. Herr Flick and Von Smallhausen pose as escaped British airmen, hoping to be picked up by the Resistance.

The Resistance have built a communication post in René's 'grave', in an effort to get around German jamming of their radio signals. René, Edith and Monsieur Alphonse try it out. René gets caught on the aerial and is hoisted above his 'grave'. Lieutenant Gruber sees him and thinks it's the ghost of René's 'twin brother'.

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The Gestapo for the High Jump

80%
September 9, 198930m
6x2

The Gestapo and the Italians plan to infiltrate the Resistance. Little do they know that René and friends are waiting for them.

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The Nouvion Oars

80%
September 16, 198930m
6x3

Private Helga Geerhart plans to marry Herr Flick in order to report his every move to General Von Klinkerhoffe

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The Nicked Airmen

80%
September 23, 198930m
6x4

When the British airmen are arrested paddling a tin bath down the estuary, René and his staff are instructed to rescue them from the chateau in coffins. All goes to plan, until Monsieur Alfonse challenges Monsieur Leclerc to a duel.

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The Airmen De-Nicked

80%
September 30, 198930m
6x5

Michelle of the Resistance plans to infiltrate German headquarters to rescue the British airmen using hijacked German uniforms. But who will fit them? Officer Crabtree thinks René's chances are 'farty to one'.

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The Crooked Fences

80%
October 7, 198930m
6x6

Café René is the venue for a clandestine deal involving the solid gold cuckoo clock weight, Van Klomp's portrait of the Fallen Madonna 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.

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Crabtree's Podgeon Pist

80%
October 14, 198930m
6x7

Fanny and Leclerc's wedding is timed to coincide with the execution of Michelle's most audacious escape plan yet.

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Rising to the Occasion

80%
Season Finale
October 21, 198930m
6x8

Michelle comes up with an audacious escape plan for the British airmen involving a barrage balloon and 24 cylinders of helium disguised as prize-winning marrows.

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