About this season
The misadventures of hapless cafe owner René Artois and his escapades with the Resistance in occupied France.
Episodes (10)
1. A Quiet Honeymoon
8.0Aired 5 January 1991 • 30 min
Newly-weds Fanny and Leclerc are sent to jail by the Germans for flying around in a bed attached to a balloon. Edith decides they have to be rescued - much to René's horror. But her plans are thwarted by a loose bed knob.
2. An Almighty Bang
7.8Aired 12 January 1991 • 30 min
The Colonel, Gruber and Bertorelli desperately try to stop General Von Flockenstoffen's suicidal plan to kidnap Churchill.
3. Fleeing Monks
8.0Aired 26 January 1991 • 30 min
René is to be given a collaboration medal for his help with the removal of Von Flockenstuffen. Unfortunately, this causes the Communist Resistance to place a price on his head. He decides once again to elope with Yvette. Michelle orders René to take the British airmen to the monastery to be picked up by a lightweight plane. Flick also learns of this news, and he and Von Smallhausen have themselves initiated into the brotherhood to gather information and capture the airmen. Unfortunately, René ends up grabbing Edith's hand instead of Yvette's, as the two are rushed aboard the plane bound for England.
4. Up the Crick Without a Piddle
8.2Aired 2 February 1991 • 30 min
René and Edith, transported to England in the place of the British airmen, get medals from Churchill and meet an old friend from the past.
5. The Gestapo Ruins a Picnic
8.2Aired 2 February 1991 • 30 min
The German officers burgle Gestapo headquarters, but find a ghostly apparition has got there before them.
6. The Spirit of Nouvion
8.4Aired 16 February 1991 • 30 min
Michelle enlists René to try to retrieve the Fallen Madonna locked in Herr Flick's safe.
7. Leg It to Spain!
8.0Aired 23 February 1991 • 30 min
A rescue operation is mounted when the British airmen find themselves trapped in wine barrels in the cellars of the chateau.
8. Prior Engagements
8.6Aired 2 March 1991 • 30 min
Von Klinkerhoffen thinks a marriage between a French woman and a man from the occupying forces would be good propaganda. He orders Edith to marry Bertorelli.
9. Soup and Sausage
8.2Aired 9 March 1991 • 30 min
The British airmen are stuck down the drain in the village square, and René plans to get them out using an old ice cream van.
10. René of the Gypsies
8.6Aired 16 March 1991 • 30 min
Michelle plans to release the British airmen from the drain in the square under cover of a gypsy fair, but at the last minute the Gypsies cancel.