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  1. #1 Fan Favorite
    undefined Season 5 Episode 6 - A Marriage of Inconvenience
    9.0/10(4 votes)

    #1 - A Marriage of Inconvenience

    S5:E6

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

    Director:Martin Dennis
    Writer:N/A

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  2. undefined Season 5 Episode 16 - The Exploding Bedpan
    8.5/10(4 votes)

    #2 - The Exploding Bedpan

    S5:E16

    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.

    Director:Martin Dennis
    Writer:N/A

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  3. undefined Season 0 Episode 1 - Christmas Special
    8.5/10(4 votes)

    #3 - Christmas Special

    S0:E1

    It's Christmas day. Mum has made a fantastic Christmas dinner. The boys are delighted that Grandma, is coming round, but horrified that dad's (Martin's) mother - 'Horrible Grandma' - is coming too. Horrible Grandma turns up with her equally horrible dog, Boudacea, which has to wear an oxygen mask. Horrible Grandma hates mum's 'horrible dry turkey', and mum is distraught when Horrible Grandma brings her own turkey with her to eat. Dad and the boys are jealous, as they too secretly hate mum's dry turkey. After dinner, tensions mount, as the two grandmas have an argument that develops into a proper grandma fight. And then Jim turns up, dressed as Father Christmas...

    Director:Martin Dennis
    Writer:N/A

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  4. undefined Season 4 Episode 6 - The Jet-Propelled Mother-in-Law
    8.2/10(5 votes)

    #4 - The Jet-Propelled Mother-in-Law

    S4:E6

    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, 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.

    Director:Martin Dennis
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  5. undefined Season 5 Episode 4 - The Dreaded Circular Saw
    8.2/10(4 votes)

    #5 - The Dreaded Circular Saw

    S5:E4

    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.

    Director:Martin Dennis
    Writer:N/A

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  6. undefined Season 4 Episode 3 - Good Staff Are Hard to Find
    8.2/10(5 votes)

    #6 - Good Staff Are Hard to Find

    S4:E3

    Since Maria's disappearance, the café needs another waitress, but René and Edith have somewhat different ideas about who should fill the position, but finally Michelle of 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 Captain Bertorelli.

    Director:Martin Dennis
    Writer:N/A

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  7. undefined Season 6 Episode 5 - The Airmen De-Nicked
    8.2/10(4 votes)

    #7 - The Airmen De-Nicked

    S6:E5

    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'.

    Director:Martin Dennis
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  8. undefined Season 6 Episode 6 - The Crooked Fences
    8.2/10(4 votes)

    #8 - The Crooked Fences

    S6:E6

    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.

    Director:Martin Dennis
    Writer:N/A

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  9. undefined Season 6 Episode 8 - Rising to the Occasion
    8.2/10(4 votes)

    #9 - Rising to the Occasion

    S6:E8

    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.

    Director:Martin Dennis
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  10. undefined Season 5 Episode 2 - The Camera in the Potato
    8.0/10(4 votes)

    #10 - The Camera in the Potato

    S5:E2

    Starting off in women's underwear in the dungeons of the General's castle, René is rescued by Lieutenant Gruber, and comes back just in time to be briefed by Michelle of the Resistance about the camera which will be used to photograph the safe in the château. That night, Helga and the General are supposed to dine at Café René, but Helga is ordered away by Herr Flick, and the General has to endure Edith's "seduction" before he can get away. René can get into the château, but he doesn't know that the safe is in Lieutenant Gruber's room.

    Director:Martin Dennis
    Writer:N/A

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  11. undefined Season 5 Episode 3 - Dinner with the General
    8.0/10(4 votes)

    #11 - Dinner with the General

    S5:E3

    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?

    Director:Martin Dennis
    Writer:N/A

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  12. undefined Season 5 Episode 5 - Otherwise Engaged
    8.0/10(4 votes)

    #12 - Otherwise Engaged

    S5:E5

    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.

    Director:Martin Dennis
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  13. undefined Season 4 Episode 4 - The Flying Nun
    8.0/10(5 votes)

    #13 - The Flying Nun

    S4:E4

    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 and company 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 explosives to blow up the safe in the General's chateau to get the British Invasion plans.

    Director:Martin Dennis
    Writer:N/A

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  14. undefined Season 5 Episode 13 - Ribbing the Bonk
    8.0/10(4 votes)

    #14 - Ribbing the Bonk

    S5:E13

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

    Director:Martin Dennis
    Writer:N/A

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  15. undefined Season 5 Episode 14 - The Reluctant Millionaires
    8.0/10(4 votes)

    #15 - The Reluctant Millionaires

    S5:E14

    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.

    Director:Martin Dennis
    Writer:N/A

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  16. undefined Season 5 Episode 15 - A Duck for Launch
    8.0/10(4 votes)

    #16 - A Duck for Launch

    S5:E15

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

    Director:Martin Dennis
    Writer:N/A

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  17. undefined Season 5 Episode 19 - Puddings Can Go Off
    8.0/10(4 votes)

    #17 - Puddings Can Go Off

    S5:E19

    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.

    Director:Martin Dennis
    Writer:N/A

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  18. undefined Season 6 Episode 3 - The Nouvion Oars
    8.0/10(4 votes)

    #18 - The Nouvion Oars

    S6:E3

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

    Director:Martin Dennis
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  19. undefined Season 6 Episode 4 - The Nicked Airmen
    8.0/10(4 votes)

    #19 - The Nicked Airmen

    S6:E4

    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.

    Director:Martin Dennis
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  20. undefined Season 6 Episode 7 - Crabtree's Podgeon Pist
    8.0/10(4 votes)

    #20 - Crabtree's Podgeon Pist

    S6:E7

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

    Director:Martin Dennis
    Writer:N/A

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  21. undefined Season 3 Episode 2 - Elephants and Hens
    7.9/10(12 votes)

    #21 - Elephants and Hens

    S3:E2

    When Bernard holds a children's themed book day in the shop, Fran bets Manni and Bernard they couldn't write a children's book over a weekend, while Bernard bets Fran back that she will have an awful time at her friend's hen party.

    Director:Martin Dennis
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  22. undefined Season 4 Episode 1 - Prisoners of War
    7.8/10(6 votes)

    #22 - Prisoners of War

    S4:E1

    Having been trapped in the POW camp, René is enlisted in the plan to re-dig the tunnel, by getting rid of the dirt. Von Strohm and Geering 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 it will free only one man. Meanwhile, Helga reports the situation to Gruber, and together they devise a plan to rescue the Colonel, the Captain and René - involving Gruber dressing as a nun!

    Director:Martin Dennis
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  23. undefined Season 4 Episode 2 - Camp Dance
    7.8/10(5 votes)

    #23 - Camp Dance

    S4:E2

    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, but René catches on and tosses the radio out of the window, which leaves the Resistance without a means to contact London, until Michelle suggests the radio in Lieutenant Gruber's little tank.

    Director:Martin Dennis
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  24. undefined Season 5 Episode 17 - Going Like a Bomb
    7.8/10(4 votes)

    #24 - Going Like a Bomb

    S5:E17

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

    Director:Martin Dennis
    Writer:N/A

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  25. undefined Season 5 Episode 18 - Money to Burn
    7.8/10(4 votes)

    #25 - Money to Burn

    S5:E18

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

    Director:Martin Dennis
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Martin Dennis Ratings Summary

"A Marriage of Inconvenience" is the best rated episode directed by Martin Dennis. It scored 9/10 based on 4 votes. It was written by N/A. It aired on 10/8/1988 and is rated 0.5 points higher than their second-best episode, "The Exploding Bedpan".