9.0/101 votes#1 - A Marriage of Inconvenience
Season 5 Episode 6 - Aired 10/8/1988
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: Jeremy Lloyd
8.4/109 votes#2 - Elephants and Hens
Season 3 Episode 2 - Aired 3/18/2004
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
Writer: Dylan Moran
8.0/102 votes#3 - Good Staff Are Hard to Find
Season 4 Episode 3 - Aired 11/21/1987
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.
Director: Martin Dennis
Writer: David Croft
8.0/102 votes#4 - The Jet-Propelled Mother-in-Law
Season 4 Episode 6 - Aired 12/12/1987
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.
Director: Martin Dennis
Writer: David Croft
8.0/101 votes#5 - The Camera in the Potato
Season 5 Episode 2 - Aired 9/10/1988
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.
Director: Martin Dennis
Writer: David Croft
8.0/101 votes#6 - Dinner with the General
Season 5 Episode 3 - Aired 9/17/1988
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: David Croft
8.0/101 votes#7 - The Dreaded Circular Saw
Season 5 Episode 4 - Aired 9/24/1988
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: David Croft
8.0/101 votes#8 - Otherwise Engaged
Season 5 Episode 5 - Aired 10/1/1988
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
Writer: Jeremy Lloyd
8.0/101 votes#9 - Ribbing the Bonk
Season 5 Episode 13 - Aired 11/26/1988
René and the Resistance need to find a huge amount of money quickly to save Mimi from the Communists.
Director: Martin Dennis
Writer: Jeremy Lloyd
8.0/101 votes#10 - The Reluctant Millionaires
Season 5 Episode 14 - Aired 12/3/1988
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: David Croft
8.0/101 votes#11 - A Duck for Launch
Season 5 Episode 15 - Aired 12/10/1988
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.
Director: Martin Dennis
Writer: Jeremy Lloyd
8.0/101 votes#12 - The Exploding Bedpan
Season 5 Episode 16 - Aired 12/17/1988
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: David Croft
8.0/101 votes#13 - Pudding Can Go Off
Season 5 Episode 19 - Aired 1/7/1989
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: Jeremy Lloyd
8.0/101 votes#14 - The Nouvion Oars
Season 6 Episode 3 - Aired 9/16/1989
Private Helga Geerhart plans to marry Herr Flick in order to report his every move to General Von Klinkerhoffe
Director: Martin Dennis
Writer: David Croft
8.0/101 votes#15 - The Nicked Airmen
Season 6 Episode 4 - Aired 9/23/1989
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
Writer: David Croft
8.0/101 votes#16 - The Airmen De-Nicked
Season 6 Episode 5 - Aired 9/30/1989
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
Writer: David Croft
8.0/101 votes#17 - The Crooked Fences
Season 6 Episode 6 - Aired 10/7/1989
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: David Croft
8.0/101 votes#18 - Crabtree's Podgeon Pist
Season 6 Episode 7 - Aired 10/14/1989
Fanny and Leclerc's wedding is timed to coincide with the execution of Michelle's most audacious escape plan yet.
Director: Martin Dennis
Writer: David Croft
8.0/101 votes#19 - Rising to the Occasion
Season 6 Episode 8 - Aired 10/21/1989
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
Writer: David Croft
7.9/1010 votes#20 - Party
Season 3 Episode 6 - Aired 4/15/2004
Manny and Fran drag Bernard along with them to a party, but the drunken aftermath dredges up secrets and bitterness.
Director: Martin Dennis
Writer: Dylan Moran
7.9/109 votes#21 - Moo-Ma and Moo-Pa
Season 3 Episode 3 - Aired 3/25/2004
Manny's parents visit the shop for the weekend, and the lies he's told them throw Fran and Bernard's lives into chaos.
Director: Martin Dennis
Writer: Dylan Moran
7.8/1011 votes#22 - Manny Come Home
Season 3 Episode 1 - Aired 3/11/2004
When Manny defects to Goliath Books after an "incident" with Bernard, his ex-employer's life spirals out of control. Meanwhile Fran returns from holiday only to be greeted by the squalor of Bernard's shop.
Director: Martin Dennis
Writer: Dylan Moran
7.8/1010 votes#23 - Fever
Season 2 Episode 2 - Aired 3/8/2002
On a scorching hot day, Manni tries to maintain his body temperature so it doesn't go over 88 degrees; Fran has problems with a new neighbour, and Bernard tries to find an appropriate "summer girl".
Director: Martin Dennis
Writer: Dylan Moran
7.7/1010 votes#24 - The Entertainer
Season 2 Episode 1 - Aired 3/1/2002
Fran decides to take up piano lessons with a very prominent teacher, however all doesn't go to plan and she ends up having to ask Manni for a favour. Meanwhile Bernard asks a girl out and once again Manni is called upon for a favour.
Director: Martin Dennis
Writer: Dylan Moran
7.7/109 votes#25 - A Little Flutter
Season 3 Episode 4 - Aired 4/1/2004
Bernard becomes addicted to gambling and forces Manny and Fran to compete for one job at the shop in order to finance his bets.
Director: Martin Dennis
Writer: Dylan Moran
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"A Marriage of Inconvenience" is the best rated episode directed by Martin Dennis. It scored 9/10 based on 1 votes. It was written by Jeremy Lloyd. It aired on 10/8/1988 and is rated 0.6 points higher than their second-best episode, "Elephants and Hens".