The Best Episodes Written By Jeremy Lloyd

Every TV Episode Written by Jeremy Lloyd Ranked from Best to Worst by Thousands of Voters

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  1. #1 Fan Favorite
    undefined Season 9 Episode 6 - A Winkle in Time
    9.1/10(4 votes)

    #1 - A Winkle in Time

    S9:E6

    René and the café staff prepare to welcome the invading British troops.

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  2. undefined Season 5 Episode 6 - A Marriage of Inconvenience
    9.0/10(4 votes)

    #2 - 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.

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  3. undefined Season 5 Episode 16 - The Exploding Bedpan
    8.8/10(5 votes)

    #3 - 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.

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  4. undefined Season 5 Episode 21 - Flight to Geneva
    8.8/10(5 votes)

    #4 - Flight to Geneva

    S5:E21

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

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  5. undefined Season 5 Episode 9 - Watch the Birdie
    8.7/10(5 votes)

    #5 - Watch the Birdie

    S5:E9

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

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  6. undefined Season 0 Episode 2 - The Gâteau from the Château (Christmas Special 1985)
    8.7/10(3 votes)

    #6 - The Gâteau from the Château (Christmas Special 1985)

    S0:E2

    The airmen's escape is thwarted by Nazi gunfire, and the air balloon crashes into Madame Fanny's bedroom. General Von Klinkerhoffen takes command of Nouvion and orders Colonel Von Strohm to woo Edith in order to infiltrate the Resistance. The Colonel soon delegates the duty to Captain Hans Geering. Herr Flick plots the death of the General by poisoned dart, with Helga assigned to do the fatal deed. The Colonel and the Captain plan to poison the General's wine with a lethal pill, whilst Michelle has Edith make a Black Forest Gateau packed with dynamite.

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  7. undefined Season 3 Episode 3 - The Sausage in the Wardrobe
    8.6/10(7 votes)

    #7 - The Sausage in the Wardrobe

    S3:E3

    After Maria is sent to Lieutenant Gruber with the sausage containing the real painting of the Fallen Madonna for copying, she is caught by General Von Klinkerhoffen, who places the sausage in his wardrobe and holds Maria hostage until his motor mower engine is returned by the Resistance. Herr Flick, the Colonel, the Captain and René hear about this and decide to go to the chateau through the secret passage and steal the sausage from under the General's nose, using Helga, Yvette and Lieutenant Gruber as a honey trap.

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  8. undefined Season 5 Episode 26 - All in Disgeese
    8.6/10(5 votes)

    #8 - All in Disgeese

    S5:E26

    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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  9. undefined Season 6 Episode 1 - Desperate Doings in the Graveyard
    8.6/10(5 votes)

    #9 - Desperate Doings in the Graveyard

    S6:E1

    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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  10. undefined Season 7 Episode 8 - Prior Engagements
    8.6/10(5 votes)

    #10 - Prior Engagements

    S7:E8

    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.

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  11. undefined Season 7 Episode 10 - René of the Gypsies
    8.6/10(5 votes)

    #11 - René of the Gypsies

    S7:E10

    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.

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  12. undefined Season 8 Episode 7 - Swan Song
    8.6/10(5 votes)

    #12 - Swan Song

    S8:E7

    Edith tries to avoid the firing squad by convincing the general that she is not Hitler.

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  13. undefined Season 2 Episode 3 - The Policeman Cometh
    8.6/10(7 votes)

    #13 - The Policeman Cometh

    S2:E3

    We pick up the action mere moments after the close of the previous episode, as the airmen-filled cow narrowly escapes being milked by a German patrol while awaiting the landing of the plane. As they watch in disappointment, the plane does not land, and instead jettisoning two parachutes, one of which yields a new escape package; the other, Officer Crabtree, sent from "British Ontelligence Headquitters". Disguised as a policeman, he is supposed to blend in. Unfortunately, his French is abominable, getting the vowels wrong as often as not. Meanwhile, the plan to blow up the non-painting-filled knockwurst on its way to Hitler has hit a snag: René can't find anyone to blow up the train.

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  14. undefined Season 0 Episode 3 - A Bun in the Oven (Christmas Special 1991)
    8.5/10(4 votes)

    #14 - A Bun in the Oven (Christmas Special 1991)

    S0:E3

    Two years have passed. The airmen have finally escaped to England and Captain Bertorelli and his Italian troops have gone home. René thinks life is now relatively peaceful. Then Yvette announces that she's pregnant. Colonel Von Strohm and Lieutenant Gruber get Helga to steal the painting of the Fallen Madonna from Herr Flick. She cuts off one of the boobies and keeps it, to make sure that she'll get her 'cut' when the painting is sold.

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  15. undefined Season 5 Episode 23 - An Enigma Variation
    8.5/10(5 votes)

    #15 - An Enigma Variation

    S5:E23

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

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  16. undefined Season 4 Episode 5 - The Sausage in the Trousers
    8.4/10(6 votes)

    #16 - The Sausage in the Trousers

    S4:E5

    There are still no batteries for the wireless radio underneath the bed of René's mother-in-law, so Michelle's newest harebrained scheme is to have René and Yvette powering it with the generator from a bicycle until the stolen batteries from a German miniature submarine are delivered. The Lieutenant has finished copying the paintings (The Fallen Madonna and the Van Gogh) and delivers them as sausages. Numerous other sausages also arrive: real ones from Captain Bertorelli, submarine batteries from Leclerc, and explosives from Officer Crabtree, and soon they're all mixed up in the German officers' trousers!

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  17. undefined Season 5 Episode 3 - Dinner with the General
    8.4/10(5 votes)

    #17 - 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?

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  18. undefined Season 5 Episode 8 - The Arrival of the Homing Duck
    8.4/10(5 votes)

    #18 - The Arrival of the Homing Duck

    S5:E8

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

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  19. undefined Season 5 Episode 19 - Puddings Can Go Off
    8.4/10(5 votes)

    #19 - 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.

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  20. undefined Season 6 Episode 2 - The Gestapo for the High Jump
    8.4/10(5 votes)

    #20 - The Gestapo for the High Jump

    S6:E2

    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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  21. undefined Season 7 Episode 6 - The Spirit of Nouvion
    8.4/10(5 votes)

    #21 - The Spirit of Nouvion

    S7:E6

    Michelle enlists René to try to retrieve the Fallen Madonna locked in Herr Flick's safe.

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  22. undefined Season 8 Episode 1 - Arousing Suspicions
    8.4/10(5 votes)

    #22 - Arousing Suspicions

    S8:E1

    René and company disguise themselves as Spanish dancers to recover some radio broadcasts.

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  23. undefined Season 8 Episode 6 - A Fishful of Francs
    8.4/10(5 votes)

    #23 - A Fishful of Francs

    S8:E6

    Michelle's new plan involves an eel, a dogfish, ten million francs and the Fallen Madonna.

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  24. undefined Season 9 Episode 1 - Gone with the Windmill
    8.4/10(5 votes)

    #24 - Gone with the Windmill

    S9:E1

    The Colonel and Gruber return from Spain. Meanwhile, Edith is faced with a grave situation.

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  25. undefined Season 3 Episode 6 - The Great Un-Escape
    8.4/10(7 votes)

    #25 - The Great Un-Escape

    S3:E6

    While the Captain is sitting in the café, Herr Flick of the Gestapo is listening when René is talking to London on the wireless. He soon cracks the code of the message as the plan to dig a tunnel from the mortuary to hide the British airmen. But it's soon apparent that the two airmen and Monsieur Alphonse need help with the digging, and the café staff are called in, leaving Madame Fanny and Leclerc in the café. But the Colonel and the Captain follow René, discover the tunnel, and are captured in the prisoner-of-war camp.

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Jeremy Lloyd Ratings Summary

"A Winkle in Time" is the best rated episode written by Jeremy Lloyd. It scored 9.1/10 based on 4 votes. It was directed by N/A. It aired on 12/14/1992 and is rated 0.1 points higher than their second-best episode, "A Marriage of Inconvenience".