'Allo 'Allo! Season 5 Episodes

Episode 1

Desperate Doings in the Dungeon

25 mins

Herr Flick, dragged up as Irma von Kinkenrotten - the disguise he used to plant the bug - is still in the dungeon. Colonel von Strohm and General von Klinkerhoffen, aware that he knows of the forgeries, feel he should be silenced and hatch a plan. The Resistance, led by René dressed as Heinrich Himmler, will spring him. The German officers, dressed as Gestapo, whom they will blame if anything goes wrong, are to thwart the escape and put paid to Flick. However, the Resistance have effected the escape before the Germans arrive and they find only René, who has swapped places with Flick as the prisoner.

Episode 2

The Camera in the Potato

25 mins

René is finally rescued by Lieutenant Gruber and returns to the café, where Michelle tells him that he must take the camera, hidden in a potato, into the chateau and photograph the invasion plans in the safe. General von Klinkerhoffen is lured away to the café, where, surviving a seduction attempt by Edith, he finds Colonel von Strohm in bed with Yvette. René is about to enter the chateau when there is an air raid.

Episode 3

Dinner with the General

24 mins

Rene manages to photograph the safe,which is in Gruber's room and which LeClerc believes he can blow open. Alphonse tells Edith of Rene's affair with Yvette but she believes his denial. Von Klinkerhoffen takes a fancy to Helga and they have a private dinner in his room. Flick and Von Smallhausen,posing as gypsy violinists,serenade them in order to learn whether the general intends to kill Hitler. Smoke bombs are to be dropped down Gruber's chimney,causing a diversion which will allow Rene and LeClerc to come in and open the safe. By mistake the smoke bombs are thrown down the general's chimney instead and he calls the fire brigade.

Episode 4

The Dreaded Circular Saw

Von Klinkerhoffen assumes that the 'gypsies' caused the smoke bomb incident and orders their arrest,so they hide in the wardrobe. This gets blown to bits when LeClerc blows the safe up,but its contents are not the invasion plans but the original Fallen Madonna painting and the Van Gogh the general stole from Rene.The Gestapo officers, Rene and LeClerc all escape but the last two are disguised as Germans and are captured by the Communist Resistance and held prisoner in an old saw-mill. Flick believes the safe blew up because Gruber was hiding explosives with which to kill Hitler and orders Helga to chat him up to find out more. Whilst she is doing so Crabtree and the resistance steal Gruber's tank in order to rescue Rene and LeClerc but Edith crashes it into the village's public convenience.

Episode 5

Otherwise Engaged

24 mins

René and monsieur Leclerc have been captured by the communist resistance. The leader of the group turns out to be Denise Laroque, an old sweetheart of René. Because of this, René and Leclerc won't be killed, but René has to marry Denise. Meanwhile the British airmen have had it with hiding at Café René and try to surrender to Germans so they can get into a proper prisoner of war camp.

Episode 6

A Marriage of Inconvenience

24 mins

Rene is not looking forward to marrying Denise and agrees to a romantic dinner with Edith. Michelle has abducted Denise and hidden her in an old mine shaft, the plan being that Edith will take her place at the altar next day. Gruber, not happy at seeing the man he loves get married, is charged by the general to ask Rene where the paintings are and is assured that they are safe. The wedding goes ahead and Rene is surprised to see, when she lifts her veil, that his bride is Edith, not Denise. However the marriage is not legal because, in a counter-plan to prevent the union, the vicar has been replaced by Crabtree.

Episode 7

No Hiding Place

24 mins

Because of the precautions taken by Edith and Yvette & Mimi, René hasn't married Denise Laroque. Now René is afraid Denise wants to kill him and tries - while being disguised as his own father - to find a place to hide. The colonel and the captain tell him they can't help him but the colonel decides a disguised Helga should protect him because René is the only one who knows where the paintings are. Meanwhile, the British airmen are still trying to find a way out of their never changing status quo of being stuck at Cafe René's.

Episode 8

The Arrival of the Homing Duck

24 mins

Rene is thrown out of their truck by the Communists and reports that the paintings are with the Communists at their head-quarters. The general plans an attack to recover them,using Bertorelli's Italians but they are lazy and unwilling to cooperate. A generals' conference is to be held in which the invasion of England is likely to be discussed. Michelle gets Rene to do the catering and to get as much information as he can on the invasion. The results will be sent back to England with a long-distance duck.

Episode 9

Watch the Birdie

24 mins

The generals gather for the conference but the Resistance learn that one is a French collaborator and must be eliminated so Mimi poisons him and Crabtree takes his place. The duck which will carry the message to England escapes and is shot by Bertorelli but the rest of the plan goes ahead. Edith causes a diversion by offering the generals a curiously strong peppermint each which is a doctored pill which has them foaming at the mouth and requires them to go to hospital. Rene then takes a photograph of the plans using a camera concealed in a 'flip-up' apron. Flick meanwhile has Helga fitted for her - leather -wedding dress.

Episode 10

René - Under an Assumed Nose

General Von Klinkerhoffen asks Von Strohm and Gruber who knew about the meeting of the generals where someone tried to poison them. When Von Strohm tells him René knew about it, Von Klinkerhoffen tells them to catch and execute René. Herr Flick however, thinks the big-nosed French collaborating general had something to do with the plot to poison the generals and tries to find him. Meanwhile, René wants to quit the resistance and gets several disguises he can use to avoid being caught.

Episode 11

The Confusion of the Generals

24 mins

General Von Klinkerhoffen wants to continue the meeting of the Generals, but because he thinks the Communist Resistance might want to blow them up, he has planned for a group of peasants to be dressed up like generals and come together at the town square while the generals - disguised as onion sellers - will meet at the café. A new group of shot down British airmen will also come to the café, also disguised as onion sellers. Meanwhile, Herr Flick is recovering in traction and Leclerc and Madame Fanny are going out for a walk.

Episode 12

Who's for the Vatican?

23 mins

Because Berlin blames him for the cock-up concerning the meeting of the German generals, general Von Klinkerhoffen decides to send colonel Von Strohm and Gruber to the Russian front. Von Strohm and Gruber want to flee to the Vatican and hide out there until the war is over. For this, they need to sell the paintings that are hidden in the headquarters of the Communist Resistance. They tell René to get the paintings. When Michelle of the resistance hears of this, she tells René to get the paintings, give copies to the colonel and Gruber and sell the originals for the resistance funds.

Episode 13

Ribbing the Bonk

24 mins

The Communist Resistance has captured Colonel von Strohm, Lieutenant Gruber, Captain Bertorelli and his men. René (still disguised as a Franciscian vicar) has given them the copies of the paintings - which they think are the real ones - and convinces the communists not to shoot them, but ask ransom for them. The communists let René and Leclerc go and decide to keep Mimi (who's still disguised as a baby, with the original paintings in her nappies). It turns out General von Klinkerhoffen won't pay the ransom and Michelle suggests robbing the town bank in order to pay the ransom and get von Strohm, Gruber, Bertorelli, Mimi and, most importantly, the paintings back safe and sound.

Episode 14

The Reluctant Millionaires

Herr Flick tells Helga the money that was stolen from the bank was his and he suspects General von Klinkerhoffen has stolen it. Michelle tells René and the others the stolen money will not be used to safe Mimi and the Germans but it will be split amongst them. When officer Crabtree tells them the money was from the Gestapo, it ends up in René's trousers. Meanwhile, René has found a way to improve Edith's performance.

Episode 15

A Duck for Launch

24 mins

When feeding the long distance duck, René sees she has given birth to a group of ducklings. Nevertheless, Michelle orders René to launch the duck. Lieutenant Gruber, Colonel von Strohm, Helga and Captain Bertorelli are dividing the money that was stolen from the bank and Herr Otto Flick of the Gestapo - who owned the stolen money - is ordered by his uncle Heinrich Himmler to find the money again, even though it was forged money. Herr Flick and von Smallhausen start selling fish in the town square hoping somebody will pay with the forged money so they can arrest and interrogate this person. Meanwhile, hearty eaters Denise Laroque and Louise are still hiding at Café René.

Episode 16

The Exploding Bedpan

24 mins

After his arrest, monsieur Alphonse is in the hands of the Gestapo and will be interrogated. Colonel Von Strohm and Gruber fear he might talk and give them away and give René a suicide pill to go in a pastry. In the headquarters of Herr Flick, Helga tells monsieur Alphonse she's on his side because she also has some of the forged money. However, when she shows him where she has hidden the money, monsieur Alphonse has a heart attack.

Episode 17

Going Like a Bomb

24 mins

Herr Flick tells Helga the stolen Gestapo money was false. When she tells this to the colonel he tells Captain Bertorelli to get it back to René. What Bertorelli doesn't know is that Colonel von Strohm anonymously called Herr Flick to say a man with feathers on his hat has the stolen money and is on his way to Cafe René. Michelle has a new plan to get the British airmen back to England; they'll be put in two emptied land mines and dropped over England. They then need to 'unscrew their nuts' and land safely using their parachutes. The parachutes will be brought by monsieur Leclerq, who'll be disguised as a pillow-stuffer. Meanwhile, the communist girls leave Cafe René.

Episode 18

Money to Burn

24 mins

Herr Flick has arrested monsieur Leclerc because he thinks he has the stolen money. When it turns out he hasn't got the money, Herr Flick announces Leclerc will be shot if the money won't be returned. Unfortunately, Madame Fanny has burned the money - that was kept in the oven - when trying to cook a potato, which actually was the spy camera that was to be used to photograph the invasion of England plans. Meanwhile, Von Strohm has found out about the two missing land mines and tells Gruber to talk to René, in case he might know anything about them.

Episode 19

Puddings Can Go Off

23 mins

The resistance has found out that the Germans are planning to commandeer the pudding factory where the resistance had hidden the 1,000 kilo of explosives from the land mines. Because they don't want the Germans to have the explosives, the 1,000 kilo will be brought to Café René, disguised as 500 Christmas puddings. Meanwhile, General Von Klinkerhoffen has ordered colonel Von Strohm and Gruber to find the stolen land mines and Herr Flick and Von Smallhausen (both in disguise) try to spy on the back room of Café René from the local church.

Episode 20

Land Mines for London

24 mins

While he was in the bell tower of the church, Herr Flick saw the two stolen land mines in the Butcher's Yard next to Café René. When he and Von Smallhausen find out they are empty, they both hide inside them in order to catch resistance members when they come to transport the mines. Meanwhile, Helga told the colonel and Gruber the whereabouts of the land mines and the colonel - not knowing the mines are empty and harmless and Flick and Von Smallhausen are in them - orders Bertorelli and his men to move the land mines to the German air base. After finding out about this, Michelle comes up with a plan to get the British airmen into the mines and back to England.

Episode 21

Flight to Geneva

24 mins

Michelle once again has a new and totally absurd plan to get the British airmen back home and René has had it: He secretly plans to take the train to Switzerland with Yvette and the paintings. Unfortunately Helga tells René to give colonel Von Strohm the paintings because Hitler himself wants the paintings and has send an art expert to verify their authenticity.

Episode 22

Train of Events

25 mins

On the Geneva Express René tries to avoid Edith and convinces Mimi to aboard the train. The colonel and Helga replace the original paintings by copies and Herr Flick - not knowing of this switch - replaces the copies by... other copies. Yvette and Leclerc also show up on the train. Yvette has found out René wanted to elope with her and Leclerc has come aboard to warn René the Resistance will blow up the train!

Episode 23

An Enigma Variation

24 mins

Colonel von Strohm wants the two paintings that are hidden in a statue at the château. He tells René and the staff of the café to pretend to be the Excelsior Quartet who are scheduled to play at the château and at the right moment steal the paintings out of the statue. The resistance also wants them to steal something, namely the Enigma machine the Germans recently acquired. Mimi, hidden in the double bass case, will take care of this. Herr Flick and Von Smallhausen are also going to the château disguised as serving maids because Herr Flick thinks some of the guests might be involved in the plot to blow up Hitler.

Episode 24

Wedding Bloss

25 mins

Monsieur Alphonse has asked Edith to marry him. When René hears about this and figures he'll lose the café and everything in it (notably the gold in the cuckoo's clock), he decides to ask Edith to marry him and she says yes. Bertorelli will cook a great feast and monsieur Alphonse, being the deputy mayor, will marry them. Meanwhile, general Von Klinkerhoffen suspects colonel Von Strohm of stealing his gold while Herr Flick thinks it was René who took the gold. Herr Flick tells Helga to use her feminine charm to elicit the whereabouts of the gold from René.

Episode 25

Down the Drain

24 mins

A plan to flee to Geneva René and Yvette made will have to wait because general Von Klinkerhoffen - in order to find the stolen Enigma machine - has decided no one is to leave the town or they'll be shot. Michelle, who is disguised as a pregnant woman in order to fool the Germans, delivers René the Enigma machine and tells him to put it in a wine barrel and throw it in the sewer. The whole population of Nouvion will flush the toilet at the same time which will enable the barrel to reach the canal where a British submarine is waiting for the Enigma machine.

Episode 26

All in Disgeese

24 mins

General Von Klinkerhoffen orders that René is to be shot if the Enigma machine isn't found. Because he thinks he might warn René, colonel Von Strohm orders Gruber to take of his uniform so he won't leave Von Strohm's office. Nevertheless, Gruber takes Helga's uniform and goes to René. Meanwhile, British Intelligence and the Resistance have thought up a plan to get two experts to Nouvion to look at the Enigma machine. They will be disguised as policemen.