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The misadventures of hapless cafe owner René Artois and his escapades with the Resistance in occupied France.

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    'Allo 'Allo! Season 9 Episode 6 - A Winkle in Time
    9.1/10(273 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. 'Allo 'Allo! Season 5 Episode 6 - A Marriage of Inconvenience
    9.0/10(225 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. 'Allo 'Allo! Season 5 Episode 16 - The Exploding Bedpan
    8.8/10(217 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. 'Allo 'Allo! Season 5 Episode 21 - Flight to Geneva
    8.8/10(227 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. 'Allo 'Allo! Season 5 Episode 9 - Watch the Birdie
    8.7/10(229 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. 'Allo 'Allo! Season 2 Episode 3 - The Policeman Cometh
    8.6/10(316 votes)

    #6 - 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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  8. 'Allo 'Allo! Season 3 Episode 3 - The Sausage in the Wardrobe
    8.6/10(324 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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  9. 'Allo 'Allo! Season 5 Episode 26 - All in Disgeese
    8.6/10(238 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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  10. 'Allo 'Allo! Season 6 Episode 1 - Desperate Doings in the Graveyard
    8.6/10(229 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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  11. 'Allo 'Allo! Season 7 Episode 8 - Prior Engagements
    8.6/10(206 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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  12. 'Allo 'Allo! Season 7 Episode 10 - René of the Gypsies
    8.6/10(210 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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  13. 'Allo 'Allo! Season 8 Episode 7 - Swan Song
    8.6/10(199 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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  14. 'Allo 'Allo! Season 5 Episode 23 - An Enigma Variation
    8.5/10(227 votes)

    #13 - 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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  15. 'Allo 'Allo! Season 1 Episode 4 - The Execution
    8.4/10(361 votes)

    #14 - The Execution

    S1:E4

    Hans mistakes the nitro for gin and accidentally blows up the railway himself! The Germans capture René, Yvette, and the peasant-disguised Colonel and Captain. As Helga, Leclerc, and Edith each attempt to help the gang escape, General Von Klinkerhoffen arrives in town and demands that the only known saboteur be shot. This means René's death by firing squad, with Lieutenant Gruber in charge of the squad!

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  16. 'Allo 'Allo! Season 3 Episode 6 - The Great Un-Escape
    8.4/10(303 votes)

    #15 - 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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  17. 'Allo 'Allo! Season 4 Episode 5 - The Sausage in the Trousers
    8.4/10(265 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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  18. 'Allo 'Allo! Season 5 Episode 3 - Dinner with the General
    8.4/10(232 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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  19. 'Allo 'Allo! Season 5 Episode 8 - The Arrival of the Homing Duck
    8.4/10(225 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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  20. 'Allo 'Allo! Season 5 Episode 19 - Puddings Can Go Off
    8.4/10(220 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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  21. 'Allo 'Allo! Season 6 Episode 2 - The Gestapo for the High Jump
    8.4/10(223 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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  22. 'Allo 'Allo! Season 7 Episode 6 - The Spirit of Nouvion
    8.4/10(206 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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  23. 'Allo 'Allo! Season 8 Episode 1 - Arousing Suspicions
    8.4/10(204 votes)

    #22 - Arousing Suspicions

    S8:E1

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

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  24. 'Allo 'Allo! Season 8 Episode 6 - A Fishful of Francs
    8.4/10(204 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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  25. 'Allo 'Allo! Season 9 Episode 1 - Gone with the Windmill
    8.4/10(205 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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  26. 'Allo 'Allo! Season 3 Episode 5 - Pretty Maids All in a Row
    8.3/10(289 votes)

    #25 - Pretty Maids All in a Row

    S3:E5

    After the plot to get the two British airmen out failed, a frustrated René returns to the painting of the Fallen Madonna. He hides it behind an ugly painting in his café which is immediately recognised by General Von Klinkerhoffen as a Van Gogh and requisitioned for his office in the chateau. He also requisitions the two new maids in Café René – or as they are better known: the two British airmen in disguise. Realising that the two airmen will be recognised right away, Michelle of the Resistance comes up with another harebrained scheme of digging a tunnel from Monsieur Alphonse's mortuary into the prisoner-of-war camp and smuggling in the two airmen.

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Best Episodes Summary

"A Winkle in Time" is the best rated episode of "'Allo 'Allo!". It scored 9.1/10 based on 273 votes. Directed by John B. Hobbs and written by Jeremy Lloyd, Paul Adam, it aired on 12/14/1992. This episode scored 0.1 points higher than the second highest rated, "A Marriage of Inconvenience".