Watching this episode you get the feeling that a great opportunity was missed. The first eleven minutes take place on a limited set, the train to Geneva. To get some action the characters had to move about, go from berth to berth, wagon to wagon. As such it resembles a French farce, that theatrical tradition with people running in and out of rooms. The limited set forced the writers to create a complex plot, rather than rely on (repeated) one-liners.
Unfortunately, after eleven minutes, we go to business as usual. How I wished that they had stuck to the action on the train. I suppose they felt it difficult to include all the characters, but I'm sure that in a normal six-episode season Croft & Lloyd would have pulled it off.moreless
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Ren desperately tries to avoid Edith but instead encounters Mimi. Ren lies - telling her he loves her but can't be together when Edith is also on the train - and convinces her to jump off. Helga drugs some coffee for the Swedish art expert so she can substitute the paintings with forgeries but she runs off when the stewards return to the kitchen. However, it's only Herr Flick and Von Smallhausen disguised as stewards but Von Smallhausen drinks the drugged coffee and passes out. Helga and Von Strohm switch the paintings. Flick steals the forgeries (thinking they are real) and switches them with yet another set of fake paintings. Yvette pops up on the train as she has learned Leclerc switched her letter with Edith's. Leclerc himself also shows up to warn Ren that Michelle is going to drop two of the exploding Christmas puddings onto the train. But he's too late as the train gets blown up only seconds later. Luckily, everyone survives and straggle back to Caf Ren. There, Edith catches Yvette in Ren's arms AGAIN. Tonight's excuse is that Yvette is upset that Edith and Ren didn't succeed in eloping. Ren is worried when he remembers that he still has the gold. If Von Klinkerhoffen finds out, many peasants will be shot. However, Crabtree reports he has gummed up the lock on Von Klinkerhoffen's safe to stop him from getting the gold. Safely back home, Von Strohm hides the paintings in a statue at his office. But suddenly, Von Klinkerhoffen drops by and asks Gruber to use his little tank to take the safe to his chateau. Von Klinkerhoffen also takes a liking to the statue where Von Strohm has hidden the paintings and takes it with him. Meanwhile, at the police station, Ren and Edith try to blow up the safe with a Christmas pudding. When Gruber arrives, it's to late to put out the fuse so they let him put it into his little tank. However, Bertorelli insists on trying the tank which of course blows up with him inside.moreless
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Guy Siner
Lieutenant Hubert Gruber
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Gorden Kaye
René Artois
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Carmen Silvera
Edith Melba Artois
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Vicki Michelle
Yvette Carte-Blanche
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Sue Hodge
Mimi LaBonq (Seasons 4 - 9)
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Kirsten Cooke
Michelle Dubois
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TRIVIA (1)
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Although logic is not a strong part of this show, we could wonder how the newspaper knew that the train was blown up by Christmas puddings.
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QUOTES (1)
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René: Thank heaven you are safe. What about the others? Monsieur Leclerc? Yvette: He too has roller skates. René: Where is he? Yvette: Oh, he's just outside Nouvion. He broke the balls of his bearings.
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NOTES (1)
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On the dvd (regin 2) this episode is called "Train of Events".
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