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But it's soon apparent that the two airmen and Monsieur Alphonse need help with the digging, and the caf staff are called in, leaving Madame Fanny and LeClerc in the caf. But the Colonel and the Captain follow Ren, discover the tunnel, and are captured in the prisoner of war camp, where the General is about to perform an inspection...moreless
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GUEST STAR
Martin SadlerBritish POW Wing Commander
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Caroline DennisFrench Girl
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GUEST STAR
Nick Burnell (II)German POW Camp Commandant
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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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Goof: This episode is set in 1941, but Madame Fanny sings "La Vie en Rose", a song Edith Piaf wrote in 1946.
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QUOTES (10)
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(the gang pretend to be British) Fairfax: Hello! Carstairs: Hello. Rene: Bang on! Edith: Wizard prang! Yvette: Pip pip! Maria: Toodle-oo! Michelle: Chocks away! Von Strohm: Hello... old fruit! Hans: Hitler... has only got one... Von Klinkerhoffen: SILENCE!
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(delivering the good and bad "nose") Crabtree: "I have hashed up the shatting of the two tits. The Gestapo are hoovering round the graveyid, disgeezed as a nan, a boshop and a Roman Catholic Farter." Edith: "Where are the airmen?" Crabtree: "They have taken spades, they have crapped along the tunnel, and are dogging."
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(speaking of Hitler) Rene: There is nothing worse than a bad-tempered decorator.
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Von Smallhausen: You have an incredible brain, Herr Flick! Flick: Do not be a little crawler.
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Yvette: René, I know how you must feel when I am with other men, but do not worry. All the time I am thinking of you. René: And when I am with my wife, all the time I am thinking of you. (pauses) It does not work.
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(Herr Flick and Helga are dressed as a priest and a nun.) Girl: Please, Father, I have sinned. I have joined a house of ill repute where many wicked girls cavort in scanty clothes and are being naughty with men. Herr Flick: Well, what am I supposed to do about it? Helga: You must give to this wicked girl a penance. Herr Flick: I see. Go home and say one hundred Heil Hitlers.
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Captain Hans Geering: How long will you go on not speaking to me? This has not happened to me since I was a small boy and they sent me to Coventry. This is a terrible thing to a small boy when you are at school in Düsseldorf.
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Captain Hans Geering: One has to keep up appearances. It is not always easy you know. Goose-stepping about, shouting and ranting. It is hard to be a conquering hero when it is not in your nature. Rene: Why do you do it? Captain Hans Geering: It is Hitler. He's a very demanding chap.
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Hans (noting his surroundings as they emerge from the tunnel): The tunnel has come out in England!
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(after a long line of English phrases from the other non-Brits in the POV camp) Hans (to the melody of "Colonel Boogie" from The Bridge of the River Kwai): Hitler has only got one...
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NOTES (7)
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We learnt that RAF airmen Fairfax and Carstairs are from 402 Squadron.
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Madame Fanny tells Edith that Vincent Van Gogh (whom she liked to call "Bobby") was in love with her, and threatened to emasculate himself if she would not marry him. She says she later recieved an ear in the post. If you don't know already, Vincent Van Gogh (1853-1890) was a real-life Dutch post-Impressionist artist who suffered mental problems, leading to his suicide aged 37. Legend says he cut his own ear off during a seizure on Christmas Eve 1888, wrapping it in newspaper and giving it to a prostitute at the local brothel he frequented. The inference here is that Madame Fanny was that prostitute.
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Herr Von Smallhausen was educated at Oxford University, in England.
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This is the only episode of series three where you see the exterior of the cafe in the studio, and it's apparent that a few more changes made to the set - there are now long brown doors behind Rene, whereas before there was a window. The doors are also surrounded by a large amount of ivy. Also, the chairs and tables are arranged differently.
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The title of this episode alludes to the 1963 film "The Great Escape" (starring Steve McQueen) in which several hundred British prisoners of war plan a mass escape.
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Though generally wildly unrealistic, this episode actually lists a technical adviser in the credits. Air Commodore E.S. Chandler A.F.C. apparently advised on the scenes in the POW camp.
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This is the last episode with Francesca Gonshaw (Maria). Her departure, however, is not explained in this episode.
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ALLUSIONS (1)
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The title of this episode alludes to the 1963 film call "the Great Escape" (starring Steve McQueen, Charles Bronson, etc.) in which several hundred British prisoners of war plan a mass escape. An absolute classic movie.
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