| Description |
2 videodiscs (284 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in. |
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two-dimensional moving image tdi rdacontent |
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video v rdamedia |
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videodisc vd rdacarrier |
| System Details |
DVD, full screen (4:3) presentation; MCPS. |
| Note |
Title from container. |
| Cast |
Gorden Kaye, Richard Marner, Carmen Silvera, Kim Hartman, Vicki Michelle, Richard Gibson, Kirsten Cooke, Guy Siner, Arthur Bostrom, Sue Hodge, Kenneth Connor. |
| Note |
Originally broadcast on television in 1991. |
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Created by Jeremy Lloyd and David Croft. |
| Summary |
René, a French café owner during World War II, wants only to run his café and enjoy the occassional transgression with his waitresses. Now the Germans and the Resistance want him executed, his mother-in-law is missing, and he is smuggling food to a downed British airmen in a storm drain. |
| Contents |
A quiet honeymoon -- An almighty bang -- Fleeing monks -- Up the crick without a piddle -- The gestapo ruins a picnic -- The spirit of Nouvion -- Leg it to Spain! -- Prior engagements -- Soup and sausage -- René of the gypsies. |
| Language |
Closed-captioned. |
| Subject |
World War, 1939-1945 -- France -- Drama.
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Man-woman relationships -- Drama.
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France -- History -- German occupation, 1940-1945 -- Drama.
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France -- History -- 1940-1945, German occupation -- Drama.
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| Genre/Form |
Television comedies.
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Comedy -- Television series.
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Video recordings for the hearing impaired.
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Fiction television programs.
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Television programs.
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| Added Author |
Lloyd, Jeremy.
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Adam, Paul.
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Stephens, Mike.
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Longstaff, Sue.
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Kaye, Gorden, 1941-
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Marner, Richard, 1921-2004.
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Silvera, Carmen, 1922-2002.
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Hartman, Kim, 1955-
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Michelle, Vicki, 1950-
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Gibson, Richard.
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Cooke, Kirsten.
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Siner, Guy.
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Bostrom, Arthur.
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Hodge, Sue.
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Connor, Kenneth.
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Croft, David, 1922-2011.
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British Broadcasting Corporation.
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BBC Video (Firm)
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Warner Home Video (Firm)
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| ISBN |
1419850512 |
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9781419850516 |
| Standard No. |
794051294920 |
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00794051294920 |
| Music No. |
E2949 BBC Video |
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