"We are famous international criminals." A small dog played a very important role in most episodes; at various points, often when the plot appeared to be flagging, the dog would run up one of Victor's trouser legs, remove his boxer shorts and run off with them down his other leg. Mary Tudor was the first queen regnant of England, reigning from 1553 until her death in 1558. She was canonized in 2000. The plot of every episode focused on Victor, Hugo, Interpol (their parrot), and their English-based business "Naughtiness International" getting hired by criminal figures to steal something - and Victor would come up with a "meticulous plan" to achieve this goal, which was routinely botched by Hugo. The Countess of Gazania and her butler Mildew hire the brothers to plant "listening devices" at the Gazanian Embassy; however, what they do not know is that the Gazanian Ambassador is in fact the Countess's husband (and she put him on a diet three weeks ago). His body lay in state beneath the Arc de Triomphe before burial in the Panthéon. He founded the Conservateur Litteraire, a journal in which he published his own poetry and the work of his friends. - Victor (normally), the cue for the Wretched Dog to remove his boxer shorts at an episode's end. The first fifteen episodes of the second series were, for a second time, screened on ITV on Fridays as part of the Children's ITV strand at 4:05pm; however, the sixteenth and penultimate one was screened six days after the fifteenth one on Christmas Eve 1992 (which was Thames Television's penultimate Thursday), and the seventeenth and final one was screened five days later on Thames' final ever Tuesday. ", "Yes, but mainly no! No, help!!!" After crashing through the roof of the WPB News building (and picking up the reporter of the opening crime, Alistair Fishmark, when they flee it), the brothers manage to get hold of some top-secret plans for the "Concrete Destruction Ray" and masquerade as "Captain Victor" and "General Hugo" to acquire the parts, then get M. Meccaneaux to build it for them; after testing it on a pair of lampposts, they plan to use it to destroy the wall of a bank, but their plans are thwarted by a herd of stampeding elephants who had escaped from a pet store earlier on in the episode, and they are then arrested by the Army for impersonating high-ranking officers and sent to a military prison. In 1841, he was elected to the French Academy and nominated for the Chamber of Peers. This running gag also appeared at the end of most episodes (prefaced by the statement by a glum Victor that "At least in here, nothing else can possibly go wrong!") If you see something that doesn't look right, contact us! We strive for accuracy and fairness. - and Hugo particularly enjoyed the dog's appearances, often muttering "good doggie!". Apart from Thames Video's VHS release of the first, fifth and sixth episodes (which is now almost impossible to find), this show spawned a series of six tie-in books by Jimmy Hibbert, Robin Kingsland and Rod Green, published by HarperCollins Publishers and Boxtree; they featured Cosgrove Hall's short-lived triangular logo on their front covers (which was a reference to Thames Television's final one, introduced in 1990), and entitled "Fu Man's Choo Choo", "The Big Nap", "Out to Lunch", "The Great Golden Turnip Caper", "The Great Train Robbery", and "Where Beagles Dare". Victor Hugo stayed at the Grade I listed building, which is the oldest coaching inn in Montreuil-sur-Mer, in 1812 and took breakfast in the courtyard whilst he … He was also voiced by David Jason, but had no dialogue for the episode "Treasure Haunt". Since his screen debut as a young Amish farmer in Peter Weir's Witness (1985), Viggo Mortensen's career has been marked by a steady string of well-rounded performances. - Hugo's panic attacks on hearing the word "police"; they were the only thing that he was terrified of. The street on which he lived was renamed Avenue Victor Hugo on the occasion of his 80th birthday in 1882. Victor Hugo is a celebrated French Romantic author best known for his poetry and his novels, including 'The Hunchback of Notre Dame' and 'Les Misérables.'. Viggo Peter Mortensen Jr. (/ ˈ v iː ɡ oʊ ˈ m ɔːr t ən s ən /; Danish: [ˈviko ˈmɒːtn̩sn̩]; born October 20, 1958) is a Danish-American actor, author, musician, photographer, poet, and painter. In a final attempt to pull off a great crime, the brothers order the Guide to Being a Master Criminal after reading an advertisement for it in the Behemoth newspaper; they then read in that same newspaper that Hawkeye Soames and Dr. Potson have been brought in to guard the jewel room at Osprey (which is a pun on. He stepped back from publishing his work following the accidental drowning of his daughter and her husband in 1843. The brothers retell how they ended up marooned in a Venetian punt through their attempt to stow away on, and hold up, the Orient Express (during which the well-known amateur detective, Achilles Marrot, accused them of a jewel robbery that they did not commit) in flashback. - Hugo, answering Victor's question; this had previously been pioneered by Pierre for. His mother & father worked in sales in Sao Paulo, Brazil. After checking a book on hypnotism out of a library without a library card, Victor tries to hypnotise Hugo into being a better criminal, but it does not go to plan when he sneezes while hypnotising him, and it becomes the cue to set him off; after failing to break into the Bank of England, he consults the book for a cure and hits Hugo over the head with Interpol, but the effects are transferred to Interpol. In 1831, he published one of his most enduring works, Notre-Dame de Paris (The Hunchback of Notre Dame). Hugo and his mistress, Juliette, continued to live in Paris for the rest of their lives. He lost two sons between 1871 and 1873. Agatha Christie was a mystery writer who was one of the world's top-selling authors with works like 'Murder on the Orient Express' and 'The Mystery of the Blue Train.'. He was voiced by David Jason. After breaking into a police station and stealing all its handcuffs, the brothers make a quick escape to the Island of Formaggio, where Victor's suitcase is mistakenly claimed by a crooked ventriloquist named Gary Gaingridge, and Victor thinks his brother has been frozen to death when he opens his suitcase and finds Gaingridge's dummy, Gaston, inside; however, Gaingridge is trying to take Hugo's head off because of the diamonds that are hidden in the dummy, and when hotel cleaner Miss Ricotta witnesses him doing this, she tells the local police officer, Inspector Mozzarella (who eventually arrests Gaingridge and his accomplice for attempted murder and diamond smuggling). "It is your fault, it is all your fault, it is, This page was last edited on 4 September 2020, at 09:11. After being wrongly accused of stealing a secret weapon from a secret laboratory, the brothers are, after unknowingly ending up with the secret weapon themselves, beamed up to the spaceship. When Colonel K informs Danger Mouse that Greenback is up to something, both Danger Mouse and Hugo set out in the Mark III, but it breaks down, so Hugo sends for M. Meccaneaux to repair it - and after Victor starts flying the Frog's Head Flyer to the Mark III, Hugo starts flying the Mark III to the Frog's Head Flyer once it has been repaired, but both vehicles end up flying into each other and falling to the ground. He received a hero's funeral. Unlike most other Thames Television-era Cosgrove Hall series, Victor & Hugo was never released on DVD (except for its first episode, "Panda-Monium", which was released as part of a Cosgrove Hall-based compilation disc called "Most Wanted Classic Kids' TV" by its former distributor, Fremantle International, on 14 April 2003, but as with their other Cosgrove Hall-based DVDs, this is now out of print).[5]. Its eponymous characters were based on the villains Gaston and Pierre from the 1987-1989 series Count Duckula. After a long pursuit by the police for driving on the wrong side of the road (and eventually getting stopped by the hook of a crane on a construction site), the brothers join the Third East Crummelton Scout Group in order to gain free access to Ackroyd Towers (a house they have been hired by Mr. E to steal from); after several initiation tests, Sir Percival Ackroyd warns the scoutmaster that the police told him to be on the lookout for the brothers and the scoutmaster reveals that he inadvertently recruited them into the scout group, so when they are discovered masquerading as a tree that the Ackroyds' three guard dogs had been barking at, they are chased away from the house. "Nothing else can possibly go wrong." After getting thrown out of the film "Spookzappers 3" at the Roxy Cinema, the brothers get the idea to pretend that the biggest house in their neighbourhood is haunted, so its residents will leave for the night and allow them to steal all the valuables from it; the biggest house in their neighbourhood also happens to be Castle Duckula, which is now owned by a Wanda Nicetime lookalike. In private, he began work on a piece of writing that would become Les Misérables. The taller of the brothers, Victor was also clearly the leader for Naughtiness International; his two most striking characteristics were his fedora hat and his manicured moustache (the latter enabling him to appear suave, and also making him resemble a spiv). Most episodes usually ended with the brothers imprisoned (but others, including the first and last, did not). - Hugo inadvertently revealing his identity (Victor would often say that he was just kidding). He starred as the lead in a drama/documentary television episode series Locked Up Abroad S3E13, playing the real life character of Garrain Jones. Hugo died on May 22, 1885, in Paris. Maria Tallchief was a revolutionary American ballerina who broke barriers for Native American women. Encouraged by his mother, Hugo embarked on a career in literature. |  His mother & father worked in sales in Sao Paulo, Brazil. Victor's younger brother, Hugo always wore a beret and actually looked like a burglar, right down to his ever-present eye-mask; he was always subservient to "My Victor" and was often the butt of slapstick comedy (he also had a pet earwig named Penelope who he kept in a matchbox but Interpol did not like her and she felt the same way about him). He lived in Brussels and in Britain until his return to France in 1870. Aside from residing in the van constantly, Interpol was also able to function as a telephone - he would ring when sat on his perch, and his beak was put to the person's ear. Among these works is the novel Les Misérables, which was finally published in 1862. However, he hands them another card saying that he is not really a polar bear; when he unzips his suit, he turns out to be none other than the Wretched Dog, who then runs up Victor's trouser leg and steals his boxer shorts. - IMDb Mini Biography By: Hugo Wallace Weaving AO (born 4 April 1960) is a British actor resident in Australia. Many of the actions and phrases first used for Gaston and Pierre were reused for Victor and Hugo, such as Gaston shoving Pierre's beret in his mouth to keep him quiet, "Why is it that it is? At the age of eighteen Victor relocated to London where he enrolled at the Identity School of Acting where he studied stage/on screen acting.