The troops parachuted into northern Iraq overnight to open a northern front against Saddam Hussein's forces.
The couple, literally, parachuted back onto the screen with a pre-teen son named Lucky.
He was later arrested at Nîmes when a plane parachuted materiel and was then set free when the Germans occupied the whole of France.
The two made a huge splash in 1993 when they literally parachuted back into town with their son Lucky Spencer (then played by Jonathon Jackson).