'Allo 'Allo! (series 2)

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This article contains episode summaries for the second series of the British Sitcom series 'Allo 'Allo!.

The series contains six episodes which first aired between October 21 and November 25, 1985, and a Christmas special which aired on December 26, 1985.

Series 2 sees the arrival of Officer Crabtree, played by Arthur Bostrom. The first Christmas special was commissioned, and aired shortly after the second series. This shows the then rising popularity of the show.

Spoiler warning: Plot and/or ending details follow.
Series No. Episode No. Episode Title Original UK Airdate
2.01 9 Six Big Boobies October 21, 1985
2.02 10 The Wooing of Widow Artois October 28, 1985
2.03 11 The Policeman Cometh November 4, 1985
2.04 12 Swiftly and with Style November 11, 1985
2.05 13 The Duel November 18, 1985
2.06 14 Herr Flick's Revenge November 25, 1985
Christmas Special 15 The Gateau from the Chateau December 26, 1985

[edit] Six Big Boobies

The airmen are living in a nunnery, and Edith is looking for René's will, since he is posing as his own twin brother. The will leaves everything he owns to Edith but a billiard table and a couch. Edith goes on a shopping spree, and leaves René unhappy. The Colonel is trying to blackmail René, but René comes back with a worse retort.

Herr Flick is in his Gestapo headquarters. The copies of the Fallen Madonna with the Big Boobies are on the wall. He kidnaps Gruber, whom he thinks is an art expert. He is indeed an art expert, and tells Herr Flick which one is the real one.

The airmen arrive in the cafe as nuns, and hide inside the piano.

[edit] The Wooing of Widow Artois

René must woo Edith to get his café back. Michelle shows up, and gives the airmen the news about the escape plan. They reply with their usual "Oh Good Show!". At night, the airmen climb in to a rather unconvincing cow suit. The staff are disguised as mushroom pickers.

Herr Flick hides the forgeries inside knockwurst sausages. One, the original, another a forgery, and the last one Helga and Flick's dinner. The forgery will go to Hitler, while they keep the original to sell after the war. The Colonel then comes up with a plan.

[edit] The Policeman Cometh

René and the airmen are waiting for the plane to take the airmen back. The plane comes but does not land. Two parachutes are ejected and land. The first parachute contains an Englishman, Officer Crabtree. He explains he is a spy and has been send from Britain. Unfortunately, his French does need a little brushing up. His first words to Rene are "I am disgizzed as a poloceman so I am oble to move aboot with complete frodom."

The plan to blow up the train with the knockwurst sausage is having some difficulties; René can't find anyone to blow up the train carrying it to Berlin. Captain Hans and René steal Gruber's "Little Tank" to destroy the train. Hans misses, and they head home.

[edit] Swiftly and with Style

René and Hans continue to return to Nouvion, but then Crabtree notices his tank was stolen. He calls Herr Flick, who immediately goes after the tank. Edith, Yvette, and Maria go to the tank by bicycle. The tank is then captured by Michelle, who realises that René is inside. She thinks René has become a Nazi. They then see Flick's Gestapo staff car approaching. They leave behind the demolition device and run. Herr Flick is questioning them about why they stole the tank. Helga creates a story about René going to drive off the resistance. Herr Flick finds the demolition device and thinks it is a bicycle pump, and destroys his Gestapo staff car.

Back in the Café René, Monsieur Alfonse comes to woo Madame Edith, while René is proposing to her. He challenges René to a duel for Edith. He only leaves his card, "Monsieur Alfonse, Undertaker, Swiftly and With Style".

[edit] The Duel

René is hiding in the chicken house from the seconds of Monsieur Alfonse. When they leave, René comes out and sits at the table with the Colonel Von Strohm and Captain Hans Geering. He offers the plan that he will be doing maneuvers in the morning and will accidentally blow up Alfonse.

René:"Could you not just wound him a little bit?" Hans:"Ah yes, but that is very hard to do with a 22 mm shell,"

René agrees, and breathes a sigh of relief. Meanwhile, Herr Flick has a telegram from Berlin. The sausage was re-assembled, and there was no painting inside. Herr Flick arrests the Colonel and the Captain.

Gruber becomes René's second and agrees that the duel will use pistols, not swords. Alfonse tries to apologize, but René tells him he will die like a pig. News arrives that the two officers have been arrested, and René flees.

The escape package (A balloon held together by silk knickers) has been finished, and is ready to fly.

[edit] Herr Flick's Revenge

René meets up with the resistance, who are holding a secret meeting. They come up with a plan to get René and Alfonse in a not hateful mood. They arrive at the café, René disguised as a resistance girl. Gruber unfortunately finds out, and tries to dance with René. René escapes in the back room, where Alfonse is waiting. Michelle has explained all about René, and he seems to worship him now. Then the Gestapo man Von Smallhausen comes to arrest René.

René is waiting in the dungeon with the Colonel and the Captain. The girls break in and give René the suicide pills. Flick comes inside and starts torturing them about where the sausage is. Klinkerhoffen comes and stops Flick. (The general was called by Gruber to help René).

René is now helping the airmen escape for the umpteenth time, this time in the silk knickers balloon. They take off, and all appears to be alright. For now, anyway.

[edit] Christmas Special: The Gateau from the Chateau

René is a happy man; the airmen have left in the balloon. They go back in the cafe, and are all relieved. But the Nazis have spotted the balloon and have started shooting. Gruber has blanks, and all the other soldiers are missing the balloon. Klinkerhoffen starts shooting his own pistol, and the balloon is hit.

The radio in the Café René starts flashing its knobs. London says in code "Red Riding Hood must not go to the wood!" meaning "Do not release the airmen!" René replies, "Red Riding Hood has already gone to the wood!" Then, a balloon falls through the ceiling, and the airmen respond with their usual "Hello-o!" René is now not a happy man.

The Resistance feel that General Erich Von Klinkerhoffen must be killed. They give René dynamite to put in a Gateau for the Chateau. There will be a big party there, so they feel it will eliminate other officers. Herr Flick feels the same way. He gives Helga a specially adapted cigarette cleaner, which can shoot deadly arrows, and kills within ten seconds. The Colonel and the Captain are also thinking of a way how to kill Von Klinkerhoffen. They get a pill full of poisons and are going to put it in the General's wine.

On the only night where the Germans are away in the chateau, Edith leads the patrons of the cafe in La Marseillaise, but after a few lines, the Germans storm in. The entire café starts singing "Deutschland, Deutschland," but are interrupted. The Colonel says there was to be an assassination attempt on the Chateau, and the Germans will be having their party in the café. They sit at a table, and Hans gives René the pill. He puts the pill in the till. Soon, it is time to serve the wine. Hans comes over again. He tells René to put the drug in the jug. He does so, and gives it to Hans. Hans gives the wine to Klinkerhoffen. However, nothing happens. Then the general takes Helga's cigarette cleaner and clears his cigarette. He blows, and the dart flies in to Herr Otto Flick's neck. He starts having a seizure, but Helga gives him the antidote. Hans comes over and René warns him about the exploding cake.

Hans:""Do you not see that if we kill him with the pill from the till by making with it the drug in the jug, you need not light the candle with the handle on the gateau from the chateau!" René: "Simple plots are always the best."

The gateau is brought to the table, and the cake is lit.

Klinkerhoffen: "This we do in memory of the day the Kaiser drew his first royal breath, and now," (he blows out all the candles but one) "this in memory of the day the Kaiser drew his last breath," Gruber (pointing to the candle with the handle): "One is still lit!" (They all try to blow it out) René: "Yvette! Maria! The buckets!" (They pour sand on the cake, Klinkerhoffen is outraged) Klinkerhoffen: "What is this?" René: "I did this in memory of the day the Kaiser was buried."

  • Note: Although this episode was broadcast soon after Series 2, it features on the Series 3 and 4 Region 2 DVD boxset. In the Region 1 area, this episode features on the Series 2 DVD.
'Allo! 'Allo!
Characters:
René | Edith | Madame Fanny | Yvette | Maria | Mimi | Michelle | Roger LeClerc
Ernest LeClerc | Alfonse | Gen. Von Klinkerhoffen | Col. Von Strohm
Lt. Gruber | Captain Hans | Captain Bertorelli | Herr Flick | Helga | Von Smallhausen
Crabtree | Fairfax | Carstairs | Gen. Von Flockenstuffen | Denise | Louise
Episodes:
Pilot & Series 1 | Series 2 | Series 3 | Series 4 | Series 5
Series 6 | Series 7 | Series 8 | Series 9 | The Best of 'Allo 'Allo!
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