The Best of 'Allo 'Allo!
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This article contains an episode summary for the The Best of 'Allo 'Allo! This episode was broadcast on August 17, 1994, two years after the ending of the BBC sitcom 'Allo 'Allo!, to celebrate the 10th anniversary of the airing of the first series. The actual pilot for the show had been broadcast nearly 12 years ago, when this show aired.
The episode is a mixture of new footage and archive footage from past episodes.
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Although no date is referred to; the episode is set some time after the end of the war, but long before the events of the last regular episode, where René elopes with Yvette.
René and Edith are in the Alps celebrating her 35th birthday - Edith has knocked the war years off her true age, including the World War I and the Crimean War! This event brings them to remember the incidents which took place during the World War II; in particular the events which took place in their hometown of Nouvion.
What follows is a collection of archive footage from some of the show's eighty-five episodes, which is interweaved with the plot of Edith and René reminiscing over such incidents. A complete list of the archive footage shown is listed below:
- LeClerc the forger turns up at the café, and Lt. Gruber meets René for the first time (Pilot).
- Hans and the Colonel are forced to hide the priceless cuckoo clock and the Fallen Madonna, when Herr Flick turns up looking for them (Pilot).
- A collection of Michelle's catchphrase - "Listen Carefully, I shall say this only once..."
- Michelle announcing that the British airmen, whilst wearing German uniforms, have been captured by the Communist Resistance (1.02).
- Maria dressed as a boy, delivering a pigeon to René (1.02)
- Herr Flick and Helga strip to change into their onion-seller disguises.(1.02)
- René appears before General Von Klinkerhoffen, who orders him to be shot (1.04).
- Gruber places flowers on René's grave; just as René rises up from the ground on the Resistance's hidden radio mast (6.01).
- René, Mimi, and the Flying Nun incident (4.04).
- Crabtree tells René of his latest "nose" (2.04).
- René, the Colonel, Gruber, Herr Flick and the exploding nose incident (5.10).
- René dressed up as a Resistance girl, and giving Gruber the wrong idea (2.06).
- René, LeClerc and the dreaded circular-saw incident (5.04).
- A collection of René's various affairs with Maria and Yvette.
- Interviewing possible candidates for the waitress job (4.03).
- René's affair with Mimi (series 4).
- A collection of Madame Fanny's bedroom incidents.
- A collection of LeClerc's catchphrase - "It is I, LeClerc!"
- The marriage ceremony of Ernest LeClerc and Madame Fanny (6.07).
- Monseiur Alfonse expresses his love for Madame Edith (2.04).
- Herr Flick and Helga repair a puncture (3.04).
At the end of the episode, René and Edith re-affirm their love for each other; the archive clip of them singing Sweet Sixteen together (5.18) is shown; and the final scene is of them clinking champagne glasses together.
The familiar "You have been watching" credits role at the end of the episode; crediting every actor who played the show's characters; as well as the directors and producers of the show.
