'Allo 'Allo!

For the 2005 song by Ilona, see Allô, Allô.
'Allo 'Allo!

'Allo 'Allo! intertitle of "Puddings Can Go Off"
Genre Sitcom
Created by Jeremy Lloyd
David Croft
Written by Jeremy Lloyd
David Croft (1982–1989)
Paul Adam (1991–1992)
Directed by David Croft
Robin Carr
Martin Dennis
Susan Belbin
Richard Boden
Mike Stephens
Sue Longstaff
John B. Hobbs
Starring Gorden Kaye
Carmen Silvera
Guy Siner
Kim Hartman
Richard Marner
Sam Kelly
Vicki Michelle
Kirsten Cooke
Francesca Gonshaw
Kenneth Connor
Jack Haig
Sue Hodge
Richard Gibson
John Louis Mansi
Rose Hill
Gavin Richards
Arthur Bostrom
Hilary Minster
Derek Royle
Robin Parkinson
David Janson
Country of origin United Kingdom
Original language(s) English
No. of series 9
No. of episodes 85 (list of episodes)
Production
Producer(s) David Croft
Mike Stephens
John B. Hobbs
Running time 26x25mins
55x30mins
1x35mins
3x45mins
Release
Original network BBC1
Original release 30 December 1982 (1982-12-30) – 14 December 1992 (1992-12-14)

'Allo 'Allo! is a BBC television British sitcom that was broadcast on BBC1 from 1982 to 1992, comprising eighty-five episodes. The story is set in a small-town café in German-occupied France during the Second World War. It is a parody of another BBC programme, the wartime drama Secret Army. 'Allo, 'Allo! was created by David Croft, who also wrote the theme music, and Jeremy Lloyd. Lloyd and Croft wrote the first six series. The remaining series were written by Lloyd and Paul Adam.

Main plot

Set during the Second World War,'Allo 'Allo! tells the fictitious story of René Artois,[1] a café owner in the town of Nouvion, France. Military from the Axis powers have occupied the town[2] and stolen all of its valuable artefacts. These include a painting of The Fallen Madonna by Van Klomp (known to those who have seen it as The Fallen Madonna with the Big Boobies). Two officers, Colonel Kurt von Strohm and Captain Hans Geering, have decided to keep the paintings for themselves after the war, and they coerce René into hiding them in his café. Hitler also wants the paintings, and sends Herr Flick of the Gestapo to the town to find them. Flick, in turn, conspires to keep them. The paintings are duplicated by a forger, get mixed up, lost, found and are put in knackwurst sausages, and hidden in the cellar of Café René.

Other valuable artefacts include a painting of the Cracked Vase with the big daisies by Van Gogh; the first cuckoo clock ever made; and some silver.

At the same time, the café is being used as a safe house for two brave but clueless British airmen, Fairfax and Carstairs. René is forced to work with the Résistance, led by Michelle Dubois, who threaten to shoot him for serving Germans in his café. The far-fetched plans of the Résistance to get the airmen back to Britain repeatedly fail. These are some of the main running gags of the series. As part of these plans, the Résistance have placed a radio in the bedroom of René's mother-in-law, Madame Fanny La Fan, as this is the only room nobody enters unless they have to. This secret communication device between London and the resistance (codename "Nighthawk") is hidden under the bed, and incoming messages are signalled by light bulbs concealed in the bed-knobs – leading the elderly mother-in-law to cry "Ze flashing knobs!". René answers with "'Allo, 'allo, zis is Night'awk, are you receiving me?", hence the title of the show ("allô" is the normal French way of greeting someone over a remote communication system). The Résistance is also helped by Officer Crabtree, a British spy posing as a policeman sent to France because he can speak French. However, he does not speak it very well, resulting in frequent malapropisms. For example, whenever he says "Good morning", it comes out as "Good moaning".

René is also trying to keep his affairs with his waitresses secret from his wife, Edith, who regularly sings in the café, despite being an such an appallingly bad singer (which she does not realise herself) that visitors to her café often put cheese in their ears to silence the sound. In addition, the communist resistance is plotting against René for serving Germans and for working with the Gaullist Résistance. However, the communist resistance only blow things up for money. The only reason they do not shoot René is that their leader, Denise Laroque, is in love with him, a fact he has to hide from both his wife and the waitresses, Yvette Carte-Blanche, Maria Recamier and Mimi Labonq. Furthermore, the seemingly gay German Lieutenant Gruber is also continually flirting with René and finding him in embarrassing situations. These situations are made even more humorous by the fact that René is not stereotypically attractive, is not considered a hero, and is often forced (against his will) by his wife to undertake missions and secret operations. One memorable situation occurs when Edith points a gun at René to stop him from running away to hide with his cousin; when interrupted by the five German officers, he explains that his wife had been proposing to him.

In one early episode, René is arrested and shot by a German firing squad for blowing up a railway line, on the orders of General Erich von Klinkerhoffen, a ruthless general from Berlin, but the German officers put dummy bullets in the firing squad's rifles. Although René survives, he has to spend the entire series' run posing as his own twin brother, who is also called René. René's will stipulates that the café belongs to Edith and to get Café René back – or put "his fingers back in his own till", as he puts it – René tries to convince Edith to marry him again. Meanwhile, Edith is wooed by the Italian Captain Bertorelli and Monsieur Alfonse, the undertaker who is torn between his love for Edith and his admiration for René, whom he considers a true hero of France.

These few plot devices provide the basic storyline throughout the entire series, upon which are hung classic farce set-ups, physical comedy and visual gags, amusingly ridiculous fake accents, a large amount of sexual innuendo, and a fast-paced running string of broad cultural clichés. Each episode builds on previous ones, requiring viewers to follow the series to fully understand the plot. The series revolved around individual story arcs spread across several episodes, where typically a far-fetched scheme by the Résistance to repatriate the British airmen would become intertwined with the Gestapo's attempts to recover the missing paintings and the German officers' corrupt activities, which would culminate with the three groups' plans frustrating one another and leaving them an even worse situation than the one in which they started. At the start of each subsequent episode, René summarises the plot to date for the audience (breaking the 4th wall); a gag based on the "As you remember..." device commonly used in serials. In reruns, some local TV stations have shuffled the episodes, making these plot synopses useful.

Characters

1988 cast photo

Most of the characters have a catchphrase, gimmick, or saying, which became easily recognisable throughout the series.

Main characters

Recurring characters

The late Lord Bath was a big fan of 'Allo 'Allo!, and in 1992 created an exhibition in his ancestral home Longleat. In return the BBC made a copy of the painting of the Fallen Madonna, which may still be seen today.

Character table

Key
  • A dark grey cell indicates the character was not in that Series.
  • (a) indicates that the character returned in a one episode cameo.
  • The table shows only characters written in with new scenes, not appearances in archive footage.
Character Character Nationality Pilot and Series 1
(1982 and 1984)
Series 2 and Christmas Special 1
(1985)
Series 3
(1986–1987)
Series 4
(1987)
Series 5
(1988-1989)
Series 6
(1989)
Series 7
(1991)
Christmas special 2 and Series 8
(1991 and 1992)
Series 9
(1992)
The Best of 'Allo 'Allo!
(1994)
The Return of 'Allo 'Allo!
(2007)
Rene Artois
French
Gorden Kaye
Edith Melba Artois Carmen Silvera
Yvette Carte-Blanche Vicki Michelle Vicki Michelle
Maria Recamier Francesca Gonshaw
Mimi Labonq Sue Hodge Sue Hodge
Michelle "of the Résistance" Dubois Kirsten Cooke Kirsten Cooke
Monsieur Roger LeClerc Jack Haig
Monsieur Ernest LeClerc Derek Royle Robin Parkinson Robin Parkinson
Monsieur Alfonse Kenneth Connor
Madame Fanny La Fan Rose Hill
Major-General Erich von Klinkerhoffen
German
Hilary Minster
Colonel Kurt von Strohm Richard Marner
Lieutenant Hubert Gruber Guy Siner Guy Siner
Captain Hans Geering Sam Kelly (a)Sam Kelly
Herr Otto Flick Richard Gibson David Janson
Herr Engelbert von Smallhausen John Louis Mansi
Private Helga Geerhart Kim Hartman
Captain Alberto Bertorelli
Italian
Gavin Richards Roger Kitter
Officer (Captain) Crabtree
English
Arthur Bostrom Arthur Bostrom
RAF Flight Lieutenant Fairfax John D. Collins (a)John D. Collins John D. Collins
RAF Flight Lieutenant Carstairs Nicholas Frankau (a)Nicholas Frankau Nicholas Frankau

Languages

With four different languages (French, German, Italian and English) spoken by the characters, representing this to the audience could have been tricky. The programme uses the device of representing each language with English spoken in a theatrical foreign accent.

For example, an exchange between French-speaking characters, conducted in English with a French accent, is totally incomprehensible to the British airmen until Michelle (the only French character who speaks English) switches to Bertie Wooster-esque "top hole, old chap" style banter in an upper class English accent. The British undercover officer Crabtree, in the permanent disguise of a French-speaking gendarme, speaks abominable French. His mangling of French vowels is represented by similarly distorted English, most famously his customary greeting catchphrase of "Good moaning"; many of his distortions come out as innuendoes, such as "I was pissing by the door, and I thought I would drip in".[5] The Germans, generally, speak in a more guttural way than the French. Bertorelli, the Italian captain, speaks in a nasal tone, generally adding an "-a" at the end of certain words; for instance in his catchphrase, "What a mistake-a to make-a!". Other examples included "We drop-a the bolls", "I kiss-a your hand-a". In spite of the difficulties in communicating with the British characters, the French, Germans, and Italians all understand each other perfectly, the implication apparently being that they all understand French which they use when talking to one another, but in which their own accents remain evident.

When one particular plan calls for Herr Flick and von Smallhausen to impersonate British Airmen, a gramophone record is used to learn the 'nuances' of English. This essentially consists of the non-word sounds suitably voiced with the signature 'upper-class English accent' employed in the programme. Within the scope of the on-screen action, it is a surprisingly effective masquerade.

In one episode, René is actually forced to speak German. His voice is noticeably more high-pitched, which may be a gag concerning the way the Germans talk.

The last few series introduced a new gag, where Colonel von Strohm and Lieutenant Gruber are put in situations where they have to speak in a strange manner. In one episode the two try to learn Spanish, which is basically "German" with high-pitched voices and mangled consonants. In another they are forced to wear "suicide teeth" – large bulky dentures containing poison – making them garble their speech to avoid releasing the poison. In yet another, von Strohm and Gruber are posing as Frenchmen, and are forced to speak French. This comes out as another set of non-words sounding like "Woffel woffel, woffel woffel". A further episode features a Swedish art dealer inspecting The Fallen Madonna, who pronounces "Heil Hitler!" as "Oil Jesus!"

Episodes

After the Pilot aired in December 1982, a full-length first series of seven episodes was subsequently commissioned and aired from September 1984 onwards. Series two, three and four followed annually, comprising six episodes each.

Series five was commissioned with a view to syndicating the show in America.[6] As a result, it aired as a single long series of twenty-six episodes between September 1988 and February 1989. The attempts to air the show in America failed (although the series later became popular on PBS), and so series six had only eight episodes commissioned, which aired from September 1989 onwards.

On 25 January 1990, Gorden Kaye suffered serious head injuries in a car crash brought on by gale-force winds.[6] This delayed the start of the seventh series, which consisted of ten episodes airing from January 1991 onwards. Series 8 (7 episodes) followed in January 1992, and the ninth and final series of six episodes aired later that year from September onwards.

Two Christmas specials were also made. The first was a 45-minute episode, which followed Series 2 in 1985, and the second was also a 45-minute episode, screened at Christmas 1991, preceding Series 8.

In 1994, two years after the series ended, the BBC broadcast The Best of 'Allo 'Allo!, a compilation of clips from the series, linked by new scenes featuring Gorden Kaye and Carmen Silvera, in which René and Edith reminisce about the events of the war.

On 22 March 2007, a one-off special episode entitled The Return of 'Allo 'Allo! was filmed in Manchester, and was broadcast on 28 April 2007 at 9 pm on BBC 2. The storyline involves René writing his memoirs after the war, and the events from the final episode in 1992 have been overlooked. The new scenes were interspersed with clips from the original series and new interviews. The actors who reprised their roles were: Gorden Kaye, Vicki Michelle, Sue Hodge, Kirsten Cooke, Arthur Bostrom, Guy Siner, Robin Parkinson, John D. Collins and Nicholas Frankau. In addition, Richard Gibson and Sam Kelly are interviewed, although they are not reprising their respective roles. The only main characters who didn't appear in the reunion at all (of whom the actor or actress who played the character originally hadn't yet died) were Private Helga Geerhart (played by Kim Hartman) and Herr Engelbert von Smallhausen (played by John Louis Mansi). Jeremy Lloyd wrote the new material.[7][8]

On 8 March 2008 the BBC announced that German channel ProSiebenSat1 had bought the screening rights for all nine series, which are to be overdubbed into German.[9]

In France, the series was broadcast from 3 July 1989, dubbed into French, in the lunchtime free-to-air window of the pay-TV channel Canal+.

In Catalonia, the series was dubbed into Catalan and aired by the public channel TV3, which had in BBC sitcoms dubbed into Catalan some of their great audience successes in the late '80s. In Catalan script, "Good moaning" was translated as "Bon deia", which would mean something like "good, he said", instead of the original "Bon dia" (good morning).

In Britain, BBC1 still repeats the series, but as a 'schedule filler' on Sunday afternoons. However episodes are run in an apparently random order which can be confusing due to the serial nature of the programme. It is regularly shown on UKTV channel GOLD in series order.

In the summer of 2013, a play named "'Allå 'Allå 'emliga armén" (The Swedish title for "Allo Allo") was put on at Fredriksdalsteatern in Helsingborg, Sweden. The play was a parody of Allo allo, and contained most of the main story features of the series. The play even contains many quotes from the series. In the course of the play (which is not building on any of the episodes) General von Klinkerhoffen is sent to the Russian front, and is replaced by General von Schmelling, who is a new character. Schmelling is also after "The fallen Madonna with the big boobies" that Hitler wants. Of course, Herr Flick, Colonel von Strohm and René also wants the painting, which results in all of them disguising themselves as Hitler and Goering to receive the painting from General von Schmelling at the café. Eva Rydberg (Swedish actress) played the role as Edith, while Sven Melander played René. Other characters in the theater were: Mats Nilsson as Colonel von Strohm; Robert Rydberg as Lieutenant Gruber; Ulf Dohlsten as Captain Bertorelli; Kim Sulocki as Herr Flick of the Gestapo; Birgitte Rydberg as Helga Geerhart; Kalle Rydberg as Officer Crabtree; Karin Bergquist as Michelle of the Resistance; and Håkan Mohede as Monsieur Leclerc.

In October 2013 Starting with the pilot BBC Two showed episodes daily in order for four weeks as part of their "Afternoon Classics" along with Are You Being Served? and Cagney and Lacey.

End credits

At the end of the each show, the end credits begin with a short vignette shot of each of the main characters with the actor's name displayed below. The shots are not always actual clips from the episode but usually re-enactments of a specific shot or action for each character from that episode. Being an ensemble show, the actor credits are given in the order of their first spoken line for that particular episode. Because every episode begins with René recapping the plot to camera thus far, Gorden Kaye is always first (even if he is not the first seen on screen, such as the start of episode 26 "The Sausages in the Trousers" where Mimi and Edith are first seen, but René has the first line). Gorden Kaye was credited first in all but one of the episodes, where he was credited second behind Carmen Silvera.

Cultural references

The show's premise was not to make fun of the war but to spoof war-based film and TV dramas, and in particular a BBC1 drama Secret Army, which ran from 1977 to 1979 and dealt with the activities of Belgian "escape line" that returned allied pilots to Britain, working from a Brussels café and later restaurant. Very many of the elements and characters are directly taken from Secret Army, such as the café owner having an affair in the restaurant under the nose of his wife, a bed-ridden woman in a room above who knocks on the floor for attention, a pianist who is also the forger, and the enmity between Gestapo and the German military. Many storylines for 'Allo 'Allo also derive directly from episodes of Secret Army, such as the valuable paintings and the accompanying forgeries, which in an episode from the second series of Secret Army both the Germans and the Resistance are seeking to obtain. Some actors from Secret Army also appear in 'Allo 'Allo!: Richard Marner, Guy Siner, John D. Collins, Hilary Minster and David Beckett. Inspiration was also drawn from patriotic black-and-white British melodramas of the 1940s.

The French village setting is reminiscent of 1972's Clochemerle whilst Rene's intermediary role between the Germans and the Resistance reflects a comic version of Rick from Casablanca (as well as directly matching the proprietor of the café in Secret Army).

Two of the BBC's earlier wartime-based comedies – Dad's Army and It Ain't Half Hot Mum – were also written by David Croft in partnership with Jimmy Perry. Several actors from 'Allo 'Allo! also appeared in these series: Carmen Silvera, Rose Hill, Jack Haig, Joy Allen, Michael Stainton, Robert Aldous, John Leeson, John D. Collins and Robin Parkinson in Dad's Army, and Robin Parkinson, Gorden Kaye, John D. Collins, Iain Rattray and Eric Dodson in It Ain't Half Hot Mum.

The Shelburne Escape and Evasion Line (Operation Bonaparte) of the Second World War (Comet Line) has some similarities to this series. More than 300 airmen and agents escaped through this line.

Music

Having a café cabaret in the plot, music was often performed on the show. This usually took place with Madame Edith singing, and either Lt. Gruber or LeClerc at the piano. Occasionally, Gruber sang and played piano at the same time. Characters could also be seen whistling or humming tunes at certain points.

Theme tune

David Croft and Roy Moore composed the theme tune performed at the start and end of each episode. It features a French-style melody performed on an accordion. The title is London Calling, but according to Guy Siner the first lyrics are:

'Allo 'Allo, we meet again,
And just as before...

Then, we hear the rest of the lyrics as a part of a cabaret in episode 3 of the first series:

We loved, we parted as fate had arranged;
Now there you stand and nothing has changed.
And so it goes, the same refrain, the final encore,
You are my love, my only love,
Once more!

Other music

The café cabaret music usually took the form of 1930s film and show tunes – reminiscent of the way period songs were also used in Secret Army.

Most popular was "Louise" from the film Innocents in Paris (1953), which featured a number of times and was even sung in the "broken-French" language of Crabtree, who pronounced the title "Loo-woes". Gruber sang a number such as "Can't Help Lovin' Dat Man" from Show Boat or "(I Got a Woman Crazy for Me) She's Funny That Way" by Neil Monet and Richard A. Whiting. He gazed at René in a slightly lustful manner, replacing lyrics such as "woman" and "she" with "boy" and "he". He caused a particular sensation with his straight version of Noël Coward's "Mad About the Boy".

Naturally the "La Marseillaise" and the German National Anthem "Deutschlandlied" featured from time to time, for example where several French peasants sang La Marsellaise to celebrate the expected bombing of the Germans, but the singers flawlessly and without hesitation switch to Das Lied der Deutschen when the Germans come past. Helga also sometimes stripped to a rather raunchy version of the latter tune.

Captain Bertorelli could be seen singing "'O Sole Mio (It's Now or Never)"; and the British airmen in a prisoner of war camp could be seen singing "Hitler Has Only Got One Ball".

In 1986, Gorden Kaye and Vicki Michelle released a version of the hit song Je t'aime... moi non plus. The characters of Yvette and René could be heard talking and canoodling in a comic manner whilst the familiar musical Je t′aime melody played in the background. The song got to number fifty-seven in the UK Singles Chart.[10]

Stage show

The show gave rise to a successful touring stage-show featuring most of the TV cast. This ran from 1986 to 1992 and included three London stage runs as well as international tours.

In January 1990 Gorden Kaye suffered serious head injuries in a car accident. As a result, his understudy, John Larson, played the part in a London Palladium production. Kaye still has a dent in his forehead from a piece of wood that smashed through the car window. He wanted to end the television show after his accident, but was convinced by Jeremy Lloyd to continue.[11] In Australia Gorden Kaye's part was played by Australian comedian/impressionist Max Gillies (later, Gorden Kaye repaid the favour when he took over Max Gillies' role in another play in Australia, when Max Gillies was unable to take part).

The show was last performed for a summer season at Bournemouth's Pier Theatre in 1996.

In 2007 Gorden Kaye, Sue Hodge and Guy Siner reprised their roles in a production of the stage show in Brisbane, Australia. They were joined by Steven Tandy as Colonel von Strohm and Jason Gann as Herr Flick.[12]

A new touring show, based on the 1992 tour written by Croft and Perry, opened at the Gordon Craig Theatre in Stevenage, Hertfordshire on 29 August 2008 before going on a national tour in 2009.[13] Vicki Michelle is reprising her role as Yvette Carte-Blanche. The Cast also included Jeffrey Holland playing Rene Artois and his wife Judy Buxton playing Michelle. Other cast members included Robin Sebastian as Gruber, James Rossman as Herr Flick, Nell Jerram as Private Helga Geerhart and Claire Andreadis as Mimi Labonq.

The theatrical version is also frequently performed by amateur theatre companies in the UK and elsewhere.

Locations

Although the French town of Nouvion in which the series is set indeed exists, all filming was done in Norfolk.

From 1982-1987 all interior scenes were filmed in front of a live studio audience at the BBC Television Centre studios in London. From 1988 production moved to Elstree Studios in the BBC's Studio D. With hopes for a US syndication deal the BBC planned to make 26 new episodes of the sitcom and so bigger space was needed for the production. Even though the US syndication deal did not go ahead as planned, production remained at Elstree Studios for the remaining episodes of the show which ended in 1992. With more space to play with the outside set of Café Rene became a semi-permanent structure in the former ATV Garage building.[14] [15][16]

DVD releases

Australian and New Zealand releases

In Australia, Roadshow Entertainment, under licence from the BBC began releasing the series on DVD in 2006, on a semi-annual basis. To date, all series have been released on DVD with only "The Return of 'Allo 'Allo!" TV special remaining.

DVD name Release date Comments
'Allo 'Allo! – Series 1 & 2 7 June 2006 3 disc set
'Allo 'Allo! – Series 3 & 4 7 September 2006 3 disc set, includes Christmas special 1
'Allo 'Allo! – Series 5 9 February 2007 4 disc set
'Allo 'Allo! – Series 6 7 November 2007 2 disc set
'Allo 'Allo! – Series 7 2 April 2008 2 disc set
'Allo 'Allo! – Series 8 6 August 2008 2 disc set, includes Christmas special 2
'Allo 'Allo! – Series 9 5 March 2009 2 disc set, includes The Best of 'Allo 'Allo!
'Allo 'Allo! – The Complete Collection 6 August 2009 18 disc box set
'Allo 'Allo! – Series 1–4 5 August 2010 6 disc set

UK releases

Universal Playback, under licence from the BBC, began releasing the series on DVD in 2002. In the UK six box sets with series 1–9 have been released, as well as a complete box set.

The original UK releases have episode titles superimposed over the openings of the episodes (series 1–4). The 2013 re-release of the complete series box set omits the majority, but not all of these superimposed titles. The American releases have no on-screen episode titles, reflecting the way that the shows were originally transmitted.

DVD name Release date Comments
'Allo 'Allo! – Series 1 & 2 8 August 2002
'Allo 'Allo! – Series 3 & 4 16 February 2004
'Allo 'Allo! – Series 5 Volume 1 23 October 2006
'Allo 'Allo! – Series 5 Volume 2 26 December 2006
'Allo 'Allo! – Series 6 & 7 18 August 2008
'Allo 'Allo! – Series 8 & 9 26 December 2008
'Allo 'Allo! – The Complete Collection 2 November 2009
'Allo 'Allo! – The Complete Collection (re-release) 23 September 2013 Contains 85 episodes (including the two Christmas specials) although the cover states that it contains only 84.
'Allo 'Allo! – The Complete Collection (re-release) 2 November 2015 Contains 85 episodes (including the two Christmas specials) although the cover states that it contains only 84.
'Allo 'Allo! – The Christmas Specials 3 November 2014

North American releases

In January 2004, BBC Worldwide began releasing the show themselves onto DVD in North America, beginning with Series 1. The releases have continued on a somewhat irregular basis (approximately twice-yearly).

DVD Name Release dates
'Allo 'Allo!: The Complete Series One 2004-01-20 (2 discs)
'Allo 'Allo!: The Complete Series Two 2005-03-15 (2 discs; includes Christmas special 1)
'Allo 'Allo!: The Complete Series Three 2005-08-16 (2 discs)
'Allo 'Allo!: The Complete Series Four 2006-01-24
'Allo 'Allo!: The Complete Series Five Part Un 2006-07-25 (2 discs)
'Allo 'Allo!: The Complete Series Five Part Deux 2006-07-25 (2 discs)
'Allo 'Allo!: The Complete Series Six 2007-01-16 (2 discs)
'Allo 'Allo!: The Complete Series Seven 2008-01-15 (2 discs)
'Allo 'Allo!: The Complete Series Eight 2008-05-06 (2 discs; includes Christmas special 2)
'Allo 'Allo!: The Complete Series Nine 2008-10-07 (2 discs; includes the Best of)
'Allo 'Allo!: The Best of (1994) 2008-10-07
'Allo 'Allo!: The Return of (2007) TBA

See also

References

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  2. "'Allo 'Allo - BBC1 Sitcom". comedy.co.uk. Retrieved 28 July 2015.
  3. "The Return of 'Allo 'Allo". Tinypic.com. Retrieved 20 February 2013.
  4. "'Allo 'Allo! FAQ". Aa.marktv.org. Retrieved 18 June 2012.
  5. Ironically, Arthur Bostrom, who played Crabtree, is one of the few cast members who speaks fluent French.
  6. 1 2 BBC Comedy Guide – 'Allo 'Allo! Retrieved on 22 January 2007. Archived 16 November 2007 at WebCite
  7. "'Allo 'Allo! due for screen return". BBC. 8 March 2007. Archived from the original on 16 November 2007.
  8. "Richard & Judy". Channel 4. 28 March 2007.
  9. "Germans to see sitcom 'Allo 'Allo". BBC. Retrieved 2 July 2012.
  10. Chart Stats – Je t′aime Retrieved on 22 January 2007.
  11. "beeb backCHAT Archive: A Chat with Gorden Kaye". Aa.marktv.org. 25 January 1990. Retrieved 18 June 2012.
  12. M/C Reviews (8 July 2007). "M/C Reviews – Theatre: ’Allo ’Allo – What Went Wrong Here, Then?". Reviews.media-culture.org.au. Retrieved 18 June 2012.
  13. Mark Brown (4 July 2008). "Listen very carefully – 'Allo 'Allo! is coming back". The Guardian. Retrieved 5 December 2008.
  14. http://www.atvtoday.co.uk/p3617-celebrating-elstree/
  15. http://forums.digitalspy.co.uk/showthread.php?t=1934559
  16. http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0086659/locations

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