'Allo 'Allo!

Comedy Gold: Allo Allo. 2022 (9x8)

Air date: Aug 19, 2022

'Allo 'Allo! is one of the UK's best loved sitcoms. Running for a whopping 87 episodes through the 1980s, viewers were entranced by the antics of café owner turned reluctant French Resistance fighter René Artois. Who could forget René's tone-deaf chanteuse wife, the glamorous waitresses, various Nazis and Gestapo members, plucky resistance fighters, British airmen in need of rescue and the English policeman whose every 'good moaning' belied his belief that he spoke French. In this 90-minute extravaganza, we meet cast and crew, who share their memories of the show. We hear backstage secrets, remember the catchphrases, the comedy costumes, the slapstick scenes and discover the fate of that infamous painting, The Fallen Madonna with the Big Boobies by Van Klompf. Among the many stories, we learn how the series came about, the pranks played by cast and crew, and what happened when several stars secretly infiltrated the set of EastEnders. Not only that, we hear about how star Gordon Kaye'