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'Allo 'Allo!
- TV sitcom
- BBC One
- 1982 - 1992
- 85 episodes (9 series)
René Artois, proprietor of Café René in Nazi-occupied France, struggles to keep the business running whilst keeping the resistance and the army happy. Stars Gorden Kaye, Carmen Silvera, Vicki Michelle, Richard Marner, Kim Hartman and more.
- Series 6, Episode 8 repeated at 8pm on U&Yesterday
Streaming rank this week: 526
Episode menu
Series 3, Episode 5 - Pretty Maids All In A Row
As the airmen don new disguises, General Von Klinkerhoffen is on the warpath. He is particualrly suspicious of the café: after all, why would a small provincial establishment have hanging on its wall a genuine Van Gogh...?
Further details
René has hidden The Fallen Madonna on the back of an old painting. The General notices that the "old painting" is a van Gogh and confiscates it. The British airmen, meanwhile, have new disguises as a waitress and a street walker.
Broadcast details
- Date
- Friday 2nd January 1987
- Time
- 7:35pm
- Channel
- BBC One
- Length
- 35 minutes
Cast & crew
Gorden Kaye | René François Artois |
Carmen Silvera | Edith Melba Artois |
Vicki Michelle | Yvette Carte-Blanche |
Richard Marner | Colonel Kurt Von Strohm |
Kim Hartman | Private Helga Geerhart |
Guy Siner | Lieutenant Hubert Gruber |
Kirsten Cooke | Michelle Dubois |
Richard Gibson | Herr Otto Flick |
Rose Hill | Madame Fanny 'Fifi' Lafanne |
Sam Kelly | Captain Hans Geering |
Francesca Gonshaw | Maria |
Jack Haig | Monsieur Roger LeClerc |
John D. Collins | Flt. Lt. Fairfax |
Nicholas Frankau | Flt. Lt. Carstairs |
Hilary Minster | General Erich Von Klinkerhoffen |
Kenneth Connor | Monsieur Alfonse |
Arthur Bostrom | Officer Crabtree |
Louis Mansi (as John Louis Mansi) | Engelbert Von Smallhausen |
Ian Hanham | German Sergeant |
Paul Cooper | 'London Calling' (Voice) |
Jeremy Lloyd | Writer |
David Croft | Writer |
David Croft | Director |
Robin Carr | Director |
David Croft | Producer |
John Dunstan | Editor |
Chris Wadsworth | Editor |
David Buckingham | Production Designer |
Roy Moore | Composer |