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'Allo 'Allo!: Series 3
Starring: Gordon Kaye , Carmen Silvera
Directed by: David Croft
Produced by: David Croft
Written by: Jeremy Lloyd , David Croft
Follow the hilarious trials and titillations of René Artois—café owner and accidental French Resistance fighter—in this enormously popular BBC comedy. In Series 3, the Communist Resistance kidnaps René’s knockwurst sausage containing the priceless painting, “The Fallen Madonna with the Big Boobies.”
Item Number: 13378
- Format:
- DVD Fullscreen
- Region:
- 1 - More Details
- Run time:
- About 3 3/4 Hours
- Number of Discs:
- 2
- Closed Captions:
- Y
- Special Features:
- Day to Day presents a discussion between people who run an ‘Allo ‘Allo! fan club and people who find the program offensive
The cast of ‘Allo ‘Allo! form the celebrity panel on the UK game show Blankety Blank
Gorden Kaye accepts the award for Funniest Show on Television from the UK’s SOS Star Awards
Cast Biographies
Meet René, the most wanted man in Occupied France: Women want his body. The Resistance wants his brain. And the Nazis want his sausage!
In a small café in occupied France the harassed proprietor, René, is fighting his own war. With the German Army in residence at the bar, Rene is risking his neck to aid the Resistance by hiding two British airmen and a radio transmitter upstairs. As if this wasn't enough, René has also got involved in hiding a priceless painting in a garlic sausage, which even now is being sniffed out by the Gestapo. But René's real problem is his wife, Edith, and what she will do to him when she finds out about the affairs he is having with two sexy waitresses!
Filled with high farce and bawdy badinage, 'Allo 'Allo! began as a spoof on a BBC drama series about the French Resistance (Secret Army), and soon became one of the most popular BBC comedies of all time! Created by the same team as Are You Being Served?, it made comedian Gorden Kaye an international star.
Includes the episdoes:
The Nicked Knockwurst, Gruber Does Some Mincing, The Sausage in the Wardrobe, Flight of Fancy, Pretty Maids All in a Row, The Great Un-Escape
In a small café in occupied France the harassed proprietor, René, is fighting his own war. With the German Army in residence at the bar, Rene is risking his neck to aid the Resistance by hiding two British airmen and a radio transmitter upstairs. As if this wasn't enough, René has also got involved in hiding a priceless painting in a garlic sausage, which even now is being sniffed out by the Gestapo. But René's real problem is his wife, Edith, and what she will do to him when she finds out about the affairs he is having with two sexy waitresses!
Filled with high farce and bawdy badinage, 'Allo 'Allo! began as a spoof on a BBC drama series about the French Resistance (Secret Army), and soon became one of the most popular BBC comedies of all time! Created by the same team as Are You Being Served?, it made comedian Gorden Kaye an international star.
Includes the episdoes:
The Nicked Knockwurst, Gruber Does Some Mincing, The Sausage in the Wardrobe, Flight of Fancy, Pretty Maids All in a Row, The Great Un-Escape
Follow the hilarious trials and titillations of René Artois—café owner and accidental French Resistance fighter—in this enormously popular BBC comedy.
In Series 3, the Communist Resistance kidnaps René's knockwurst sausage containing the priceless painting, "The Fallen Madonna with the Big Boobies." Fortunately, the original lies elsewhere. Unfortunately, it's inside another sausage under the blouse of a waitress imprisoned in General von Klinkerhoffen's chateau. All's well until lunchtime. Such is life for René, the most improbable French hero since Inspector Clouseau. Will he collect enough suspenders to launch an antique plane stolen from the local museum? Will Colonel Von Strohm finally detect the British airmen disguised as French maids? And will anyone ever notice that "The Fallen Madonna with the Big Boobies" adorns the back of a painting by a struggling young artist named Van Gogh?
In Series 3, the Communist Resistance kidnaps René's knockwurst sausage containing the priceless painting, "The Fallen Madonna with the Big Boobies." Fortunately, the original lies elsewhere. Unfortunately, it's inside another sausage under the blouse of a waitress imprisoned in General von Klinkerhoffen's chateau. All's well until lunchtime. Such is life for René, the most improbable French hero since Inspector Clouseau. Will he collect enough suspenders to launch an antique plane stolen from the local museum? Will Colonel Von Strohm finally detect the British airmen disguised as French maids? And will anyone ever notice that "The Fallen Madonna with the Big Boobies" adorns the back of a painting by a struggling young artist named Van Gogh?
The Knicked Knockwurst - Flick is informed that the Communists have kidnapped his sausage and are demanding a ransom for it. A plan is devised for René to pay the ransom then have the Colonel ambush the Communists with his troops to regain the money.
Gruber Does Some Mincing - Gruber's dog has ended up with the sausage containing the painting, and when René talks Gruber into making yet another copy, he ends up getting cut in on the deal. Meanwhile, the stolen lawnmower motor gets hidden in Fanny’s wheelchair.
The Sausage in the Wardrobe - Maria, having been detained by von Klinkerhoffen (with the Fallen Madonna sausage strapped to her bosom) is imprisoned in his chateau. The General subsequently discovers the sausage and hangs it in his closet to cure.
Flight of Fancy - The attempt to get the airmen out by antique airplane (with the assistance of suspenders and von Klinkerhoffen's lawnmower motor) is made. Meanwhile, Gruber is given the painting of the Fallen Madonna to copy, even though René's mother-in-law has gotten hungry and bitten off the corner with the signature.
Pretty Maids All in a Row - René has hidden The Fallen Madonna on the back of 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.
The Great Un-Escape - The airmen are in the mortuary, dressed as tarts, waiting to tunnel into the POW camp to hide and get new uniforms. The Fallen Madonna, hidden behind a van Gogh, has been given to Gruber for safe- keeping.
Gruber Does Some Mincing - Gruber's dog has ended up with the sausage containing the painting, and when René talks Gruber into making yet another copy, he ends up getting cut in on the deal. Meanwhile, the stolen lawnmower motor gets hidden in Fanny’s wheelchair.
The Sausage in the Wardrobe - Maria, having been detained by von Klinkerhoffen (with the Fallen Madonna sausage strapped to her bosom) is imprisoned in his chateau. The General subsequently discovers the sausage and hangs it in his closet to cure.
Flight of Fancy - The attempt to get the airmen out by antique airplane (with the assistance of suspenders and von Klinkerhoffen's lawnmower motor) is made. Meanwhile, Gruber is given the painting of the Fallen Madonna to copy, even though René's mother-in-law has gotten hungry and bitten off the corner with the signature.
Pretty Maids All in a Row - René has hidden The Fallen Madonna on the back of 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.
The Great Un-Escape - The airmen are in the mortuary, dressed as tarts, waiting to tunnel into the POW camp to hide and get new uniforms. The Fallen Madonna, hidden behind a van Gogh, has been given to Gruber for safe- keeping.
| René Artois | --- | Gorden Kaye |
| Edith Artois | --- | Carmen Silvera |
| Yvette Carte-Blanche | --- | Vicki Michelle |
| Mimi Labonq | --- | Sue Hodge |
| Madame Fanny La Fan (Edith's mother) | --- | Rose Hill |
| Michelle (of the Resistance) Dubois | --- | Kirsten Cooke |
| Monsieur Roger Leclerc | --- | Derek Royle |
| Colonel von Strohm | --- | Richard Marner |
| Lieutenant Hubert Grüber | --- | Guy Siner |
| General Erich von Klinkerhoffen | --- | Hilary Minster |
| Private Helga Geerhart | --- | Kim Hartman |
| Herr Otto Flick | --- | Richard Gibson |
| Herr Engelbert von Smallhausen | --- | John Louis Mansi |
| Monsieur Alphonse | --- | Kenneth Connor |
| RAF Flight Lt Fairfax | --- | John D Collins |
| RAF Flight Lt Carstairs | --- | Nicholas Frankau |
| Officer Crabtree | --- | Arthur Bostrom |
| Captain Alberto Bertorelli | --- | Gavin Richards |
| Louise | --- | Carole Ashby |
Produced and Directed by David Croft
Written by Jeremy Lloyd, David Croft, Paul Adam, John Chapman, Ian Davidson, Ronald Wolfe, Ronald Chesney
Officer Crabtree's spectacularly bad French was inspired by former British Prime Minister Edward Heath, who was never mistaken as a native speaker of the language.
