Allo 'Allo! - Forty Years of Laughter
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- Опубліковано 26 сер 2024
- Allo 'Allo! - Forty Years of Laughter, A celebration of 'Allo, 'Allo, the sitcom that ran for 87 episodes through the 1980s.
Allo 'Allo! - Episode Guide Overview
"Allo 'Allo!" is a British sitcom set during World War II in Nazi-occupied France. It aired on BBC One from 1982 to 1992, created by David Croft and Jeremy Lloyd. The series follows the life of René Artois, a café owner in the small town of Nouvion, who is reluctantly drawn into the Resistance's efforts against the occupying German forces while also contending with personal entanglements and the comedic antics of various colorful characters.
Episode Highlights
Season 1 (1982)
The pilot episode introduces René Artois, his wife Edith, and the quirky patrons and staff of Café René. Key plots include René hiding two British airmen and dealing with the Resistance's plans to blow up a German train.
Season 2 (1985)
René's café becomes a hotbed of secret activities, from hiding valuable paintings to disguising British airmen. The comedy escalates with the arrival of Herr Flick of the Gestapo, whose stern demeanor contrasts humorously with the bumbling German officers.
Season 3 (1986)
The tension and hilarity rise as René juggles his relationships with various women, including the waitresses Yvette and Maria. Meanwhile, the Resistance plots become more elaborate, involving hidden radios and explosive devices.
Season 4 (1987)
This season features memorable episodes where René and his cohorts don outrageous disguises to outwit the Germans. One standout episode is "Flight of Fancy," where they plan an escape in a homemade hot air balloon.
Season 5 (1988-1989)
The longest season, spanning 26 episodes, introduces new characters and intricate plotlines. The café is constantly under threat, and René finds himself in ever-more ridiculous situations, including a fake funeral and impersonating a Gestapo officer.
Season 6 (1989)
René's predicaments continue as he navigates through farcical situations involving hidden tunnels and secret missions. The show maintains its blend of slapstick humor and clever wordplay.
"Allo 'Allo!" remains a beloved series for its unique blend of historical satire and comedic brilliance, making it a timeless classic in the world of television sitcoms.
Show on Ch5 in 2022
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#alloallo #alloallofortyyearsoflaughter
Update: I've had to make a couple of edits in this video, there is a new version here:
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Allo 'Allo! - Forty Years of Laughter, A celebration of 'Allo, 'Allo, the sitcom that ran for 87 episodes through the 1980s.
Allo 'Allo! - Episode Guide Overview
"Allo 'Allo!" is a British sitcom set during World War II in Nazi-occupied France. It aired on BBC One from 1982 to 1992, created by David Croft and Jeremy Lloyd. The series follows the life of René Artois, a café owner in the small town of Nouvion, who is reluctantly drawn into the Resistance's efforts against the occupying German forces while also contending with personal entanglements and the comedic antics of various colorful characters.
Episode Highlights
Season 1 (1982)
The pilot episode introduces René Artois, his wife Edith, and the quirky patrons and staff of Café René. Key plots include René hiding two British airmen and dealing with the Resistance's plans to blow up a German train.
Season 2 (1985)
René's café becomes a hotbed of secret activities, from hiding valuable paintings to disguising British airmen. The comedy escalates with the arrival of Herr Flick of the Gestapo, whose stern demeanor contrasts humorously with the bumbling German officers.
Season 3 (1986)
The tension and hilarity rise as René juggles his relationships with various women, including the waitresses Yvette and Maria. Meanwhile, the Resistance plots become more elaborate, involving hidden radios and explosive devices.
Season 4 (1987)
This season features memorable episodes where René and his cohorts don outrageous disguises to outwit the Germans. One standout episode is "Flight of Fancy," where they plan an escape in a homemade hot air balloon.
Season 5 (1988-1989)
The longest season, spanning 26 episodes, introduces new characters and intricate plotlines. The café is constantly under threat, and René finds himself in ever-more ridiculous situations, including a fake funeral and impersonating a Gestapo officer.
Season 6 (1989)
René's predicaments continue as he navigates through farcical situations involving hidden tunnels and secret missions. The show maintains its blend of slapstick humor and clever wordplay.
"Allo 'Allo!" remains a beloved series for its unique blend of historical satire and comedic brilliance, making it a timeless classic in the world of television sitcoms.
Show on Ch5 in 2022
More Info can be found here:
www.imdb.com/title/tt21867516/
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_%27Allo_%27Allo!_episodes
#alloallo #alloallofortyyearsoflaughter
I read once that it was very popular in Germany. I still say 'Good Moaning' when I go to work!
@@busterguff1068 Good Moaning is an excellent way to "find your tribe" in a new workplace or social setting. Good moaning (and happy Saturday), from an old Pom in Sydney, Australia.
After Blackadder, this was the most popular comedy in The Netherlands. 😂😂❤❤❤ Listen Carefully I wil say this only once, My little tank, what a mistake to makah. Oh, Renee, crush my with your big arms, Ow! the flasching knobs! It is I Leclerc!, You stupip woman! Good mowning! Make a the place for the beautifull ladies! All still are used in our Dutch language. 😂😂😂
I'm still convinced the police officer is a time traveling sacha baron Cohen.
I saw the stage version and it was a million times more risqué than TV for obvious reasons 😂
Interestingly, the first season of 'Allo 'Allo!' aired in 1982, 42 years ago. This means that 1982 is actually closer to 1941, the setting of the show, than it is to our current time. It's fascinating to think about how time shifts our perspective on historical events and cultural productions
I was 27 in 1982. Thanks for reminding me I am old. But I'm glad I'm old enough to have loved and laughed with 'Allo Allo. Happy Saturday from an old Londoner in Sydney, Oz. 🤣
I was lucky enough to see the stage show at the London Palladium. The laughter was literally from start to finish.
I absolutely love it , I was born in 1982 and when I was teenager I just literally waited for every episode in Polish TV . Absolutely gorgeous show , well written characters , every actor just added his genius to this show . It keeps me smiling every time when I only think about it.
Every actor here had his moments and soul added piece of hilarious work to it.
I love it also in 2024 .Greetings from Poland 👋😉👈
The show that gave me the nickname I have lived with ever since. Happy memories.
brilliant!
the funniest historical sitcom off all time, modern comedy has nothing on this
"the french were randy, the germans were kinky and the british were stupid."
...and the italians were incompetent.
Of all the characters in the show the italian officer is by far my favorite because he's so convinced that he's a big shot war hero that he doesn't realize that everbody else sees him as a joke.
One of the many things I loved about 'Allo 'Allo is that the writers took the p**s out of everyone involved in WW2 - the French, the British, the Germans and the Italians. It was pretty even-handed p**s-taking IMHO. 🤣
Are the British anything like Shakespeare? Or Swift? Or Chaucer? --- Let me put that another way : Is there any NON-BRITISH man who has the level of sensibility and refinement of Henry Fielding? Or Charles Lamb? Or F.H. Bradley? -- Is Kant NOT an obvious petty apologist for the shopkeeper? Is Foucault NOT a pathetic attempt to avoid acknowledging the legitimacy of Marxism? -- A weak modern scholastic obscrantist Roman Catholic anti-communism?
As great as Fawlty Towers was, this was the one show that made me laugh more, beginning to end. I was lucky enough to see the live show in London, after which I could barely walk my ribs hurt so much. Writers, cast, crew, truly a marriage made in heaven. Thank you all for so many tears of joy.
Same here!
Billy Connolly is the only comedian who has made me walk out of a live show with sore ribs from laughing so much - but 'Allo 'Allo is is definitely one of the funniest TV shows ever - and the British have serious form when it comes to making brilliant comedy (BlackAdder, Red Dwarf, the Young Ones, just of the top off my head). Good moaning and happy Saturday one and all. 🤣
I had the privilege of working with Gorden Kaye before he was famous in this show. He was born in Moldgreen Huddersfield and I was a young cameraman working in Huddersfield for a Film production company. Gorden was hired to appear in an industrial "tape slide" promoting a material handling company for use in an exhibition. I had the job of shooting the photographic transparencies and assembling the accompanying soundtrack. He would tell me stories of the goings on behind the scenes on many of the tv commercials he had worked on. He was a very funny and talented actor and I was pleased that he finally got his big break in TV. We saw him years later at one of the truly hilarious live shows. I wondered if he recognised me sat in the front row! 😂
great story
I Loved this show. i was born 1980 and remember my nan used to baby sit me as my mom worked day time as was at collage at night to study, and my nan would make a Night of TV fun with this show and others. but we both like this as my nan was very open about her life in the war. she would cook the best beef stew before the show and have treats ready while watching.
this show will always remind me how cool my nan was and given me good memerys. Today i was reminded how lucky i was to have that.
gr8 memories, n story
The cast sometimes went to a pub in Brackley for a weekly pub quiz.
What a lovely bunch!
I only discovered this show about 5 years ago. Absolutely love it 🤣🤣🤣
Good for you. So much fun...😂
Having been a teen in the 80s watching Allo Allo every week here in New Zealand, I just loved the series. I still say almost every day, to this day, "Good Moaning" as Officer Crabtree's greeting and many other such wonderful sayings such as "It is I, Leclerc", "listen very carefully...", "you stupid woman, can't you see I'm comforting her" A timeless classic of very clever comedy, and wonderful slapstick humour. I thoroughly enjoyed this trip down memory lane with all my favourite characters.
A work mate and I still come up with many scenes and laughs from this era, such as from Arkwright's Open All Hours, and especially the Pink Panther movies with Peter Sellers. Just a wonderful period of clever slapstick humour, sketchs, jokes, clever inuendo and much giggling and laughter! Superb! I shall pass this on to my elderly Mum for a giggle. She loved this series as well.
A classic show that gave us so many wonderful memories and so much joy and laughter.
Arg... Now you've done it, I'm going to have to watch the box set again...
Ingenious show. Especially the first 3 seasons. So cleverly written and the story always made perfect sense and fit so well to what was previously established. That's the kind of attention to detail you never see in sitcoms.
Eventually, it ran too long, and the changes in the cast didn't help, but I think it will always remain my favorite comedy series.
A lot of the UK comedy shows are not that known in the US, so I had the pleasure to re-watch all those great British comedies with my girlfriend. Not only Allo Allo, but also Coupling, Fawty Towers. and least but not last Monty Python. We actually went to one of the last live shows in 2014. We couldn't stop laughing even when we knew exactly what was going to happen...
nice story, glad you enjoyed the video
Brilliant stuff, it's a real shame as there are just so many shows that deserve more attention, the two Ronnie's, Derek and Clive, open all hours, only fools and horses, red dwarf, the young ones, the list goes on and on and on.
A fun one that is really niche but contains a ridiculous amount of comedy icons is "The Comic Strip Presents", very experimental at the time, quite alot of it didn't work or was just too weird to understand but its worth watching as there is some amazing comedy in there.
A strong start would be "4 blokes in a car" or "for a fistful of travelers cheques"
They don’t make them like this any more :(
Coupling is definitely underrated!
Good moewning 🤣 my favorite comedy show of all time along with friends
This was definitely one of the best sitcoms ever. I loved it and could never understand how any of the cast managed to keep straight faces when delivering their lines. I don't like being old but I'm glad I am old enough to have enjoyed this. Thanks for the upload.
This and Black Adder is brilliant. Love them both. 😂
Absolutely loved it. So clever and so funny.
Herr Flick of the Gestapo was so incredibly funny.
He's so identical to a mate of mine that it's scary 😅
My favourite comedy of all time
I was an addict on that show and still am now. The show is playing on Tubi depending what country your in
I'm in Oz and I can get Tubi. Thanks for the tip. This brilliant upload has made me want to watch it all over again.
@@SuzyQ334 I'm in Oz too. Your Welcome
Thank you, I ❤loved this documentary!
Thank you so much for uploading this - hadn't seen this documentary before. A wonderful tribute - grew up watching the show and still very fond of it. Was lovely to see the reminisces from the surviving cast.
This is antology of series. For me the best ever!
Thank you for showing the retrospective of the years of it. 😊
I got core memories watching this as a familiy when i was ... 10 maybe... in Norway acctualy
We loved that show. I introduced my companion to this he'd never heard of it. He loved it 😅
I've never actually sat down and watched the entire series. I've seen snippets here and there.
I played Madam Edith in a stage production. At one point I had to dress up as Hitler. It was the most fun I ever had on stage 😊
Alan Fordyce - thank you for a great upload of one of Britain's best loved comedy TV shows.
thank you too
I kinda grew up with this show. I was born in 1982 and the show first arrived in denmark in the 90's (or so) So I actually remember watching it on the I think it was TV2 as I was growing up.. I always wanted to go back and rewatch it but sadly we haven't had a rerun of it on Danish telly for over 30 years.
Thank you! Thank you! Thank you!
You are so welcome!
Thank you for this gem! This brings so many happy memories.
Glad you enjoyed it!
I loved this series ❤
Its one of my favorite memories of my youth
Traveling back to wartime France and seeing how the resistance managed to win the war and save the country
Well there was some pretty close calls with the Germans and especially the gestapo 😂😂
And in the end they gave us an abundance of laughs that can only be produced ONCE 😂😂❤❤❤
Just saying 🇳🇴
It ain't 'alf Hot Mum, Dad's Army and 'Allo 'Allo = all fantastic British comedy series all set in WWII. Coincidence? I think not, In tragedy there is humour and the British are past masters of making fun of things even if they are tragic. God bless all the surviving cast members and thank you for the laughter.
well said
Those were better days for comedy. Glad we have Allo Allo. Thank You
Yes it was
@@alanfordyce I was not aware how big Allo Allo was. That makes it even better.
Many years ago I was an airline pilot flying holiday charter out of Manchester and like most of my colleagues I watched 'allo 'allo. I was scheduled to fly to Spain the day after watching officer Crabtree say "Good Moaning," for the first time. Our route took us across France, so leaving UK airspace we were handed over by UK air traffic control to French air traffic control. It amused me greatly to introduce our flight in the vernacular of Officer Crabtree which would have been something like this, "Good moaning Brest control, this is Anyair 357, flight level 330." I thought it was such an original joke.
I noted a sense of irritation in the reply of the French controller and realised why within a couple of minutes. The crew of the next aircraft that came on frequency introduced his flight in exactly the same way, obviously thinking he had hit on something original. Then a third aircraft came on frequency and did exactly the same. The I understood why the French controller was irritated, being made fun of by scores of Brit crew that morning, each thinking they were being original.
I think the cast would have been amused had they known that story at the time. Perhaps they did.
great story
I had the great fortune to meet and talk to..... sort of ... Vicki Michelle. I was working for the original theatrical flying company "Kirby" run by Nick Kirby at the time. My job was to lower Gordon Kaye and Carmen Silvera together through the sugar glass granny flat skylight. During rehearsals while I was pulling on a rope, Vicki came over , felt by arm muscles and said " you must have to be strong to do this job". I melted as she was, nay, is gorgeous. I can't remember the nonsense that must have been by awestruck reply. The flying performance in front of a studio audience on the night went off without a hitch. I flew many celebrities in my time with Kirby's but that meeting with Vicki is etched in my mind. What a friendly, beautiful lady!
great story, and memories
Fantastic series - one of the best along with the Frasier
Glad you enjoy it!
I saw the stage show. Renee come on to riotous applause, a scene played out and you could feel the tension in the crowd going "say it, say it!..." then he goes "You STUPID woman" and I nearly died, it was amazing the crowd exploded.
brilliant story
still laugh out loud so hard just now 😆
The funny thing is, when 'Allo 'Allo first aired, Are You Being Served? was still on the air. When I first found that out, my mind was blown.
Watch this show every saturday when i was a child. It runned in norway 😊
Leukste serie ooit gemaakt
Heb alle video's nog.
En bekijk ze nog steeds.
Was het niet bij de TROS?
Loved it so I bought he box set.
Hope you enjoy it!
I have a copy of the Fallen Madonna that was given to me. No idea where it was bought.
Richard Gibson looks like the famous chef Thomas Keller
I'm amazed they managed to convince the French to record a show in English
Thank you for a great documentary!!!!
Thank you too!
Ha! Difference was, the EastEnders producer was producing a pile of shite and David Croft was a genius!
True enough. My biggest gripe with Julia Smith is she has no sense of humour. I can't imagine getting through life without a sense of humour.
I watched it every week even though I was only 5 when it started and most of the jokes went over my head. It’s a shame they don’t make tv shows like this anymore, something all the family could watch without the pc bs and that was funny
agree, thanks
loved it, thanx from sweden.
Glad you enjoyed it!
Still have the videos. And watch them.
I love ze vay zey say "K'nockwurst" xD
RENEEEEÉÉÉ!!!
Most of the French I know I learned from 'Allo 'Allo.
Cannot believe only 3 comments…… this wonderful show gave us all so many belly laughs and I still say 'Gud Moaning'
glad you liked Julie
I sometimes say Good Moaning too! We're showing our age 😂
I loved the description of the German tank regiment’s favourite perfume: ‘Lily of the Valley with an ‘int of diesel’!
Loved it
I still greet everyone with "Good Moaning"!
Silly Brits have no idea, that they made a childchood for at least one 1991 born chap. Thank you. Bless you. Greets from PL. :)
I will never forgive them for replacing Richard Gibson for another person playing Herr Flick in the last season. Fortunately no one remembers him and Richard is still the real Otto Flick as if there wasn't any other actor ever.
Actor decided not to take part in another season so they had to do something.
There's nothing to forgive, it was Gibson's decision to leave.
I can't imagine anyone replacing Richard Gibson as Herr Flick. Living in Australia, we miss out on so many British TV series but I am not sorry I missed this.
Listen very carefully, I shall say zis only wance..........Great memories of watching this as a kid with my Mam every Saturday night. It just got better and better every week! We would laugh out loud. Every character was brilliant, with catchphrases galore, over the top acting/dialogue and so many double entendres. Never get tired of watching it.
You have to watch out for the German bumbers and farters! And did the long distance dick's(Ducks) ever reach London!?!? 😀
Interesting programme, have the series on dvd. I noticed there was no mention of Von Smallhausen or Maria Recamier.
I had such a crush on Francesca Gonshaw and was extremely disappointed that she left the show!
@@GrahamMilkdrop Certainly a looker, and with the wet celery 😳
Lol, the narrator sounds just like Edd Straw from F1 podcast "The Race".
I was expecting him to talk about "actor silly season" or something 😊
I VIL WATCH THIS ONLY WANCE 😁😁
This was great. I don’t know what that female comedian in the orange cardigan was doing there though. She had nothing to do with it. 23:53
For me, although the complete series is great, the first 3 and a half series were the best. It went downhill a lot when Hans and Maria were no longer in it. The Italian was a waste of space. And Mimi Le Bonk was not a good replacement for Maria. I still have all of the DVDs and my favourite characters were: Edith, Madame Fanny, Helga, Herr Flick and Hans.
Mimi was physically painful to look at. Or listen to.
I had such a crush on Francesca Gonshaw and was extremely disappointed that she left the show!
@@GrahamMilkdrop She was beautiful.
Am I missing something, or was Francesca Gonshaw not mentioned even once in this ? 🧐
The reason why allo allo is not offensive was it took the piss out of all sides. It wasn't slagging off one side or the other but all sides
I had a crush on Yevette
Officer Crabtree's actor talks a lot like David Walliams!
🙋♀️ Thx.
You’re welcome 😊
This Episode Guide Overview is wonderful, but almost destroyed by the amount of advertisements during those 60 minutes... Difficult to watch
Ghostery is your friend.
Its a nice little addblocker that doesn't go full tilt like adblocker does on youtube advertisers.
Just turn it off for the channels you like so you can support em but turn it on* for any channel that has more adverts then minutes ;)
I love the anecdote about some of the 'Allo 'Allo cast sneaking onto the EastEnders rehearsal set. Sounds like EastEnders producer Julia Smith was missing a sense of humour, which could explain why, in contrast to the hilarious AA, EE was so bloody humourless and depressing.
I understand her being annoyed but total over reaction and she really had no right to tell David to basically fire them and David's response was brilliant.
Can i stream this classic somewhere? Not living in the UK.
What happened to Maria (franceska Gonshaw)?
I had such a crush on Francesca Gonshaw and was extremely disappointed that she left the show!
I always said it was pantomime for grown ups. Just good daft fun.
forty seconds, more like
Rene flashes satan sign in every photo and then gets hit by a tree in the wind.. Where was his good then
"forty" ? I am french and even I know that's not spelled correctly
and since when allo allo lasted fourty years ?
Sorry you didn't enjoy, I believe the first episode was in 1982? so over forty years have passed and we, well I am still enjoying it
That slightly "mis-timed" -- slightly "amateurish" -- tone or 'mood' -- is very ''grown-up' -- the debonaire / worldly-wise / well-travelled uncle tells his 'jokes' in a very adult manner -- which is slightly ineffectual but very human -- at ease with being just oneself.
This would never have been made today, too political UNcorrect. In the 80's and 90's comedy was funny, not like nowadays when offending someone is the greatest sin of all.
I hated this show. How many times can you tell the same jokes....