'Allo, 'Allo! Complete Series Four

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Product Description Allo 'Allo!: The Complete Series 4 (DVD)Poor Rene. He was last seen in a prisoner of war camp, trapped with his wife and both mistresses, not to mention the two idiotic British airmen and Michelle, the hardest taskmaster of the Resistance. What's worse, Cafe Rene and its gin supply are in the unreliable hands of his mother-in-law. More hare-brained schemes, more cross-dressers, more sausages, more fractured accents, more double entendres they're all part of the rich texture of this hugely popular sitcom from the BBC!]]> desertcart.com Almost every episode of the daffy Britcom 'Allo 'Allo picked up immediately where the previous one left off--even if that previous episode aired a year before. So at the start of the fourth series, though actor Gorden Kaye has aged around four years, his character Rene Artois--a French cafe owner during the Nazi occupation who only wants to placate the Germans so he can run his business in peace and conduct affairs with his waitresses in private--has only aged around a week. As a result, multiple plotlines extend over the course of the show's entire history, including the forging of a painting of a buxom Madonna. The fourth series is not the best place to begin watching 'Allo 'Allo, as it begins with Rene and his staff trapped in a British P.O.W. camp, all (including the women) disguised as British officers with mustaches. From there, the farce proliferates, as Nazi officers disguise themselves as nuns, a new waitress with homicidal urges tries to kill every Nazi who enters the cafe, an Italian officer woos Rene's wife (who is believed to be single because Rene is masquerading as his own twin brother)...and through it all strides the incomprehensible accent of the enormously popular Officer Crabtree (Arthur Bostrom), a British intelligence officer disguised as a French policeman. 'Allo 'Allo desecrates every war film from Grand Illusion to The Great Escape and does so with a breezy smile and a blithe shrug. From the creators of Are You Being Served?. --Bret Fetzer Review: 'Allo, 'Allo Season 4...another hit! - I have purchased the first 4 seasons for various special occasions for my husband as gifts. He used to watch the series when it aired on BBC years ago. I was skeptical about watching them with him because I typically do not follow British humor. But let me tell you, they are as much for me now as they are for him. And Season 4 is just as funny as the first 3. The only thing is, this season is only 1 disc, whereas the previous had 2 discs, so I felt we were short-changed a wee bit. The addition of the Italian is SO funny. We lose Maria in this season, but we gain the undercover Resistance member MiMi (I think that was her name) who also now has the hots for Rene. We loved every episode of Season 4, and I will be ordering Season 5 for my husband (and myself) for Valentine's Day...I can't wait!! Review: Hilarious - I found this series quite by accident a few years ago when I was channel surfing. I was very disappointed when LPB stopped airing the series, but I am very happy to find some of the episodes available on DVD. "Allo Allo" ranks right up there with the best comedy series ever produced. I find it absolutely amazing that they are able to work 16-18 regular characters into each episode, each with their own little quirks that you look for from episode to episode. Unlike the ridiculous "reality TV" of today, this is TV at its finest.