‘ALLO ‘ALLO! SERIES 5

Fifth series of classic sitcom to return to BBC Entertainment from March 30.

Meet René, the most wanted man in Occupied France. Women want his body. The Resistance want his brain. And the Nazis want his sausage!

In a small café in Nouvion, the harassed proprietor is having a trying war. With the German army in residence in the bar, René is risking his neck to aid the Resistance by hiding two British airmen and a radio transmitter upstairs in his mother-in-law’s bedroom.

In the fifth series of the classic sitcom, René becomes embroiled in a plot to blow up Hitler, master-of-disguise LeClerc comes into his own when he helps the Resistance to break René out of Herr Flick’s chateau, and the leader of the Communist Resistance, Denise, turns out to be René’s childhood sweetheart and orders René to marry her, much to the annoyance of Edith and the café’s waitresses. Meanwhile, the British Airmen continue their haphazard attempts to return to Blighty, and Lieutenant Gruber’s attraction to René continues to remain unrequited.

From outright farce to unsubtle double entendres and mother-in-law jokes, ‘Allo ‘Allo! is humour which easily travels. It mercilessly lampoons every national stereotype, so no-one ever takes offence. It has crazy characters and even crazier plots, a wealth of catchphrases and, of course, René – the most improbable French hero since Inspector Clouseau.

’Allo ‘Allo can be seen from March 30 at 15h55 and 16h30 on BBC Entertainment (channel 120 on DStv) and will continue every day thereafter at the same times.