Product Details

• Amazon Sales Rank: #1325 in DVD
• Released on: 2006-10-23
• Rating: Parental Guidance
• Aspect ratio: 1.33:1
• Formats: Colour, Full Screen, PAL, Subtitled
• Original language: English
• Number of discs: 2
• Running time: 320 minutes

Amazon.co.uk Review
'Allo, 'Allo! was a wildly popular British sitcom making unlikely humour of the German occupation of France, succeeding because of its sheer lunacy, and the amiable performance of veteran character actor Gordon Kaye, as café owner René Artois. René finds himself surrounded by buffoonish German officers, who are easily duped yet still keep René on his toes, and sometimes in hot water. He also must juggle the imperious French Resistance leader, Michelle DuBois (recurring gag: Michelle says, "Listen very carefully. I shall say this only once"--but never manages to get out the urgent message), his jealous wife (Carmen Silvera), and all his staff waitresses, who find the doughy René sexually irresistible. It is all très French, n'est-ce pas? Yet also very British in its broad slapstick tone; and TV buffs will see more than a hint of Hogan's Heroes, M*A*S*H, and even the old spy series Get Smart. This chunk of season 5, with 13 episodes on two discs, features as many crazy sight gags as ever, including a special "spy camera" disguised inside a potato. Why a potato? wonders René. "Because," drones Michelle in a fake French accent you could drive a Citroën through, "you cannot get carrots that beeg." But of course. Extras include cast biographies and trailers. --A.T. Hurley

Synopsis
Set in German occupied France during World War II, 'Allo 'Allo follows the adventures of harrassed cafe owner Rene, who is involved in hiding two British airmen and a radio transmitter upstairs, concealing a priceless painting in a garlic sausage and trying to keep from his wife his affair with two of the cafe's waitresses.

Customer Reviews

Worth the wait
Listen very carefully I will say this only once.

This has been a long time coming but well worth the wait. Rene carries on from where he left of in series four having lost Maria in the post Rene has now got Mimi la bonque to contend with she is the new waitress sent in by the resistance, Mimi is a small girl who would love to kill the Germans and Rene has his hands full stopping her and if that isn't enough he still has to hide the British airmen, the fallen madona with the big boobies, the cuckoo clock, and the cracked vase with the big daises as well avoiding Lieutenant Gruber, keeping Col Von Strohm happy with the girls wet celery and the flying helmet, and helping the resistance, not forgetting officer crabtree with his unique French language also deceiving Edith with his affair with Yvette. And to top it all the Italians get involved in the form of Capt Alberto Bertorelli poor Rene how dos he do it.
This is a classic series and there are nine altogether I intend to buy all of them if they all are released (series five part two out in December can't wait)
A very funny program with hilarious innuendoes and stereotyped caricatures that work well together.
BBC have put some classical situation comedies together and this is one of the best .

Well, it's great but...
I absolutely adore Allo Allo, and am thrilled that they are finally releasing more. I thought we were going to have an endless stream of the first few series of everything ever made, and never finish any of them.
Two problems with series 5. Firstly the episodes are shorter; because they did a whole marathon run of 26 episodes they've spread events a bit thinner.
And secondly, and my biggest bugbear, why not just one Season 5 box set? Almost every other programme has them - Keeping Up Appearances, Green Wing, X-Files, Alias, etc
Oh well, here's looking forward to the end of December for the second half.
Now, if only they'll release the next set of Last of the Summer Wine...

The Best of the Rest
Well the BBC has at long last decided to start putting out the remaining series. Except that in Hungary (where I currently live) we have been able to get this series for a year now. Indeed all nine series are out here and they are cheaper than the UK. I can say that having got the lot that series 5 is among the strongest. To my mind apart from the first three which are magic this is the best. Yes they did 26 (and we have to buy series 5 as two sets) but the laughs keep coming. After series 5 I am afraid it is downhill; some of actors change and the scripts get weaker; so make the most of it . Be careful with series 8 as the program that explains what happens between series 7 and 8 came out here as an extra on series 9 because it was a Christmas special.