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'Allo 'Allo - The Complete Series Seven

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After several delays, "'Allo, 'Allo!': The Complete Series 7" is due to be released in January 2008 as a two disc set with small Rene & large Officer Crabtree caricatures on the cover. The 'Complete Series Seven' features the return appearance of Capt. Hans Geering [Sam Kelly], a replaced Monsieur Ernest LeClerc [Robin Parkinson], a replaced Captain Alberto Bertorelli [Roger Kitter, in the character's last series], the last series of Lt. Fairfax [John D. Collins] & Lt. Carstairs [Nicholas Frankau], & should include interviews with Richard Gibson [Herr Otto Flick] & John Louis Mansi [Herr Engelbert Von Smallhausen] as special features.

Finally, 'official' titles for Series 7!

Prepare to order!

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[All episode lengths = 30 minutes]

Episode 7.01
-Unofficial titles: Forged Papers; Von Flockenstuffen in Command

Episode 7.02
-Unofficial titles: Exploding Candles; Free at Last

Episode 7.03
-Unofficial titles: Flying to England; Eloping to England

Episode 7.04
-Unofficial titles: René In England; Hello Hans

Episode 7.05
-Unofficial titles: Telegraph Poles; Lines of Communication

Episode 7.06
-Unofficial title: The Spirit of Nouvion

Episode 7.07
-Unofficial titles: Wine Barrels; A Barrel Full of Airmen

Episode 7.08
-Unofficial titles: A Mixed Marriage; Stuck

Episode 7.09
-Unofficial titles: Ice Cream; The Ice Cream Truck

Episode 7.10
-Unofficial titles: Gypsies; The Gypsy Carnival

Set in the second World War this is the next release of a send up of the French Resistance during the German occupation of France, and covers the escapades of Rene Artois, a French Resturant owner. He is a chance "Hero of the French Resistance" but is really more interested in taking chances with the hot blooded flirtations of his waitresses - and less interested in his wife and mother-in-law with whom his short verbal exchanges never amount to much more than, "Shut Up! You Silly Old Bat".
It is made funnier by a German Leutenant who "is mad about the boy" - but of course one needs intrigue and skullduggery with stolen art and the "Gestoopo" who are always trying to catch the plot but usually miss it.
A superb series that really must be part of your video collection.
The frustrating part about buying these DVD's is that the distributor cannot do the honourable thing and release the entire series in one release. The excuse for this may well be marketing but this does not enhance my opinion of them for this policy. Hurry up and release the rest of the series, you idle slackers!!!!!

Further episodes of this amusing series.
Purists may be appalled at some of the changes of cast (Lt. Bertorelli and M. LeClerc), but one at least was unavoidable (due the untimely death of Jack Haig, the actor who played LeClerc). The actor who plays Rene Artois ( Gordon Kaye) sports a rather spectacular scar on the forehead in this series, due to a tree falling on him on 25th January 1990 during the spectacular storms in the UK, but the fun carries on as usual. The whole thing is a parody of a serious BBC TV series called "Secret Army" which was all about a cafe run by a prominent member of the Resistance. Lt Hans Gering makes a welcome return as a British Intelligence Officer and even Winston Churchill makes a cameo appearance. I did hear that Germans loved this series and I imaginee that the French were probably baffled by it. Strangely enought the British, who made it, are portrayed as complete idiots (e.g. the British airmen and the dreadful French spoken by the fake Gendarme Crabtree - "Good Moaning", which shows that the British still have the endearing quality of laughing at themselves.

I have been looking forward to every new series being made available, but series No 7 is a big let-down, mainly because of too many changes in (A)the charactors we all got to love and (B) the plot has become tired - too many "situations" of the past being repeated, and this made me decide not to buy series 8 and those which may follow. I will rather start watching all over from series 1 chapter 1 to get all the fantastic laughs all over again.

Sometimes a stew--or a ragout in this case--is so perfect that if you change any of the ingredients, it does not taste the same. The proposition holds true for original cast of "Allo Allo" which represented a perfectly delicious combination of comic actors. Unfortunately, by season seven, they had lost the original daffy Monsieur LeClerq who revealed his disguise with raised spectacles and the charmingly chicken-hearted Capitano Bertorelli. It is not that their replacements are not excellent, because they are; it is merely that the new combination of ingredients has altered the perfect flavor of the original comic concoction.

On the plus side, Sam Kelly (Hans, of the first several seasons who escaped, by mistake, to England) turns up in British Intelligence, where he has been groomed to be a proper Englishman by the Cambridge Spies, Burgess and Maclean!

There are still plenty of laughs, gimmicks, and running gags; and Series Seven is well worth adding to your collection. But some of that original piquant zest is missing.

The seventh season of 'Allo 'Allo lives up to the promise of the first six. The hilarious misadventures of cafe owner Rene Artois and the rest of the characters - Germans, British, French, Italian - in occupied
France during WWII is not to be missed. There are the French Resistance ("Listen very carefully, I shall say this only once"), the Communist Resistance, a couple of silly British airman stranded in France and several German officers. All the girls and one guy, a German Lieutenant, are in love with Rene. The Gestapo is also represented by Herr Flick and his sidekick, both of whom walk with a limp (shades of Joseph Goebbels). Throw into the mix a host of other characters, weird disguises, improbable situation, and this is British comedy at its finest. You won't stop laughing. PBS showed this series many years ago, and I a so glad BBC has brought it out in DVD format. The last series (season 9) is due tobe released in October 2008. I can hardly wait!!

This is one of the great classic britcoms, and should be seen by all! It's hilarious. However, there are so many running jokes that you should start at season 1 or they won't make sense.

What can I say, this is a wonderful series. Funny as hell. But you need to see it from the beinging to really appreciate all of the references, to other shows, made by the actors. You don't have to be British or even like BritComs to have a laugh at this DVD. CHEERS!

I was worried that the humor might start to get old by the 7th series of this great show, but I was wrong. It's as fresh as ever, and with some fun surprises, like an appearance of Capt. Hans Goering. The new actor playing the Italian captain only takes about 2 scenes to get used to, then you forget there was someone else originally in the role. I can't wait for series 8!

"Allo Allo!" Has been around since 1982 and has become available in the USA on a decent media. Many more episodes than originally aired in the USA are available.

Basic story is of a café owner René Artois (Gorden Kaye); this is in France during the WWII German occupation. He must balance dealing with the local Germans, the Gestapo, the good Resistance, the commie Resistance, having affairs with his female help, dealing with his wife and mother-in-law.

In series seven the fun does not stop. However you see some different people and different actors playing some of the key characters. A few of the originals are left including a token appearance of Captain Hans Geering (Sam Kelly) in a surprisingly new position after a little brainwashing. As With the last series (six), one can tell that they are running out of ideas and in desperate effort to keep up the energy go a little over the deep end even for "Allo Allo." Then all of a sudden even the new substitute actors catch on and we are back in the laughs and situations. Herr Otto Flick finds a new love worthy of the Gestapo. Now I can not wait for series eight.

One nice thing about this series is that they place the name next to the actor at the end of each episode. Most of the actors are well known out side of this series. I was shocked however to find that Gestapo Herr Otto Flick (Richard Gibson) Played British Capt. Newman in Ken Follett's "The Key to Rebecca" (1985) and completely changed his accent.


Key to Rebecca -Richard Gibson