Product Details

• Actors: Gorden Kaye, Carmen Silvera, Vicki Michelle, Richard Marner, Kim Hartman
• Directors: John B. Hobbs
• Writers: David Croft, Jeremy Lloyd, Paul Adam
• Producers: John B. Hobbs
• Format: Closed-captioned, Color, DVD, Subtitled, NTSC
• Language: English (Dolby Digital 2.0 Stereo)
• Subtitles: English
• Region: Region 1 (U.S. and Canada only. Read more about DVD formats.)
  
• Aspect Ratio: 1.33:1
• Number of discs: 2
• Rating: NR (Not Rated)
• Studio: BBC Warner
• DVD Release Date: May 6, 2008
• Run Time: 248 minutes
• Average Customer Review: 4.9 out of 5 stars See all reviews (12 customer reviews)
• ASIN: B0013D8LIQ
• Amazon.com Sales Rank: #23,707 in Movies & TV (See Bestsellers in Movies & TV)

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• This is item 8 in The 'Allo 'Allo! (Individual Seasons) Series.

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Product Description
In a small café in occupied France the harassed proprietor, Rene, is fighting his own war. With the German Army in residence at the bar, Rene is risking his neck to aid the Resistance by hiding two British airmen and a radio transmitter upstairs. As if this wasn't enough, Rene has also got involved in hiding a priceless painting in a garlic sausage, which even now is being sniffed out by the Gestapo. But Rene's real problem is his wife, Edith, and what she will do to him when she finds out about the affairs he is having with two sexy waitresses!

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2 of 2 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars The end is near for Rene', June 8, 2008

By	Deborah E. Brown "cinemaverita.com" (Nampa Idaho and Padova Italia) - See all my reviews (REAL NAME)

The end is near for Rene' and the Allo Allo saga. Even with new cast members (changing actors but not new roles), the program made the passage of two years in a blink.

You need to be an Allo Allo fan to 'get it' at this late point in the series, but this two disk set is WELL WORTH adding to the collection.

If you have never seen the series, you need to begin in the beginning to build the plot of this, the most popular syndicated comedy of all time from the BBC..... YES, this series has larger distribution than Monty Python, Faulty Towers, Black Adder, etc.

6 of 8 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars After a long pause..., May 18, 2008

By	M. Sharkansky (ISRAEL) - See all my reviews (REAL NAME)

Is seems like there was a long pause between this series and the seventh (it is explained in the bonus material) - the time has passed in the scenario, the actors look way older (those who made it to these shootings, unlike the 2nd reincarnation of "It is I, LeClerc").
The series contains less episodes, but the 1st one is quite long, almost a movie. The jokes are funny, some are new, and the Leutenant Gruber impersonation of der Fuehrer is unsurpassable!
The British airmen disappeared, so did the Italian Captain, but the Madonna is fully back and so is the 'ruthless' Communist Resistance.

The series is saturated with anticipation of the war end, that way (the French) or the other (the Germans), and as usual the Resistance is quite preoccupied with money, be it ransom from Germans or cash from Rene's till, all along with some futile attemps to do the Germans a real damage.
And, of course, there is a somewhat new for these series 'pudding club' plot, which ends to everybody's satisfaction (almost).
I am not sure whether this is the last one, or there is more, but, never mind, we already know who won the war: those fighters like Rene that were dragged into the vortex against their will and survived against all odds...

1 of 1 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars I am so glad that I found this television series, July 28, 2008

By	Susan Elkins (Savannah, GA) - See all my reviews (REAL NAME)

I love British sitcoms but have already seen all of Are You Being Served?, Fawlty Towers, The Good Life (Good Neighbors), Keeping Up Appearances, As Time Goes By, and others. I was looking for something new and found it in this series, Allo Allo! The totally hilarious situations that keep happening to Rene and his confederates as well as his enemies(?) are well worth watching. Cast changes are handled really well so you aren't left wondering "What happened?". I can't wait to get the next installment (Series 9).

Series 8 with its story lines of Michelle's pregnancy, Gruber's compromising photo, and the number of Hitler and Goering's running around was just as funny and captivating as the first 7 series. But the war is almost over for Rene and the cast of Allo Allo! How it will all come to a close will keep me on the edge of my seat until October when I get the next DVD.