'Allo 'Allo!: Season 4

1987 · 6 episodes · ★ 8.1

Series 4

What Season 4 of 'Allo 'Allo!

The season opens in Nouvion during the German occupation, with René Artois running his café. The invaders have looted the town, and the commandant wants to keep the stolen items once the war ends, so he forces René to guard them at his café. Meanwhile, René is hiding two RAF airmen, whom the all-female Resistance is trying to send home. Prison camp escapes and plans to rescue the colonel and the captain set the pace of the early episodes. Michelle drives most of the operations, while Edith prepares for her wedding and Mimi becomes a key player. Gruber, Von Strohm, Herr Flick and Von Smallhausen get tangled up in their own schemes.

6episodes

Nov 7, 1987Aired

Dec 12, 1987final episode

3 hrtotal runtime

Season 4 Episodes

4x01 Prisoners of War
Nov 7, 1987 · 30 min · ★ 8.0
Having been trapped in the POW camp, René is enlisted in the plan to re-dig the tunnel, by getting rid of the dirt. Von Strohm and Geering are playing cricket, though not very well, and Herr Flick and Von Smallhausen are digging their own tunnel into the camp. Monsieur Alphonse arrives at the café to report to Fanny the news that René has been captured, but René and company join in on the British prisoners' plan to escape – though it will free only one man.Meanwhile, Helga reports the situation to Gruber, and together they devise a plan to rescue the Colonel, the Captain and René - involving Gruber dressing as a nun!
Directing: David Croft, Martin Dennis · Writing: David Croft, Jeremy Lloyd · Starring: Sam Kelly, Owen Brenman, Nick Burnell, Paul Cooper
4x02 Camp Dance
Nov 14, 1987 · 30 min · ★ 7.7
Dressed as girls from the Folies Bergère, the entire gang (the staff and the Germans) escape from the prisoner-of-war camp, and completely against plans bring the two British airmen with them. Outside again, the Colonel finds that the Captain is missing; only his glasses are found.Herr Flick and Von Smallhousen intercept a message from London and try to send their own, but René catches on and tosses the radio out of the window, which leaves the Resistance without a means to contact London, until Michelle suggests the radio in Lieutenant Gruber's little tank.
Directing: David Croft, Martin Dennis · Writing: David Croft, Jeremy Lloyd · Starring: Sam Kelly, Peter Bradshaw, Nick Burnell, Martin Sadler
4x03 Good Staff Are Hard to Find
Nov 21, 1987 · 30 min · ★ 8.1
Since Maria's disappearance, the café needs another waitress, but René and Edith have somewhat different ideas about who should fill the position, but finally Michelle of the Resistance brings tiny Mimi from another cell to be René's bodyguard.In the meantime, General Von Klinkerhoffen gives the Colonel a new assistant - Italian liaison Captain Bertorelli.
Directing: David Croft, Martin Dennis · Writing: David Croft, Jeremy Lloyd · Starring: Aimée Delamain, Estelle Matthews, Patrick Edwards
4x04 The Flying Nun
Nov 28, 1987 · 30 min · ★ 7.9
The Gestapo suspects that the Colonel and the General are in on a plot to assassinate Hitler, so Herr Flick goes undercover as Private Irma Von Kinkenrotten and plants a somewhat bizarre daffodil-shaped microphone in the Colonel's office, where Gruber and Von Strohm are making plans to get rid of Bertorelli in some way.Meanwhile, as Edith prepares for her wedding, René and company must get the aerial for their new radio above the jamming signal of Herr Flick, so they disguise Mimi as a small nun to obtain a box kite which they fly to contact London and request plastic explosives to blow up the safe in the General's chateau to get the British Invasion plans.
Directing: David Croft, Martin Dennis · Writing: David Croft, Jeremy Lloyd
4x05 The Sausage in the Trousers
Dec 5, 1987 · 30 min · ★ 8.6
There are still no batteries for the wireless radio underneath the bed of René's mother-in-law, so Michelle's newest harebrained scheme is to have René and Yvette powering it with the generator from a bicycle until the stolen batteries from a German miniature submarine are delivered.The Lieutenant has finished copying the paintings (The Fallen Madonna and the Van Gogh) and delivers them as sausages. Numerous other sausages also arrive: real ones from Captain Bertorelli, submarine batteries from Leclerc, and explosives from Officer Crabtree, and soon they're all mixed up in the German officers' trousers!
Directing: David Croft · Writing: David Croft, Jeremy Lloyd · Starring: Bill Malin, Stephen Churchett, Trevor T. Smith, Paul Cooper
4x06 The Jet-Propelled Mother-in-Law Season Finale
Dec 12, 1987 · 30 min · ★ 8.3
The Germans arrest René, and the Colonel demands an explanation for the knockwursts with explosives in them. After a small lie, René is sent home with around a dozen knockwursts to hang in his kitchen.Meanwhile, the British have sent a spy camera with which the Resistance should be able to photograph the plans for the German invasion of Great Britain, but the camera landed in the vineyard of Monsieur Alphonse, and since the Germans commandeered the vineyard, the Resistance cannot go and look for the camera. This problem is solved when the General orders every peasant in Nouvion to work on the vineyard, which also leaves room for some assassination attempts on the General's life.
Directing: David Croft, Martin Dennis · Writing: David Croft, Jeremy Lloyd