[D66] 'Allo 'Allo!

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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/%27Allo_%27Allo!

Set during the Second World War, 'Allo 'Allo! tells the fictitious story
of René Artois,[1] a café owner in the town of Nouvion, France. Military
from the Axis powers have occupied the town[2] and stolen all of its
valuable artefacts. These include a painting of The Fallen Madonna by
fictional artist van Klomp (usually referred to as The Fallen Madonna
with the Big Boobies). Two officers, Colonel Kurt von Strohm and Captain
Hans Geering, have decided to keep the paintings for themselves after
the war, and they coerce René into hiding the paintings in his café.
Hitler also wants the paintings, and sends Herr Flick of the Gestapo to
the town to find them. Flick, in turn, conspires to keep them. The
paintings are duplicated by a forger, get mixed up, lost, found and are
put in knackwurst sausages, and hidden in the cellar of Café René.

Other valuable artefacts include a painting of the Cracked Vase with the
big daisies by Van Gogh; the first cuckoo clock ever made; and some silver.

At the same time, the café is being used as a safe house for two brave
but clueless British airmen, Fairfax and Carstairs. René is forced to
work with the French Resistance, led by the fearsome Michelle Dubois.
The far-fetched plans of the Resistance to get the airmen back to
Britain repeatedly fail. These are some of the main running gags of the
series.

As part of these plans, the Resistance have placed a radio in the
bedroom of René's mother-in-law, Madame Fanny La Fan, as this is the
only room nobody enters unless they have to. This secret device for
communication between London and the Resistance (codename "Nighthawk")
is hidden under the bed, and incoming messages are signaled by light
bulbs concealed in the bed-knobs – leading the mother-in-law to cry "Ze
flashing knobs!". René answers with "'Allo, 'allo, zis is Night'awk, are
you receiving me?", hence the title of the show ("allô" is the normal
French way of greeting someone over a remote communication system).

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