'Allo 'Allo Season 8

The Communists' ferocious sniffer puppies have led them to Cafe Rene in search of Hitler and Goerring. They are too late: Gruber and the Colonel, rigged up in Fanny's old clothes, have commandeered a rather nervous armed guard and escaped.

Michelle ransoms the comprising photograph to the Colonel for one million frans, to be stuffed inside a large dogfish and retrieved by brave girls enduring frogs in their underwear for France. Unfortunately, the fish is rather more lively than thought, and runs away with the cash. It runs away, in fact, to where Edith and Alphonse are enjoying a romantic fishing picnic. (Alphonse's tackle is old, but it is in perfect working order.)

With poetic inevitability, Von Smallhausen serves the dogfish up (in his special Hollandaise sauce, made of tulips) as a romantic dinner for Helga and Herr Flick. Helga blabs all, and Herr Flick sees a chance to purchase the Fallen Madonna, cheap.

The General, determined to catch the Communists, forces Edith and Rene to masquerade as Hitler and Goerring. Louise is far too intimately concerned with her beloved leader to be German-hunting, and it seems the intrepid pair may be safe - until they find themselves in the territory of a rebel General...

Highlight - Yvette, Edith and Mimi performing "Three little maids from school are we," complete with school uniforms.

DRAG ALERT: Lt. Gruber looks very dashing, Colonel von Straum less so, in Madame Fanny's old clothes.

"Tell me something more to impress me."
"I've got a big one!"
- (Edith and Alphonse learn the perils of combining fishing and firtation.)

"But this is my wife -"
"Hitler is married to Goerring? We are not shooting them a minute too soon!"
- (The rebel General misunderstands Rene's explanations.)

8.7 "Escape To Spain" (1-Mar-92)

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