'Allo 'Allo! who did not appear in the reunion at all (where the actor or actress who played the character originally was then alive) were Private Helga Geerhart (played by Kim Hartman) and Herr Engelbert von Smallhausen (played by John Louis Mansi). Jeremy Lloyd wrote the new material. At the end of each show, in common with "Dad's Army", "Are You Being Served?", "It Ain't Half Hot Mum" and "Hi-de-Hi!", the end credits begin with the caption "You have been watching (in order of appearance)", followed by a short vignette shot of each of the main characters with the actor's name displayed
The Bill (Inside No. 9) of "The Bill", the character of the episode changes. The biggest changes come about in Watkins's Kevin and White's Anya. Kevin changes from a timid penny pincher referred to as "the professor" apparently in jest to a menacing criminal mastermind. Anya, initially reminiscent of Manuel of "Fawlty Towers" or a character from "'Allo 'Allo!", faces criticism from her co-conspirators for taking her characterisation too far, allowing the writers, for one critic, to have their cake and eat it—any exaggerated characterisation is the fault of the character, not the writers. The script also acknowledge the plot's "silliness" in an almost-fourth-wall-breaking piece