'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
Gorden Kaye made a guest appearance in a Christmas special of "Family Fortunes", in which he served as team captain and placed host Les Dennis on a special "Double Big Money" round for Dennis to score more than one hundred points to double the charity prize money, which he did. In 1982, David Croft sent Kaye the script for the pilot episode of "'Allo 'Allo!" inviting him to play the central character of René Artois. He accepted and appeared in all 84 episodes (the main series ran from 1984, two years after the pilot, until 1992) and 1,200 performances of the stage