'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
'Allo 'Allo! enmity between the Gestapo and the German military. Many storylines for " 'Allo 'Allo" also derive directly from episodes of "Secret Army", such as the valuable paintings and the accompanying forgeries, which both the Germans and the Resistance are seeking to obtain in the "Secret Army" second series episode "Weekend". Some actors from "Secret Army" also appear in "<nowiki>'Allo 'Allo</nowiki>!": Richard Marner, Guy Siner, John D. Collins, Hilary Minster and David Beckett. Inspiration was also drawn from patriotic black-and-white British melodramas of the 1940s. The French village setting is reminiscent of 1972's "Clochemerle", whilst Rene's intermediary role between the Germans