Allo Allo cast reunite

For the unveiling of a blue plaque

Surviving stars of Allo Allo yesterday reunited to unveil a blue plaque marking 35 years of the wartime sitcom.

The tribute was put up at Lynford Hall, a Norfolk country house that stood in for Nouvion town square and the exterior of René’s café.

Pictured above, left to right, are: Richard Gibson (Herr Flick); Nicholas Frankau (Carstairs); John D. Collins (Fairfax); Francesca Gonshaw (Maria); Guy Siner (Gruber); Arthur Bostrom (Crabtree); Sue Hodge (Mimi); and Vicki Michelle (Yvette).

The event – which was billed as the first ever full surviving cast reunion – took place on what would have been co-creator David Croft’s 97th birthday.

Allo Allo's pilot episode aired on December 30, 1982, and the sitcom would go on to run for a decade, with a total of 85 instalments.

Yesterday’s unveiling – which raised money for the Actors' Benevolent Fund – was organised by the British Comedy Society, whose director Aaron Brown said it was ‘great to be able to celebrate a brilliant staple from BBC sitcom heritage’.

Built in the 1850s and now a hotel, Lynford Hall also featured Croft and Perry’s other comedies You Rang My Lord and Dad’s Army, most of which was filmed just ten miles away in the village of Thetford