‘Allo ‘Allo! (Series 1 & 2)
by Jeremy Lloyd & David Croft (BBC 1984-1985)
Repetitive, formulaic (think Get Smart) yet often uproarious, the convoluted tribulations of a café-owner in German-occupied France rose to long-running comedic heights thanks to the incomparable Gordon Kaye (as René Artois) and the premise of rendering all languages as badly accented English.