broadcast on BBC One
from 1982 to 1992 comprising eighty-five episodes. It is a parody of another BBC programme, the wartime drama Secret Army, and was created by David Croft, who also wrote the theme music, and Jeremy Lloyd
. Lloyd and Croft wrote the first 6 series. Series 7 onward was written by Lloyd and Paul Adam. Lloyd and Croft were also responsible for the popular sitcom Are You Being Served?
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(To Madame Fanny) Shut up, you silly old bat.
René! What are you doing with your arms around that girl?
Ooooh rrrrenéééé
Edith! Yvette! Maria! Oh! Does nobody hear the cries of an poor old woman!?
Ze flashing knobs, ze flashing knobs!! (at this point, Leclerc often comes out from the bedclothes)
Listen very carefully, I shall say this only once.
Can you do nothing right?!
Monsieur Alfonse, undertaker - Swiftly, and with style.
Ohhh... my dicky ticker!
I love you, I love you! (running after Madame Edith and pinching her bum)