This is the first episode without Maria (played by Francesca Gonshaw), who left after Season 3. Her disappearance is officially explained in the following episode as being "mailed to Switzerland" with insufficient postage .
Fans celebrate the episode for maintaining the show's signature farcical energy while managing to make light of a "harrowing situation" like a POW camp . 🔍 Key Details & Trivia Prisoners of War'Allo 'Allo : Season 4 Episode 1
Unusually, the episode does not start with the standard theme tune; it begins with the music the characters are dancing to in the camp . This is the first episode without Maria (played
The episode holds a strong 7.8/10 to 8/10 from viewers . Prisoners of War'Allo 'Allo : Season 4 Episode 1
The POWs try a "vaulting" technique to get over the barbed wire fence .