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Revision as of 06:22, 29 April 2007 by IXIA (talk | contribs)(diff) ← Previous revision | Latest revision (diff) | Newer revision → (diff)The Fallen Madonna by the fictional painter Van Clomp was a portrait of a bare breasted woman which provided a recurring theme of the long-running BBC television comedy series ‘Allo ‘Allo! (1984-92), written by David Croft and Jeremy Lloyd. The painting was always referred to as "the fallen Madonna with the big boobies" . The first episode of the first series of Allo 'Allo! (1984) was entitled The Fallen Madonna .
Recurring theme in 'Allo 'Allo!
‘Allo ‘Allo! was set in the fictional French town of Nouvion during the German occupation of the Second World War. Its focus was a café in the town square run by René Artois (played by Gordon Kaye). There were sustained attempts by the occupiers to appropriate the Fallen Madonna, a local treasure, to provide a “nest egg” after the war. Among those who coveted it were the local German commandant Colonel Erich Von Strohm (Richard Marner) and the German Führer Adolf Hitler himself on whose behalf Herr Otto Flick (Richard Gibson) of the Gestapo was instructed to secure it.
The painting was seen and hidden in various guises; it was often secreted, with suggestive possibilities, in a long knockwurst (sausage). Forgeries were also in evidence. On one occasion Herr Flick drew attention to “three Fallen Madonnas with six big boobies” .
Lord Bath
Following his assistance with an event connected with the programme, the BBC presented the 6th Marquess of Bath with a specially commissioned copy of the Fallen Madonna which was hung alongside Old Masters in Bath's ancestral home, Longleat .
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Notes
- "Boob" is slang for "breast": see Oxford Pocket Dictionary (8th ed, 1992).
- Broadcast on 14 September 1984.
- See The Return of 'Allo 'Allo! (BBC), 28 April 2007
- The Return of 'Allo 'Allo! (BBC), 28 April 2007