His character would leave the magazine in the surgery's waiting room in hopes of catching one of the male customers perusing it." Health and Efficiency Magazine was also used in the British television show Allo Allo, season 7, episode 5, titled "The Gestapo Ruins a Picnic". In the episode Herr Otto Flick receives his latest copy of Health and Efficiency and begins to tremble while looking at the center-fold, he then attempts to phone for the Health and Efficiency calendar. In the "Are You Being Served?" episode, "Hoorah for the Holidays," Mr. Humphries, upon hearing of Captain Peacock's nudist lifestyle, asks him if that was him "chopping down that tree in last month’s "Health and Efficiency.""