Auf Wiedersehen, Pet

Auf Wiedersehen, Pet

1983
★★★★☆ 7.8/10
📺 4 Seasons
🎬 38 Episodes
📅 Ended
🌐 EN
⏱️ 50 min/episode
ComedyDrama
Seven British construction workers escape Britain's ever growing dole queues and travel to Germany to work on a site in Dusseldorf. We follow their trials and tribulations of working away from home and away from the women they left behind.

Seasons

Season 1
1983 • 13 Episodes
Seven out-of-work construction workers from various parts of England who are forced to look for work in West Germany. They find work on a German building site in Dusseldorf but despite promises of hostel accommodation, are forced to live in a small hut that reminds them of a World War II POW camp.
Season 2
1986 • 13 Episodes
1986 saw the boys reunited, initially to help Barry complete extensive building work on his new home in Wolverhampton. Dennis is working for a crooked businessman, Ally Fraser, to whom he owes money. Dennis encourages the rest of the gang to help renovate a country manor house owned by Fraser, Thornely Manor, but they end up falling foul of the locals. Fraser invites the boys to Spain to refurbish his swimming pool at his Spanish villa.
Season 3
2002 • 6 Episodes
The lads reunite in Middlesbrough for Oz's funeral, only to be approached by the man himself and he has an 'Irresistible offer' of work at home and abroad. They of course still have their problems and most with their lack of money. With Barry is problems with his marriage to beautiful wife Tatiana, and for Moxey, getting himself on the hit list of a Liverpool gangster called Mickey Startup hasnt really made his day, but things don't get much better.
Season 4
2004 • 6 Episodes
The characters now work as building subcontractors for the British Embassy after a building job in Moscow goes badly wrong and are given a tip off from a friend of Oz who tells them about specialised embassy work. The team are posted to Havana to completely refurbish the British ambassador's new residence. They also carry out some unofficial building work for Oz's Cuban girlfriend's family.

Crew

Producer
Jimmy Nail, Allan McKeown, Alan Yentob

Network

ITV1, BBC One

Keywords

germanyupper classculture clashnorthern englandfriendshipnative americanlandlordworking classfalklandsunemployment