First broadcast in 1983 with its second series airing in 1986, Auf Wiedersehen Pet was an unlikely comedy hit about a group of British labourers forced to work in Germany during the recession. Scripted by Dick Clement and Ian La Frenais, (previously responsible for Porridge and The Likely Lads) its main players are likeable stereotypes from all over England: Barry (Timothy Spall), the bumbling, haplessly pretentious Brummie; gentle West Country giant Bomber (Pat Roach); amiable Scouse Moxey (Christopher Fairbank); and the three Geordies, nervous Neville (Kevin Whately),... loudmouth xenophobic lummox Oz (Jimmy Nail) and put-upon Dennis (Tim Healy), the reluctant gaffer of the mob. The second series saw the lads reunited to work for a dubious entrepreneur called Ally Fraser to whom Dennis owes money, and the location varying from Spain to Derbyshire. Gary Holton (cheeky cockney Wayne) died during the making of the series and Clement and La Frenais farmed out several episodes to other writers like Stan Hey, but the characters were well established by this point and the comedy held up. An episode in which the gang upset the locals of a stuffy country pub with their very presence is particularly memorable. A belated third series followed in 2002.--David Stubbs [show more]
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The entire second series of the cult TV show in which the likeable Geordies, along with boring Barry from Wolverhampton and Londoner Wayne (played by Gary Holton who died during filming), find themselves in the exotic location of Marbella, following the success of their trip to Germany. The episodes are: 'The Return of the Seven Parts 1 and 2', 'A Law for the Rich', 'Another Country', 'A Home From Home', 'Cowboys', 'No Sex Please, We're Brickies', Marjorie Doesn't Live Here Anymore', 'Hasta La Vista', 'Scoop', 'Law and Order', 'For Better, For Worse' and finally 'Quo Vadis, Pet'.
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