Cast

Tim Healy - Dennis a bricklayer from Newcastle
Kevin Whately - Neville a bricklayer from Newcastle
Jimmy nail - Oz a bricklayer from Newcastle
Timothy Spall - Barry Taylor an electrician from Wolverhampton
Christopher Fairbank - Moxey a plasterer from Liverpool
Pat Roach - Bomber a bricklayer from Bristol
Gary Holton - Wayne a carpenter from London

Auf Wiedersehen Pet - The Series began in 1983 with 13 episodes.

The series is about three bricklayers from Newcastle in England. The lads are constantly on the dole and when they are working going from one building site to another, times where hard in England in the early 80's and with the families to support the lads decided to try there look in Germany.

The lads land in Germany and are shipped to a building site and are forced to live in a wooden hut that reminds them of a prisoner of war camp. This is where they meet up with four other builders from other parts of the UK. The series covers there six months there, and covers there antics and lives during there stay abroad. The series covers growing friendships between the characters. Barry is a boring so and so, Wayne likes the women, and Oz is arrogant and is always upsetting people. This all bonds them into the "Magnificent seven". The series won many awards including a BAFTA nomination.

******** Episodes Copied from the Box Inlay ********

Episodes

1. If I were a carpenter.

In desperation to find work in jobless Britain, 3 Geordie bricklayers decide to head to Germany to work on the massive rebuilding programs that are happening there.

Dennis, Oz and Neville hope to find tax free wages, beautiful woman and cheap beer.

What they find instead is a wooden hut.

2. Who won the war anyway?

Oz's mouth and attitude to the "foreign people" lands him the sack. Neville becomes a hero when he discovers an unexploded bomb from the war.

3.The girls they left behind.

Oz's wife is desperate to find him to get more money, and she contacts the wife of Dennis, Who tells her where he is. Oz returns home with a hang over.

The problem lies with the lads back in Germany, think they have seen the last of him, they auction his stuff and send the money to his flat. The problem is Oz is on his way back to Germany.

4. Suspicion.

Possessions start to go missing from the hut the finger gets pointed at everyone. The lads blame everyone and Oz takes things into his own hands.

5. Home thoughts from abroad.

Bomber gets a phone call from home; his daughter has runs away from home and turns up in Germany. Only problem Bomber has returned to Bristol to try and find her.

6. The accused.

Oz upsets the Germans far too much this time, and none of them will even speak to any of the English workers. And to make matters worse, Neville is wrongly accused of assaulting a German girl, and it takes more than his English friends to get him out of trouble. It is Helmut and some of the German workers who track down the real culprits and turn them in to the police.

7. Private lives.

Synopsis - All Dennis wants is to spend some time with his new girlfriend Dagmar and keep it from the rest of the lads, but Oz's practical joke on Wayne and Barry wrecks any chance of that.

8. The fugitive.

The lads decide to have a few days to there self and go fishing in the country, they pick up a hitchhiker who is very mysterious about his motives.

9. The alien.

An unwelcome guest moves in to the hut. With Bomber away, they cannot remove him by force. So how are they going to rid themselves of McGowan the violent Irish nutter?

10. Last rites.

When a acquaintance of Dennis and Neville dies, he last wishes are to be sent back to the UK.
Oz then decides to try a bit of smuggling; he starts his imported pornographic video business.

11. The lovers.

Barry persuades the lads to do up the hut and make it a bit homely; the lads have to pinch the paint from the site. Oz falls in love, making out to be a rich tycoon.

12. Love and other four letter words.

When Dennis wife comes to Germany, she tells Dennis she wants him back. Meanwhile Wayne admits to Dennis that he has fallen for the site secretarial assistant Christa.

13. When the boat goes out.

The work on the site is nearly done, and Dennis temper is being taken out on everyone. Oz has a serious accident which makes Dennis realize how important his mates are. The series comes to an explosive end.

Thanks for reading my reviews, and thankyou for rating them.

Tashi Delek (May everything be well)

the_enlightened_one © 2007