Auf Wiedersehen Pet - The Complete Series 2 (Mini Tool Box Set) (DVD)

Author's product rating:   

Did you enjoy it?	Loved it
Story	Good
Characters / Performances	Good
Special Effects	Standard
How does it compare to similar films?	Outstanding

Advantages:	The Boys are back in town
Disadvantages:	none

Recommend to potential buyers:

yes

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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
Bill Paterson - Ally Fraser

If you loved the first series, you will love this. Oz is still as bad as ever and Barry is still worried about his future wife to be. A great follow on to the first series.

The "Magnificent Seven" have returned home from Germany after new laws about foreign works forces them out. The gangs are reunited to help Barry complete some building work on his house. Dennis is working for a crooked businessman, Alley Frazer after running huge debt through gambling. Frazier wants his country manor renovating and Dennis gets the lads to do it. The building turns out to be a listed building and work stops. The police turn up on the scene enquiring about Alley Frazier and his business. Alley, doesn't like the police being nosey and looking around and heads to Spain. Alley finds the lads work in Spain building a swimming pool for his villa. The gangs are mistaken for criminals and find them selves all over the papers back home in the UK.

Gary Holton - Wayne died whilst making this series from a drug overdose.

*************** Episodes Copied From the Inlay **************

1. The return of the seven. (Part One)

Barry begins to realize his house will not be done up in time for his wedding, he sends for the lads. They all answer his call except Oz. Moxey decides to escape from prison to help him out.

2. The return of the seven. (Part two)

Dennis has to return to Newcastle, where he meets up with Oz, and when he returns to Wolverhampton, he has Oz in tow. The magnificent seven back together for the first time since Düsseldorf.

3. A law for the rich.

The lad's get a job from Ally Fraser doing up Thornley manor, the police are involved, and the local bar owner where the lads are stopping takes a distinct disliking to them.

4. Another country.

The lads have to stop working on the Thornley manor, after finding out it is a listed building, and to make matters worse, the lads have been kicked out of their lodgings due to Wayne's 'exploits' with the landlords daughter.

5. A home from home.

The lads are forced to squat in the manor; it is while they are renovating the manors basement that the find two videos, one of which is amateur porn film starring the pub landlord... Arthur Pringle. A bit of Blackmail is on the cards.

6. Cowboys.

The seven become eight as they are joined by a new member, Harry Blackburn, a plumber, crazy on country and western music. The truth comes out about Dennis' debts and the lads all go on strike. Ally Frazier annoyed to here of this sends in his boys to sort them out.

7. No sex please, we're brickies.

The lads get more motivated to finish work as Ally wants them to extend the swimming pool in his Spanish villa. Arthur gets his own back on Wayne by shopping him to customs and excise for not paying import duty on his car.

8. Marjorie doesn't live here anymore.

When Oz returns home he is horrified to discover that his family has moved.
Anxious about his son, he tracks him down to his school where he learns that Marjorie and her boyfriend are taking Rod to live in Italy.

9. Hasta la vista.

After getting all fired up for Spain and getting through customs, Dennis gets a phone call from Ally in the departure lounge saying they are not going yet due to complications.

10. Scoop.

The lads arrive, at last and after many difficulties, in Spain. The lads check in to their hotel, some of them with mixed opinions. When the lads arrive at what they think is Ally's villa, they decide to go nude swimming in his pool. It was of course not Ally's villa, but the villa of a very posh upper class English couple, who of course report this to the local police. Then a British journalist gets the wrong idea about the lads, splashing them all over the Fleet Street papers.

11. Law and disorder.

Ally has given the lads two days off work to reinforce the impression that they are just tourists. Ally realizes that his dodgy dealings may have earned him a permanent residency in Marbella.

12. for better or worse.

Hazel has arrived in Spain, Barry can start to try and work out his wedding plans. Meanwhile Ally tries to work out a way of smuggling his money in to Spain without the customs sussing him out.

13. Quo vadis pet.

Dennis finally gets one up on Ally Fraser, and he uses it completely to his advantage. With Ally in Tangiers, Oz makes the most of the Glaswegians girlfriend Vicki. Barry gets fired up for his wedding; having decided to have six best men, bet you cannot guess who they are. The night before the wedding, Oz wins the Spanish lottery, and celebrates in Style. Barry and Hazel wed out at sea, and Ally turns up on another boat. Meanwhile yet another boat draws in on them. The customs. In a panic, Ally and Kenny make for Tangiers, with several unofficial passengers. And this is where we finally leave the magnificent seven, once more ending with them, this time all of them, advancing the ocean to another country.

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Tashi Delek (May everything be well)

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