Auf Wiedersehen, Pet
Auf Wiedersehen Pet is a British comedy-drama series about seven migrant construction workers who leave the UK in search of work abroad. They live and work on a construction site in Düsseldorf, Germany, in the first series. They work for a shady businessman on a manor in the English countryside and then his swimming pool at his villa in Spain in the second series. They rejoin fifteen years later in the third series for a major project on the Middlesbrough transporter bridge, which leads to them working in Arizona. They work on a British embassy in Havana, Cuba, in the fourth series. Tim Healy, Kevin Whately, Jimmy Nail, Gary Holton, Christopher Fairbank, Pat Roach, and Timothy Spall played the key parts. After an idea from Mick Connell came to light, Franc Roddam created Auf Wiedersehen, Pet. Dick Clement and Ian La Frenais, who also penned The Likely Lads, Whatever Happened to the Likely Lads?, and Porridge, wrote the majority of it. Stan Hey also helped write a couple of episodes. Clement and LaFrenais' Witzend Productions and Central Television co-produced the first two seasons, which were broadcast on ITV in 1983-1984 and 1986. Two series and a Christmas special were shown on BBC One in 2002 and 2004 after a successful comeback. The inaugural episode of the BBC documentary series Drama Connections focused on the show.
Released: 1983-11-11