Auf Wiedersehen, Pet
Auf Wiedersehen Pet is a British comedy-drama series about seven migrant construction workers who leave job to be searched for by the UK . On a building site in Düsseldorf, Germany, they live and work From the first series. At the next series, they benefit a dodgy business man on his swimming pool at his villa in Spain, and then a manor in the English countryside. At the next series, set fifteen decades after , they go back for a big job on the Middlesbrough transporter bridge which results in those working in Arizona. At the fourth series, they focus with a British embassy in Havana, Cuba.
The roles have been played with Tim Healy, Kevin Whately, Jimmy Nail, Gary Holton, Christopher Fairbank, Pat Roach and Timothy Spall.
Auf Wiedersehen, Pet was created by Franc Roddam after a notion from Mick Connell came to light. It had been written by Dick Clement and Ian La Frenais, who also wrote The Likely Lads, Whatever Happened to the Likely Lads? And Porridge. Stan Hey contributed writing a number of episodes. LaFrenais's and Clement Witzend Productions and also Central Television co-produced the first two series and the series were broadcast on ITV in 1986 and 1983-1984. A revival of the show saw two series and a Christmas special displayed on BBC One in 2002 and 2004.
The show was that the main topic of the first episode of the BBC series Drama Connections.
Released: 1983-11-11