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Auf Wiedersehen, Pet : Season 3
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Air date: 28 Apr '02 - 7 episodesAuf Wiedersehen Pet is a British comedy-drama series about seven British migrant construction workers who leave the UK to search for employment overseas. In the first series, they live and work on a building site in Düsseldorf, Germany. In the second series, they work for a dodgy businessman on a manor in the English countryside, and then his swimming pool at his villa in Spain. In the third series, set fifteen years later, they reunite for a big job on the Middlesbrough transporter bridge which results in them working in Arizona. In the fourth series, they work on a British embassy in Havana, Cuba. The lead roles were performed by Tim Healy, Kevin Whately, Jimmy Nail, Gary Holton, Christopher Fairbank, Pat Roach and Timothy Spall. Auf Wiedersehen, Pet was created by Franc Roddam after an idea from Mick Connell came to light. It was mostly written by Dick Clement and Ian La Frenais, who also wrote The Likely Lads, Whatever Happened to the Likely Lads? and Porridge. Stan Hey also contributed...
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List of Episodes (7)
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Auf Wiedersehen, Pet (1983)
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1. Bridging the Gap
28 Apr '02The lads reunite in Middlesbrough for Oz's funeral, only to be approached by the man himself and he has an 'Irresistible offer' of work at home and abroad. They of course still have their problems and most with their lack of money. With Barry is problems with his marriage to beautiful wife Tatiana, and for Moxey, getting himself on the hit list of a Liverpool gangster called Mickey Startup hasnt really made his day, but things don't get much better.
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2. Heavy Metal
05 May '02The foreign workforce arive and immediatley there are problems as half are Serbs and half are from Kasavo, who have been at war for years! The boys start their roles as gaffers and the bridge begins to come down!
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3. Bridge over Troubled Water
12 May '02There is trouble all round and the deal to sell the bridge falls through. Oz finds out his son is a 'pillow biter' (gay) and has to deal with it in his own way. And men are sent looking for Moxey but help arrives in the most unusual form, a native American!
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4. A Bridge Too Far
19 May '02A Native American appears on the banks of the river and wants to buy the rbidge, but there is a problem the boys don't own the bridge, will granger fall for their scheme? Barry finds out that Tatyana is not Kadi's brother and throws her and Kadi out, Kadi seeks his revenge by shooting up the house! The boys fly out to America on Kadi's old plane with several tonnes of the steel. But Kadi has left a few of his 'possesions' and the motels the boys are staying in is raided by the D.E.A.!
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5. Another Country
26 May '02The lads find themselves united once more as workers, with a grim little hut for their new home. Barry begins to go off the rails whilst awaiting trial on drugs charges, Neville falls in love with a prostitute on the road to Las Vegas, and Oz is forced to make a heroic act of bravery to rescue the bridge project from ruin. Granger finds out about the bridge project and threatens revenge. Wyman goes missing after Oz almost comes to blows with some guys in a local pub.
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6. An Inspector Calls
02 Jun '02The lads discover that the past has a habit of coming back to haunt them. A police inspector arrives looking for Moxey and a vengeful Grainger puts a spanner in the works with the bridge-build. Dennis negotiates a peaceful solution, and Grainger agrees to go to Arizona. The bridge is finally completed - but they have a little surprise planned for Grainger! N.B. The Transporter Bridge is still in Middlesborough!
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7. Comic Relief - Miami Vice
14 Mar '03After completing work in Venezuela, problems at the airports mean that they are shipwrecked in Miami. We catch up with them in a hotel lobby desperately trying to find a room. Meanwhile, Moxey is looking for his case, as finds it, right next to another case exactly the same as his. Not wanting the take the wrong luggage he opens one, and finds it full of cash! Moxey being himself, he takes the case with the cash, and rejoins the lads. The receptionist informs them that the only room is the
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