• Air date: 28 Dec '04 2 episodes
      Auf 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...
  • List of Episodes (2)
    • 1. Au Revoir: Part 1

      28 Dec '04
      Following a narrow escape from a British embassy in Africa besieged by rioters, the lads relocate to the Australian embassy in Laos for their next job. Whilst at work, after all their adventures, one by one the boys realise there's more to life than being part of their gang - a feeling brought into sharp focus after a letter arrives from Bomber telling them he's swapping his trowel for a settled family life. On successfully completing the job, and sensing this could be the last time they're
    • 2. Au Revoir: Part 2

      29 Dec '04
      Following a narrow escape from a British embassy in Africa besieged by rioters, the lads relocate to the Australian embassy in Laos for their next job. Whilst at work, after all their adventures, one by one the boys realise there's more to life than being part of their gang - a feeling brought into sharp focus after a letter arrives from Bomber telling them he's swapping his trowel for a settled family life. On successfully completing the job, and sensing this could be the last time they're