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Auf Wiedersehen, Pet

★ 8.5 5K votes 1983–2004 5 seasons · 40 episodes Ended ITV1
Working classOrdinary people, ordinary money, real stakes.This show: 9/10FriendshipA friend group's dynamics carry the show.This show: 9/10British TVThe British television sensibility: tone, restraint and format traditions.This show: 9/10Ensemble castMany characters carrying equal weight.This show: 8/10WorkplaceThe job and its social ecosystem as the stage.This show: 7/10BittersweetJoy and loss mixed so thoroughly they can't be separated.This show: 7/10Warm humorAffectionate comedy that genuinely loves its characters.This show: 7/10
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Starring
Timothy SpallJimmy NailTim HealyKevin WhatelyChristopher FairbankPat Roach
Written by
Franc Roddam
Starring
Timothy SpallJimmy NailTim HealyKevin WhatelyChristopher FairbankPat Roach
Written by
Franc Roddam
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About

"Working-class exiles finding comedy in economic hardship abroad"

Seven unemployed British construction workers leave the North East of England for a building site in Germany, sharing a grim hostel and each other's company far from home. What starts as a fish-out-of-water comedy about mismatched blokes abroad gradually deepens into something more melancholy, tracking unemployment, class, friendship and homesickness across the Thatcher years. The humour is dry and character-driven rather than gag-based, the pace unhurried, and the ensemble chemistry is what really carries it. It's very much a product of its era, but its warmth and social bite still land.

Watch it for

the tight ensemble cast whose banter and loyalty carry every episode.

Maybe skip if

you want fast plotting rather than slow character-driven, era-specific social comedy.

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All Seasons

Series 11983
8.42K1310h 56m
Seven out-of-work construction workers from various parts of England who are forced to look for work in West Germany. They find work on a German building site in Dusseldorf but despite promises of hostel accommodation, are forced to live in a small hut that reminds them of a World War II POW camp.
Series 21986
8.61K1310h 55m
1986 saw the boys reunited, initially to help Barry complete extensive building work on his new home in Wolverhampton. Dennis is working for a crooked businessman, Ally Fraser, to whom he owes money. Dennis encourages the rest of the gang to help renovate a country manor house owned by Fraser, Thornely Manor, but they end up falling foul of the locals. Fraser invites the boys to Spain to refurbish his swimming pool at his Spanish villa.
Series 32002
8.34426
Series 42004
7.73826
The characters now work as building subcontractors for the British Embassy after a building job in Moscow goes badly wrong and are given a tip off from a friend of Oz who tells them about specialised embassy work. The team are posted to Havana to completely refurbish the British ambassador's new residence. They also carry out some unofficial building work for Oz's Cuban girlfriend's family.
Season 5
7.113422h

Full Cast & Crew

Cast

Timothy Spall Barry Taylor
Jimmy Nail Oz Osborne
Tim Healy Dennis Patterson
Kevin Whately Neville Hope
Christopher Fairbank Albert Moxey
Pat Roach Bomber Busbridge
Gary Holton Wayne Norris
Julia Tobin Brenda Hope, Brenda
Noel Clarke Wyman Norris
Bill Paterson Ally Fraser

Crew

Franc Roddam

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