• Auf wiedersehen pet

Posted: **Fri Jun 12, 2020 10:35 pm**

Just watched this from start to finish

Absolute forgotten classic

Posted: **Fri Jun 12, 2020 10:44 pm**

Where is it please?

Posted: **Fri Jun 12, 2020 10:51 pm**

Thought this was going to be another one to bite the dust when i saw the thread title, thankfully that's not the case.

You didn't watch it all in a oner did you? there's 40 episodes in total.

Posted: **Fri Jun 12, 2020 10:58 pm**

mdd2 wrote: ↑
Fri Jun 12, 2020 10:44 pm
Where is it please?

It's free to air on the UKTV app

Unfortunately though a number of episodes are chopped to bits which does disrupt the flow of some episodes

Posted: **Fri Jun 12, 2020 10:59 pm**

One of my all time favourites.

Posted: **Fri Jun 12, 2020 10:59 pm**

I have worked abroad in that sort of environment, and yes there was a group of Geordie's, a dodgy Scouser and always a flash Cockney.

Although to be fair to the Geordie's, there was no Oz character among them, but definitely a whining Neville Hope.

Posted: **Fri Jun 12, 2020 11:01 pm**

great series, but it went flat in the later episodes.

Posted: **Fri Jun 12, 2020 11:06 pm**

Not a patch on Boys from the black stuff!

Posted: **Fri Jun 12, 2020 11:14 pm**

The first series were outstanding in Germany. As were the series set in England. Comedy at its finest.

Posted: **Fri Jun 12, 2020 11:17 pm**

fanzone wrote: ↑
Fri Jun 12, 2020 11:14 pm
The first series were outstanding in Germany. As were the series set in England. Comedy at its finest.

The young guy dying maybe had an impact .

Posted: **Fri Jun 12, 2020 11:17 pm**

Wile E Coyote wrote: ↑
Fri Jun 12, 2020 11:01 pm
great series, but it went flat in the later episodes.

I can't remember the timeline of the (modern) series but the only one that was a bit shite was the jungle one.

I thought the ones in Cuba and the U.S were pretty good.

Posted: **Fri Jun 12, 2020 11:21 pm**

Caught the first couple of episodes on some obscure channel a couple of weeks ago.

It's one of those programmes that I can always sit and watch.

Posted: **Fri Jun 12, 2020 11:22 pm**

So, let's get this right:
Lazy skiving English workers composed of boozed up Geordies, dodgy scousers, flash cockneys trying to give stereotypical Germans the run around?
How many different groups did they offend!!
This sort of out dated offensive garbage should be banned immediately!!

Posted: **Fri Jun 12, 2020 11:40 pm**

Great writing - one of the first series which gently poked fun at our regional and national stereotypes

Great cast too - ex wrestlers and Shakespearean actors working together

Posted: **Fri Jun 12, 2020 11:44 pm**

SalisburyClaret wrote: ↑
Fri Jun 12, 2020 11:40 pm
Great writing - one of the first series which gently poked fun at our regional and national stereotypes

Great cast too - ex wrestlers and Shakespearean actors working together

I don't remember Jimmy Nail doing Shakespeare.

Posted: **Sat Jun 13, 2020 12:05 am**

As a bricklayer/stonemason myself they wouldn't have got a job at Lego!

Posted: **Sat Jun 13, 2020 12:44 am**

I liked the 4 specials, sad that Bomber died

Posted: **Sat Jun 13, 2020 1:15 am**

Coincidentally just started re watching the 1st series dvd box set I bought years ago this week.

Ok, it seems slightly dated now but still a good watch because it's well written and you care about the characters.

Thought the 2nd series was the best, will be watching that when I've finished the first one ( and the the opening and closing theme tunes to both are ace)

Posted: **Sat Jun 13, 2020 4:08 am**

Great show, much enjoyed

Posted: **Sat Jun 13, 2020 9:10 am**

There’s one exchange between Barry and Oz that my cousin and I refer to all the time.

Oz is making some kind of racket in the stalag:

BARRY: Oi, do yow mind, some of us are trying to get some sleep over ‘ere.
OZ: ********!
BARRY: I was only sayin’
OZ: Double ********!

Posted: **Sat Jun 13, 2020 9:31 am**

TheFamilyCat wrote: ↑
Fri Jun 12, 2020 11:44 pm
I don't remember Jimmy Nail doing Shakespeare.

But Moggsy did

Posted: **Sat Jun 13, 2020 2:42 pm**

The one in Spain was class. Oz falling asleep whilst on watch.

How did you get past our lookout?

I just took the liberty of not waking him up.

Posted: **Sat Jun 13, 2020 3:28 pm**

Bin Ont Turf wrote: ↑
Fri Jun 12, 2020 10:59 pm
I have worked abroad in that sort of environment, and yes there was a group of Geordie's, a dodgy Scouser and always a flash Cockney...

,

That's what made the original series a Classic, the writers (was it Clement & La Frenais?) really got the vibe/setting of the British Construction workers in Germany spot on, someone must've worked with them, there was an 'insiders' eye cast over it. Sadly, whilst some of the episodes in later series were humorous, they never quite caught the reality which the first series did.

Posted: **Sat Jun 13, 2020 9:34 pm**

some of the best british telly ever and gary holton had some voice as well.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uZpFIbahTTE

Posted: **Sat Jun 13, 2020 9:47 pm**

yTib wrote: ↑
Sat Jun 13, 2020 9:34 pm
some of the best british telly ever and gary holton had some voice as well.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uZpFIbahTTE

Wayne Winston Norris

Posted: **Sat Jun 13, 2020 10:00 pm**

AfloatinClaret wrote: ↑
Sat Jun 13, 2020 3:28 pm
,

That's what made the original series a Classic, the writers (was it Clement & La Frenais?) really got the vibe/setting of the British Construction workers in Germany spot on, someone must've worked with them, there was an 'insiders' eye cast over it. Sadly, whilst some of the episodes in later series were humorous, they never quite caught the reality which the first series did.

I do think that they had to branch out a bit a move with the times though. Even if some of it was a little far fetched, although we have to remember it was TV show.

Posted: **Sun Jun 14, 2020 11:00 am**

1st 2 series were nothing short of brilliant ,the writing the brilliant cast and characters ,pretty much all of who went in to successful careers . They got the whole group work thing almost perfect . The “ comeback series” were enjoyable enough but were more a nostalgia trip .

Posted: **Sun Jun 14, 2020 12:24 pm**

Dusseldorf, Barrys house, Thornley Manor, Barley Mow pub, Allie Frasers villa in Spain. You felt like you actually knew these places and the magnificent seven personally. That is how good it is.

The problem with the bridge series is that they changed the characters too much . Oz and Barry were unrecognisable from the original series.

Posted: **Sun Jun 14, 2020 1:55 pm**

karatekid wrote: ↑
Sun Jun 14, 2020 12:24 pm
Dusseldorf, Barrys house, Thornley Manor, Barley Mow pub, Allie Frasers villa in Spain. You felt like you actually knew these places and the magnificent seven personally. That is how good it is.

Spot on, it really was that good.

Posted: **Sun Jun 14, 2020 2:39 pm**

i think when it began in germany, most of us would have loved to have been part of their group in that hut. surely that's the standard of a great comedy, that we want to be part of it. It was brilliantly scripted and acted by those actors. perfect casting too.

Posted: **Sun Jun 14, 2020 2:43 pm**

The actors used to get in the Free Trade, Newcastle many Friday evenings. Nail played himself!?
Landlord was a Clarets supporter, Peter? from Crawshawbooth, sculpture lecturer at Newcastle Poly.

Posted: **Sun Jun 14, 2020 3:15 pm**

SalisburyClaret wrote: ↑
Sat Jun 13, 2020 9:31 am
But Moggsy did

Who ?

Posted: **Sun Jun 14, 2020 3:42 pm**

joey13 wrote: ↑
Sun Jun 14, 2020 3:15 pm
Who ?

The dodgy scouser - Moggsy or Moxey

Played by Christopher Fairbank

Posted: **Sun Jun 14, 2020 7:24 pm**

Kevin Whately (Dennis) is a Claret.

Posted: **Sun Jun 14, 2020 7:36 pm**

Dennis is Tim Healy a Geordie.

Posted: **Sun Jun 14, 2020 7:44 pm**

Kevin Whately is from Hexham, the Tyne Valley. More famous as Morse's sidekick Lewis.

Posted: **Sun Jun 14, 2020 9:37 pm**

CleggHall wrote: ↑
Sun Jun 14, 2020 7:44 pm
Kevin Whately is from Hexham, the Tyne Valley. More famous as Morse's sidekick Lewis.

His wife or some other relative has some relation to Burnley tho

Posted: **Sun Jun 14, 2020 10:43 pm**

Well - that’s all clear then...

Posted: **Mon Jun 15, 2020 10:20 pm**

Showing on Yesterday freeview 25.

Posted: **Tue Jun 16, 2020 7:02 am**

Watched the episode 'Private Lives' from series 1 last night.

There was a scene when Oz was digressing about being in a hotel in Sheffield and he talked about the Newcastle v Burnley semi final and 2 goals from 'Supermac'

My least favourite scene of the whole series..

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