Auf Wiedersehen, Pet is a British comedy-drama series about seven British migrant construction workers who leave the UK to seek work abroad. In the first series, they live and work on a construction site in Düsseldorf, Germany. They work for a shady businessman on a manor in the English countryside in the second series, and later for his swimming pool at his house in Spain. They rejoin for a huge job on the Middlesbrough transporter bridge in the third series, set fifteen years later, which leads to them working in Arizona. They work on a British embassy in Havana, Cuba, in the fourth series. Tim Healy, Kevin Whately, Jimmy Nail, Gary Holton, Christopher Fairbank, Pat Roach, and Timothy Spall played the key parts. Franc Roddam produced Auf Wiedersehen, Pet in response to a concept from Mick Connell. Dick Clement and Ian La Frenais, who also penned The Likely Lads, Whatever Happened to the Likely Lads?, and Porridge, wrote the majority of it. Stan Hey also helped write a few episodes. The first two series were co-produced by Clement and LaFrenais' Witzend Productions and Central Television, and aired on ITV in 1983-1984 and1986, respectively. The show was successfully revived in 2002 and2004, with two series and a Christmas special broadcast on BBC One. The inaugural episode of the BBC documentary series Drama Connections featured the show.
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