Auf Wiedersehen, Pet

Auf Wiedersehen, Pet was a popular British comedy-drama series about a group of seven British migrant construction workers: Wayne, Dennis, Oz, Bomber, Barry, Neville and Moxey, who, in Series 1, are living and working on a German building site. It was created by Franc Roddam and mostly written by Dick Clement and Ian La Frenais, who also wrote The Likely Lads, Whatever Happened to the Likely Lads? and Porridge. The first two series of the show were co-produced by Clement and LaFrenais's Witzend Productions and ITV station Central Television (the assistance of an ITV station was necessary at that time to gain access to the network) and broadcast in 1983 and 1986 on the ITV network (now ITV1). A successful revival of the show saw two series and a Christmas special shown on BBC1 (after ITV had failed to re-secure rights) in 2002 and 2004. It notably starred Tim Healy, Kevin Whately, Jimmy Nail, Gary Holton, Christopher Fairbank, Pat Roach and Timothy Spall as the leading roles. In... full article at wikipedia