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Seven British construction workers escape Britain's ever growing dole queues and travel to Germany to work on a site in Dusseldorf. We follow their trials and tribulations of working away from home and away from

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    Auf Wiedersehen, Pet Season 1 Episode 13 - When the Boat Goes Out
    9.1/10(122 votes)

    #1 - When the Boat Goes Out

    S1:E13

    It's just about time to pack up and go home now that the German government has decided that all foreign workers will have to register and pay income tax. Dennis has decided to go back to Vera, so he plans to spend one last night with Dagmar. The rest of the lads go out on the town. When they get back to the building site, a fire starts and the hut is burnt to the ground. They all go round to stay the night at Dagmar's place. Next day, the lads go their separate ways and Dennis, Neville and Oz catch the ferry back to England.

    Director:Roger Bamford
    Writer:Unknown

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  2. Auf Wiedersehen, Pet Season 2 Episode 5 - A Home from Home
    9.0/10(98 votes)

    #2 - A Home from Home

    S2:E5

    The lads can't find accommodation because Arthur Pringle has 'put the word out' about them. They have to 'rough it' in Thornley Manor. Then they find an amateur video showing sexy goings on at the Manor - with Arthur Pringle as one of the stars.

    Director:Roger Bamford
    Writer:Unknown

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  3. Auf Wiedersehen, Pet Season 1 Episode 7 - Private Lives
    8.9/10(137 votes)

    #3 - Private Lives

    S1:E7

    Dennis is getting it together with Dagmar from the site office. He takes her off to a hotel for a romantic interlude. Meanwhile, Wayne and Barry are 'on the pull' and have met up with a couple of Swedish air hostesses staying at the same hotel. Oz decides to play a practical joke on them, so he rings the hotel and leaves a message telling Barry and Wayne to go up to a particular room. The room is occupied by a German couple who think they're being mugged. Wayne and Barry have to 'do a runner' from the hotel. Their escapades ruin Dennis and Dagmar's chances of a romantic evening.

    Director:Roger Bamford
    Writer:Unknown

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  4. Auf Wiedersehen, Pet Season 1 Episode 12 - Love and Other Four Letter Words
    8.9/10(113 votes)

    #4 - Love and Other Four Letter Words

    S1:E12

    Dennis' wife, Vera, visits him in Dusseldorf and tells him that she wants to try to rescue their marriage. With Vera and the kids back home to consider, will he sty in Germany or Returnt the Sunny shores of England? Meanwhile, Wayne has fallen in love with Christa, a secretary in the site office.

    Director:Unknown
    Writer:Unknown

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  5. Auf Wiedersehen, Pet Season 2 Episode 2 - The Return of the Seven Part 2
    8.9/10(109 votes)

    #5 - The Return of the Seven Part 2

    S2:E2

    Dennis has to go back to Newcastle to see his boss, Ally Fraser. While he's there, he meets up with Oz and brings him back to Wolverhampton. Ally Fraser asks him to put together a work gang to renovate an old manor house in Derbyshire.

    Director:Roger Bamford
    Writer:Unknown

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  6. Auf Wiedersehen, Pet Season 2 Episode 6 - Cowboys
    8.9/10(110 votes)

    #6 - Cowboys

    S2:E6

    A plumber named Harry Blackburn, who's mad about Country and Western music, joins the gang temporarily. He talks the gang into going for a night out at a Country and Western pub, where ""Big Willie Osborne"" does a turn. The lads go on strike in protest against Ally Fraser's treatment of Dennis. Fraser sends a gang of 'heavies' around to teach the strikers a lesson. The lads give them a ""good kicking""

    Director:Anthony Garner
    Writer:Unknown

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  7. Auf Wiedersehen, Pet Season 2 Episode 8 - Marjorie Doesn't Live Here Anymore
    8.9/10(106 votes)

    #7 - Marjorie Doesn't Live Here Anymore

    S2:E8

    Oz goes back to Newcastle and finds that his wife Marjorie has moved away and someone else is living in his flat. He goes to his son Rod's school and waits for the lad to come out. He learns that Marjorie is now living with an Italian named Sandro. She plans to move to Italy with him, taking Rod with her.

    Director:Roger Bamford
    Writer:Unknown

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  8. Auf Wiedersehen, Pet Season 2 Episode 7 - No Sex Please, We're Brickies
    8.8/10(95 votes)

    #8 - No Sex Please, We're Brickies

    S2:E7

    Ally Fraser wants the conversion work at Thornley Manor to be finished quickly. He offers the lads some more work renovating his villa in Spain. Arthur Pringle discovers that Wayne didn't bother to get an import license for his German car. He tells the Customs & Excise and they impound Wayne's car. The lads help to get the car back and manage to finish the work at the manor. Before leaving, they brick up Arthur Pringle's front door.

    Directors:Roger Bamford, Anthony Garner
    Writer:Unknown

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  9. Auf Wiedersehen, Pet Season 1 Episode 10 - Last Rites
    8.6/10(110 votes)

    #9 - Last Rites

    S1:E10

    While visiting a local hospital, Dennis and Neville become friendly with a Geordie expatriot named Hedley. He stayed in Germany after 'leaving' the Army and now has a terminal illness. Meanwhile, Oz has come up with a scheme to make money by exporting hardcore pornaographic videos from Germany to England. He talks Barry and Moxie into investing in the scheme and looks for a way to smuggle the videos to England. When Hedley dies suddenly, Oz talks the rest of the lads into paying for the body to be taken back to England for burial. He plans to hide the porno videos in the coffin. Wayne is going home for a family wedding, so he's talked into visiting Hedley's sister and arranging for the body to be handed over. He discovers that she doesn't want anything to do with her brother, who was apparently thrown out of the Army for racketeering. Hedley is cremated in Germany and Oz learns that his investment has gone up in smoke.

    Director:Baz Taylor
    Writer:Unknown

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  10. Auf Wiedersehen, Pet Season 2 Episode 4 - Another Country
    8.6/10(101 votes)

    #10 - Another Country

    S2:E4

    It's discovered that Thornley Manor is a listed building, so the lads are forced to stop work. Arthur Pringle throws everyone out of the pub after he catches Wayne in bed with his daughter.

    Director:Roger Bamford
    Writer:Unknown

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  11. Auf Wiedersehen, Pet Season 2 Episode 9 - Hasta la Vista
    8.6/10(91 votes)

    #11 - Hasta la Vista

    S2:E9

    After some delays, the lads finally set out for Spain, Dennis gets a phone call from Ally in the departure lounge saying they are not going yet due to complications. These are all sorted out, and they fly out that weekend, pretending to be tourists and sharing a plane with the Spennymoor and district senior citizens society. .

    Director:Anthony Garner
    Writer:Unknown

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  12. Auf Wiedersehen, Pet Season 2 Episode 13 - Quo Vadis, Pet
    8.6/10(93 votes)

    #12 - Quo Vadis, Pet

    S2:E13

    Dennis manages to get the upper hand, forcing Ally Fraser to ""wipe the slate clean"". Oz has a fling with Ally Fraser's girlfriend, Vicki. He also wins the Spanish lottery. The day of the wedding arrives and Barry and Hazel are married at sea. Ally Fraser turns up in another boat, closely followed by a Customs boat. The series ends with Kenny Aimes' yacht heading for Tangiers, with the Customs in hot pursuit.

    Director:Roger Bamford
    Writer:Unknown

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  13. Auf Wiedersehen, Pet Season 2 Episode 3 - A Law for the Rich
    8.5/10(97 votes)

    #13 - A Law for the Rich

    S2:E3

    The gang, minus Barry, arrive at Thornley Manor to start the renovation work. One of the locals reports them to the police, thinking they're housebreakers. They're staying at a local pub, where landlord Arthur Pringle takes an instant dislike to them.

    Director:Roger Bamford
    Writer:Unknown

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  14. Auf Wiedersehen, Pet Season 2 Episode 10 - Scoop
    8.5/10(90 votes)

    #14 - Scoop

    S2:E10

    Spain turns out to be a bit of a let-down, with a distinct lack of the 'action' some of the lads were looking forward to. The gang have problems with the local police after they go swimming in someone's pool, thinking it belongs to Ally Fraser. A British journalist thinks the lads are a gang of bank robbers on the run. They end up being featured in all of the British tabloid newspapers.

    Director:Roger Bamford
    Writer:Unknown

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  15. Auf Wiedersehen, Pet Season 3 Episode 6 - An Inspector Calls
    8.5/10(71 votes)

    #15 - An Inspector Calls

    S3:E6

    The lads discover that the past has a habit of coming back to haunt them. A police inspector arrives looking for Moxey and a vengeful Grainger puts a spanner in the works with the bridge-build. Dennis negotiates a peaceful solution, and Grainger agrees to go to Arizona. The bridge is finally completed - but they have a little surprise planned for Grainger! N.B. The Transporter Bridge is still in Middlesborough!

    Director:Paul Seed
    Writer:Unknown

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  16. Auf Wiedersehen, Pet Season 1 Episode 5 - Home Thoughts from Abroad
    8.4/10(119 votes)

    #16 - Home Thoughts from Abroad

    S1:E5

    Bomber's sixteen-year-old daughter runs away from her home in Bristol, so Bomber returns home to be with his wife while the search for their child continues. The missing daughter finds her way to Germany and turns up on the site looking for her father. The lads decide to hide her in the hut until Bomber returns. But can they keep her a secret from the Germans until Bomber returns?

    Director:Baz Taylor
    Writer:Unknown

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  17. Auf Wiedersehen, Pet Season 1 Episode 9 - The Alien
    8.4/10(104 votes)

    #17 - The Alien

    S1:E9

    MacGowan is a violent Irish nutcase. Nobody on the building site likes him and he's always getting into fights and causing trouble. And with Bomber away he ends up as an unwelcome guest in the hut. However the lads find an ingenius way of getting rid of him.

    Director:Unknown
    Writer:Unknown

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  18. Auf Wiedersehen, Pet Season 1 Episode 11 - The Lovers
    8.4/10(113 votes)

    #18 - The Lovers

    S1:E11

    Barry talks the lads into redecorating the hut, using paint 'redistributed' from the site stores. Oz pretends to be a rich man's son to impress a German girl. He falls in love with her, only to discover that she has a Turkish boyfriend who owns a local 'sauna parlour'. Oz almost ends up being knifed by the Turk, but is rescued when the Turks on the building site convince the wouldbe attacker that Oz is 'otherwise inclined'.

    Director:Baz Taylor
    Writer:Unknown

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  19. Auf Wiedersehen, Pet Season 3 Episode 1 - Bridging the Gap
    8.4/10(96 votes)

    #19 - Bridging the Gap

    S3:E1

    The lads reunite in Middlesbrough for Oz's funeral, only to be approached by the man himself and he has an 'Irresistible offer' of work at home and abroad. They of course still have their problems and most with their lack of money. With Barry is problems with his marriage to beautiful wife Tatiana, and for Moxey, getting himself on the hit list of a Liverpool gangster called Mickey Startup hasnt really made his day, but things don't get much better.

    Director:Paul Seed
    Writers:Dick Clement, Ian La Frenais

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  20. Auf Wiedersehen, Pet Season 2 Episode 1 - The Return of the Seven Part 1
    8.3/10(128 votes)

    #20 - The Return of the Seven Part 1

    S2:E1

    Barry needs some help to finish renovating his house in Wolverhampton before he marries his girlfriend, Hazel. He sends out an SOS to his old pals from Dusseldorf. Dennis, Neville, Wayne and Bomber turn up to help out. They all go off for a drink and come back to find an intruder in Barry's house. It's Moxie - unknown to the others, he's escaped from prison.

    Director:Roger Bamford
    Writer:Unknown

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  21. Auf Wiedersehen, Pet Season 1 Episode 4 - Suspicion
    8.2/10(127 votes)

    #21 - Suspicion

    S1:E4

    Something very expensive goes missing from the hut and they all begin to suspect each other. So in a bid to catch out the culprit various plans are hatched but as usual all of them end in failure. But in the ed it turns out that the thief isn't one of them at all but someone from outside the hut.

    Director:Roger Bamford
    Writer:Unknown

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  22. Auf Wiedersehen, Pet Season 1 Episode 8 - The Fugitive
    8.2/10(101 votes)

    #22 - The Fugitive

    S1:E8

    The lads go off for a weekend's fishing in the country, where they meet up with an English hitchhiker who is very mysterious, they lads suspicions grow when he later runs away from the police. However after a large confruntation the lads find out the truth, the boys turns out to be AWOL from the Army. The lads persuade him to do the right thins and return to his unit.

    Director:Roger Bamford
    Writer:Unknown

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  23. Auf Wiedersehen, Pet Season 2 Episode 11 - Law and Disorder
    8.2/10(85 votes)

    #23 - Law and Disorder

    S2:E11

    The lads have a few days off work. Ally tells them to make a real effort to persuade everyone that they're tourist rather than illegal workers.

    Director:Roger Bamford
    Writer:Unknown

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  24. Auf Wiedersehen, Pet Season 1 Episode 1 - If I Were a Carpenter
    8.1/10(172 votes)

    #24 - If I Were a Carpenter

    S1:E1

    Dennis, Neville and Oz head for Germany, looking for work as bricklayers. They get work in Dusseldorf, but only two bricklayers are needed. Dennis makes out that Neville is a carpenter so that the trio can stay together. Neville isn't too happy with his work, since his carpentry skills are very limited. He decides to call it a day and head back home. That night, he goes out on the town and has too much to drink. He wakes up next morning with a tattoo on his arm, dedicated to someone named Lotte. He decides that he'll have to stay in Dusseldorf for the time being.

    Director:Roger Bamford
    Writers:Dick Clement, Ian La Frenais

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  25. Auf Wiedersehen, Pet Season 1 Episode 2 - Who Won the War Anyway?
    8.1/10(134 votes)

    #25 - Who Won the War Anyway?

    S1:E2

    Neville is suspended from work when his boss finds out that he's a bricklayer rather than a carpenter. Watching a group of men playing football, Neville spots an unexploded bomb which has been unearthed by a mechanical digger. He raises the alarm and is hailed as a hero. The boss finds a bricklaying job for him. There's a sudden vacancy because Oz has been in a fight with a group of Germans and has been sacked. The German workers go on strike until Oz is reinstated.

    Director:Roger Bamford
    Writers:Dick Clement, Ian La Frenais

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Best Episodes Summary

"When the Boat Goes Out" is the best rated episode of "Auf Wiedersehen, Pet". It scored 9.1/10 based on 122 votes. Directed by Roger Bamford and written by Unknown, it aired on 2/10/1984. This episode scored 0.1 points higher than the second highest rated, "A Home from Home".