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The Best Episodes of Auf Wiedersehen, Pet

Every episode of Auf Wiedersehen, Pet ranked from best to worst. Let's dive into the Best Episodes of Auf Wiedersehen, Pet!

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...
Genres:ComedyDrama
Networks:ITV1BBC One

Best Episodes Summary

"When the Boat Goes Out" is the best rated episode of "Auf Wiedersehen, Pet". It scored 9.3/10 based on 112 votes. Directed by N/A and written by N/A, it aired on 2/10/1984. This episode scored 0.3 points higher than the second highest rated, "Love and Other Four Letter Words".

  • When the Boat Goes Out
    9.3/10112 votes
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    #1 - When the Boat Goes Out

    Season 1 Episode 13 - Aired 2/10/1984

    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: N/A

    Writer: N/A

  • Love and Other Four Letter Words
    9.0/10103 votes
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    #2 - Love and Other Four Letter Words

    Season 1 Episode 12 - Aired 2/3/1984

    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: N/A

    Writer: N/A

  • A Home from Home
    9.0/1091 votes
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    #3 - A Home from Home

    Season 2 Episode 5 - Aired 3/21/1986

    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: N/A

    Writer: N/A

  • Private Lives
    8.9/10125 votes
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    #4 - Private Lives

    Season 1 Episode 7 - Aired 12/30/1983

    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: N/A

    Writer: N/A

  • The Return of the Seven Part 2
    8.9/10101 votes
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    #5 - The Return of the Seven Part 2

    Season 2 Episode 2 - Aired 2/28/1986

    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: N/A

    Writer: N/A

  • Cowboys
    8.9/10102 votes
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    #6 - Cowboys

    Season 2 Episode 6 - Aired 3/28/1986

    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: N/A

    Writer: N/A

  • Marjorie Doesn't Live Here Anymore
    8.9/1095 votes
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    #7 - Marjorie Doesn't Live Here Anymore

    Season 2 Episode 8 - Aired 4/11/1986

    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: N/A

    Writer: N/A

  • No Sex Please, We're Brickies
    8.8/1085 votes
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    #8 - No Sex Please, We're Brickies

    Season 2 Episode 7 - Aired 4/4/1986

    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.

    Director: N/A

    Writer: N/A

  • Last Rites
    8.6/10100 votes
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    #9 - Last Rites

    Season 1 Episode 10 - Aired 1/20/1984

    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: N/A

    Writer: N/A

  • Another Country
    8.6/1094 votes
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    #10 - Another Country

    Season 2 Episode 4 - Aired 3/14/1986

    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: N/A

    Writer: N/A

  • Hasta la Vista
    8.6/1081 votes
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    #11 - Hasta la Vista

    Season 2 Episode 9 - Aired 4/18/1986

    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: N/A

    Writer: N/A

  • Bridging the Gap
    8.6/1086 votes
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    #12 - Bridging the Gap

    Season 3 Episode 1 - Aired 4/28/2002

    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

    Writer: Ian La Frenais, Dick Clement

  • An Inspector Calls
    8.6/1064 votes
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    #13 - An Inspector Calls

    Season 3 Episode 6 - Aired 6/2/2002

    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: N/A

  • Home Thoughts from Abroad
    8.5/10109 votes
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    #14 - Home Thoughts from Abroad

    Season 1 Episode 5 - Aired 12/9/1983

    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: N/A

    Writer: N/A

  • A Law for the Rich
    8.5/1090 votes
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    #15 - A Law for the Rich

    Season 2 Episode 3 - Aired 3/7/1986

    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: N/A

    Writer: N/A

  • Quo Vadis, Pet
    8.5/1085 votes
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    #16 - Quo Vadis, Pet

    Season 2 Episode 13 - Aired 5/16/1986

    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: N/A

    Writer: N/A

  • The Alien
    8.4/1094 votes
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    #17 - The Alien

    Season 1 Episode 9 - Aired 1/13/1984

    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: N/A

    Writer: N/A

  • The Lovers
    8.4/10100 votes
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    #18 - The Lovers

    Season 1 Episode 11 - Aired 1/27/1984

    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: N/A

    Writer: N/A

  • The Return of the Seven Part 1
    8.4/10120 votes
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    #19 - The Return of the Seven Part 1

    Season 2 Episode 1 - Aired 2/21/1986

    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: N/A

    Writer: N/A

  • Scoop
    8.4/1081 votes
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    #20 - Scoop

    Season 2 Episode 10 - Aired 4/25/1986

    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: N/A

    Writer: N/A

  • The Fugitive
    8.3/1091 votes
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    #21 - The Fugitive

    Season 1 Episode 8 - Aired 1/6/1984

    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: N/A

    Writer: N/A

  • Law and Disorder
    8.2/1077 votes
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    #22 - Law and Disorder

    Season 2 Episode 11 - Aired 5/2/1986

    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: N/A

    Writer: N/A

  • Bridge over Troubled Water
    8.2/1067 votes
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    #23 - Bridge over Troubled Water

    Season 3 Episode 3 - Aired 5/12/2002

    There is trouble all round and the deal to sell the bridge falls through. Oz finds out his son is a 'pillow biter' (gay) and has to deal with it in his own way. And men are sent looking for Moxey but help arrives in the most unusual form, a native American!

    Director: Paul Seed

    Writer: Ian La Frenais, Dick Clement

  • A Bridge Too Far
    8.2/1054 votes
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    #24 - A Bridge Too Far

    Season 3 Episode 4 - Aired 5/19/2002

    A Native American appears on the banks of the river and wants to buy the rbidge, but there is a problem the boys don't own the bridge, will granger fall for their scheme? Barry finds out that Tatyana is not Kadi's brother and throws her and Kadi out, Kadi seeks his revenge by shooting up the house! The boys fly out to America on Kadi's old plane with several tonnes of the steel. But Kadi has left a few of his 'possesions' and the motels the boys are staying in is raided by the D.E.A.!

    Director: Paul Seed

    Writer: N/A

  • Who Won the War Anyway?
    8.1/10122 votes
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    #25 - Who Won the War Anyway?

    Season 1 Episode 2 - Aired 11/18/1983

    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: N/A

    Writer: Ian La Frenais, Dick Clement