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Auf Wiedersehen, Pet: Series 1

13 episodes Premiered Nov 11, 1983 Updated Nov 9, 2026

Role: Meticulous television and film archivist. Task: Produce a JSON object for "Auf Wiedersehen, Pet" Season 1. Keys: overview (160-220 words), primer (array of exactly 4 concise bullet points). Constraints: Use ONLY provided synopsis and sources. No invented facts. No markdown. No asterisks. No headings. No bullet points (in the overview, but the primer is an array of bullet points/strings). Output valid JSON only.

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Role: Meticulous television and film archivist.
Task: Produce a JSON object for "Auf Wiedersehen, Pet" Season 1.
Keys: overview (160-220 words), primer (array of exactly 4 concise bullet points).
Constraints: Use ONLY provided synopsis and sources. No invented facts. No markdown. No asterisks. No headings. No bullet points (in the overview, but the primer is an array of bullet points/strings). Output valid JSON only.
Source Material:
Synopsis: Seven out-of-work construction workers from various parts of England go to West Germany. Work in Dusseldorf. Live in a small hut resembling a WWII POW camp despite promises of hostel accommodation.
Source [1]: 1983 series. Comedy and Drama. Seven British construction workers escape Britain's ever growing dole queues and travel to Germany to work on a site in Dusseldorf.
Source [2]: Trials and tribulations of working away from home and away from the women they left behind.
Source [3]: 2002 revival on BBC. Gary Holton passed in 1985. Noel Clarke cast as Wyman, Wayne's son.
Source [4]: Cast: Tim Healy (Dennis Patterson), Kevin Whately (Neville Hope), Jimmy Nail (Oz Osbourne), Timothy Spall (Barry Taylor), Pat Roach (Bomber Busbridge), Gary Holton (Wayne).
Source [5]: Similar to [1] and [2].
Overview (160-220 words):
The series follows seven British construction workers who decide to escape the ever-growing dole queues in Britain. To find employment, these men travel to West Germany to work on a building site located in Dusseldorf. As they navigate their new environment, the narrative explores the trials and tribulations associated with working far away from home and the women they left behind in England. Although they were promised hostel accommodation for their stay, the reality of their living situation is much different. Instead of the expected housing, the workers are forced to live in a small hut that bears a resemblance to a World War II POW camp. The group consists of individuals such as Dennis Patterson, played by Tim Healy, Neville Hope, played by Kevin Whately, Oz Osbourne, played by Jimmy Nail, Barry Taylor, played by Timothy Spall, Bomber Busbridge, played by Pat Roach, and Wayne, played by Gary Holton. This season captures their experiences as they attempt to secure work and manage the challenges of life on a German construction site while dealing with the difficulties of being separated from their lives and relationships back in the United Kingdom.
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S1·E1 Mytharc

If I Were a Carpenter

Nov 11, 1983 · 50 min

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 carpe

S1·E2 Core

Who Won the War Anyway?

Nov 18, 1983 · 50 min

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

S1·E3 Core

The Girls They Left Behind

Nov 25, 1983 · 50 min

Oz's wife, Marjorie, hasn't heard from him for quite a while and she's getting desperate for money. She goes to see Dennis' wife, Vera, and asks her where the lads are in Germany.

S1·E4 Core

Suspicion

Dec 2, 1983 · 50 min

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

S1·E5 Core

Home Thoughts from Abroad

Dec 9, 1983 · 50 min

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 daughte

S1·E6 Core

The Accused

Dec 16, 1983 · 50 min

Neville meets a German girl in a bar and they share a taxi home. The girl is later assaulted and Neville is arrested by the police for the assault and protests his innocence. But n

S1·E7 Core

Private Lives

Dec 30, 1983 · 50 min

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 u

S1·E8 Core

The Fugitive

Jan 6, 1984 · 50 min

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

S1·E9 Core

The Alien

Jan 13, 1984 · 50 min

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

S1·E10 Mytharc

Last Rites

Jan 20, 1984 · 50 min

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 illn

S1·E11 Core

The Lovers

Jan 27, 1984 · 50 min

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 w

S1·E12 Mytharc

Love and Other Four Letter Words

Feb 3, 1984 · 50 min

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 R

S1·E13 Mytharc

When the Boat Goes Out

Feb 10, 1984 · 50 min

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 g

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