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Auf Wiedersehen Pet - The Complete Series 2 [1983]


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First broadcast in 1983 with its second series airing in 1986, Auf Wiedersehen Pet was an unlikely comedy hit about a group of British labourers forced to work in Germany during the recession. Scripted by Dick Clement and Ian La Frenais, (previously responsible for Porridge and The Likely Lads) its main players are likeable stereotypes from all over England: Barry (Timothy Spall), the bumbling, haplessly pretentious Brummie; gentle West Country giant Bomber (Pat Roach); amiable Scouse Moxey (Christopher Fairbank); and the three Geordies, nervous Neville (Kevin Whately), loudmouth xenophobic lummox Oz (Jimmy Nail) and put-upon Dennis (Tim Healy), the reluctant gaffer of the mob.

The second series saw the lads reunited to work for a dubious entrepreneur called Ally Fraser to whom Dennis owes money, and the location varying from Spain to Derbyshire. Gary Holton (cheeky cockney Wayne) died during the making of the series and Clement and La Frenais farmed out several episodes to other writers like Stan Hey, but the characters were well established by this point and the comedy held up. An episode in which the gang upset the locals of a stuffy country pub with their very presence is particularly memorable. A belated third series followed in 2002.--David Stubbs

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DVD Description

Auf Wiedersehen Pet - The Complete Series 2 presents the entire second season of this classic British comedy series, which encapsulated the spirit of Britain under Margaret Thatcher in the 1980s. Featuring a great ensemble cast, this four-disc box set follows the adventures of everyone's favourite brickies in the episodes: "The Return of the Seven Parts 1 and 2", "Another Country", "Cowboys", "Hasta La Vista", "For Better or Worse" and many more.


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Synopsis

This collection presents the second season of this classic British comedy series. Follow the further adventures of everyone's favourite brickies in the episodes "The Return of the Seven Parts 1 and 2," "Another Country," "Cowboys," "Hasta La Vista," "For Better or Worse," and many more.

Magnificent Seven Rides Again
Review date: 2007-01-28 Rating: 10 out of 10

Cast

Tim Healy - Dennis a bricklayer from Newcastle
Kevin Whately - Neville a bricklayer from Newcastle
Jimmy nail - Oz a bricklayer from Newcastle
Timothy Spall - Barry Taylor an electrician from Wolverhampton
Christopher Fairbank - Moxey a plasterer from Liverpool
Pat Roach - Bomber a bricklayer from Bristol
Gary Holton - Wayne a carpenter from London
Bill Paterson - Ally Fraser

If you loved the first series, you will love this. Oz is still as bad as ever and Barry is still worried about his future wife to be. A great follow on to the first series.

The "Magnificent Seven" have returned home from Germany after new laws about foreign works forces them out. The gangs are reunited to help Barry complete some building work on his house. Dennis is working for a crooked businessman, Alley Frazer after running huge debt through gambling. Frazier wants his country manor renovating and Dennis gets the lads to do it. The building turns out to be a listed building and work stops. The police turn up on the scene enquiring about Alley Frazier and his business. Alley, doesn't like the police being nosey and looking around and heads to Spain. Alley finds the lads work in Spain building a swimming pool for his villa. The gangs are mistaken for criminals and find them selves all over the papers back home in the UK.

Gary Holton - Wayne died whilst making this series from a drug overdose.


*************** Episodes Copied From the Inlay **************

1. The return of the seven. (Part One)

Barry begins to realize his house will not be done up in time for his wedding, he sends for the lads. They all answer his call except Oz. Moxey decides to escape from prison to help him out.

2. The return of the seven. (Part two)

Dennis has to return to Newcastle, where he meets up with Oz, and when he returns to Wolverhampton, he has Oz in tow. The magnificent seven back together for the first time since Düsseldorf.

3. A law for the rich.

The lad's get a job from Ally Fraser doing up Thornley manor, the police are involved, and the local bar owner where the lads are stopping takes a distinct disliking to them.

4. Another country.

The lads have to stop working on the Thornley manor, after finding out it is a listed building, and to make matters worse, the lads have been kicked out of their lodgings due to Wayne's 'exploits' with the landlords daughter.


5. A home from home.

The lads are forced to squat in the manor; it is while they are renovating the manors basement that the find two videos, one of which is amateur porn film starring the pub landlord... Arthur Pringle. A bit of Blackmail is on the cards.

6. Cowboys.

The seven become eight as they are joined by a new member, Harry Blackburn, a plumber, crazy on country and western music. The truth comes out about Dennis' debts and the lads all go on strike. Ally Frazier annoyed to here of this sends in his boys to sort them out.

7. No sex please, we're brickies.

The lads get more motivated to finish work as Ally wants them to extend the swimming pool in his Spanish villa. Arthur gets his own back on Wayne by shopping him to customs and excise for not paying import duty on his car.

8. Marjorie doesn't live here anymore.

When Oz returns home he is horrified to discover that his family has moved.
Anxious about his son, he tracks him down to his school where he learns that Marjorie and her boyfriend are taking Rod to live in Italy.

9. Hasta la vista.

After getting all fired up for Spain and getting through customs, Dennis gets a phone call from Ally in the departure lounge saying they are not going yet due to complications.

10. Scoop.

The lads arrive, at last and after many difficulties, in Spain. The lads check in to their hotel, some of them with mixed opinions. When the lads arrive at what they think is Ally's villa, they decide to go nude swimming in his pool. It was of course not Ally's villa, but the villa of a very posh upper class English couple, who of course report this to the local police. Then a British journalist gets the wrong idea about the lads, splashing them all over the Fleet Street papers.

11. Law and disorder.

Ally has given the lads two days off work to reinforce the impression that they are just tourists. Ally realizes that his dodgy dealings may have earned him a permanent residency in Marbella.

12. for better or worse.

Hazel has arrived in Spain, Barry can start to try and work out his wedding plans. Meanwhile Ally tries to work out a way of smuggling his money in to Spain without the customs sussing him out.

13. Quo vadis pet.

Dennis finally gets one up on Ally Fraser, and he uses it completely to his advantage. With Ally in Tangiers, Oz makes the most of the Glaswegians girlfriend Vicki. Barry gets fired up for his wedding; having decided to have six best men, bet you cannot guess who they are. The night before the wedding, Oz wins the Spanish lottery, and celebrates in Style. Barry and Hazel wed out at sea, and Ally turns up on another boat. Meanwhile yet another boat draws in on them. The customs. In a panic, Ally and Kenny make for Tangiers, with several unofficial passengers. And this is where we finally leave the magnificent seven, once more ending with them, this time all of them, advancing the ocean to another country

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The lads return
Review date: 2004-09-20 Rating: 10 out of 10

The early 1980s saw the emergence of two television series destined to still be talked about some 20 years after their original broadcast, Boys From The Blackstuff and Auf Wiedersehen Pet. Both dealt with social issues such as unemployement and the
reality of living in Thatcher's Britain. However while Blackstuff was a bleak and harrowing portrait of a group of men desperate but unable to get out of their situation, Auf was more optimistic in its outlook, with the men deciding to go abroad to Germany too find work. The latter also contained more humour with the audience laughing at the antics of the unbearable OZ and boring Barry. The series proved to be a huge success, making overnight successes of its actors. In 1986 the programme returned, and the first half of the series is certainly as good as the previous series. The social issues mentioned above are less at the forefront in series 2 and 2 of the characters, Wayne and Barry, have done quite well for thmeselves in the 3 years since Germany. We reunite with them as the lads are invited to help decorate Barry's house prior to his impending wedding. The series then moves to Derbyshire, where the lads are recruited to
renovate a manor house owned by a Geordie gangster to whom Dennis has got himself into debt. Dennis, excellently played by
Tim Healy now has a broken marriage, no money and a drink addiction. Moxey also has many problems, as he is on the run from Prison. We see the other characters attempting to help them. The series loses its way in the last episodes set in Spain, seeing the lads in the Costa living it up takes the series too far from the gritty reality of industrial Germany, and the storyline about them being mistaken for British armed robbers is also not a good. A further problem is that in the latter episodes we are suddenly introduced to Dennis girlfriend, who has not been mentioned previously. She is middle class, and the fact that she would go out with Dennis, with all his emotional baggge does not ring true. The sad death of Gary Holton, also reduces the role of Wayne in the Spanish episodes.
However these are the only criticisms to what is a programme far superior to most drama on today.

Best of British
Review date: 2004-05-16 Rating: 10 out of 10

There's not much to add to what other reviewers have already said about Auf Wiedersehn , Pet, but I'll add my two pennies worth anyway. The second series of Aufpet was every bit as good as the first, a remarkable achievement considering the tragic events that struck the production. The fact that the show is as terrific as it is is surely the best tribute to Gary Holton there could be, as the original two series of Aufpet are surely the best British television series ever created, due to the perfect performances from all actors, major and minor, involved as much as the superb writing and direction. For me they have even more resonance these days as I'm working abroad myself. If you've only recently discovered Aufpet thanks to the excellent third and fourth series do yourselves a favour and buy the first and second seasons; it will be the best money you ever spend on dvd's. The Office, Blackadder, Fawlty Towers, Father Ted, without doubt are the best in British comedy, but in my mind none are as consistently brilliant as Auf. Considering the state of television these days, I doubt we will ever see anything as good again - unless a fifth season is in the works....

Even better than series 1
Review date: 2003-09-05 Rating: 10 out of 10

I watched AWP series one and two when they first came out on telly. I watched them again when the whole shooting match was repeated on ITV. I taped both series (26 episodes) the third time they were shown, and I've watched them over and over again when they've been shown on Bravo, Granda + or any of the other satellite channels.
The first series was an exercise in character building. By the time the second series starts, you know all of the main characters. You know that Oz is a hooligan, Wayne is a cockney wide-boy with an eye for the ladies, Dennis is their hard-grafting boss, Neville is the sensitive one, Bomber is the gentle giant, Barry is the boring brummy and Moxy is Moxy. Whereas the first series was pretty much the same situation repeated over and over again, with a slightly different story (i.e. the lads wake up in their hut, Oz swears, they do a tiny bit of work, then it's the weekend, they have a daft adventure), the second story has four different locations (Birmingham, Derbyshire, Newcastle and Spain) and a host of new characters (Ally Fraser, his girlfriend Vicky, Barry's apprentice Trevor, Kenny Ames, Harry Blackburn, Arthur "Tiger" Pringle to name but a few). This is one hell of a story, and there is real continuity here. It makes sense to watch this from episode 1 to episode 13, whereas with series one you could watch any one episode out of sequence and it would still make sense.
Here's a very short summary of the plot:
Barry has invited all his old pals who he lived and worked with in Germany to help him do up his new house that he and his fiancee (soon to be wife) will live in. Dennis and Neville borrow a Jaguar belonging to Dennis's gangster boss to get down to Birmingham, and while there they crash it. Dennis's boss is none too happy, but when he finds out why Dennis took his car, he employs the seven to do up a stately home he has bought from another crooked friend who is now living in Spain. Once the house has been done up, the lads then get offered the job of building a swimming pool and patio for the same boss at his villa in Malaga.
Wherever the lads are, misfortune and comic situations follow them around. Particular highlights are when Barry and Oz get caught poaching by the gamekeeper, Arthur Pringle and Wayne battling whenever they meet, Barry attending a business conference while looking for Hazel, Oz singing in the country-and-western pub, getting caught skinny-dipping in the posh ex-patriots swimming pool, Barry slagging off criminals to Terry Leather, the biggest criminal of all, and driving down to Gibraltar for the day and getting lost.
You can also play "Spot the bits that were filmed after Gary Holton died", because the number of times that Wayne's at a disco, or Wayne's chatting up the hotel receptionist, or Wayne's gone to the casino, when the other six are all present, becomes a bit obvious towards the end.

Second dose of great comedy
Review date: 2003-07-23 Rating: 10 out of 10

This nice little box contains 4 DVDs containing the whole second series of AufPet. Once again we are with the "Magnificent Seven" as they work together to scratch a living. This time the series is based firstly in Derbyshire and then the action moves to Spain. In my opinion this series is just as funny as the first, if not better. The humour is still the same with all the characters retaining their funny aspects from series one. This time around there are a lot more extra characters that have more of a bearing on the storyline...but these enhance the episodes rather than dilute the humour.
The DVD's themselves are great..picture quality and sound are very good. The extras are a little thin but the set still represents good value. As with the series one set, the content is so good that you hardly feel the need for any extras.
I'm so glad to have this on my DVD shelf along with the series one set!

Product Details/Specifications


Actor(s):
Kevin Whately
Jimmy Nail
Tim Healy

Creators:
Jimmy Nail (Primary Contributor)
Tim Healy (Primary Contributor)

Director(s):

Recording label: ITV DVD
Manufacturer: ITV DVD
EAN: 5037115008336
Binding: DVD
Number of items: 4
Format: Box set, PAL,
Release date: 2002-07-08
Number of discs: 4
Aspect ratio: 1.33:1
Audience rating: Suitable for 12 years and over
Region code: 2
Running time: 650 minutes
Theatrical release date: 1983-11-11
Language: English (Original Language)

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