Auf Wiedersehen, Pet - Britmovie

samkydd · 09-12-2005, 08:42 AM

Auf Wiedersehen, Pet

Auf Wiedersehen, Pet has got to be one of the best TV comedy dramas of all time. The subject matter was a new idea, the actors were mostly unknowns, the stories were credible and it captured the recession hit early 1980s perfectly. The hut mentality was spot on as anyone whose been in the forces will tell you, and the characters were just perfect.

The second series when they all got together in the UK0to do some renovation work for Bill Paterson's shady Ally Fraser character was also good, but the untimely death of Gary Holton as Wayne during the making of the second series was a great loss. His character was crucial, and just like when James Beck (Private Walker in Dad's Army) died suddenly it was never quite the same without him, and you couldn't just replace him with another actor or similar character!

They seemed generations apart in the series, but Tim Healy and Gary Holton were both born in the same year and young Neville Hope played by Kevin Whately was older than both of them! The actress who played Neville's wife Brenda, Julia Tobin didn't find work as an actress for many years after, apart from a small part in Spender, then she turned up as a contestant on a game show (may have been Family Fortunes) in the 1990s. Fortunately the series made a big comeback and she was playing Brenda again!

I've been watching re-runs of the first series on M&M and I can't believe it was 22 years ago! With writers Dick Clement and Ian La Frenais it also has some of the endearing quality that The Likely Lads had.

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Fellwanderer · 09-12-2005, 09:51 AM

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Auf Wiedersehen, Pet

Auf Wiedersehen, Pet has got to be one of the best TV comedy dramas of all time. The subject matter was a new idea, the actors were mostly unknowns, the stories were credible and it captured the recession hit early 1980s perfectly. The hut mentality was spot on as anyone whose been in the forces will tell you, and the characters were just perfect.
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I'm pretty sure Tim Healy lived in the same village as us when it began but we must have moved at about the time the series started as we've been here 22 years!

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I've been watching re-runs of the first series on M&M and I can't believe it was 22 years ago! With writers Dick Clement and Ian La Frenais it also has some of the endearing quality that The Likely Lads had.

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Hawway man! It's the Geordie sense of humour. [img]style_emoticons/<#EMO_DIR#>/thumbsup.gif[/img]

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samkydd · 09-12-2005, 11:15 AM

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I'm pretty sure Tim Healy lived in the same village as us when it began but we must have moved at about the time the series started as we've been here 22 years!
Hawway man! It's the Geordie sense of humour. [img]style_emoticons/<#EMO_DIR#>/thumbsup.gif[/img]

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So Tim Healy moved out just as you moved in? [img]style_emoticons/<#EMO_DIR#>/laugh.gif[/img]

There were some now famous guest actors in the series too like a young Ray Winstone and Michael Elphick, and in the second series the excellent Bryan Pringle!

arty-dave · 09-12-2005, 12:52 PM

weird..to..think..KW..was..the..elder..and..TH..an d..GH..the..same..age..amazing!

samkydd · 09-12-2005, 04:02 PM

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If you see Tim Healy nowadays he looks really old and knackered, yet Kevin Whately still looks quite young!

Fellwanderer · 09-12-2005, 04:22 PM

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So Tim Healy moved out just as you moved in? [img]style_emoticons/<#EMO_DIR#>/laugh.gif[/img]
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Wrong way round. As far as I know, we lived in the same village as TH but as AP started, we moved out. I suspect he moved not long after that but I may be able to find out later this evening.

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Marky B · 10-12-2005, 01:32 PM

Yes,one of the all time greats of television. When the BBC brought it back a few years,a lot of the filming was done in Teeside,because,if you all remember,a Native American bought the Transporter Bridge and the lads were deployed to dismantle it,fly it out to the USA,and rebuild it across a canyon.
Thanks to tv technology,you could see the Transporter being gradually dismantled. We,in Teeside,could see before our very eyes the Bridge was still intact. However,believe it or not,people were ringing up the council and the local newspaper - the Evening Gazette - complaining about the Bridge being dismantled after being sold to the USA.
That is why,at the end of the series,a caption came up saying the Transporter Bridge was still in Teeside.

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Dennis (after being shown the Transporter Bridge):What now,the Haverton Hill Glue Factory? [img]style_emoticons/<#EMO_DIR#>/rotfl.gif[/img]

09-12-2005, 08:42 AM	#1
samkydd has no status. Senior Member Join Date: Mar 2005 Location: Stackton Tressle Posts: 2,428 My Mood: Country: iTrader: (0)	Auf Wiedersehen, Pet Auf Wiedersehen, Pet has got to be one of the best TV comedy dramas of all time. The subject matter was a new idea, the actors were mostly unknowns, the stories were credible and it captured the recession hit early 1980s perfectly. The hut mentality was spot on as anyone whose been in the forces will tell you, and the characters were just perfect. The second series when they all got together in the UK0to do some renovation work for Bill Paterson's shady Ally Fraser character was also good, but the untimely death of Gary Holton as Wayne during the making of the second series was a great loss. His character was crucial, and just like when James Beck (Private Walker in Dad's Army) died suddenly it was never quite the same without him, and you couldn't just replace him with another actor or similar character! They seemed generations apart in the series, but Tim Healy and Gary Holton were both born in the same year and young Neville Hope played by Kevin Whately was older than both of them! The actress who played Neville's wife Brenda, Julia Tobin didn't find work as an actress for many years after, apart from a small part in Spender, then she turned up as a contestant on a game show (may have been Family Fortunes) in the 1990s. Fortunately the series made a big comeback and she was playing Brenda again! I've been watching re-runs of the first series on M&M and I can't believe it was 22 years ago! With writers Dick Clement and Ian La Frenais it also has some of the endearing quality that The Likely Lads had. [img]style_emoticons/<#EMO_DIR#>/clapping.gif[/img] __________________ "...the chairman of Littlewoods stores made a Keynote speech!"

10-12-2005, 01:32 PM	#7
Marky B is still looking for a new job Senior Member Join Date: Dec 2003 Location: Billingham,Cleveland Posts: 3,880 My Mood: Country: iTrader: (0)	Yes,one of the all time greats of television. When the BBC brought it back a few years,a lot of the filming was done in Teeside,because,if you all remember,a Native American bought the Transporter Bridge and the lads were deployed to dismantle it,fly it out to the USA,and rebuild it across a canyon. Thanks to tv technology,you could see the Transporter being gradually dismantled. We,in Teeside,could see before our very eyes the Bridge was still intact. However,believe it or not,people were ringing up the council and the local newspaper - the Evening Gazette - complaining about the Bridge being dismantled after being sold to the USA. That is why,at the end of the series,a caption came up saying the Transporter Bridge was still in Teeside. Ta Ta Marky B [img]style_emoticons/<#EMO_DIR#>/thumbsup.gif[/img] Dennis (after being shown the Transporter Bridge):What now,the Haverton Hill Glue Factory? [img]style_emoticons/<#EMO_DIR#>/rotfl.gif[/img] __________________ I once shot an elephant in my pyjamas - how he got in my pyjamas,I'll never know

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