Meanwhile, wayne and barry are on the pull and have met up with a couple of swedish air hostesses staying at the same hotel. In need of help to renovate his house in time for his wedding, barry reunites the lads when he asks them to help. The adventures of a gang of british workmen abroad. However after a large confruntation the lads find out the truth, the boys turns out to be awol from the army. Oz pretends to be a rich mans son to impress a german girl. The gang have problems with the local police after they go swimming in someones pool, thinking it belongs to ally fraser. Getting started contributor zone contribute to this page. Following a riot in the african country where they are working at an embassy, oz sustains an injury to his backside whilst sheltering a female embassy official with whom he has been having sex, from a bomb. With gary holton, kevin whately, tim healy, jimmy nail. And after 20 years they are reunited and begin working together again. During a weekend in the countryside, the lads meet a fellow brit who is apparently in trouble.
Dennis is getting it together with dagmar from the site office. He falls in love with her, only to discover that she has a. While meeting the agent for the jobs they meet barry taylor, an electrician from wolverhampton. The lads go off for a weekends 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. Ally offers the lads more work building a swimming pool at his spanish villa once they complete the renovation of. These are all sorted out, and they fly out that weekend, pretending to be tourists and sharing a plane with the spennymoor. The lads touchdown in spain and go looking for some action but because it is not holiday season, they find it almost deserted. A russian crime lord, whose mansion they have been working on is blown up just as they are finishing the job. He falls in love with her, only to discover that she has a turkish boyfriend who owns a local sauna parlour. On their way to a fishing trip some of the workers pick up a young lad called colin.
The lads persuade him to do the right thins and return to his unit. Category comedy drama comedy drama original air date 19840106. The lads organise a fishing weekend and head out into the german. Series episodes originally aired dvd release date series premiere. Only gripe is that the disks arent numbered so youve no idea what order to play them in without reverting to the internet to get a list of the episodes. In the first series, the men live and work on a building site in dusseldorf. Wayne is flush but then he did win money from the others at cards and buys german girlfriend ingrid a necklace. The lads head to germany seeking work, and are thrown together by virtue of shared nationality and a rundown wooden hut. Work on the site is now complete and the lads are making plans for the future. Neville gets a letter from colin the army deserter form the previous episode, hes.
Something very expensive goes missing from the hut and they all begin to suspect each other. The boys have returned from germany and gone their separate ways. So in a bid to catch out the culprit various plans are hatched but as usual all of them end in failure. Episode title writers director original airdate 14 the return of the seven. However after a large confruntation the lads find out the truth, the young lad turns out to be awol. A fourth series of six episodes was aired on bbc one from 4 january to 8 february 2004. Itv broadcast weekly episodes from 11 november 1983 until 10 february 1984. Combines black and white humour with moments of drama, poignancy and drunkenness.
The show was the subject of the first episode of the bbc documentary series drama connections in 2005. Spain turns out to be a bit of a letdown, with a distinct lack of the action some of the lads were looking forward to. The series was created by franc roddam after an idea from mick connell, a bricklayer from stocktonontees. With christopher fairbank, timothy spall, gary holton, tim healy.
In the first series, they live and work on a building site in dusseldorf, germany. Neville meets a german girl in a bar, she pursuades him to take her home as she has had an arguement with her boyfriend. As they are leaving they meet wayne norris a carpenter from london who. But in the end it turns out that the thief isnt one of them at all but someone from outside the hut. Bomber hears from his wife that their teenaged daughter tracy has run away from home so he returns to bristol to look for her, though in the mean time she turns up in dusseldorf and the lads hide her in their hut whilst they alert bomber to return. Oscars best picture winners best picture winners golden globes emmys san diego comiccon new york comiccon sundance film festival toronto intl film. He takes her off to a hotel for a romantic interlude. Dennis has set up his own business, oz has been to the falklands and back, neville is unemployed, wayne has entered a disastrous marriage, moxey has been in prison, and bomber has returned to wrestling. Oscars best picture winners best picture winners golden globes emmys san diego comiccon new york comiccon sundance film festival toronto intl film festival awards central festival central all events.
There are three geordies, one scouser, one brummie, one cockney and one from bristol. Later ingrid meets and befriends neville and gives him the necklace and he is prime suspect after being seen leaving a pawnshop. Everybody is suspect when nevilles money and ozs watch go missing. The lads go off for a weekends fishing in the country, where they meet up with an english hitchhiker who is very mysterious, the lads suspicions grow when he later runs away from the police. In series 1, the lads head to germany seeking work, and are thrown. The largest part of the site and most indepth is the filming locations. The lads reunite in middlesbrough for ozs funeral, only to be approached by the man himself and he has an irresistible. Barry talks the lads into redecorating the hut, using paint redistributed from the site stores. The lads organise a fishing weekend and head out into the german countryside. Barry is detained for questioning while the rest of the lads return to the uk courtesy of the british consulate in st petersburg. 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.
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