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    Auf Wiedersehen, Pet

    I'm sure there was a thread somewhere already, but I'm buggered if I can find it.

    Anyway. Repeats on Yesterday in the UK, and, despite its problems (and it has a few), it still has lots to recommend it.

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    Good to hear it still holds up, Toby. Haven't seen it for a good few years but I have very fond memories of the early ones. Dick clement and Ian le frenais were involved so no wonder. They were also involved in Lovejoy, another classic of that era.

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      #3
      The theme music still stands up, in its various forms (intro and end titles, various versions), inasmuch as I can still remember all the words.

      I firmly believe your favourite character belies your true nature. So, Wayne, then. Erm.

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        I've got a box set of the two original era series and watched it a couple of years ago, the first series stands up relatively well (as noted, with some problems) and I keep meaning to revisit it again, but the storylines in the second series were too much of stretch and they tried to fit too much into it, I found. I watched some of the later era ones at the time but didn't haven't a lot of warmth for them and have never gone back to them.

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          #5
          Originally posted by Walt Flanagans Dog View Post
          the first series stands up relatively well (as noted, with some problems)
          What were the problems? Barry was my fave charater btw

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            #6
            Originally posted by Duncan Gardner View Post
            What were the problems? Barry was my fave charater btw
            The racial stereotyping dates it - you could argue that it was reflective of attitudes at the time and I'm sure there would have been a lot worse said on building sites at the time in real life, but some of it is still cringey like (if I remember rightly) Bomber referring to an Asian prostitute as 'Suzie Wong'. The role of women generally is to be leered at by the lads - again it doesn't make it much different to other series at the time but dates it.

            I do have some pet annoyances about plot lines which I've probably mentioned on here before - like the convenience and affordability of flights between Dusseldorf and UK regional airports, allowing the boys to pop back when a plot required it, and why they had to have Sunderland playing Standard Liege instead of Newcastle - but I realise they are a bit niche.

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              #7
              Originally posted by Walt Flanagans Dog View Post
              The racial stereotyping dates it
              Fair enough, although as you suggest that's probably true of most TV from our youth. As I remember there were well-drawn female characters eg Nev's sensible wife and Denis's posh German girlfriend.

              I do have some pet annoyances about plot lines which I've probably mentioned on here before
              I found it pretty realistic having done a couple of spells working over there in the early 80s. In a factory packing tinned fruit. The workforce- almost all Turkish gastarbeiter and foreign students- was about 70% female so we called it Surf City ('two girls for every boy').

              Older men often keep the attitudes of their youth. Before the NI- Germany game last year I met up in Belfast with both away fans and some of the growing English Green and White Army. The latter were (probably unconsciously) referring to the German lads as 'Erichs'

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