Following a riot in Central Africa outside the British Embassy where they are working, Oz sustains an injury to his backside whilst sheltering a female embassy official with whom he has been having sex, from a bomb. The Lads gets air-lifted to safety and end up in an Australian embassy in Laos, southeast Asia to undertake more embassy work. As the lads debate their future, a letter arrives from Bomber: he has decided it is time to hang up his trowel for good and settle down with Paulie and Lainie in Arizona.The lads realise that they are drifting apart as a group and decide to cap off their whole adventure with a blow out in Bangkok.

Barry is missing: taken hostage, his captors demand a ransom of £50,000. When the rest of the lads set out to find him, they meet a man who claims to know where Barry is being held. He drives them into the jungle to find Barry, but it's a set-up and they are all taken hostage.

After completing work in Venezuela, problems at Miami airport mean that Moxey picks up the wrong case, and finds it full of cash! Once upstairs the lads begin to worry - was it drug or Mafia money? A huge American named Frank knocks at the door; he has found Moxey's real bag and traced them. He informs them they must bring the cash to the bosses upstairs in five minutes. But who are the bosses? Gangsters? Triads?

Starring Tim Healy and Jimmy Nail, this one-off show was was produced by Tyne Tees as an educational programme to highlight AIDS awareness.

Auf Wiedersehen, Pet was a massive telly hit and here we learn how it first made it onto our screens. The tale of British brickies abroad started, appropriately enough, with someone getting maudlin in a Newcastle pub. Documentary-maker Franc Roddam was supping alone because all his mates were working overseas. Ping! He had the idea of making the TV comedy drama that would follow the misadventures of likely lads Oz, Neville, Bomber, Moxey, Dennis, Wayne and Barry (right). This reveals how Jimmy Nail turned up for a job as an extra and landed a starring role.

The story of Auf Wiedersehen Pet. Tim Healy, Kevin Whately, Jimmy Nail, Timothy Spall and Christopher Fairbank plus creator Franc Roddam, director Roger Bamford and award winning script-writers Dick Clement and Ian la Frenais recount how a tale of Geordie Brickies working in Germany took the TV world by storm.

A collection of bloopers from seasons 1 and 2