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 the airports mean that they are shipwrecked in Miami. We catch up with them in a hotel lobby desperately trying to find a room. Meanwhile, Moxey is looking for his case, as finds it, right next to another case exactly the same as his. Not wanting the take the wrong luggage he opens one, and finds it full of cash! Moxey being himself, he takes the case with the cash, and rejoins the lads. The receptionist informs them that the only room is the very expensive honeymoon suite. Moxey pulls out a wad on money and say that they will take it. Once upstairs the lads question Moxey about the money. Moxey tells them about the case switch, and the lads begin to worry. Was it drug money? Does it belong to the mafia? And Neville is worried as his hair dryer is in the other case! Soon after, the bell boy comes up, and after Moxey gives him a handsome tip, the bell boy, Fabio, put himself at their disposal, so they send him for some c

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.