1969★ 7.8
Seven British construction workers escape Britain's ever growing dole queues and travel to Germany to work on a site in Dusseldorf. We follow their trials and tribulations of working away from home and away from the women they left behind.
Tim Healy
Dennis Patterson
Kevin Whately
Neville Hope
Michael Sheard
Herr Grunwald
Jimmy Nail
Leonard 'Oz' Osborne
Gary Holton
Wayne Norris
Christopher Fairbank
Albert Moxey
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1983
13 episodes
Seven out-of-work construction workers from various parts of England who are forced to look for work in West Germany. They find work on a German building site in Dusseldorf but despite promises of hostel accommodation, are forced to live in a small hut that reminds them of a World War II POW camp.
1986
13 episodes
1986 saw the boys reunited, initially to help Barry complete extensive building work on his new home in Wolverhampton. Dennis is working for a crooked businessman, Ally Fraser, to whom he owes money. Dennis encourages the rest of the gang to help renovate a country manor house owned by Fraser, Thornely Manor, but they end up falling foul of the locals. Fraser invites the boys to Spain to refurbish his swimming pool at his Spanish villa.
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Timothy Spall
Barry Taylor
Pat Roach
Brian 'Bomber' Busbridge
Julia Tobin
Brenda Hope
Zoë Eeles
Tina
Bill Paterson
Ally Fraser
Michael Elphick
Magowan
2002
6 episodes
