Next year will mark an incredible 40 years since Auf Wiedersehen, Pet first burst onto our TV screens.
It featured three Geordies, a Brummie, Cockney, Bristolian and a Scouser. They were living in a hut on a German building site as they escaped unemployment in early-80s Thatcherite Britain.
There would be a further three series - and a TV special - over the following three decades. But it was the ITV series one, set in Dusseldorf, which best captured the imagination of the TV public.
