They had been away a long time - but finally the boys were back. The long-anticipated third series of Auf Wiedersehen, Pet kicked off 20 years ago on April 28, 2002.
We had first met the motley crew of builders - led by the Geordie trio of Dennis, Oz and Neville - back in late 1983. That wildly successful first series, pulling in millions of viewers on ITV, saw them getting up to all manner of scrapes on a German building site.
In 1986, they returned for series two, causing havoc in the East Midlands before jetting off to sunny Spain, where again they would get mixed up in some hilarious shenanigans. Sixteen years later, the new rebooted series, this time on BBC, was set in a very different Britain and in a new millennium.
