Season 4 • Episode 6
LatestPru comes to the aid of Neville after he is kidnapped. Pru explains to Neville that Tarquin has not been entirely honest with him. Oz visits Barry in jail and finds that he's suffering badly. Oz makes a decision that will help Barry, but will damage his relationship with, Ofelia.
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.
Writing
Dialogue so authentic it practically smells of stale beer.
Acting
Jimmy Nail's Oz — cinema's greatest scoundrel.
Production
Pre-unification Germany captured in all its beige glory.
Creator
Franc Roddam
Tim Healy
Dennis Patterson
Kevin Whately
Neville Hope
Jimmy Nail
Leonard 'Oz' Osborne
Christopher Fairbank
Albert Moxey
Timothy Spall
Barry Taylor
Pat Roach
Brian 'Bomber' Busbridge
Julia Tobin
Brenda Hope
Zoë Eeles
Tina
Caroline Harker
Pru Scott-Johns
Alexander Hanson
Tarquin Pearce
Sandra James-Young
Chrissie
Josefina Gabrielle
Ofelia Ortiz
Clive Russell
Gary Turnbull
Trivia, insights & behind the scenes
Pat Roach (Bomber) was a real wrestler who once fought Hulk Hogan; his screen presence was barely acting.
The 1983 writers' strike nearly killed it, but Franc Roddam filmed the pilot with his own money. The result? ITV's most unlikely hit about Thatcher's Britain exported to 20+ countries.
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