Incredibly, it is getting on for 40 years since Auf Wiedersehen, Pet first burst onto our screens. Three passionate Geordies, a Brummie, Cockney, Bristolian and a Scouser were living in a hut on a German building site as they escaped unemployment in early-80s Thatcherite Britain.
Quick-witted Dennis, Oz, Neville, Barry, Moxy, Wayne and Bomber soon snatched a place in the nation's hearts, and the Evening Chronicle have been discovering what the stars who played the iconic characters from 1983 got up to next.
The show shaped careers with some of the country's most-loved actors getting their big break thanks to the popularity of the chaotic gang.
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