Daily Mirror Saturday February 22nd 1986.

Headline: Awful Pets are fun.
Subtitle: None.
Reporter: Hilary Kingsley.
Photograph : None.

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It's a pleasure to say willkommen to the Auf Wiedersehen Pets again.
Nice to have them back in my home - so long as it's only for a hour on a Friday night.  If any of them try to come in by the door instead of by tube, the order would be "Get out".
They're not just house broken, this gang of labouring louts.
And two years after Germany, they seem to be worse.  Oz, the only non-Argie chucked out of the Falklands, is still smashing and shocking. I don't know who I pitied more - him for having to strip, or the customs man with his plastic gloves forced to search Oz's private smuggling parts.
Wayne has grown skinnier and cockier; Nev, older and sadder.  Boring Barry from Brum, my favourite, has gained a rat bag, a mortgage and a beer gut.
And Den, the sensible gang gaffer, the bloke you'd bet would fall on his feet, has simply fallen.
Sozzled and sorry for himself he drives the Jag for the local rich villain - a dented Jag by the end of the first all-boys together do last night.
Frankly, I'm worried about Den.  This could become The Desperate Den Show.  Ditry Den, move over, pet.

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Text (c) Mirror Group Newspapers 1986.
Researched by Paul Armstrong..
Typed by Paul Armstrong for the unoficial Auf Wiedersehen, Pet
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