* Before becoming an actor, Tim Healy (Dennis), was a Paratrooper.

* Before finishing the recording the second series, Gary Holton (Wayne), died from an overdose of drugs, leading to his watered down appearance in many scenes of the latter half of the second series.

* Some of the actors families also starred in the series. Tim Healy's wife Denise Welsh appeared as Jean, the new resident of Oz's flat. Kevin Whately (Neville), starred with his daughter Catherine, who played his on screen daughter Debbie, and with his wife Madelaine Newton, who played Dennis's girlfriend Christine Chadwick. Jimmy Nail's son Tommy also had a small part, as Sir James and Celestia Palmer's son Henry in series two.

* In a South Bank Show documentary in the late Eighties, Jimmy Nail said that he wouldn't play Oz again as he thought it was a character that no one nowadays would find funny.

* Jimmy Nail had done a spell of manual work in Germany himself, before filming the series.

* In other shows written by Dick Clement and Ian LaFrenais, other actors from Auf Wiedersehen, Pet dominate the credits, Jimmy Nail in particular.

* Val McClane (Norma) and Jimmy Nail are real life brother and sister.

* During filming the first episode, the production crew had to hire a coach load of prostitutes from Hamburg's red lite district for the 'brothel' scene. On arriving at the sets, the producers discovered that most of these were actually transvestites!

* During the filming of the same episode, a coach load of British squaddies for a nearby camp were hired to play the parts of the pub goers. Unfortunatley the beer was real which led to drunken chaos, and a chasing involving gun toting German police!

* Although Moxey was a central character, he did not appear until the second episode.

* Both series one songs, "Beakin' Away" and "That's livin' alright", are exactly the same length in duration to the second.

* During shooting the intended script of 'Last Rights', Pat Roach (Bomber), broke his foot doing a stunt. This had to be written in to the script, and we therefore have a pile of bricks landing on the unfortunate West countrymans foot.

* In an episode of the second series of Spender, in an episode called 'Fly by night', written by AufPet writer Ian LaFrenais, Stick asks Jimmy Nail as Spender if he has ever watched 'The Magnificent Seven'. It is curious to note that another of our magnificent seven was in this episode. Chris (Moxey) Fairbank, as Joe Phelan.

* During filming the second series Tim Healy injured his eye, by catching it on the page of a magazine he was reading. This left it very sore and swollen. This is very evident in the scene where Neville confronts Dennis over the terms of his relationship with Ally Fraser.

* So many people believed that, after watching  the third series, the Middlesbrough Transporter Bridge had really been pulled down, and Teeside Council were inundated with telephone calls, for people worried that the bridge had gone.  To reassure that public that the Bridge was still there, and legend reading ' The Transporter Bridge is Still in Middlesbrough' was added to the closing titles of the last episode of series 3.  The deconstruction was of course done by computer generated effects.

* The Fourth series, although set in Cuba was filmed in the Dominican Replic, after the Cuban authorities refused filming permission.