Tonight at a glance
- Runtime
- ~50 min/episode
- Length
- 4 seasons · 38 episodes
- Status
- Ended · complete
- Language
- English
- Country
- United Kingdom
The story
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.
- germany
- upper class
- culture clash
- northern england
- friendship
- native american
- landlord
- working class
- falklands
- unemployment
The bill
- Gary Holton
- Christopher Fairbank
- Timothy Spall
- Pat Roach
- Julia Tobin
- Zoë Eeles
- Bill Paterson
- Michael Elphick
- James Booth
- Lysette Anthony
- Peter Birch
- Directed
- Paul Seed, Maurice Phillips, Baz Taylor, Anthony Garner, Roger Bamford
- Created
- Franc Roddam
- Written
- Ian La Frenais, Dick Clement
Production
- Rating
- 7.9 / 10 · 40 ratings
- Network & studio
- ITV1, BBC One
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