Dennis Patterson (Auf Wiedersehen, Pet)
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| Dennis L. Patterson | |
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| First appearance | If I Were a Carpenter |
| Last appearance | Au Revoir: Part 2 |
| Portrayed by | Tim Healy |
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| Spouse(s) | Vera and unknown 2nd wife |
Dennis L. Patterson was a fictional character in the popular drama series Auf Wiedersehen, Pet. He was portrayed by Tim Healy.
[edit] Overview
When we first meet Dennis, a stubborn Geordie bricklayer, he is entering Germany looking for work with his two friends, wet-nursed Neville, and loud, and unpredictable Oz. As the three musketeers (as Oz hailed them) reach the Dusseldorf where they are intended to work, complications begin to arise, and they are forced to live in a hut with four fellow ex-pats: Wayne, Moxey, Bomber, and Barry.
Back home, Dennis is in the middle divorcing his first wife, Vera, but ensures that his two children Kevin and Angela remain looked after, and this is his purpose in Germany. He develops enough troubles to cope with over the course of the series, however his friends depend on him as a source of advice, and wisdom, and thus they hail him an involuntary leader of the group against his will
Later in the series, he has an affair with a German on-site secretary named Dagmar, who nearly convinces him to stay in Germany permanently. He wishes to keep his relationship with Dagmar a secret, not because he is ashamed of it, but because he wishes to keep his private life private. Nonetheless, his co-habitees soon realise that there is an increasingly familiar rapport between Dennis and Dagmar, and it is referred to several times in conversation, sometimes publicly on the site.
In series two, he's back in Newcastle upon Tyne working for a dodgy Scottish gangster called Ally Fraser, who has a notorious reputation throughout North East England. He is Fraser's oddjob man, and after divorcing Vera he moved in with his older sister Norma, and he is currently seeing a receptionist named Christine Chadwick.
Subsequent to dropping Ally and his girlfriend off at the airport to fly to Marbella for a two week vacation at their villa, he is persuaded, by Neville Hope, to accept Barry Taylor's invitation to join up with the rest of the Magnificent Seven to help in renovating Barry's Victorian property in Wolverhampton prior to Barry's marriage to his fiance, Hazel Redfern.
While working in Wolverhampton, his employer Ally Fraser returns to Britain early to discuss a deal to purchase a property in Derbyshire, Thornley Manor, which was previously owned by the pornographer Kenny Ames, one of Ally's old associates.
After an eventful time in Derbyshire renovating Thornley Manor, Dennis and the rest of his gang move overseas to Spain where they are set to help build Fraser's pool and surrounding area.
Dennis deeply dislikes Fraser, and resents working for him. He later has deep regrets for this, as the lads are later arrested in connection with Fraser's scheming.
At the opening of the third series, he has divorced twice (as he explains to Tommy Rampton while driving his cab "I've got two ex-wives, me"), and is driving a mini-cab for a living, and misses his old friends. After re-uniting (with the exception of Wayne - who has died), the seven begin dismantling the Middlesbrough Transporter Bridge and rebuilding it in Arizona. After the gang ship to Cuba,Russia and Thailand, Dennis, Oz and Neville are sent back to Dusseldorf once more.
In the title sequence of the first series, the name on his wallet can be clearly seen to read "D.L. Patterson", thus indicating his middle name begins with 'L', though it has never been revealed.
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