 A third season was originally planned soon after the second series  completed, to be set in Moscow, seeing the lads rebuilding the  British Embassy, but it was declared too expensive, and the other  actors did not want to carry on without Gary Holton (qv), so the  third series did not go ahead until it was picked up by the BBC some  15 years later. The rebuilding of the British Embassy was later used  as the premise of the fourth series.