Goodnight Sweetheart - BBC1 Sitcom - British Comedy Guide (original) (raw)

Goodnight Sweetheart. Image shows from L to R: Yvonne Sparrow (Emma Amos), Gary Sparrow (Nicholas Lyndhurst), Phoebe Sparrow (Elizabeth Carling). Copyright: Alomo Productions / BBC

Genre

Sitcom

Broadcast

1993 - 2016

Channel

BBC 1

Episodes

59 (6 series)

Stars

Nicholas Lyndhurst, Dervla Kirwan, Elizabeth Carling, Michelle Holmes, Emma Amos, Christopher Ettridge, Victor McGuire, David Ryall and David Benson

Writers

Maurice Gran, Laurence Marks, Gary Lawson, John Phelps, Sam Lawrence, Geoff Rowley and Paul Makin

Directors

Robin Nash, Terry Kinane and Nic Phillips

Producers

John Bartlett, Nic Phillips, Allan McKeown and Claire Hinson

Companies

Whilst walking around the East End of London, television repairman Gary Sparrow is transported back in time to 1940, although he doesn't immediately realise it. When Gary discovers that he can travel between the 1990s and the 1940s at will, he quickly - and a little unwittingly - develops a double life and begins committing adultery.

Whilst he has a family in the 1940s, he still has a wife in the 1990s so he continues to live both lives with the help of best friend Ron. However, when the time comes to choose, will he go for wife, or wife and child?

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Additional details

Part of

Landmark Sitcom Season

Production

Studio

Camera set-up

Multi-camera

Picture

Colour

Broadcast details

First broadcast

Thursday 18th November 1993 at 8:30pm on BBC One

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