
Goodnight Sweetheart
Gary Sparrow is an underachieving TV repairman, unhappily married to the loud and often mocking Yvonne Sparrow. However, Gary's life is changed forever upon discovering a time portal taking him back to a war-torn London, leading to an East End pub (the Royal Oak) and an attractive barmaid named Phoebe, who becomes his girlfriend. From then on, Gary leads a double life, going back and forth across time to please the two women in his life closest to his heart, but furthest apart.
A stormy night in the forties turns Gary's world upside down. The problem is sorting it out, particularly when everyone is seeing double.
Yvonne throws Gary out of their Thameside penthouse apartment, which makes Gary edgy, which in turn makes Phoebe suspicious that there's someone else in his life. Ron has new girlfriend, Flic, who is so classy she's out of his league, and he is desperate to impress her, but Gary is more concerned about getting back with Yvonne.
Gary has to think fast when both his wives decide it's time to move to California. Phoebe's tenancy of the Royal Oak is up, and she wants to start a new life away from the shortages of Britain, but Gary persuades her to open a night club, The Blue Door, instead. Yvonne wants to be near the expansion of her Nature Boy cosmetics into the US market, but Gary convinces her to stay with him in London. Reg retires from the police force, but his leaving party is not a success, though he does he another job immediately, as a security guard at Gary's Mayfair apartment block.
Phoebe loses her patience when Gary backs out of a part in Noël Coward's new film, because he doesn't want to be recognised in it in the 1990s. She gets a part as an extra, but does she have more than a Brief Encounter on her mind? Gary thinks so, and barges in on the set.
Yvonne sells Nature Boy cosmetics for a multi-million sum. Gary travels back through the time gate in Ducketts Passage, arriving on a foggy night, where things don't look quite usual for the 1940s. At the Royal Oak, he finds it's the 1880s, hough the policeman and a music-hall singer look strangely familiar. He is accused of being Jack the Ripper when two murders occur close by on the two nights he's there. While escaping the mob, he meets the real Ripper...
When a workman arrives from the far future to mend a hole in the space-time corridor, Gary must decide where his future lies. He leaves the shop to Ron, who promptly sells the entire stock on credit to a strange young man.
A trip to northern France to entertain the troops forces Gary to play the hero following the sudden invasion by the Germans.
Gary and Phoebe have to deal with a protection racket, while Yvonne receives a rude surprise.
Gary must take drastic measures to ensure that a compromising photo from the Forties isn't seen in the present day.
With the war coming to an end, there are surprises in store for Gary, his two wives and Ron.
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Victor McGuire | Ron |
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Nicholas Lyndhurst | Gary |
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Emma Amos | Yvonne / Marie Lloyd |
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Christopher Ettridge | Reg / Isambard Deadman |
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Elizabeth Carling | Phoebe |
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Sonya Walger | Flic |
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Lynda Baron | Mrs. Green |
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David Benson | Noël Coward |
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Andrew Havill | Trevor Howard |
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Tom Goodman-Hill | Brick |
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Rolf Saxon | Murray |
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Robert Whitelock | PC Cotterill |
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Alan David | Clement Attlee MP |
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Andrew Elias | German Soldier |
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Nicholas Day | Jack the Ripper |
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Simon Sherlock | Nipper Smith |
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Dolly Wells | Celia Johnson |
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Richard Braine | David Lean |
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Dorothea Phillips | Holiday Rep |
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Jim McManus | Brian Merry |
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Leo Dolan | Mr. Smith |
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Gary Cady | Rock Justice |
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Bonnie Langford | Nancy Potter |
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Emily Bruni | Newsreader |
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Norman Eshley | Priestley |
Director | Nic Phillips |
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Terry Kinane |
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Robin Nash |
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Writer | Maurice Gran, Laurence Marks, Sam Lawrence, Geoff Rowley, Gary Lawson, John Phelps, Paul Alexander, Simon Braithwaite | |
Producer | Maurice Gran, Claire Hinson, Laurence Marks, Nic Phillips | |
Musician | David Harsent |
Nr Discs | 1 |
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Layers | Single side, Single layer |
Watched | |
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Quantity | 1 |
Index | 1541 |
Added Date | Aug 06, 2015 18:00:57 |
Modified Date | Jul 16, 2024 09:16:38 |