Goodnight Sweetheart (TV series)
| Goodnight Sweetheart | |
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Series title card
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| Genre |
Comedy-drama Science fiction |
| Created by |
Laurence Marks Maurice Gran |
| Developed by | Alomo Productions |
| Directed by | Terry Kinane Robin Nash Nic Phillips Martin Dennis |
| Starring |
Nicholas Lyndhurst Victor McGuire Christopher Ettridge Michelle Holmes Dervla Kirwan Emma Amos Elizabeth Carling |
| Theme music composer | Ray Noble Jimmy Campbell Reg Connelly |
| Opening theme | "Goodnight Sweetheart" |
| Country of origin | United Kingdom |
| Original language(s) | English |
| No. of series | 6 |
| No. of episodes | 59 (list of episodes) |
| Production | |
| Executive producer(s) | Claire Hinson Allan McKeown Jon Rolph |
| Producer(s) | John Bartlett Nic Phillips Humphrey Barclay |
| Location(s) | London, England |
| Running time | 30–45 mins |
| Distributor | FremantleMedia |
| Release | |
| Original network | BBC 1 |
| Picture format |
576i (4:3 SDTV) (1993–1999) 1080i (16:9 HDTV) (2016) |
| Original release |
Original Series: 18 November 1993 – 28 June 1999 Special: 2 September 2016 |
Goodnight Sweetheart is a British sitcom that ran for six series on BBC1 from 1993 to 1999 and a special that aired on 2 September 2016. It starred Nicholas Lyndhurst as Gary Sparrow, an accidental time traveller who leads a double life after discovering a time portal allowing him to travel between the London of the 1990s and the same area during the Second World War.
The show was created by Laurence Marks and Maurice Gran, also creators of Birds of a Feather and The New Statesman. The creators wrote the first series, while subsequent episodes were by a team of writers (including Marks and Gran).
Although originally made for the BBC the series has subsequently been repeated on ITV3. The show has also been repeated on Gold, Drama,Yesterday.and now forces tv
For his starring role, Lyndhurst won the Most Popular Comedy Performer at the National Television Awards twice in 1998 and 1999.
The original entrance to Duckett's Passage, leading to The Royal Oak, is located at Ezra Street, London, E2 7RH. The Royal Oak is located just down from Ezra Street, at 73 Columbia Road, E2 7RG.
Gary Sparrow is a somewhat disillusioned TV repairman, in a drab marriage with his ambitious wife Yvonne, and best friends with Ron, a printer whose marriage is on the brink of breakdown. While on a TV repair call-out in East London, Gary accidentally discovers a time portal which leads to war time London. There he meets Phoebe, a pretty barmaid who works in the Royal Oak pub, her father Eric who runs the Royal Oak, and Reg Deadman, a dim-witted but friendly policeman.
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