ORBzine - Goodnight Sweetheart TV Review
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1. 1- 1 18 Nov 93 Rites of Passage 2. 1- 2 25 Nov 93 Fools Rush In 3. 1- 3 2 Dec 93 Is Your Journey Really Necessary? 4. 1- 4 9 Dec 93 The More I See You 5. 1- 5 16 Dec 93 I Get Along Without You Very Well
Goodnight Sweetheart [Season 1, Episode 6]
In the Mood
Shown 23 Dec 93
7. 2- 1 20 Feb 95 Don't Get Around Much Anymore 8. 2- 2 27 Feb 95 I Got It Bad and That Ain't Good 9. 2- 3 6 Mar 95 Just One More Chance
Goodnight Sweetheart [Season 2, Episode 4]
Who's Taking You Home Tonight
Shown 13 Mar 95
Gary has dinner with both women, simultaneously. This involves rushing off to the toilet regularly.
11. 2- 5 20 Mar 95 Wish Me Luck
Goodnight Sweetheart [Season 2, Episode 7]
...As You Wave Me Goodbye
Shown 27 Mar 95
Phoebe and Reg make Gary go fire-watching with them. They stand atop a warehouse full of highly flammable chemicals.
Goodnight Sweetheart [Season 2, Episode 7]
Would You Like to Swing on a Star
Shown 3 Apr 95
Yvonne gets lead role in a play. Gary gets stuck doing costumes.
Gary discovers that he can buy records in 1941, and sell them for great profit in 1996.
Goodnight Sweetheart [Season 1, Episode 8]
Nice Work If You Can Get It
Shown 10 Apr 95
Goodnight Sweetheart [Season 2, Episode 9]
Let Yourself Go
Shown 24 Apr 95
Goodnight Sweetheart [Season 2, Episode 10]
Don't Fence Me In
Shown 1 May 95
The East End is being redeveloped. A building firm erects a fence across the gateway ...
Phoebe gets sexually harrassed by the Brewery Rep. And one of Yvonne's co-workers is also the victim of sexual harrassment.
Christmas Special 1995
S- 1 26 Dec 95 Between The Devil And The Deep Blue Sea (50 min)
Goodnight Sweetheart [Season 3, Episode 1]
It Ain't Necessarily So
Shown 1 Jan 96
Gary's 1940s Landlady, Mrs Bloss, reports Phoebe to the Work registry. They might conscript her, and send her to an Anti-Aircraft Artillery Battery in Grimsby!
Back in the 1990s, Gary tries to get Stella and Ron back together.
Goodnight Sweetheart [Season 3, Episode 2]
One O'Clock Jump
Shown 8 Jan 96
In the 1990s, Gary opens his East End shop, and meets the local Crime Prevention officer. The cop looks just like 1940s PC Reg.
In the 1940s, Gary helps Reg track down the son he never knew he had!
Yvonne insists that she and Gary have dinner with an influential Jap businessman. She is ambitious, but Gary still has Singapore and Pearl Harbour on his mind!
Goodnight Sweetheart [Season 3, Episode 3]
It's a Sin to Tell a Lie
Shown 15 Jan 96
Gary helps Yvonne with her Open University coursework. She's studying the German plan to flood the UK with forged five-pound notes in WW2. If this seems familiar, that's because it was used by the BBC to create the excellent 1970s comedy-drama Private Schultz!
Back in WW2, Gary discovers someone's passing forged fivers. He and Reg try to apprehend the German spy responsible!
Goodnight Sweetheart [Season 3, Episode 4]
Change Partners
Shown 22 Jan 96
Phoebe gets sick of Gary taking her for granted, so she and her blonde gal-pal go on a double-date with some RAF airmen.
Yvonne holds a fancy-dress party. Gary intends to impress everyone with the best costume, but we can all assume that his plan will go hilariously wrong!
21. 3- 5 29 Jan 96 Goodnight Children Everywhere 22. 3- 6 5 Feb 96 Turned Out Nice Again 23. 3- 7 12 Feb 96 There's Something About a Soldier 24. 3- 8 19 Feb 96 Someone to Watch Over Me
Goodnight Sweetheart [Season 3, Episode 9]
The Yanks Are Coming
Shown 26 Feb 96
This sees the arrival of US troops in 1942 London. Yes, all 3 kinds of Yanks. The Italian-American Mafia wheeler-dealer, the friendly African-American, and the redneck racist.
Ron wants spare parts for a jeep. And Yvonne wants Gary to expand his business with Yank merchandise.
1990s musician Garry Sparrow [Nicholas Lyndhurst] travels back to see his lover Phoebe, and finds her pub torn with strife between Black GIs and racist white GIs.
26. 3-10 4 Mar 96 Let's Get Away from It All
27. 4- 1 3 Mar 97 You're Driving Me Crazy 28. 4- 2 10 Mar 97 In the Mood 29. 4- 3 17 Mar 97 Out of Town
Goodnight Sweetheart [Season 4, Episode 4]
And Mother Came Too
Shown 24 Mar 97
Phoebe's husband has been reported killed. There's a memorial service for him - but his evil bitchy mother turns up.
Goodnight Sweetheart [Season 4, Episode 5]
The Leaving of Liverpool
Shown 8 Apr 97
Gary and Phoebe visit her aunt in Liverpool. Gary bumps into Ron's grandad, a thieving scumbag - who is supposed to do a great heroic deed.
Will Gary upset temporal continuity?
32. 4- 6 15 Apr 97 How Long Has This Been Going On? 33. 4- 7 22 Apr 97 Easy Living
Goodnight Sweetheart [Season 4, Episode 8]
Come Fly with Me
Shown 29 Apr 97
Gary has his stag night. Two, really - one with Ron in the modern age, and one during World War Two. He insults a bomber pilot, who gets him drunk and takes him as a passenger on a bombing mission.
Goodnight Sweetheart [Season 4, Episode 9]
Heartaches
Shown 6 May 97
Goodnight Sweetheart [Season 4, Episode 10]
Careless Talk
Shown 13 May 97
Goodnight Sweetheart [Season 4, Episode 11]
The Bells Are Ringing
Shown 20 May 97
Goodnight Sweetheart [Season 5, Episode 1]
A Room with a View
Shown 23 Feb 98
Gary and his son, caught in an air raid, escape back to the modern era. Yes, the wee lad can time-travel too.
Gary gets Ron to print him a thousand pounds, which he uses to buy a posh West-end Apartment.
Gary has to explain to Yvonne where the wee lad came from!
Goodnight Sweetheart [Season 5, Episode 2]
London Pride
Shown 2 Mar 98
Phoebe's not posh enough for the new local butcher, so she gets elocution lessons from Noel Coward.
Gary is jealous because Yvonne is spending too much time with her business partner.
Goodnight Sweetheart [Season 5, Episode 3]
When Two Worlds Collide
Shown 9 Mar 98
Gary is in the 1940s when the alley is bombed. When he finally gets back through the time portal ... Phoebe follows him!
Gary must keep Phoebe in the shop and convince her there is an airraid on. Ron pops by, to convince her that he is Commander Bond of MI6.
Yvonne visits as well, and Gary must convince her that Phoebe is Ron's girlfriend.
This is one of the few eps that is actually funny. The first one yet, in fact.
Goodnight Sweetheart [Season 5, Episode 4]
Mairzy Doats
Shown 16 Mar 98
The time gate is still open. Ron follows Gary into 1944, where he poses as Commander Bond and proceeds to make a fool of himself.
Goodnight Sweetheart [Season 5, Episode 5]
Pennies from Heaven
Shown 23 Mar 98
Gary needs more fivers. Unfortunately, Ron's boss is keeping a close eye on him. She's an ambitious career-woman, like Yvonne - and fancies Gary. Can he distract her?
In 1944, Gary and Reg visit an illegal bookie. Reg is still razor-sharp, though he finds being intelligent has become an annoyance. Will it last much longer?
Goodnight Sweetheart [Season 5, Episode 6]
We Don't Want to Lose You ... (1)
Shown 30 Mar 98
Gary and Phoebe go out for the night. It turns out he's an identical lookalike for a senior officer of the Free French. He's recruited by MI5 to act as a decoy in the run-up to D-Day.
Goodnight Sweetheart [Season 5, Episode 7]
... But We Think You Have to Go (2)
Shown 6 Apr 98
Gary, behind enemy lines, is helped by a resistance woman straight out of Allo, Allo.
Notably, while held POW Gary whistles Colonel Bogey's March. A German officer then sings the words - in German!
In Modern-Day England, Ron meets a supermodel type - and she likes him!
Goodnight Sweetheart [Season 5, Episode 8]
Have You Ever Seen a Dream Walking ...
Shown 13 Apr 98
Gary's having nightmares.
Ron's lost everything to the bailiffs. Luckily, he can crash at Gary's West End flat.
Goodnight Sweetheart [Season 5, Episode 9]
Love the One You're With
Shown 20 Apr 98
Gary discovers that the owner of his West End flat was killed in 1944 ... in a few days time!
Goodnight Sweetheart [Season 5, Episode 10]
My Heart Belongs to Daddy
Shown 27 Apr 98
Gary's shop has a visitor - Michael, Gary's son, all grown up! The old boy's down on his luck. Can Gary change history to help him?
Michael is played by Ian Lavender - Private Pike from 1970s TV show, Dads Army.
Goodnight Sweetheart [Season 6, Episode 1]
Mine's a Double
Shown 20 Apr 98
The time gate is struck by lightning, and Gary is duplicated. Unfortunately, his double seems to be his evil side!
Ron saves the day! This is a nice development. It's not exactly in fitting with his weaselly nature from prior eps, but who cares?
Goodnight Sweetheart [Season 6, Episode 2]
All About Yvonne
Shown 18 Apr 99
Goodnight Sweetheart [Season 6, Episode 3]
California Dreamin'
Shown 25 Apr 99
Both wives want to relocate to LA. However, the portal is still in London!
Goodnight Sweetheart [Season 6, Episode 4]
Grief Encounter
Shown 2 May 99
Noel Coward gets Phoebe a role in the film Brief Encounter. Gary thinks that Noel, who acts flamboyantly camp, may be out to seduce her!
Goodnight Sweetheart [Season 6, Episode 5]
The 'ouses in Between
Shown 16 May 99
Gary goes through the portal from the wrong side, and ends up in 1888. He meets ancestors of Yvonne [a bawdy singer] and Reg [a copper, like all other Deadmans]. Gary is mistaken for Jack the Ripper - and by strange coincidence, the real Ripper follows him through a time portal!
Goodnight Sweetheart [Season 6, Episode 6]
Just in Time
Shown 23 May 99
Another time-traveller appears. He's a repair-man from the far future, in charge of maintaining the time portals. And he has to shut down a malfunctioning portal.
Gary has to choose between wives. And Ron sets up business with a new partner ...
Goodnight Sweetheart [Season 6, Episode 7]
How I Won the War
Shown 30 May 99
Gary and Phoebe escort some Entertainers through Belgium - when the Germans counterattack. Gary must take charge, and save the day with his knowledge of the Home Alone movies!
Meanwhile, Gary is suspicious of Yvonne's goings-on. Hypocrital it may be, but he sends Ron to follow her. Ron takes Flick [ Sonia Walger ] but falls foul of the modern PC Deadman.
Goodnight Sweetheart [Season 6, Episode 8]
Something Fishie
Shown 6 Jun 99
The 1945 nightclub is threatened by greedy extortionists. Local Police Inspector, Priestly [a nice reference to the play], refuses to intervene. Gary suspects he is part of the gang, and plans a double-cross ...
The Germans are still firing V1 rockets at London. Which comes in useful for Gary.
Goodnight Sweetheart [Season 6, Episode 9]
Flash Bang Wallop
Shown 13 Jun 99
Yvonne is a Judge in a competition, and has to read a book about Noel Coward. Unfortunately, in the book there is a photo of Gary! Gary has to stop her from seeing the photo, or the game will be up!
Goodnight Sweetheart [Season 1, Episode 10]
Accentuate the Positive
Shown 21 Jun 99
Ron's re-painting the flat. Gary stupidly leaves a photo of himself and Phoebe in his wallet, and Yvonne finds it. She doesn't recognise Phoebe, even though they met last year. Instead she follows Gary, and spies on him in his yard ...
In 1945, Hitler is dead and VE day approaches. Reg takes everyone to meet local MP Clement Attlee, who's standing for election as Prime Minister with the promise of creating the Welfare State.
A friendly chap named Kenneth comes along, as if he's been part of the group for years. Where he came from and what his motivation is, we are never told.
Gary's destiny is fulfilled. His choice between his 2 wives is made. This leads to somewhat tearful farewells.
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