Goodnight Sweetheart

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We're sorry that we've hardly blogged this year, but there is a very good reason: we've been trapped in 1962. It all started when we went on this innocent walk down an alleyway in East London and...What do you mean you don't believe us?

Goodnight Sweetheart: Musical future for sitcom?

Twenty years after the first episode of sitcom Goodnight Sweetheart, its creators still hope it will return, as a stage musical.

Richard Herring: I'm obsessed with Goodnight Sweetheart

Where's the ambition?

Richard Herring on Goodnight Sweetheart

A detailed, fun analysis of the series by comedian Richard Herring. There is no consistency to the series and at times one wonders whether the writers of one episode are even aware of what has happened in previous ones.

Goodnight Sweetheart was a slowish starter which is now in its second series and lapping other runners. It owes a certain tender debt to Dennis Potter, the first playwright since Noël Coward to realise how potent cheap music is.

The show revolves around Gary Sparrow, a televisual 4-D Jones who can step in and out of the space-time continuum at will. He conducts parallel lives in 1941 and the present day, a brilliantly original idea except that Back to the Future and The Terminator (and several thousand other movies) flogged such notions to death a decade ago. [...] Since Laurence Marks and Maurice Gran (the creators of the first-class Birds of a Feather) are credited as "writers and supervising producers", I can only assume that some sort of head injury has occurred (writers always risk collision when pacing the floor for inspiration).