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UK revives Goodnight Sweetheart as comedy special

17 years after it last aired, the UK time travelling sitcom lands a one-off special.

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1990s UK sitcom Goodnight Sweetheart is set to be revived as a one-off special 17 years after it last aired.

The comedy starred Nicholas Lyndhurst as time traveller Gary Sparrow between contemporary London and the London of the Blitz, after discovering a time portal. It ran for six seasons from 1993 to 1999.

Now Lyndhurst will reprise his role for a special, as part of this BBC’s Landmark Sitcom season with revival specials of Are You Being Served?, Porridge and a Keeping Up Appearances prequel.

And original creators Laurence Marks and Maurice Gran have written the script in which ‘Sparrow faces the consequences of his time travel and go somewhere he’s never been before’.

In 1999’s final episode, the time portal closed, leaving Gary stuck in the 1940s.

Marks and Gran said: “Gary has been trying for the last 17 years to find a way back to the present. Now he’s found one, and he’s asked us to turn it into a TV show, featuring much-loved old Goodnight Sweetheart friends and one or two new ones.”

Source: Chortle

6 Responses

  1. A delightful show about a lying bigamist who manages to juggle multiple eras yet doesnt seem to notice that both wives change bodies mid-series.

  2. I guess the comedy this time will come from the changes since the 1990s to now, which arguably and surprisingly are even more substantial than between the 40s and 90s, especially from the point of view of somebody who didn’t get past 1999. Also Gary might have done a few things in the 50s which could have unintentionally changed the course of history so they could create a slightly alternative reality for 2016.

  3. The whole point of it was he enjoyed being in the past and wanted to escape his current time line life-the long gap between the finale and this makes little sense.

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