Quote: Chappers @ August 4 2010, 11:46 PM BSTWhy did all the Beatles songs get forgotten though?
Who knows, what will happen in the 1960s when bands like The Beatles will become famous. Gary will have a lot of explaining to do. He's probably bricking it now, as he'll be in 1956, so it will only be a few years before he needs to think of an excuse.
Quote: Chappers @ August 4 2010, 11:20 PM BSTOK - maybe I was confusing it with something else. (Life on Mars maybe?)
That happened in Futurama.
I'd say "Yes. Bring 'Goodnight, Sweetheart' back!".
We're in a phase where everything is about a reunion episode, e.g. Open All Hours and possibly Only Fools And Horses, so why not GS? This was and is still a very good show. Maybe not what sci-fi fanboys would agree with regarding time travel, but still it's a great story, just don't take life so seriously cos you might pop a brain cell.
The portal could open once again for repairs, or a glitch, or something and we can see whatever happened to Gary's lies about being a songwriter of so many hits that by now would be clearly exposed he didn't.
Started watching in the 90s but was in university hitting the books and the bottle, so I couldn't follow properly back then, but later on I saw it as a grown ass man and thought it a top-notch show.
Yes, by today's standards some may find this sort of comedy dated, and been seduced by raunchy jokes, therefore, understandably some will nay say it, but hey, different strokes for different folks, right?...
'Goodnight, Sweetheart' is good comedy. As Groucho Marx said "anybody can say something dirty and get a laugh, but say something clean and get a laugh. That requires a comedian. That requires talent".
Be good, misbehave and have a great end of year, everyone!
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FOR ALL YOU 'SWEETIES'
Posted on September 23, 2013I think it only right of us to thank all of you who have written about Goodnight Sweetheart. Do you know that next month sees the 20th anniversary of the show's first transmission. Gary Sparrow was unknown to us all back then, but it would appear that he has penetrated the imagination of so many of you.
Each week we receive dozens of emails from GS fans - or 'Sweeties' as we think they should be called - asking us if there is to be any more television episodes, or even a one-off special. Well, there are no plans to bring the show back to the screen, unless you deluge the BBC pleading for its return, although, as we have said, there is to be a stage musical. We just don't know quite when, but it wouldn't it be lovely to think it could be in 2014.
Myriad ideas have been suggested to us as to where Gary can 'time travel' next, or what he might be doing now that we have all moved on 14 years since he was last seen, locked in the East End on VE Night (May 1945). And we read these suggestions with interest and fascination. We suppose if it was 1945 in 1999 - if you follow what we mean - it would now be 1959 wherever Gary was. So what was happening in Britain in 1959 that would give us a brilliant episode?
We know that Harold Macmillan (he was our Prime Minister) was telling us that we had "never had it so good", but I wonder whether that applied to Gary and Phoebe? What we know is that there is to be a anniversary celebration book of Goodnight Sweetheart, and this can be obtained by emailing paulburton73@hotmail.co.uk
Meanwhile, we shall consult Gary Sparrow, if we can find him, and ask him just what ever happened to him. We promise to let you know.
Brilliant show!
The episode in which Gary is having regular nightmares is particularly awesome. From that episode, the sequence when Gary had the nightmare in which Yvonne, Phoebe, Ron and Reg all appear in his 1990s living room, and verbally demolish Gary, must be one of my favourite sequences of TV, comic or otherwise!
Just remembered another sequence from the same episode: the one in which Gary dreams he is going for counselling, and the counsellor is a sexy woman who starts to strip. Gary at first looks pleased-but then we see the look on his face change to absolute horror! When the shot cuts back to the woman, she has metamorphosed into his dopey 40s mate, Reg, taking his shirt off while giving Gary the come-on! The look Nicolas Lyndhurst summoned up for that bit was priceless and unforgettable! 
Just been watching this again. I cannot praise it highly enough, it is in my top 3 of shows of all time. So many different plots in its run. I would love to see what all of the characters are up to now, it could open with Ron who is now a succesful businessman in a meeting discussing a new venture who in a moment of reflection thinks back to his time travelling escapade in Series 5 and all the laughs he had with Gary, and take it from there. Maybe even a book with a brand new story with what they are up to now and what happened to them if no new episode. If ever there was a show that could do with a catch up then it is this one. Love it.
I remember it fondly. I used to watch it by myself as no one else in the house was interested in it. I haven't seen it as an adult but I'm sure it still has its charm.
Why on earth would you want to bring this back! Only joking, it isn't a bad series but neither is it great, it is alright and I do occasionally find myself watching the odd repeat on Gold from time to time.
Quote: G180e @ 16th February 2014, 10:02 PM GMTWhy on earth would you want to bring this back! Only joking, it isn't a bad series but neither is it great, it is alright and I do occasionally find myself watching the odd repeat on Gold from time to time.
I think it came to a proper ending.
Quote: Chappers @ 16th February 2014, 10:09 PM GMTI think it came to a proper ending.
I agree it had a proper ending, but I would love a book just to tell us what they all got up to next. Incidentally, does anyone know if a book celebrating the show is going to be realeased?
Quote: comical masterpiece @ 17th February 2014, 9:20 AM GMTI agree it had a proper ending, but I would love a book just to tell us what they all got up to next. Incidentally, does anyone know if a book celebrating the show is going to be realeased?
The only book which has ever been written for the show was a cheap diary-style one which rehashed some of the first three series. This happened for a few sitcoms of the late 80s and early 90s (Only Fools, Keeping Up Appearances, 'Allo 'Allo!).
They did bring it back. Gary left Phoebe, became a villian, changed his name to Freddie 'The Frog' Robdell, moved to Peckham and had an affair with a woman named Joan Trotter (impregnating her in the process).
I remember someone who used to try to bring back old, popular shows...
Justin Lee Collins.
And look what happened to him.
Don't try to bring 'Goodnight Sweetheart' back, you'll probably end-up being convicted of domestic violence.
I have always liked this show. What I call a cosy and gentle comedy. Yes a good story and a great ending.
Quote: ed williams @ 21st February 2014, 4:23 PM GMTI have always liked this show. What I call a cosy and gentle comedy.
A man goes back in time & becomes a dishonest adulterer & plagiariser - all the while being smug as to future events and casual as to the future consequences of his actions.
Cosy and gentle indeed.
Sparrow is a sociopath!
