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Goodnight Sweetheart - Series 1 [1993]
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a comfort blanket
Review date: 2008-06-28 Rating: 6 out of 10
This is a problem series for me. I enjoyed it when it was first shown on TV, i was a still a child at the time, so i have happy memories of seeing it, which is one of the main reasons i brought it. But it really is a very flawed television series.
The good points are the plot, i love the idea of the time travelling, of the passage which leads to the 1940's, i think the theme of adultery is a brave one, i love the characters, and i think the actors are very good.
The bad points are that its simply not very well written! Hardly anything happens from episode to episode, the amazing ideas are thrown away by a few cheap gags the same old morality questions and it just becomes like a comfort blanket, a distraction from life, rather than anything which makes us think.
But nevertheless i do like my comfort blanket! Its just this series could have been so much more in the right hands.
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Reviews
falling through a hole in space and time
Review date: 2007-04-09 Rating: 10 out of 10
Gary Sparrow is going about his everyday business as a tv repairman when he accidentally stumbles upon a strange alley Duckets Passage, as he goes dwon he passes through a hole in time and arrives in wartorn London. Going into The Royal Oak he thinks he has stumbled upon a theme pub specialising in the 2nd World War, it takes him some time to realise he is actually in the real thing. Fantastic sitcom with a difference starring Nick Lyndhurst.
Great show but no chapter markers
Review date: 2006-01-04 Rating: 8 out of 10
"Goodnight Sweetheart" was one of my favourite sitcoms of the 90s, and this first series from 1993 is a six parter, unlike the later 10+ episodes per series.
However it was disappinting to find the episodes had no chapter markers, in fact the episodes are chapters themselves. If this does not bother you then it is still a fine DVD, with good quality picture.
good show
Review date: 2005-10-21 Rating: 10 out of 10
Having bought series 1 & 2 on vhs I am reluctant to buy the series on dvd until I know that the other series are coming out. But I have some good infomation for all the other people that are thinking the same as me! The other 4 series are coming out in the new year. Goodnight sweetheart was the best show of the 90s on bbc1 all round family entertainment. Who ever throught up the idea is a genuis
Goodnight Sweetheart The Series.
Review date: 2005-08-26 Rating: 10 out of 10
What an absolute brilliant DVD the complete series one is.I like many others possess old VHS copies of Series One and Two and have waited and waited in vain for the series to be published onto DVD but at last Revelation have done it !. My only fear is that they dont just stop at series two.The quality of the DVD is excellent, true escapism.
Product Details/Specifications
Actor(s):
Christopher Ettridge
Michelle Holmes
Victor McGuire
Nicholas Lyndhurst
Dervla Kirwan
Director(s):
Recording label: Revelation Films
Manufacturer: Revelation Films
EAN: 5027182612536
Binding: DVD
Number of items: 1
Format: PAL,
Release date: 2008-02-04
Aspect ratio: 1.33:1
Audience rating: Parental Guidance
Running time: 230 minutes
Theatrical release date: 1993-11-18
Language: English (Original Language)