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Goodnight Sweetheart: The Complete BBC Collection (11 Disc BBC Box Set) [1993]
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Excellent series
Review date: 2008-04-15 Rating: 10 out of 10
I remember Goodnight Sweetheart being on when it came out during the 90s but bought the 1st series to see if it was as good as I remember. I wasn't disappointed and went on to buy the rest of the series' one by one though the complete set is fantastic value. Nicholas Lyndhurst is excellent throughout and so is Victor McGuire who plays Ron. Gary did what everyone else wants (to time travel not marry two women) and it was entertaining to see him get into and then ultimately get out of the scrapes. A great series and something to watch to pass some time or for a guaranteed laugh.
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Reviews
Did babies wear gas masks?
Review date: 2008-03-30 Rating: 8 out of 10
I recently visited a local museum with a friend and we were puzzled by a strange looking exhibit, a bit like a rucksack but with a window so we asked the curator what it was and he said it was a gas mask for a tiny baby. Apparently the poor little thing was placed entirely inside and a concertina like attachment had to be pumped continuously to supply air. Later on that day I returned to watching this series which must be one of the best sit coms ever written. The baby's gas mask could easily have been something in Gary Sparrow's war memorabilia shop, the excellently named "Blitz and Pieces."
Any sympathy I may have felt for Gary has long gone as he becomes more and more arrogant in juggling his marriages, five decades apart. I do enjoy it though. What keeps me watching? - the excellent Ron Wheatcroft, reluctantly covering for his somewhat ungrateful friend, even though Ron's own marriage broke up around the second series and he's since been down on his luck and struggling to get a date. Until the fifth series that is, where Ron escorts one of Yvonne's clients, a super model to a social gathering and later moves into Gary's flat up west (50 years on, of course). Christopher Etteridge is brilliant as P C Reg who at sometime has a bang on the head which makes him ultra clever, but his role requires that another bump on the head returns him to his previous lovable, naieve self. His real life son played his small son in the second (third?) series.
There is a double episode where Gary stands in for a French General on a secret mission and works with the resistance and (I shall say this only once) is taken to gestapo headquarters in Berlin. The plots in the latter series are more adventurous than the earlier ones and the scriptwriters are to be commended on thinking up new material. By now, nearly all characters have travelled there and back through the time portal in Duckett's Passage. Phoebe and Yvonne meet but only in one of Gary's nightmares - how else would it work? Gary meets son Michael, now grown-up, but I mustn't give too much away.....
I'm about to start watching the sixth and final series and after that? Back to "Adam Adamant Lives". These boxsets are a great idea.
great programme
Review date: 2007-11-05 Rating: 10 out of 10
This Series is very funny and clever, gary sparrow often gets himself into tight siuations and its allways funny watching him try to get out of them.
It is definatly a good buy, however there does seem to be gaps in storylines, one minute gary is a singer the next he's a spy, yvone is poor one minute and rich the rest.
all in all thumbs up would recomend.
if youre not sure just buy one Series.
light hearted viewing
Review date: 2007-10-05 Rating: 8 out of 10
The series is easy to watch, sometimes funny and is good value. The 1940 domestic scenes with Phoebe were a bit tedious. The episodes where the time portal became affected by a bomb and allowed Ron and Phoebe to time travel were the best. Ron was especially funny as Commander Bond. He actually made the series. Apart from the time travel theme, one could question why the crisp war time five pound notes supplied by Ron's printing works were not seen as forgeries especially if they all had the same serial number.
Like hot crumpets with butter
Review date: 2007-10-05 Rating: 10 out of 10
Goodnight Sweetheart is a gentle paced sitcom of the life of Gary Sparrow who discovers he can time travel back to the 1940's during the second World War. Despite it being gentle it is to me very much like a nice warm blanket on a cold winters night. It is funny without ever being histerical, sad without ever being over the top and enjoyable without ever being fantastic. But there in lies its charm. Its a lovely series and one I thoroughly enjoy. The cast is led by Nicholas Lyndhurst who is excellent along with Victor McGuire as Ron (who is superb), Elizabeth Carling, Emma Amos and Michelle Holmes (who was Yvonne for the first three series before Emma Amos took over) along with Dervla Kirwin (who is Phoebe in the first three series before Elizabeth Carling took over). Its just really, really good. So good in fact that I'm off to watch it now. You will love this. Its great.
Product Details/Specifications
Actor(s):
Emma Amos
Christopher Ettridge
Elizabeth Carling
Nicholas Lyndhurst
Victor McGuire
Recording label: Revelation Films
Manufacturer: Revelation Films
EAN: 5027182612819
Binding: DVD
Number of items: 11
Format: Box set, Colour, PAL,
Release date: 2006-10-23
Aspect ratio: 1.33:1
Audience rating: Parental Guidance
Region code: 2
Running time: 1870 minutes
Theatrical release date: 1993-11-18
Language: English (Original Language)