Description

A romantic sci-fi time travel sitcom, you say?

For this episode, we travel back to 1993 and the British comedy series Goodnight Sweetheart, centred around Gary Sparrow, a TV repairman who finds himself able to travel between 1990s and 1940s London via a magical alleyway.

From Gary's questionable morals to Nicholas Lyndhurst's surprisingly great singing voice, we tackle one of British comedy's strangest premises, yet an underrated show that deserves a second look.

We also discuss:

• The show's complicated time travel rules - is it more Lost or Terminator?
• Birds of a Feather's strangely sullen intro
• Is bigamy OK if it's in two different eras? Gary would say so
• Was Gary's wife in the '90s all that bad?
• How it might have been in the same cinematic universe as another British sitcom classic
• Did Gary solve one of the greatest serial killer mysteries of all time?
• Why Ballykissangel made us both very angry
• Could it return?

Clips used:

• Goodnight Sweetheart (BBC/Britbox)
• Birds of a Feather (BBC/ITV)
• Many Happy Returns (BBC)

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