Goodnight Sweetheart Anyone?

[StraightSeamGal]

Just wondering if any of you guys or gals had seen Goodnight Sweetheart?

It was a british comedy/sci-fi which run from 1993 - 1999 starring Nicholas Lyndhurst as a time traveller, from modern day London he visits war torn London and begins a secret life.

Its one of my favourite shows full of laughs and really great hair and clothing ideas too.

It can be found on youtube and bought on amazon, just wondering if you guys had seen it.

 

[LizzieMaine]

*Loved* this show -- the first four series ran on our local PBS station about ten years ago, and last year I finally got to see the rest of it via DVD. Phoebe, especially, is a great character -- always stronger and smarter than she thinks she is.

 

[goldwyn girl]

lizzie, where did you get the DVD ? I have the first series and loved it so much I watched even though the voice was out of sinc on my multi zone player.

 

[LizzieMaine]

All six series came out in a Region 2 box set last year -- I picked mine up on eBay, but I think you can also order it from Amazon UK. I had the same sound synch issues with the first-series episodes, but not on the rest of the set, so I think it was some kind of tech glitch that's brought to the surface by multi-region players. But the rest of the discs are fine -- a very enjoyable set!!

 

[goldwyn girl]

Thankyou Lizzie, I was a bit worried about buying more due to that problem but I'll order the rest and see how it goes.

 

[Cousin Hepcat]

Just wondering if any of you guys or gals had seen Goodnight Sweetheart?

It was a british comedy/sci-fi which run from 1993 - 1999 starring Nicholas Lyndhurst as a time traveller, from modern day London he visits war torn London and begins a secret life.

Its one of my favourite shows full of laughs and really great hair and clothing ideas too.

It can be found on youtube and bought on amazon, just wondering if you guys had seen it.

Thanks for posting, hadn't heard of the show but from your description & youtube, looks like a winner on many levels; just ordered series 1 of 6.

 

[StraightSeamGal]

Hepcat - Your more than welcome, hope you enjoy!

 

[MrBern]

Ducketts Passage to the Royal Oak

I LOVE that show!
It was broadast here on some PBS stations, but most people missed it.
For anyone not familiar, a henpecked `90s guy enters a theme pub & slowly realizes he's stumbled thru a timewarp to the `40s. He falls for the barmaid & begins a double life pretending to be part of the mysterious underground.

there are some episodes on youtube

series1ep1part1

 

[Shearer]

I LOVE that show!
It was broadast here on some PBS stations, but most people missed it.
For anyone not familiar, a henpecked `90s guy enters a theme pub & slowly realizes he's stumbled thru a timewarp to the `40s. He falls for the barmaid & begins a double life pretending to be part of the mysterious underground.

there are some episodes on youtube

series1ep1part1

Danke, I can't find it on Netflix.

 

[imoldfashioned]

After a conversation about this one with Mr. Bern it's on my Christmas list this year--looks great!

 

[Edward]

Not a bad show. They could have done more with his conscience - or possibly lack thereof - over the adultery thing, but that aside I thought it was well done. Good sense of period, with only very occasional slip ups (like the policeman writing with his left hand - he'd have had that beaten out of him in school in those days). I loved the episode wherein he tries to buy shares in a company in the 40s that he knows will do very well in the 90s, and they have "real-life" equivalents of the Dad's Army guys working in the bank. lol

How did they end it, does anyone know? I don't recall ever seeing a definitive ending to it, though there were one or two episodes where he was having to make a choice as the timewarp was going to close?

 

[swankysister]

How did they end it, does anyone know?

The Wikipedia page for the show describes how it ends. Warning about spoilers, etc.

The show is being rerun in Australia at the moment on Saturdays, ABC, around 6.00 pm I think, for any Australians who haven't seen it before.

I chuckle at how Gary sings a Beatles song (or other modern classic) and they think he was a brilliant songwriter.

 

[Mac Daddy]

This show was gold, if only it could be done......sigh

 

[Edward]

The Wikipedia page for the show describes how it ends. Warning about spoilers, etc.

Ah! Thanks

 

[Smuterella]

I recently rediscovered this, I used to think it was the absolute height of naff as a child but its actually rather sweet. the character of Phoebe was and still is my favourite.

 

[Edward]

It was never exactly cutting edge as comedy, but still quite entertaining. Seems to me that it has aged a lot better than some of the stuff that was around at the same time too.

 

[Swing Kitty]

Aww, I love Goodnight Sweetheart - I used to watch it when I was younger, and they've just been re-running it on one of the ITV channels recently. I prefered the earlier ones though, with Dervla Kirwan as Pheobe.

 

[Miss Sis]

I remember I liked this when it began but got a bit bored and never saw the later ones properly, just catching bits here and there. The first Phoebe was definitely better than the later one. I seem to remember the costumes might have been a bit off here and there but I would have to re-watch it!

Good sense of period, with only very occasional slip ups (like the policeman writing with his left hand - he'd have had that beaten out of him in school in those days).

Not necessarily true. My Grandmother, a Leftie born 1911, was never forced to change hands although her father, born c.1886 was. Even though he was forced to change he still had beautiful handwriting as we still have postcards etc written by him.

Then about 1950 my mother went to stay with her Great Aunt in a small town whilst my Grandmother went away for 3 months to Australia. The local teacher tried to make her use her Right hand instead of her Left (there are a LOT of Lefties in my family) Her Great Aunt, an ex teacher, marched straight down to the school and gave that teacher a right telling off.

My Mum's still a Left hander.

 

[MissMittens]

I searched the forum before starting a new thread on this, but I'm in the process of converting the discs to NTSC/Region 1. I'm permitted to make a copy since I own the DVD's....but not sell/trade them, etc. However, that doesn't mean that I won't be able to lend them to anyone interested.

There is also this http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dM_AQndakyo

 

[W-D Forties]

Goodnight Sweetheart is enjoyably goofy. The later ones where her befriends and influences Noel Coward are a hoot, ditto the one where he gleefuly nicks all of Elton John's songs and sings them in a 40's stylee!