Goodnight Sweetheart: Story, Cast and Series Facts

Story and premise

Gary Sparrow is an underachieving TV repairman, unhappily married to the loud and often mocking Yvonne Sparrow. However, Gary's life is changed forever upon discovering a time portal taking him back to a war-torn London, leading to an East End pub (the Royal Oak) and an attractive barmaid named Phoebe, who becomes his girlfriend. From then on, Gary leads a double life, going back and forth across time to please the two women in his life closest to his heart, but furthest apart.

Series details

• Title: Goodnight Sweetheart
• Format: Scripted
• Language: English
• Genres: Comedy, Romance, History
• Premiere date: 1993-11-18
• Final broadcast date listed: 2016-09-02
• Status in TVmaze: Ended
• Network listed by TVmaze: BBC One
• Network country: United Kingdom
• Typical episode runtime: 30 minutes
• TVmaze community rating: 7.4/10
• TVMaze ID: 7537
• IMDb ID: tt0106014
• TVDB ID: 76333

Cast and credited roles

• Nicholas Lyndhurst — Gary Sparrow
• Victor McGuire — Ron Wheatcroft
• Elizabeth Carling — Phoebe Bamford
• Dervla Kirwan — Phoebe Bamford
• Emma Amos — Yvonne Sparrow
• Michelle Holmes — Yvonne Sparrow
• Christopher Ettridge — Reginald "Reg" Deadman
• David Ryall — Eric Elward

Seasons in the TVmaze catalogue

• Season 1: premiered 1993-11-18; final listed air date 1993-12-23; episode order: 6.
• Season 2: premiered 1995-02-20; final listed air date 1995-05-01; episode order: 10.
• Season 3: premiered 1995-12-26; final listed air date 1996-03-04; episode order: 10.
• Season 4: premiered 1997-03-03; final listed air date 1997-05-20; episode order: 11.
• Season 5: premiered 1998-02-23; final listed air date 1998-04-27; episode order: 10.
• Season 6: premiered 1999-04-11; final listed air date 2016-09-02; episode order: 10.

Source and licence

Adapted from Goodnight Sweetheart on TVmaze. The synopsis is reproduced as plain text; catalogue facts, cast and season records are selected and reformatted. This adapted text is available under CC BY-SA 4.0, following the TVmaze API licence. Network and web-channel credits identify the service listed in this source; they do not establish current streaming availability.