Facing pivotal points in both his relationships, Gary agrees to have meals with both women at the same time. Gary talks Ron into giving him a "job" and to Ron's surprise, some wages too. Despite Gary's negativity, it does work, in a roundabout way. Meanwhile, Yvonne organises a visit from a friend, a social worker, to try to help their marital problems. In the past, Phoebe begins to warm to Gary again, and they discuss a possible future together. Things get worse when Gary is convicted of drink-driving and loses his driving licence and his job. Gary's present-day marriage is under strain. Phoebe isn't happy, as Gary is too unreliable for her and the "new" Phoebe won't stand for it. Gary is insanely jealous, and interferes in Ludo's attempt to con Phoebe out of the money her Dad left her. In order to test his equipment, he goes back to visit Phoebe and finds she has a new admirer, a Czechoslovakian soldier named Ludo, or "Robert" as he wishes to be known. Yvonne is desperate to move house and have a baby the pressure affects Gary's "performance". Back in 1941, he finds that Reg is off the force and Eric has died in an air-raid bombing - and that a much more hardened and cynical Phoebe is running the Royal Oak. When he hears the names Mainwaring and Wilson, Gary begins singing the Dad's Army theme song. He goes into a bank in 1941 and meets a bank manager named Mainwaring and Wilson, his chief clerk, both of whom are in the Home Guard. Upon arrival in 1940, the King is due to visit and Gary has a plan to meet him.Ī couple of months have passed, and Gary reluctantly travels back in time again to try another investment scheme. Ron tries to convince Gary to deal in the 1940 stock market, in order to make lots of money in 1993. Worrying that Phoebe will be waiting for him forever, he goes back to 1940 to end their relationship, telling Yvonne that he is going to a football match in Lithuania with Ron. Gary sees an article in the paper concerning Phoebe Sparrow. Although Ron follows Gary down Duckett's Passage, only Gary winds up in the past. Meanwhile, Gary persuades Ron to print him the correct identity papers, in exchange for a trip back to 1940. Yvonne becomes irritated with Gary and attends a university course in Huddersfield. After making excuses to Yvonne, Gary quickly darts back to the forties to warn Phoebe and the patrons of the Royal Oak. Gary is thrown into a panic after reading that Phoebe's East-End London neighbourhood got heavily bombed by the Germans exactly 53 years ago that day.
When he returns there, he takes Phoebe dancing – and has an unexpected encounter with Phoebe's husband. Gary buys some 1940s clothes to look the part in the past. Gary at first takes the Royal Oak to be a 1940s thematic pub, however after an air raid Gary realises the truth and that he has actually travelled back in time. There he meets Police Constable Reg Deadman, Royal Oak bar owner Eric, and Eric's young married daughter Phoebe.
GOODNIGHT SWEETHEART SERIES
Episodes Series 1 (1993) No.Īfter being called out on a television repair, Gary Sparrow stumbles down an alley way called Duckett's Passage and unknowingly finds himself in war-torn London.
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