Goodnight Sweetheart Anyone?

[Miss Golightly]

Reminds me of being in school - was it shown on a Sunday - for some reason I can only think of it being on the telly and having to go and do homework *shudder*.....

 

[MissMittens]

Reminds me of being in school - was it shown on a Sunday - for some reason I can only think of it being on the telly and having to go and do homework *shudder*.....

Almost the same deal here......I was just finishing up at Uni when the series first started. It was on BBC1 at 7:30 in the evening if I remember correctly.

 

[Warden]

the show was nice & gentle, but for me it was not a classic like Dads Army or the Fry/ Laurie's version of Jeeves and Wooster.

I did however like the titles, and often wished I had the skills to copy the design and use it as as a logo for our website

 

[W-D Forties]

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. QUOTE]

What about the 'conscience' aspect of knowing everything about Axis troop movements, bombings, etc, in advance and not saving lives or advising the British Gvt? I'll be honest, I haven't seen every episode - did he make a decision early on not to say anything so as not to muck up the space-time continuum (or some such thing!)?

 

[MissMittens]

What about the 'conscience' aspect of knowing everything about Axis troop movements, bombings, etc, in advance and not saving lives or advising the British Gvt? I'll be honest, I haven't seen every episode - did he make a decision early on not to say anything so as not to muck up the space-time continuum (or some such thing!)?

The "conscious" factor was addressed very early on in the series. His modern-day wife wasn't even born at the time he was having an affair, so how could he be cheating if she didn't exist? This was later re-iterated when Gary married Phoebe

 

[W-D Forties]

The "conscious" factor was addressed very early on in the series. His modern-day wife wasn't even born at the time he was having an affair, so how could he be cheating if she didn't exist? This was later re-iterated when Gary married Phoebe

I meant that Gary could have interferred with the course of the war by giving the allies inteligence about the Germans, or by saving lives by knowing who was going to be killed in raids, etc.

 

[MissMittens]

I meant that Gary could have interferred with the course of the war by giving the allies inteligence about the Germans, or by saving lives by knowing who was going to be killed in raids, etc.

There was an episode where Gary passed information to the U.S. about the impending attack on Pearl Harbor. There was also another episode where he meets his son in modern day London, who was a down and out, and Gary found an old song that never made a penny and gave it to Noel Coward and Phoebe, and turned it into a moderately successful hit song. Afterward, the son re-appeared in the shop as a successful businessman, who was able to go to a good school and make a success out of his life. So those were two episodes where he made changes in the past to influence the future.

 

[rue]

Just finished watching the series on youtube. I'm so sad it's over

 

[HadleyH]

Al Bowlly's song is my favorite part of the show... how it can not be ...


[video=youtube;MxiC28aaHww]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MxiC28aaHww[/video]

 

[rue]

I'm re-watching the show.... anyone else want to watch? http://youtu.be/st72Xd0xRaU

 

[V.C. Brunswick]

*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.

In one of the episodes an 80-year-old Phoebe is mentioned in a TV news story when she runs off some hooligans with an army revolver that belonged to her husband (Gary).