Gary Sparrow

This is a list of characters from Goodnight Sweetheart, a BBC sitcom that ran for six series from 1993 and 1999. It stars Nicholas Lyndhurst as the accidental time traveller Gary Sparrow, who leads a double life after discovering a time portal allowing him to travel from the 1990s to a war-torn London. The show was created by Laurence Marks and Maurice Gran, also creators of other hits such as Birds of a Feather and The New Statesman. The creators wrote the first series, episodes after which were written by a team of writers, including Marks and Gran.

During a service call out to a part of the East End he is not familiar with, Gary Sparrow (Nicholas Lyndhurst), a TV repairman living an ordinary life in 1990s Cricklewood, unknowingly walks through a time portal to 1940s London. He does not realise what has happened at first and simply thinks he is lost. He wanders into a local public house (The Royal Oak) which, he decides must be a World War II theme pub; however, after an air raid, he realises the truth.

Upon discovering he can return to the future, Gary uses his time travelling ability to flit between the past and the present. He starts a cross-time romance with Royal Oak landlady, Phoebe Bamford, while still living his regular life in the 1990s with wife Yvonne. Neither Yvonne nor Phoebe know that Gary is a time traveller (or an adulterer). Gary's only confidant is his modern day best friend and printer, Ron Wheatcroft. Ron is able to replicate items that Gary needs to get by in the past (such as period money and ration cards) and to help him present 'cover stories' to Yvonne, though he performs the latter rather unwillingly.

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