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Goodnight Sweetheart Season 3 Episodes
Season 3 Episode Guide
11 Episodes 1995 - 1996
Episode 1
Between the Devil and the Deep Blue Sea
49 mins
Gary plans to open a shop selling wartime memorabilia brought back from the past in Duckett's plaza, a new shopping parade on the site of the passage. Jayne Mansfield, the estate agent who helped him get the shop, tries to seduce him and when he resists, tells Yvonne he made a pass at her. However, he convinces Yvonne this is not true and Yvonne pours coffee in her computer. Whilst actually going on a skiing holiday with Yvonne, Gary tells the Royal Oak regulars that he has to go to Singapore, at which point it is announced that America has entered the war.
Episode 2
It Ain't Necessarily So
29 mins
Gary returns with Yvonne from the skiing trip and gives Ron a watch, actually set for 1941. Ron is having trouble with Stella, who won't even ask him to her New Year party, though after Yvonne has spoken to her she relents. Ron is late and blames the watch. Gary manages to celebrate the New Year in both 1941 and 1995. He takes Phoebe back to his room and encounters the wrath of Mrs Bloss, the landlady, but something he discovers about her husband in the present gives him a hold over her.
Episode 3
One O'Clock Jump
29 mins
Gary's shop flourishes whilst Yvonne is depressed at being jobless so Gary applies on her behalf to the Symbion Company. In the present day, Gary again runs into the policeman who is the spitting image of Reg, but Reg tells Gary he and his wife Minnie have no children. A little detective work leads Gary to the Streatham Bus depot and the revelation that Reg does have a son, Frank, by a bus conductor's wife called Margie. Mr Shik and his silent wife meet the Sparrows for an informal interview over dinner at a Japanese restaurant. Gary gets drunk on sake and is outspoken about the Japanese in the war, but Mr Shik, who reveals himself to be Korean, is impressed by Gary's openness and gives Yvonne the job.
Episode 4
It's a Sin to Tell a Lie
28 mins
Detectably counterfeit money notes are flooding the area around the Royal Oak and initially Gary suspects Ron trying to discredit him out of jealousy but the notes are traced to Owen Jones, a Nazi spy whom Reg accuses of sleeping with his wife. Owen is caught and it turns out he has no member - it was shot off - so he was not having sex with Minnie after all. Gary tells Yvonne this story to help her with her course work, changing names and making it sound like a fiction. However, Ron is surprised to hear Yvonne talking about the inhabitants of Gary's 1941 world, and things are getting even worse with Stella.
Episode 5
Change Partners
29 mins
As Ron's marriage crumbles, Gary brags of his prowess with the ladies, only to find that both Yvonne and Phoebe, tired of his absences, are carving out their own social lives. He wins Phoebe back from a lying aircraft mechanic who claims to be a fighter pilot and, after congratulating Reg on the model fort he has made for his son Frankie, amuses Yvonne by coming as Maid Marian to her fancy dress party, wrongly mistaking her Peter Pan costume for Robin Hood. For a drunken, Ron it's the end of the line with Stella as he insults an animal rights campaigner and collapses in the garden.
Episode 6
Goodnight Children Everywhere
29 mins
Phoebe's young cousins Peter and Sally come to stay at the pub and Gary has more joy with them than he does in the present day. He and Yvonne are arguing as her new job has made her super-confident and, to cap it all, Ron is now staying with them after Stella kicks him out for assaulting her boss. Yvonne is not keen on the idea - nor for that matter is Gary but he has to keep Ron sweet or else he may tell Yvonne about Phoebe.
Episode 7
Turned Out Nice Again
29 mins
Gary successfully performs the Beatles' song "When I'm Sixty-Four", which he claims to have penned himself, at a birthday party in the Royal Oak and Mr. Wix suggests he sell the song to entertainer George Formby to sing at the Hackney Empire. George arrives with his controlling wife Beryl and Gary is unhappy to give him the song. However, he is saved by the fact that George gets drunk, forgets the words and never performs it.
Episode 8
There's Something About a Soldier
29 mins
Phoebe's husband Donald, who has escaped from the prison camp in Italy, returns. Gary feels he must give Phoebe up for good - Ron suggests he tell her he is an alien from the planet Zircon - but both Phoebe and Donald tell Gary separately that they allowed themselves to be pushed into a somewhat passionless marriage by relatives. It is implied in what Donald tells Gary that his real love was Steve, with whom he planned to emigrate but was killed in North Africa. Donald takes his leave, bidding Gary to take care of Phoebe. Yvonne is devastated because Gary again fails to come home and she has arranged a job interview for him with her firm.
Episode 9
Someone to Watch Over Me
29 mins
When Phoebe is ill with pneumonia Gary brings her penicillin, the bottles belonging to Yvonne and Ron, who had some for his poorly dog Sheba. Phoebe recovers and, seeing the name Sheba on the label, suspects Gary is seeing another woman. He decides to tell her the truth about Yvonne but she has already fallen asleep.
Episode 10
The Yanks Are Coming
29 mins
When the Yanks come to the Royal Oak Gary is able to get Ron the parts he needs to build his own jeep and Reg discovers he has a black cousin, in the area to trace his ancestors. A racist corporal called Billy Joe tries to ban the black soldiers from the pub so Gary gets him drunk and knocks him out. Yvonne is so thrilled by the success of the memorabilia shop that Gary is worried by her zeal and takes steps to dampen her enthusiasm.
Episode 11
Let's Get Away from It All
29 mins
Gary's parallel lives run parallel as Yvonne puts their house in Cricklewood on the market to move to 'yuppy heaven' with a gym and a pool and Phoebe rents a house in the suburbs from a woman who is moving to Devon for the war's duration. Both women are pregnant by him but, as he tells Ron, Phoebe needs him more, meaning he must spend less time in the present.
