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Goodnight Sweetheart Season 5 Episodes
Season 5 Episode Guide
10 Episodes 1998 - 1998
Episode 1
A Room with a View
29 mins
Hit by the blast from an air-raid whilst out with his son Michael, Gary is amazed to discover that both of them have been blown, by the blast, back into the present day and he has to concoct a story about finding an abandoned baby to appease a suspicious Yvonne, who believes him to be seeing another woman. He returns with Michael to the war and arranges for himself and Phoebe to look at a flat in the stylish West End, one of their neighbours being the composer and playwright Noel Coward, a fact which comes in handy when they are refused entry to the local air-raid shelter for being new to the area.
Episode 2
London Pride
28 mins
Yvonne's business selling holistic beauty products is a huge success and she is invited to a Woman of the Year bash at 10, Downing Street. However, when Gary arrives he is not allowed in because everyone assumes her real husband is her business partner Clive Lezouche. He returns to Phoebe, saying he has been denied access to a party given by Winston Churchill. Phoebe has been denied service by the local butcher for not being posh enough so Noel Coward helps her out with elocution lessons before Gary, posing as a health inspector following up supposed inquiries into bad meat, steals the butcher's stock of venison.
Episode 3
When Two Worlds Collide
28 mins
An unexploded bomb goes off in Duckett's Passage - opening a portal into the present and to Gary's horror Phoebe comes through it with him. He tells her his shop is his secret H.Q. and when Yvonne phones to remind him of their dinner date, plays a tape of an air-raid to get Phoebe to hide. Yvonne turns up at the shop and the two women meet but Gary just about gets by. However he has enlisted Ron's help in looking after Phoebe and, when he gets Phoebe back to her own time zone, finds that Ron is able to come through as well.
Episode 4
Mairzy Doats
29 mins
Overjoyed to think that he can also time travel, Ron is in his element in 1942 and partners Phoebe's easy friend Violet to accompany the Sparrows and Reg to a dance where he gets out of hand, forcing Gary to make excuses about his being an eccentric millionaire and his former commanding officer, now sick in the head. When the two men return to the future, Yvonne is surprised that Gary missed out on the chance to see a Chelsea game but he tells her he went to a stag party.
Episode 5
Pennies from Heaven
29 mins
Ron suggests that Gary read up in old newspapers the winners of horse races in 1942 and then go back and bet on them, which he does but the bookie cheats him out of his winnings. Gary is anxious for Ron to print him some more wartime bank-notes and dates Mrs. Flanagan, Ron's boss, to get her out of the way whilst Ron does his forging. However, Ron is arrested for counterfeiting money, and tells the police the truth about printing notes for a friend who time-travels. As a result he has to see a psychiatrist so he gets back at Gary by telling Yvonne her husband has won six hundred pounds - unfortunately they are all in war-time fivers.
Episode 6
We Don't Want to Lose You...
28 mins
Yvonne's business is a great success and Gary tells Ron that, by comparison, he feels a nobody. All this will change, however, in 1942 when ebullient spy-master Tufty McDuff hauls him out of the Cafe Royal and informs him that Reg has told people he is a secret agent. Gary tries to tell the truth about himself but Tufty does not believe him, particularly that he comes from a time where beer costs two quid a pint. He introduces Gary to French colonel Henri Dupont, his exact double, and tells him he is to act as Henri's decoy for a briefing session about the allied landings to be held on the Isle of Wight. He is dropped off from a small boat at a quay - overrun with Germans. He is in France.
Episode 7
... But We Think You Have to Go
29 mins
Gary sees that Tufty has used him as a decoy and that he is expendable. He is captured by some Germans but, thanks to French double agent called Celeste, he escapes and gets back to his boat and back home. He brags about his experience but nobody is especially interested. Ron goes to meet Simone, a statuesque model, on Yvonne's behalf and ends up having a passionate session with her in the back of a Rolls Royce. He too brags about his experience and again nobody is especially interested.
Episode 8
Have You Ever Seen a Dream Walking?
29 mins
Gary is having disturbing dreams, such as one where Rolf Harris appears to upbraid him for claiming he wrote 'Two Little Boys'. To ease his sleep Ron slips him a sleeping pill but this gives him a nightmare in which Yvonne and Phoebe have found out about each other and force him to choose between them. He wakes up in a cold sweat in the dark and thinks he is in limbo but it's only a power cut. On Ron's advice he goes for a holiday in Eastbourne.
Episode 9
Love the One You're With
29 mins
Having discovered that Reg is still alive and in a nursing home, Gary visits but Reg fails to recognize him. The meeting puts him in mind of how in 1944 he provided biscuits for Margie's birthday party at the Royal Oak, where Noel Coward came to entertain. Of course, as ever, this clashes with a present day engagement. Yvonne has written a successful autobiography and wants Gary by her side for the signings. When the porter at Gary's flat block tells him that, in 1944, the occupant of number 15 was run over by a bus, Gary goes back to warn him only to find that the porter got it wrong - the victim was Mr. Foster from number 16. However Gary juggles the two engagements successfully and back in the present Yvonne, who had earlier caught Ron giving Gary a fraternal hug which they had explained as being a lecture on wrestling, decides she would like to wrestle with her husband.
Episode 10
My Heart Belongs to Daddy
29 mins
Gary is visited in his shop by a shabbily-dressed middle-aged man down on his luck and out to sell some wartime items. He tells Gary he resembles his father who disowned him after doing time in prison. Gary is horrified to see that this is his son Michael. He goes back in time and allows Noel Coward to publish one of his songs and put the royalties into a trust fund for Michael. Next day Michael returns to the shop but he is prosperous, happily married and living in New Zealand.
