Goodnight Sweetheart, the BBC sitcom that saw Nicholas Lyndhurst time-travel between the 1990s and 1940s, is to return for a one-off special. The revival is part of a season marking the 60th anniversary of Hancock's Half Hour's first broadcast.
Lyndhurst will reprise his role as Gary Sparrow, a TV repairman who led a double life in wartime London. Writers Laurence Marks and Maurice Gran said the character had been 'trying for the last 17 years to find a way back to the present'.
The special will feature 'much-loved old Goodnight Sweetheart friends and one or two new ones', according to the writing duo. The original series, which first aired on BBC One on 18 November 1993, also starred Michelle Holmes, Victor McGuire, Christopher Ettridge and Dervla Kirwan.
The anniversary season will also include new episodes of Are You Being Served?, Steptoe and Son, Till Death Us Do Part, Porridge, Keeping Up Appearances and Up Pompeii!. BBC Comedy Commissioning controller Shane Allen said the season was 'geared towards giving comedy royalty their due recognition'.
