Episode Guide (Series 1)
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1: Rites Of Passage (18 Nov 93)
Gary Sparrow, a TV repairman, is visiting a customer in the East End of London. He can't find the block of flats he's looking for, so he asks a policeman for directions. He walks down Duckett's Passage and finds himself back in wartime London. He goes into the Royal Oak pub to ask for dierections to Hugh Gaitskill House, but nobody has heard of it.
Gary thinks he's walked into a 1940's theme pub. Or perhaps he's just dreaming. He has no identity papers and he's carrying a Germn pen, so the landlord thinks he's a spy. Gary takes a fancy to the landlord's daughter, Phoebe, a married woman with a husband away in the forces. When an air raid starts, everyone takes shelter in the cellar. Later, he has to give the kiss of life to Eric, Phoebe's dad.
Written by:
Laurence Marks & Maurice Gran
2: Fools Rush In (25 Nov 93)
Gary is going for a promotion interview. Ignoring his wife Yvonne's advice, he doesn't buy a new suit for the interview. That evening, he rings a radio phone-in and says that he's travelled back in time to 1940. He gets cut off as a crank. Gary's friend Ron hears the radio broadcast and comes round to ask Gary if he really did manage to go back in time.
Next day, Gary overhears Yvonne telling her friend Stella that Gary hasn't been successful in his promotion interview. He and Yvonne have a row and he storms out, saying that he's going to buy a suit. He buys some 1940's clothes from a second-hand stall.
Later, dressed in his "new" clothes, he returns to Duckett's Passage and walks back into 1940. He talks Phoebe into going out dancing with him. When he takes her back to the Royal Oak, her husband Donald has returned unexpectedly. Angry at seeing his wife with another man, Donald punches Gary.
Written by:
Laurence Marks & Maurice Gran
3: Is Your Journey Really Necessary? (2 Dec 93)
Yvonne is horrified when she discovers that Gary's been spending a lot of money on books about the Blitz. Returning to 1940, Gary tells Phoebe that a heavier than usual air raid is expected that evening. They go to an Underground station to take shelter for the night.
Meanwhile, back in 1993, Yvonne is worried about Gary's apparent disappearance. Taking Pheobe back to the Royal Oak next morning, Gary is arrested on suspicion of being a spy. He manages to convince the police that he works for the Secret Service and is released. He returns to the present.
Written by:
Laurence Marks & Maurice Gran
4: The More I See You (9 Dec 93)
Yvonne has gone to Huddersfield for an Open University residential weekend. Gary persuades Ron to print some wartime identity papers for him. Ron agrees on condition that he can accompany Gary on his next trip to 1940. Dressed in 1940s clothes, they both set off down Ducketts Passage. Gary arrives in 1840, while Ron finds himself still in the present, feeling a "right div".
Phoebe thinks Gary lives in a house in Cricklewood. She asks him if she can move in with him. Gary tells her that it's impossible because he's married - to Marilyn Monroe. Pheobe storms off. Gary returns to the present and finds an irate answerphone message from Ron threatening to tell Yvonne about Gary's activities. Gary drives down to Huddersfield to see Yvonne.
Written by:
Laurence Marks & Maurice Gran
5: I Get Along Without You Very Well (16 Dec 93)
Gary's decided not to make any more trips back to the past. Yvonne wants them to spend more time together. Gary sees a TV news programme which mentions an old age pensioner named Phoebe Sparrow. He takes it as a sign that he has to make another trip to 1940. He persuades Ron to go to a football match in Lithuania so that he can spend the weekend in 1940.
He walks down Ducketts Passage and is knocked down by an ambulance in the blackout. He wakes up in hospital, with Phoebe and Constable Deadman at his bedside. Ron returns from Lithuania to find that Gary still hasn't returned. Ron tells Pheobe that Gary was arrested after the football match. Returning to the present, Gary goes to visit the Phoebe Sparrow mentioned on the TV news, but finds that she's an old West Indian lady.
Written by:
Laurence Marks & Maurice Gran
6: In The Mood (23 Dec 93)
PC Deadman tells Eric, Phoebe and Gary that the King is about to visit the area. Eric thinks that Gary has insulted the King and bars him from the Royal Oak "for life". Back in the present, Ron asks Gary to take some wartime banknotes back and invest them in the stock market. Later, Gary is watching a video in which King George VI visits the London Hospital. He tells Yvonne that he's going to Runcorn for a memorabilia fair.
He goes back to 1940 and tells Phoebe, Eric and PC Deadman that the King will be visiting the London hospital that afternoon. Posing as doctors, they manage to get into the hospital to meet the King. Gary takes Phoebe for dinner at the Savoy and persuades her to spend the night with him. Eric turns up and gives Phoebe a telegram. It says that her husband Donald has been taken prisoner by the Italians. Phoebe goes back to the Royal Oak with Eric, while Gary returns to the present.
Written by:
Laurence Marks & Maurice Gran