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Release year: 1993

Storyline

British sitcom in which an unhappily married man discovers he can time travel back to 1940s war-torn London where he masquerades as an MI5 agent and part-time songwriter whilst courting the local barmaid.

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Cast

Nicholas Lyndhurst — Gary, Colonel Henri Dupont
Victor McGuire — Ron, Albert
Christopher Ettridge — Reg, PC Deadman, Isambard Deadman
Elizabeth Carling — Phoebe

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Did you know

• Many of the episode titles are names of songs from the 1940's. Whilst others such as 'Grief Encounter' are parodies of films of the era.

• Emma Amos, who replaced Michelle Holmes as Yvonne, originally tried out for the part of Phoebe when the show first started.

• In the DVD boxset commentaries, Derlva Kirwan revealed her agent encouraged her to leave the show to avoid being typecast as a "cheery Cockney". She stated that she later regretted the decision, adding that the same agent had encouraged her to leave Ballykissangel (1996) to avoid being typecast as a "stroppy Irishwoman... which happened anyway". Kirwan confirmed she would be interested in reprising the role of Phoebe in any revival, but felt that the role now belonged to Elizabeth Carling. When the show was revived for a one-off special in 2016, it was with Carling in the role.