Episodes
A total of 58 episodes were made, including a Christmas special. Marks and Gran, the creators, wrote the first series; episodes thereafter were written by other writers as well as the creators themselves.
As in Marks and Gran's sitcom Get Back, most episodes of Goodnight Sweetheart — and the programme itself — were named after popular song titles. The show is named after the song Goodnight, Sweetheart, a popular song of the 1930s and 1940s, performed by Al Bowlly on the series signature tune (it had previously appeared in The City On The Edge Of Forever, a time-travel-themed episode of Star Trek). Bowlly's death, during World War II, is referred to by Gary and Phoebe during an episode. Due to a script-editing error, two different episodes (series one, episode six and series four, episode two) were both titled "In the Mood". There is no special connection between these two episodes.
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