SERIES 5
EPISODE 1 - A ROOM WITH A VIEW
One night, in the war-time era, Gary is taking his son Michael out in his pram, when suddenly, there is an air-raid, in which Gary gets blown into the present era, and is surprised to discover that Michael has been teleported with him. He goes to his mate Ron's, only to find that he is expecting a business call from Gary's wife, Yvonne, who has arrived back from Zurich earlier that expected. When she sees him with the baby, she suspects that he has a secret girlfriend, and is looking after her baby. He manages to fob her off with a story that he found him neglected outside a theme pub, and eventually found out that he belonged to one of the ladies who was dancing naked on stage. Yvonne portrays this as Gary's desperate want to try again for a baby. Meanwhile, in war-torn London, Gary decides that he and Phoebe must move away, before Michael grows up enough to realise that he and Gary can time-travel. He looks around a place up West, and finds a place of pretty high class, but when there is a raid, they get rejected at the shelter, because they are new. But just then, he meets Noel Coward, whom Gary has heard on the radio, who promises to take care of them. As a pun, Gary tells Noel that he has just bought 'A Room With A View'.
EPISODE 2 - LONDON PRIDE
In the war-time era, the butcher refuses to let Phoebe join his clientele account, just because she speaks common. After getting upset because she feels she's being discriminated against, Noel Coward agrees to give her elocution lessons. Meanwhile, in the present era, Gary watches a video of Yvonne being interviewed by Esther, but is angered when she praises her business partner, Clive Lezouche, instead of himself, for her success. What's more, when it comes to an abrupt halt, and Gary doesn't know what the 'damn good ...' thing is which Clive gives her, he gets suspicious. Eventually though, she tells him that Clive gives her a damn good kick up the backside when she's feeling down. Later on, she is invited to a party at 10 Downing Street, and arranges to Gary to join later. However, when he asks at the door, and tells the police guard that he is Yvonne Sparrow's husband, she won't believe him, and says everyone knows she's married to Clive Lezouche. Gary tells Ron that he wonders whether he should leave Yvonne and live in the West End with Phoebe. That night, when he arrives back at his house with Phoebe unexpectedly, he tells her that he was meant to be at a party at 10 Downing Street, but Winston Churchill forgot to leave his name on the door, however, he would much rather be with his wife at home. The next morning, Gary decides to take revenge on the butcher, so he goes into the shop with Phoebe, and pretends to be from the Health Authority. He tells the butcher that their have been complaints about the Venison he is selling, and he will have to confiscate the lot. When the butcher orders the boy Norbert to bring it through, Gary, looking at just how much there is, quietly tells Phoebe that it's a good job he brought the pram.
EPISODE 3 - WHEN TWO WORLDS COLLIDE
Gary tells Yvonne that he is proud to have a businesswoman as a wife. He agrees to go out to dinner with her that night. Ron, meanwhile, has joined a dating agency, and is due to meet his date that same night. In the war-time era meanwhile, Gary's journeys through the time-portal are threatened by an unexploded bomb blocking Duckett's Passage. The bomb eventually explodes, giving Reg a minor head injury, which seems to make him bright. Gary fortunately manages to clamber over the rubble, and back into the 1990's. To his surprise, Phoebe follows him. She doesn't realise that she has gone through the time-portal, and Gary manages to convince her that she is in his secret HQ, which is disguised as a shop. After telling Phoebe that she shouldn't be there, Gary makes her put on a blindfold, and then guides her back into the war-torn era. Unfortunately, he finds she is unable to go through. He tells her it is because the security gate is on a time-lock, and tells her to shut herself in the toilet, during which, he stashes away all his post-war stuff. Having let Phoebe out, he discretely plays a tape of air-raid sirens, hence, getting her to hide under the table for shelter. The phone suddenly rings - it is Yvonne, whom Gary tells he will have to cancel his dinner because he has been tied up in the shop, but is on his way back. Phoebe thinks Yvonne is Gary's boss, and so he tells her he has to go back to work. He contacts Ron about Phoebe's venture into the 1990's, who in turn cancels his date to look keep an eye on Phoebe. While Gary is at home celebrating Yvonne's career prospects, he suddenly claims he has left his wallet at the shop, and will have to go back and get it. He is unable to convince Yvonne that she doesn't need to go with him, but when they arrive, and see Ron's shadow, he pretends to her that the reason he didn't want her to come, is because he had let Ron use the shop for his date, who has is obsessed with the war-time era. It is a tense moment when Yvonne and Phoebe meet, and Gary's cover is almost blown. Gary prays that he will be able to get through the time-portal, and promises from now on he'll be good - apart from the bigamy thing. Having blindfolded Phoebe he manages to get her back through the time-portal, back to the war-time era. Back there, when Phoebe mentions the raid to Reg, he doesn't remember the raid, but Gary manages to convince him it is the bang on the head he got. Just when Gary thinks things are back to normal, he hears Ron's voice of "Finally made it mate!".
EPISODE 4 - MAIRZY DOATS
Gary quickly removes Ron from the 1940s, telling him he has no knowledge of the era. That night, he decides he'll have to guard the time-gate, and sees a ball bounce through, which he kicks back. When Ron returns to the shop, he tells Gary he'd rather live in the 40s, because in the 90s, he's just a lonely old man. Gary tries to stop him going back, and even tells him that the time-gate has closed off at 6 o'clock in the morning, but Ron doesn't believe him, and successfully goes back. Meanwhile, Yvonne leaves a message on Gary's answerphone, saying that she has booked tickets for the Chelsea play, in the VIP lounge, but he must be there before 6pm. After finding a date (Violet), Ron joins Gary, Phoebe, Reg and Margie at a dance party. There, he splashes out, and gets Gary into trouble with a nightclub owner, when he tries to bribe the staff for champagne, and even upsets people with his humour. After his excuse that Ron is an eccentric millionaire Commanding Officer fails, Gary tells Reg that Ron is sick, but used to be a great Commanding Officer. Ron displays his authority by having Gary tied up, while he goes back to the 90s. Eventually, Reg lets him go. The next morning, as Ron and Gary get back into the 90s, Yvonne comes out of the shop, and asks where Gary had been, and that he had missed out on watching Chelsea playing from the VIP lounge. Gary tells her that they've been to a stag party of a friend. After learning that instead of seeing Chelsea play, from a VIP lounge, he'd been shut in a cellar, Ron threatens to go back to the 40s again, whilst Gary pleads with him not to do it in front of Yvonne, as he will cause embarrassment. He quickly stops Yvonne from looking, as Ron rams himself into the gates. Yvonne asks why she wasn't to see that, as it would've made her day, and he tells her "It's certainly made my day!".
EPISODE 5 - PENNIES FROM HEAVEN
While Ron still has the hump with Gary over him stopping him going back to the 1940s, Gary begs him to print some more wartime fivers, as he is down to his last £20. When Yvonne, prior to going off to Paris, gives him £100 to place on bets, which could win him £350, Ron suggests he places bets in the 1940s, after he reads up the results from an old newspaper. He asks Reg if he knows of a bookies he can go to, and convinces Phoebe that it's not gambling, but an investment, but she still disapproves, as her dad's gambling drove her mum to an early grave. He still goes, where Reg diguises himself, and spies on the bookies. After failing to win his first two bets, Gary realises that the bookie is lying about the winner. He confronts the bookie, but ends up getting punched, as does Reg Deadman, which brings him back to his old self, pleasing Margie. After he pays Phoebe for some bills, he gets totally skint, and back in the 1990s, begs Ron to print some more wartime fivers. However, first, he will have to lure Kate Flanagan (Ron's boss) away from the premises, for about three hours. The only way he can do this, is by taking her on a date. Reluctantly, he takes her to his shop, where he resists her advances. He even steps through the time-portal for a second, and Kate thinks he's faded, but Gary convinces her she's drunk too much wine. Back at the printmongers, two staff have been arrested for pornography, and Ron for forgery, although they think he's a bit out of time. When he gets released, he moans at Gary for not getting him a solicitor, and tells him that he told the police the truth - that he printed the fivers for a friend who time travels, and now has to visit a psychiatrist. Suddenly, Yvonne gets back from Paris, and Gary realises he never put his bets on. To get at Gary, Ron tells Yvonne that he has actually won £600, which he is just off to collect. Realising he'll have to give her £600, he is given £600 worth of wartime fivers, which the police let him keep, but Ron leaves Gary to sort out the rest.
EPISODE 6 - WE DON'T WANT TO LOSE YOU...
Whilst having dinner with Phoebe, Gary is picked up by Tufty McDuff, an intelligence chief. Seeing him as Colonel Henri Dupont's double, he asks him to go on a mission to the Isle of Wight, pretending to be him. Ron tries to talk him out of it, but he is forced to go - he even has to wear a fake moustache. After getting out of the boat, he realises he has been tricked - he is not on the Isle of Wight, but in France.
EPISODE 7 - ...BUT WE THINK YOU HAVE TO GO
After realising Tufty McDuff is using him as a ploy to fool the Germans, he meets a woman called Celeste, who helps him. After being held prisoner, and thinking Celeste has betrayed him, she reveals she is a double agent. He is given a pig's bladder to help convince the Gestapos they have shot him, and escapes back to his boat. Meanwhile, Yvonne worries about her missing husband, and Ron has to meet a model at the airport for her burgeoning cosmetics business. There, he meets a beautiful young girl called Simone, and, whilst travelling in a Rolls Royce, gets into a passionate embrace with her. Having escaped back to England, Gary brags about the bravery of his mission, only no-one is really interested. Ron boasts about his embrace with Simone, whilst Michael is sent to sleep by Gary's tale.
EPISODE 8 - HAVE YOU EVER SEEN A DREAM WALKING?
After his trip to France, Gary keeps getting bad dreams, including seeing a therapist showing her body then turning into Reg Deadman, Ron being massaged with Gary's breakfast kipper by Yvonne, and Rolf Harris criticising his pretence of having written 'Two Little Boys'. Ron, who is having his house repossessed, listens to Gary's problems, and suggests taking a holiday. He also persuades him to let him have his flat, which he purchased in 1944, even though he is spooked by the thought of meeting himself, looking very old. When Gary is afraid to sleep, Ron slips him a sleeping tablet, and he gets a nightmare - Yvonne and Phoebe have found him out, and want him to choose between the two of them. When he wakes up, he finds himself in a blackout, lit by candles, and wonders if he's stuck in a twilight 'Neverland', all alone, until he hears a toilet flushing, and Ron reveals there's a power cut. Eventually, he is persuaded to take the holiday, and goes to Eastbourne, where he has a dream that he has seen him and Phoebe, both very old. When he wakes up, he decides he'll stay another week.
EPISODE 9 - LOVE THE ONE YOU'RE WITH
In the 1990's, a policeman (Reg's grandson), is in Gary's shop, discussing his security. He mentions that he could appear on Crimewatch, and that his 97 year old grandfather is still alive, and living in a home. Yvonne comes into the shop, and shows him something he wrote specially for him in her autobiography she is selling. Meanwhile, in the 1940's, Gary is expected to attend Margie's 40th birthday party, and provide some biscuits, at the same time as attending Yvonne's enterprise. In the 1990's, Gary learns from the porter on the 23rd of July 1944, the resident of number 15 (Gary's flat), got run over by a bus. He decides to visit Reg in the 1990's, but he can't remember anything, but ends up mistaking him for the nurse, and mentions the biscuits, reminding Gary about the biscuits for Margie's party. In the 1940's, Gary decides to tell Phoebe that he is needed in Belgium, and therefore won't be able to attend Margie's party. This angers Phoebe, who is already cross because Gary has still forgotten the biscuits. He decides to spend the day with Yvonne, in order to avoid the accident, but Ron then suggests that the porter may have got the date wrong. Eventually, he decides to let out his flat, so that on the day of the accident, he is not the resident of number 15. The landlord and his secret girlfriend end up living there, for free. Meanwhile, after overhearing a conversation between Phoebe and Noel Coward, he thinks they're having an affair, but then he realises he's giving her singing lessons.Gary, who feels guilty about letting him get run over, decides to warn him not to go out on that afternoon, and, while he's there, the resident at number 16 gets run over by the bus, as Gary learns that the porter had made a mistake. Meanwhile, at Yvonne's enterprise, Gary has to sneak off to go to Margie's party, where Phoebe performs her song. Back in the 1990's, Gary gets into a compromising position with Ron, and pretends to Yvonne that he is correcting a mistake he made about the method of Greco-Roman wrestling. Later, when he makes his excuse to Yvonne about his sudden disappearance at the enterprise, Crimewatch suddenly comes on, and Gary wants to watch the bit with Reg's grandson on, and finds he is branded a suspect. When he laughs, Yvonne wonders why, and, as they embrace, Yvonne tells him how Greco-Roman wrestling is quite different.
EPISODE 10 - MY HEART BELONGS TO DADDY
In 1998, Gary gets a visit from a rather shabby looking customer, who has to sell some old war-time stuff to pay off his landlord. He turns out to be Gary's son, Michael, so after Ron follows him to his house, Gary visits, giving him some money, and says he underpaid him, and stands up to his agressive landlord, Knackerjohn. Michael goes on about how Gary looks like his father, only he was taller, broader and better looking. Ron, meanwhile, wants Gary to help him place an ad for a date, in return for following Michael. After learning from Michael that his father disowned him, after doing time in prison, he decides to change the course of history for the better. In 1944, Phoebe is asked to perform a song, which Gary has to write, and so he pretends he wrote 'One Kiss, One Sigh'. When Noel Coward decides to publish it, he asks him if he can put it into a trust fund for Michael. The next day, Michael comes into Gary's shop, dressed really smart, and again tells Gary about how he reminds him of his father. He also tells him that he lives abroad, in New Zealand, and has two children, a daughter called Phoebe after his mother, and a son called Dennis. Ron, meanwhile, is pleased to have received 27 replies to his ad, which portrayed him as a failure, whilst in 1944, Phoebe announces she doesn't want to become a singer, but performs her song for the final time in The Royal Oak.
SERIES 6
EPISODE 1 - MINE'S A DOUBLE
In 1999, Yvonne isn't getting what she wants out of her marriage. In the 1940's, Gary gets struck by lightning as he goes through the time portal, and ends up being cloned, and then tied up by the Evil Gary. The Evil Gary gives Yvonne plenty of sex, and in the 1940's, nearly gets Gary into trouble. In the shop, Ron gets tricked into giving the evil Gary a gun, and both are nearly shot, until the Good Gary, who's been spending the night in a shelter, also turns up. After wondering if there's a Gay Gary, Ron suggests they all hold hands and go through the time-portal, and see if that brings them back into one person. This works. Later, back at Yvonnes, Gary tells her that the new sex style wasn't really him, much to her disappointment. He then wonders to himself why she couldn't have met the Gay Gary.
EPISODE 2 - ALL ABOUT YVONNE
In 1999, Yvonne and Gary have a row, and Gary ends up in Ron's flat, hoping she'll ring and tell him to come home. He finds Ron has got a girlfriend called Flic, to whom he has given false details about himself. In the war-time, meanwhile, Reg tells Phoebe about Billy Moffit, a guy in secret service, who turned out to be having an affair with another woman. This makes Phoebe suspicious, especially when Gary accidentally calls her Yvonne. Yvonne meanwhile, gets friendly with an Italian guy called Roberto. Back in the 1940's, Gary tells Phoebe that he could be shot for telling her, but tells her that the reason he's been thinking about Yvonne (whom she thinks is his boss) a lot, is because she's been kidnapped by an Italian guy called Roberto. She buys his story. In 1999 meanwhile, Gary gets Ron to bring Flic to a restaurant with him, where he will end up meeting Yvonne. Ron finds the menu quite pricy, but Gary agrees to pay. By using Flic to get at Yvonne, he ends up being taken back, and gives his marriage another go. When Flic points out to Ron that Gary's gone, and now they can really splash out, he recommends tomato soup.
EPISODE 3 - CALIFORNIA DREAMING
In 1944, when Phoebe is loses her tenancy on the Royal Oak, she decides to move to California. Gary wants to persuade her against it. In 1999, meanwhile, Yvonne also wants to move to the same place. Gary explains to Ron that if these events occur, in order to visit his other wife, he will have to board a plane to England, go through the time-portal, and then get another plane and go back to California. However, a job contract to be modelled for a 130 foot perspex statue for the Millenium Dome puts Yvonne off moving. In 1944, Reg is retiring, and has a party, but only Gary comes, whilst Reg is convinced the others got the night wrong. Gary persuades Phoebe to look at a nightclub. They decide to run it. Reg is given a job there, as well as being made 'Sergeant Commissionaire' at Gary and Phoebe's new house. On the first night at the club, Gary hopes Phoebe has had second thoughts about moving, and mentions to Reg how she's not mentioned California once, until she sings on stage the song 'California Dreaming'.
EPISODE 4 - GRIEF ENCOUNTER
Noel Coward wants Pheobe to appear in his new film, "Brief Encounter". She wants to sing one of Gary's 'compositions' in the film, with Gary playing the piano. He's worried because it will create very visible evidence of his time in the past. Noel eventually decides to use a professional songwriter named Anthony Blair instead of Gary. Yvonne's company, "Nature Boy", is the subject of a hostile takeover bid by a US conglomerate. She doesn't want to sell, but finds that her partner, Clive, is plotting behind her back. She decides to go to California to sort things out. Gary thinks that Phoebe is getting too friendly with Anthony . He follows her to the film studio where "Brief Encounter" is being filmed. Seeing Phoebe and Anthony together, Gary starts a row, then discovers that they are appearing in a scene from the film. Noel Coward says that he's decided to drop the nightclub scene because Celia Johnson isn't happy with the idea. Yvonne feels there is no future between her and Gary any more, and decides to leave him. He follows her to the train station, and as she parts on the train, Gary has an accident in the process of trying to stop her going. She returns to him, and he promises to show more interest in politics.
EPISODE 5 - THE 'OUSES IN BETWEEN
Gary finds hot cigarette ends in his shop yard in 1999. Yvonne is preparing for a fancy dress night. That night, Gary finds himself time-travelling into the 1880's, and has to provide some entertainment in The Royal Oak, where Reg's grandfather is a policeman. Gary's jokes get booed, except by Lady Marie Lloyd, who looks very like Yvonne. Gary and Marie find themselves suspected of being together in a series of murders, and Gary is nearly arrested, the attacked by Jack the Ripper. He researches the era in 1999, and learns the murders stopped soon after they started, and wonders why. The next evening, he finds Jack the Ripper is a time-traveller, when he follows him through the time-portal into his shop. Gary realises he is responsible for the hot cigarette ends. Jack threatens Gary, who reluctantly lets him out the door into the streets of 1999. However, Jack the Ripper then gets run over by a bus, and Gary realises why the multiple murders stopped suddenly.
EPISODE 6 - JUST IN TIME
A man called Spark appears in Gary's shop, and tells him and Ron he is checking frequencies of time-zones. Suddenly, he gets an order to close a time-portal, which will take 4 hours to fulfil if it happens. Realising his life could end, he decides to say goodbye to Yvonne, and move to 1944 for good. Meanwhile, after Gary has given the shop over to Ron, a weird customer offers to buy all the stock for £140,000. Ron follows him out of the shop, and discovers he's another time-traveller. Eventually, he learns his name is Brick Beckham, after the Prime Minister, and he's from 2168. Ron and Brick form become mates, and Brick agrees to get hold of some 1999 betting results for him. He also clears out all the stock. In 1944, meanwhile, Reg makes Gary a list of stock to get hold of, so he decides to risk going back to 1999. There, he meets up with Yvonne, who says she'll be away all Christmas, helping with a charity. He then meets Spark who tells him the time-portal is now closed, but Gary discovers it's still open, and Spark reveals it was 2168 he closed off. Gary is pleased to have his life back, but Ron is annoyed - Brick has taken the stock, but not yet paid. When Ron watches Yvonne on TV, making an appeal for those in need, he wallows. Back in 1944, Gary has made a mistake of providing wine that is 'Vintage 1998'. Reg tells him what clever contacts he has, and they then drink a toast to the future.
EPISODE 7 - HOW I WON THE WAR
Gary and Phoebe travel to Belgium to entertain the troops. An incompetitant driver leaves them on the wrong side of the German lines hiding in a barn. Gary assumes leadership of a showbiz crowd and plans a tactic should Jerry come calling. Gary goes to investigate the surrounding area only to encounter some Germans coming their way. Phoebe nearly shoots him as he enters the barn thus summoning the enemy. Armed only with stage props and a cunning disguise as Adolf Hitler the Germans are captured moments before help arrives. Back in 1999, when Yvonne sees Garys sore face (from removing his Hitler wig and moustache, which were stuck on), he ends up muttering the words 'Wig', 'Stick', 'Face', and then tells her his face got stuck in a door when he was in Whigton. Meanwhile Ron is getting dumped by Flic, after she learns the truth about him and his criminal past, and also admits she never lets relationships last longer than 3 months. Ron is crushed, he had only just decided that it was love.
EPISODE 8 - SOMETHING FISHIE
Gary's modern day camera and 'spy' experience come in handy when Phoebe encounters two men called Smith and Jones who are selling insurance for the club. Meanwhile in the present, the Millenium Dome at Greenwich is destroyed, leaving only the middle finger of Yvonne's statue, by an unexploded doodlebug from the wartime. Later that day in 1945, Gary is informed of the landing of the doodlebug, and promises he won't forget to report it.
EPISODE 9 - FLASH, BANG, WALLOP
In 1999, Yvonne is busy reading through a book of Noel Cowards biography. When Gary takes a peak, he horrifiedly discovers a picture of himself in it. He decides he must stop Yvonne seeing it, and tries his best, though in vain, to lose the book. Ron then suggests to him that he doesn't let anyone take that picture in the 1940's. However, he fails to avoid this issue, so he breaks into the archives and destroys the photograph. He gets arrested. When the police take his photograph, he dodges, and they end up getting a photograph of Reg Deadman in a compromising position. Back in 1999, this photograph has replaced Gary's in the book, which Yvonne says she has suddenly found too boring, and she hasn't yet seen the photograph. Gary is relieved, until Yvonne tells him she's off to see one of Noel Cowards plays - Gary and Phoebe.
EPISODE 10 -ACCENTUATE THE POSITIVE
Ron is redecorating his flat, and asks Gary his opinion of orange. When Gary tells him it's difficult to tell against the rough wallpaper, he paints some on his chest, whereupon Gary tells him he feels like a can of tango. Back in 1945, Gary tells Phoebe and Reg that his money is on the war being over on May the 8th. In 1999, Gary tells Yvonne he's been for a walk along Wigan pier, whereupon Yvonne confesses this place doesn't exist. He then tells her he was actually in Whigton attending a Melvyn Bragg conference, and was too embarrassed to tell her. She then finds a photograph of Gary and Phoebe in his wallet, and decideds to follow him to his shop, secretly. With the help of a crane, she sees him going through the time-portal. When she confronts him, he tries to tell her she must be seeing things, but she is not totally convinced. He also tells her the photograph is the only ione he has of his Grandad, but he doesn't know who the woman is. After confiding in Ron, Gary goes back to 1945, and tries to confess the truth to Phoebe, but instead tells her that Hitler's dead. They go to a VE Day speech, where Reg asks Clement Atlee for a game of ping-pong. He agrees, and during the game, someone medals with his pipe, intending to kill him, but Gary saves his life, whilst Reg arrests the man. Gary tells Clement he will be the next Prime Minister. On his way back to 1999, Gary prepares to confess to Yvonne, but then finds the time-portal has shut, and works out a theory that he was sent back to save Atlee, and now he has fulfilled his destiny, the time-portal has closed. While Yvonne is confiding in Ron about where Gary has disappeared to, he writes a confession under the wallpaper in his flat in 1945, which appears on the wall in 1999. Back in 1945, during the VE Day celebrations, Gary gets drunk and confides in Reg, confessing about Yvonne, but Reg is drunk too, and doesn't realise what Gary is saying. In 1999, Yvonne goes to the time-portal, wishing Gary could come back, and talks through the time-portal, just in case he's there, whilst on the other side, Gary does the same. They say goodbye to each other, and Gary prepares to start his new life with Phoebe in 1945.