Goodnight Sweetheart fans will finally discover what happened to Gary Sparrow after show's controversial axe
GOODNIGHT Sweetheart fans will finally get the answers they have been searching for thanks to a brand new project in the works.
Viewers of the programme will learn the fate of Gary Sparrow after many questions were left unanswered following the show's controversial axing by the BBC.
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Goodnight Sweetheart is being revived
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The story of Gary Sparrow will continue in a new book
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The programme, starring Nicholas Lyndhurst of Only Fools and Horses fame, originally ran from 1993 until 1999.
Fans were left over-the-moon when it
Now, the show's writing duo, Laurence Marks and Maurice Gran, have teamed up to pen a new novel to explore what happened to Gary after the end of the TV programme.
But the pair have already been forced to call upon fans help.
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The writers are aiming to raise £30,000 via a crowd-funding site in order to bring the book to life.
At the time of publication, this petition had already amassed a whopping £11,500 in donations from 211 supporters.
The book will only be published if the fund manages to reach the
target
amount.
Teasing what is to come in the novel, a synopsis reads: "The new book will begin a little before the events of the 2016 televised story, Many Happy Returns, because though Gary's life since the end of the war has been mundane, in the
spring
of 1962, things are starting to heat up when Marilyn Monroe sings at President Kennedy's birthday party in that skin-tight dress.
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"When Gary first met Phoebe, he told her the girl he left behind in L.A. went by the name of
Marilyn Monroe
.
"It was just his little private joke. It had never occurred to him that he would be living in the past, married to Phoebe when Marilyn became an international sex symbol in the 1950s.
The Nineties sitcom Goodnight Sweetheart returned for a one-off special set in 1962
"For years, every time Phoebe's seen Marilyn on the silver screen, her insecurities have overwhelmed her.
"What if Gary were to go back to Hollywood to regain the love of his life?
"That is, until Marilyn's shock death at the age of 36, which brings all of Phoebe's old feelings back to the surface."
Speaking of their decision to pen a new book and their hopes for its publication, authors Laurence and Maurice said: "Of all the shows we have ever written, Goodnight Sweetheart has the biggest and most devoted fanbase.
"We were thrilled at the audience response to the 2016 special. Like our fans, we want to know what happened
next
to Gary Sparrow and his two families.
"And now, Idiot Box [publishers] are giving us and you the chance to find out!"
The TV show's premise followed Gary Sparrow as he lived a double life being able to time-hop between 1990s
London
and the Second World War in the 1940s.
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Writers Maurice and Laurence are bringing the character back
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