Sunday, January 17, 2021

Quote du jour - Goodnight Sweetheart

 I've just started watching my DVDs of Goodnight Sweetheart - third time I will have seen it, I think. 

A woman in 1940 lights up a cigarette. A man who has time-traveled from the 1990s says it is "very bad for your health." 

She says, "Everyone knows they're good for your nerves. And there is no point worrying about a cough carrying you off when a bomb could land on you any second."

15 comments:

  1. I have never heard of Goodnight Sweetheart. I asked my son, he had not either. It sounds interesting.

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    1. I first saw it on Acorn TV but it isn't there anymore. After I saw it, I bought the series on DVD from Amazon UK.

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  2. I fell in love with this series when I lived in the UK but only got to see a couple of the seasons, and I had no idea it was available on DVD or any other way these days. Too, I didn't have any idea there were so many seasons to the series. It had completely slipped my mind, but now I'm going shopping...

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    1. I'm shaking my head in amazement! Here you go: https://www.amazon.co.uk/Goodnight-Sweetheart-Complete-Collection-Disc/dp/B000HXDM0A/ref=sr_1_1?crid=3FNKTSSYZ0N9X&dchild=1&keywords=goodnight+sweetheart+complete+dvd+box+set&qid=1611000715&s=dvd&sprefix=goodn%2Cdvd%2C258&sr=1-1

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    2. Thanks for that link, Nan. I followed it, and did a couple of other searches, but have been unable to find the set in blu ray format. The picture-quality difference really shows up on the larger screens these days, and I am still on the lookout for blu ray. Keeping my fingers crossed.

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    3. I'm sorry there isn't bluray. My screen isn't that big. There is only one place in the living room for it, and it isn't a big space. Maybe you'll come across it sometime. Hope so.

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  3. I remember my dad telling us how the servicemen were told “smoke em if you’ve got em” and free cigarettes were handed out... We watched this series on PBS, way back when our local channel always showed BritComs on Saturday nights. We never went anywhere back then because we had a houseful of kids and we were too poor and too tired. I loved those Saturday nights! (We still don’t go anywhere on Saturday nights (or any night these days of course) and all we watch every night are British shows , but now we have Acorn ))).

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    1. Terrific comment, Sallie! Makes me laugh. Do you have PBS now? I subscribed for $5/month and already I've gotten my money's worth. There is a remake of All Creatures Great & Small. I know you would love it. Both Tom and I think it is one of the best things we've ever seen on television.

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  4. I am also unfamiliar with this show. I guess I missed a lot of PBS when I was living in NYC and sharing a remote control with others (I remember one year when I never got to watch the 11 pm news because our male roommates insisted on multiple rewatchings of Cheers, which I liked but still). I think PBS could generate a lot of enthusiasm by having "vote for your old favorites to reappear" from time to time. I know there was one my mother loved before I was considered old enough to watch called The Young Churchills, and I have always meant to hunt it down.

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    1. Maybe Sallie, commenter above, got it on TV where she lived, but maybe it wasn't everywhere.
      We watched The First Churchills! All those years ago! I've been looking around and found it on ebay.
      https://www.ebay.com/sch/i.html?_from=R40&_trksid=p2380057.m570.l1313&_nkw=the+first+churchills+dvd&_sacat=0

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    2. I just resubscribed to Netflix DVD and The First Churchills is available there!!!!

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  5. I never saw this, hope it reappears again somewhere. I am devoted to the new All Creatures Great and Small! Such good casting and beautiful scenery. Took me back to PBS on Sunday nights and away from YouTube.

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