ACTOR Nicholas Lyndhurst is to take a step back in time in a revival of the BBC sitcom “Goodnight Sweetheart.”

    Lyndhurst starred as a time-traveling TV repairman who had a second life in 1940s London in the popular 1990s show.

    Writers Laurence Marks and Maurice Gran said his character Gary Sparrow had been “trying for the last 17 years to find a way back to the present.”

    The one-off special will be part of a season marking the 60th anniversary of the first broadcast of BBC radio comedy “Hancock’s Half Hour.”

    The season will also include new episodes of “Are You Being Served?,” “Steptoe and Son,” “Till Death Us Do Part,” “Porridge,” “Keeping Up Appearances” and “Up Pompeii!.”

    “Goodnight Sweetheart” was first broadcast on BBC One on Nov. 18, 1993.

    The initial cast included Michelle Holmes as Gary’s wife Yvonne Sparrow, Victor McGuire as his best friend Ron Wheatcroft, while his wartime companions were Christopher Ettridge as bumbling PC Reg Deadman and Dervla Kirwan as Phoebe. (SD-Agencies)