GOODNIGHT SWEETHEART (Sat Jan 26, ABC – 6pm)

This old-ish comedy/drama/sci-fi/romance does attempt something different with its story of Gary, an average British schlub, married to his childhood sweetheart, who finds a (intriguingly, never explained) temporal vortex leading back to Nazi-bombarded London during the Blitz. After marrying a beautiful woman from that time period, he then must juggle his lives in 1990’s and 1940’s London. Star Nicholas Lyndehurst is so um…unconventional of appearance (he calls to mind some kind of aquatic rodent, perhaps a capybara, suffering from acute constipation) that it’s completely impossible to believe he’d score one beautiful woman, let alone two. I can accept Gary traveling between two realities, but getting laid in either of them? Ach, Nein!