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British sitcom

Every bit Time Goes By
From left: Sandy (Jenny Funnell), Jean (Judi Dench), Lionel (Geoffrey Palmer), Alistair (Philip Bretherton) and Judith (Moira Brooker)
Genre	Sitcom Romantic comedy
Created by	Colin Bostock-Smith
Written by	Bob Larbey
Directed by	Sydney Lotterby
Starring	Judi Dench Geoffrey Palmer Moira Brooker Philip Bretherton Jenny Funnell Joan Sims Frank Middlemass Moyra Fraser Paul Chapman Janet Henfrey Tim Wylton
Land of origin	U.k.
Original language	English
No. of series	ten
No. of episodes	69 (inc. specials) (list of episodes)
Product
Executive producers	Philip Jones (1992–2002) Trevor McCallum (1996) John Reynolds (1996–2005) Don Taffner (2002–05) John Bartlett (2005) Donald Taffner Jr. (2005)
Producer	Sydney Lotterby
Editors	John Jarvis (1992) Chris Wadsworth (1992–2002) Mykola Pawluk (2005)
Running fourth dimension	64×thirty minutes 1×45 minutes 1×50 minutes 1×threescore minutes
Production companies	Theatre of Comedy Amusement DLT Entertainment Ltd.
Release
Original network	BBC1
Picture format	PAL (Series 1-7 as well equally full screen prints of Serial viii-9, 60 Minute Compilation Special and the 2-function Christmas special) DVB-T 576i 16:ix (Series 8-9, threescore Infinitesimal Compilation Special and the 2-function Christmas special)
Audio format	Stereo
Original release	12 January 1992 (1992-01-12) – xiv Dec 2005 (2005-12-14)

Equally Time Goes By is a British romantic sitcom which aired on BBC One from 12 Jan 1992 to 14 Dec 2005, running for x serial and specials. Information technology has made it into the top 30 of U.k.'south Best Sitcom.

Starring Judi Dench and Geoffrey Palmer, it follows the human relationship betwixt two erstwhile lovers who meet unexpectedly after non having been in contact for 38 years.

The program's original working title had been Winter with Flowers ^[1] only was changed during its first day of filming due to the cast's protestations. The new championship was taken from the 1931 Herman Hupfeld song "Equally Fourth dimension Goes By", and the recorded version by Joe Fagin was used every bit the title music.^[ii]

The show was created past Colin Bostock-Smith,^[iii] was produced and directed by Sydney Lotterby and was written past Bob Larbey,^[2] who had co-written both The Skillful Life and Always Decreasing Circles with John Esmonde. In 2004, As Time Goes By was ranked No. 29 in U.k.'s Best Sitcom.^[four]

The series was produced by Theatre of Comedy Entertainment, in association with DLT Entertainment Ltd. for the BBC.

Bandage [edit]

• Jean Mary Hardcastle (previously Pargetter) (Judi Dench) – Judith's mother who later becomes Lionel'due south wife. Owner of a Secretarial Agency, "Type For You".
• Lionel Hardcastle (Geoffrey Palmer) – Jean's married man and Rocky's son. Author of My Life in Kenya, and the Miniseries Just Two People.
• Judith Deacon (previously Hanson) (Moira Brooker) – Jean's daughter, and Sandy'south best friend, later on Alistair's married woman. Works with Sandy.
• Alistair Deacon (Philip Bretherton) – Initially publisher of Lionel's volume, and so Judith's husband.
• Sandy (Jenny Funnell) – Jean's secretarial assistant and receptionist, Judith'due south best friend and later Harry's wife.
• Penny (Moyra Fraser) – Jean's annoying, self-absorbed sister-in-law (from Jean'southward start marriage to David).
• Stephen (Paul Chapman) – Penny'south entertainingly boring married man. He is a dentist and is smarter than he seems.
• Harry (David Michaels and Daniel Ryan) – Sandy's married man.
• Mrs. Bale (Janet Henfrey) – The Hardcastles' eccentric, very precise country dwelling house housekeeper. Interested in the shipping forecast and Australian Rules Football. She enjoys riding her motorbike and looking later on the Hardcastles.
• Lol Ferris (Tim Wylton) – The Hardcastles' affable, incomparably rural gardener at their land abode. Has six brothers who become interested in Sandy.
• Richard "Rocky" Hardcastle (Frank Middlemass) – Lionel's irrepressible male parent who owns a country domicile in the Hampshire countryside, alongside a vast fortune. Marries Madge at 86 years old and together they travel around the world. He likes to say "Stone On", and they both dearest state music.
• Madge Darbley-Hardcastle (Joan Sims) – Rocky Hardcastle'southward as loftier-spirited wife, seven years his junior. Due to the death of actress Joan Sims in 2001, before the filming of last season and the reunion specials, she said to be on an archaeological dig in Egypt (thereby pursuing a personal passion) as the series wraps upward.
• A standing plot arc in seasons 3 and 4 had Lionel writing Just Ii People, a mini-serial for American television set. Seen often during these seasons was American mini-series producer Mike Barbosa (Otto Jarman).
• As well seen in seasons 3 and iv were two secretaries Lionel had working for him equally he dictated the Just Two People script. The first, whose presence concerned Jean, was the very competent and extremely attractive Daisy (Justine Glenton for her kickoff appearance, thereafter Zoe Hilson). She was replaced past the kind-hearted only very talkative, eye-aged Gwen Flack (Vivienne Martin), whose presence irritated Lionel. (Daisy later returned to supplant Mrs. Flack.)

In the March 2011 PBS pledge bulldoze programming special Behind the Britcoms: from Script to Screen hosted by bandage members Moira Brooker and Philip Bretherton, the series creator/producer revealed that Jean Simmons had declined the first offer of the function of Jean (which was written with her in mind) due to her reluctance to uproot her life—specifically mentioning her dogs, garden, and family—in California.^{[ citation needed ]}

Plot [edit]

Second Lieutenant Lionel Hardcastle (Geoffrey Palmer) and Middlesex Hospital nurse Jean Pargetter (Judi Dench) met in the summer of 1953 and barbarous head over heels in dear, simply then Lionel was posted to Korea. When he wrote to give her his mailing address in that location, the alphabetic character went astray. Jean assumed he had lost interest in her and stubbornly refused to enquire the regular army to locate him; he decided she must have lost involvement in him.

After his state of war service Lionel emigrated to Kenya, became a coffee planter, and married Margaret, whom he later divorced due to "mutual colorlessness". Some time later on his divorce he returned to England. Meanwhile, Jean had also married and borne ane child, Judith (Moira Brooker). Later her husband's decease, Jean opened Type for You, a secretarial agency. Her daughter Judith, 35 years erstwhile during the series, is twice divorced (from Ken, who had "sad eyes", and Edward, who was "very clever") and, during most of the series, lives with her mother and also works at the secretarial agency.

Lionel, now writing his memoir, My Life in Kenya, hires a typist through Blazon for You, unaware that Jean owns the agency. He and Jean first meet again when Lionel picks up Judith for a dinner date. Although Lionel and Jean's reunion is full of missteps and miscues, their romance gradually rekindles. In the tertiary series, Lionel moves into Jean's house in The netherlands Park, London; they marry during the fourth series.

Lionel's memoir is published by Alistair Deacon (Philip Bretherton), a go-getting entrepreneur much younger than Lionel. When pressed by Lionel, Alistair somewhen admits that he only agreed to publish the book as a favour to Lionel'southward male parent, whose loan to Alistair's father was the foundation of Alistair'south wealth; merely he works difficult for the success of the book and over time he becomes good friends with Lionel and Jean. Alistair is vain, and a ladies' human, and likes to call Lionel "Li", simply he is also expert-hearted and energetic, and proves resourceful enough to handle many situations that arise.

In the first serial Judith develops a crush on Lionel while Alistair takes a similar interest in Jean and likes to phone call her "lovely lady". Both crushes are brief; eventually Judith and Alistair fall for each other and, in the last series, ally. Other story arcs feature Lionel existence asked to write an American TV mini-series, Merely Two People, based on his early romance with Jean. The mini-serial fails after much rewriting and network interference. Jean eventually retires from Type for You and later volunteers at a charity shop.

Jean's very efficient secretary and Judith'southward all-time friend is Sandy (Jenny Funnell), who eventually moves in with the Hardcastles afterward splitting with her fellow Nick. Later Jean's retirement, Judy and Sandy get co-managers of Blazon for You. Sandy dates Harry (David Michaels, later on replaced by Daniel Ryan), a policeman and amateur rugby player, whom she marries at the cease of the series. Sandy's last name is never revealed on the show.

Other notable characters include Lionel's irrepressible begetter Rocky (Frank Middlemass), whose favourite saying is "Rock on!" and who owns a big country firm in Hampshire which he later on gives to Lionel; Rocky'southward housekeeper, Mrs. Bale (Janet Henfrey), who has an unusual interest in the Shipping Forecast and gives exact times that meals will be ready; Rocky's gardener, Lol Ferris (Tim Wylton), who says Jean is a "tender woman"; and Lionel's glamorous young secretarial assistant Daisy (Justine Glenton in one episode, Serial 3, and Zoe Hilson, Series four), who firmly repels Alistair's clumsy efforts to conversation her up every time they meet. In series 3 of the bear witness, Lionel is told by Rocky's physician that his father has less than a year to live, just this plotline was dropped and Rocky continued to appear throughout the prove's later series, including the last "Christmas Specials" in 2005.

Rocky marries Madge (Joan Sims), as much a character as Rocky is, when he is 85 and she is 78 (Rocky features in the 2005 Christmas Special, where he must be around 97 years old). They travel the globe, are country and western music fans, tool nearly in Madge'south classic Cadillac convertible (with steer horns on the grille), and hang out at the local pub, where Madge sings. In series nine, Madge is mentioned as being on an archaeological dig in Arab republic of egypt; in reality Joan Sims died earlier filming began. Too appearing many times are Penny (Moyra Fraser), the meddling, neurotic sister of Jean's late start husband, who calls Jean "poor Jean", and Penny's well-meaning but ho-hum dentist husband, Stephen (Paul Chapman), who in one case accidentally declined an OBE.^[5]

Episodes [edit]

The programme ran for nine series, from 12 January 1992 to iv August 2002. Nearly every episode was thirty minutes long. The final serial episode was followed past an hr-long compilation show on eleven August 2002 and by a 2-office "Christmas Special" circulate on 26 and 30 Dec 2005. The Christmas specials were the last appearance of Frank Middlemass, who played Rocky, before his decease in 2006. In December 2020, UKTV dissever the Christmas Specials into four 30-minute episodes. They added a 'next time on' and 'last time on' segment at the start and end of each episode. The episodes aired on 'Drama' equally a series 10 and dedicating them to Palmer.^{[vi] [vii]} Actress Joan Sims died in 2001, meaning Rocky's wife, Madge Darbley-Hardcastle, does not appear after series 7 or in the Christmas specials. (To explain her absence, the graphic symbol is said to be either decorated with the local theatre company or digging on an archaeological site in Egypt.)

International broadcasts [edit]

As Fourth dimension Goes By has appeared in the United States on BBC America, and has been running weekly on PBS fellow member stations most continuously since the early 2000s, with various cast members appearing on its perennial pledge drives. It has run in Canada on BBC Canada and TVOntario, in Commonwealth of australia on ABC, 7TWO, 9Gem and Play a joke on Classics, in New Zealand on both UKTV and SKY Network Television set, in Finland on YLE TV1,^[8] and on DSTV in Nigeria. RTÉ Ane has broadcast the series in Republic of ireland repeatedly. It has been broadcast by Gilt for viewers in the UK and Ireland equally of 2010, and by UKTV in Commonwealth of australia and the UK as of 2011.

Radio [edit]

Every bit Fourth dimension Goes By was adapted and recorded for radio. Three series were broadcast on BBC Radio 2 between 1997 and 1999. The first episode included a flashback to Jean and Lionel 38 years before, something that never happened on television.^{[ citation needed ]} All episodes correspond to a TV episode and featured the original bandage, autonomously from Jon Glover substituting for Bretherton in episodes 1-v of Series One. Only the kickoff series was released on BBC audio cassette. Series One was repeated on BBC Radio 4 Extra from December 2014 to January 2015.

Home media [edit]

In Region 1 in North America the consummate series has been released in individual sets and as a complete series from BBC Video. In the Uk on Region 2, the series has been released several times; Universal Playback released the first four series on VHS and DVD format, with 2 Entertain acquiring the rights to release the remaining serial on DVD, and additionally re-releasing the Series ane to four and a consummate drove on DVD. Cinema Society caused the right to release the complete serial over ii sets, with the first containing Series One to Four and the following set containing Series Five to Nine. Acorn Media has released to 'The Reunion Specials' on DVD. In Commonwealth of australia on Region 4, the complete serial has been released as individual sets and as a complete drove.

Northward America

• Series i & 2 – released 17 September 2002^[9] / re-released 30 August 2005 (2-disc set)
• Series 3 – released 17 September 2002 ^[10] / re-released xxx Baronial 2005 (ii-disc set)
• Series 4 – released two Apr 2002^[11] / re-released thirty August 2005 (2-disc set)
• Series 5 – released 2002 / re-released 30 August 2005 (1-disc set)^[12]
• Series six – released 2002 / re-released 30 August 2005 (i-disc set)^[13]
• Series seven – released 2002 / re-released 30 Baronial 2005 (1-disc set)^[14]
• Series 8 & nine – released 2003 / re-released 30 August 2005 (2-disc fix)^[15]
• You lot Must Remember This – released thirty September 2003^[sixteen] / re-released thirty August 2005 (1-disc set)^[17]
• The Reunion Specials – released 10 January 2006 (1-disc prepare)^[18]
• Complete Original Serial – released thirty Baronial 2005 (11-disc set)^[nineteen]

United Kingdom

• Serial 1 & 2 – released 17 March 2003 (iii-VHS prepare / 3-DVD fix distributed by Universal Playback)^{[20] [21]}
• Serial 3 – released 25 October 2004 (3-VHS set / 3-DVD prepare distributed past Universal Playback)^{[22] [23]}
• Serial iv – released 21 February 2005 (1-VHS set up / i-DVD setdistributed past Universal Playback)^{[24] [25]}
• Series 1 – re-released 5 February 2007 (ane-DVD set distributed by 2 Entertain)
• Serial 2 – re-released five February 2007 (1-DVD set distributed past 2 Entertain)
• Series 3 – re-released 5 February 2007 (ii DVD set distributed by 2 Entertain)
• Series iv – re-released 5 February 2007 (2-DVD gear up distributed by ii Entertain)
• Series v – released 24 October 2005 (1-DVD set distributed by two Entertain)
• Series six – released 20 January 2006 (i-DVD set distributed past two Entertain)
• Series 7 – released twenty March 2006 (1 DVD set distributed by 2 Entertain)
• Series 8 – released 22 May 2006 (1 DVD gear up distributed by two Entertain)
• Series 9 – released 21 August 2006 (one DVD set distributed by 2 Entertain)
• The Complete Series ane–4 – released 11 September 2006 (6-DVD set distributed by Cinema Club)
• The Complete Serial 5–9 – released 2 October 2006 (v-DVD gear up distributed past Movie theater Club)
• The Reunion Specials – released 16 July 2012 (1-DVD set distributed by Acorn Media)
• Complete Serial one–9 – released 2 November 2015 (11-DVD set up distributed by two Entertain)

Australia

• Every bit Time Goes By – Series ane and ii (ii Disc Set) – five May 2003
• Equally Time Goes By – Series 3 and 4 (three Disc Set) – 10 Nov 2004
• As Time Goes Past – Series 5 and 6 (2 Disc Set) – 7 April 2005
• As Time Goes By – Series 7 and 8 (2 Disc Set) – 6 October 2005
• As Fourth dimension Goes By – Series 9–ix August 2004
• Equally Time Goes By – The Reunion Specials, Part 1 – one October 2005
• As Time Goes By – The Reunion Specials, Function 2 – four May 2006
• Every bit Time Goes By – The Reunion Specials, Parts ane & 2 – 30 Nov 2006
• As Time Goes By – Serial ane–9: Collectors Edition (11 Disc Box Set) – half dozen October 2006, Re-Release 1 September 2011
• As Time Goes Past – Series one–9: Remastered Collectors Edition (11 Disc Box Set up) – 6 Oct 2006, Re-Release 1 September 2019

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External links [edit]

• Every bit Time Goes By at bbc.co.uk
• As Time Goes By at IMDb
• As Fourth dimension Goes By at AllMovie
• Equally Time Goes By at British TV One-act
• Equally Times Goes Past at British Comedy (with radio episode guide)

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