Yvonne Sparrow

Yvonne Sparrow is a fictional character in the BBC sitcom Goodnight Sweetheart. Yvonne (Michelle Holmes series one to three, Emma Amos four to six) is the long-suffering wife of Gary Sparrow: a time traveller and cross-time adulterer (later bigamist). It is not until the final episode of the series that Yvonne is made aware that Gary is a time traveller to war-torn 1940s London, and that he has a wife and child back in the past.

Throughout the series, Yvonne is led to believe that Gary is travelling about the country searching out antiques for his memorabilia shop, however in reality, he is making numerous trips back to the 1940s via a time portal he accidentally stumbled across one day while out on a TV repair job.

Yvonne is the stereotypical 1990s "power woman": corporate minded yet socially and environmentally aware. She eventually starts her own enormously successful natural beauty-aids business, although this does little to lessen her sense of insecurity about her husband Gary, who always seems to be absent and uncommitted to her needs. Yvonne's birthday is suggested to be in March or April as she said "my birthday isn't for five months" and the month was November as Ron thought Gary was organising a surprise Guy Fawkes party as mentioned in the series 1 episode "The more I see you."

In the final episode, Accentuate the Positive, Gary and Yvonne are seperated when he ends up saving Clement Attlee's life on VE Day in 1945, thus trapping him in the past for good. Back in the 1990s, Gary's best friend, Ron Wheatcroft, is left to explain the truth to a shocked Yvonne that Gary will never be able to get back through the time portal and both will have to just get on with their lives.