Gary, the time traveller with a wife in the present and a girlfriend in wartime London, is back for a fourth season that will see marriage and fatherhood come into the mix.

The immediately obvious changes are the women in Gary's life. Nicholas Lyndhurst is back and still managing to keep the generally loathesome Gary seem quite a nice bloke really (despite infidelity, fraud, lying, cheating and generally being a bad husband and friend, not mention adding bigamy to the list this time around). Victor McGuire returns as the hapless, hopeless and generally having a bad time of it Ron and Christopher Ettridge continues to be dim and, well, just dim as PC Reg Deadman.

Dervla Kirwan has gone as Phoebe Bamford and Elizabeth Carling takes over the role. To be fair, she makes a fair job of it too, never quite being as believable or as feisty as her predecessor, but managing to make the character her own without ever losing the sense of who she was before. Emma Amos attempts to copy the performance of Michelle Holmes as Yvonne and captures most of the accent and attitude so that, by the time the season in well underway the shock of the new has worn off.

The comedy remains weak to nonexistent and there is very little done with the concept to freshen it up or take it in a different direction. The show is well past its sell by date, new ingredients or not.