Shake, Rattle & Roll (TV series)

Shake, Rattle & Roll is an American science fiction sitcom, starring John Barrande as Gary Henderson, an accidental time traveller who leads a double life through the use of a time portal, which allows him to travel between the of the late-1990s/early-2000s and the Los Angeles of the 1950s-60s. It is based on the British sitcom Goodnight Sweetheart, and was adapted for US television by the brother-sister team of Jim and Heather Honkonen, who also served as showrunners, with Jim also serving as head writer and Heather as the lead story editor. It ran from September 25, 1998 to May 19, 2006 on the RKO Network, re-runs later aired in syndication and on the cable channels, , , and Flex TV.

Premise
Shake, Rattle & Roll is about the life of Gary Henderson (John Barrande). In 1998, Gary works as an arcade machine repairman, who struggles with his life and the marriage to his ambitious wife Daphne, while being best friends with George Christakis, a high school math teacher whose marriage is on the brink of collapse. While repairing a Pac-Man machine at an out-of-the-way family entertainment center in, Gary accidentally discovers a time portal which leads to 1950s. The incident leads him to encountering Phoebe Myers, a pretty carhop who works at a drive-in restaurant, her father Eric who runs the drive-in, Stacey, Phoebe's younger sister, and Paul Kendall, a quirky but friendly police officer and part-time inventor. The meeting with Phoebe leads Gary to strike up a relationship with her and on finding he can use the time portal to travel between this time and the present, uses it to continue seeing Phoebe. To ensure his visits do not interfere with history, Gary brings in assistance from George as a confidant, to aid him with problems and to supply him with 1950s US dollar bills and identity documents.

Gary ends up leading a double life as a result of using the time portal. When visiting Phoebe, he explains his absences by claiming to be a singer-songwriter, passing off modern pop songs as his own and getting artists to record the songs he "writes", while also claiming to be a "part-time peace activist" going on trips around the world, using his knowledge of future Cold War events to his advantage in the deception. When with Daphne, Gary initially claims his absences to be trips to visit other arcade machine repairmen or trips to attend conventions, but after quitting his job in 2000 to buy and run a combination diner and antique/gift shop called "Gary Rockett's" – selling goods he acquires in the 1950s-60s as rare memorabilia, to maintain access to the time portal in the present – he uses it to lie that he has to be absent to go on cross-country journeys to track down items to sell at the store.

Cast

 * John Barrande as Gary Henderson
 * Janet Brennan as Daphne Henderson
 * Yannis Marangos as George Christakis
 * Georgina Appleton as Phoebe Myers
 * Vanessa Summerhayes as Stacey Myers
 * Hank S. Berry as Eric Myers
 * Tobé Carrell as Officer Paul Kendall