A very good episode of 'Goodnight Sweetheart' from the fine third series.
Phoebe's husband Donald (Ralph Ineson) has escaped from his Prisoner of War Camp and is back at the Royal Oak. What with this and the fact in the present day, Yvonne wants Gary to sell his shop and get a 'proper' job in the Korean company she works for. It looks like the time travelling experience is over for Gary. He goes back to 1942 to say goodbye to Phoebe. But will events unfold that will see Gary rather than Donald being Phoebe's lover...
This is a very emotional episode with the comedy taking a back seat to the drama. Yet it is all very necessary and very well written and performed.
Donald is played by Ralph Ineson who today is famous for playing mans man Chris Finch in 'The Office' Donald is a very different character to Finchey, he is very sensitive. He is a good man, yet he and Phoebe weren't meant to be husband and wife, they were almost forced into the marriage by their respective families. There's a beautiful scene near the end where Gary and Donald discuss the situation together, great rapport by Ineson and Nicholas Lyndhurst here.
It was inevitable this episode was going to be made eventually and with Donald now out of the way and by not attending the interview for the job in Yvonne's Korean firm, Gary's relationship and opportunity with Phoebe was back on track again.
Phoebe's husband Donald (Ralph Ineson) has escaped from his Prisoner of War Camp and is back at the Royal Oak. What with this and the fact in the present day, Yvonne wants Gary to sell his shop and get a 'proper' job in the Korean company she works for. It looks like the time travelling experience is over for Gary. He goes back to 1942 to say goodbye to Phoebe. But will events unfold that will see Gary rather than Donald being Phoebe's lover...
This is a very emotional episode with the comedy taking a back seat to the drama. Yet it is all very necessary and very well written and performed.
Donald is played by Ralph Ineson who today is famous for playing mans man Chris Finch in 'The Office' Donald is a very different character to Finchey, he is very sensitive. He is a good man, yet he and Phoebe weren't meant to be husband and wife, they were almost forced into the marriage by their respective families. There's a beautiful scene near the end where Gary and Donald discuss the situation together, great rapport by Ineson and Nicholas Lyndhurst here.
It was inevitable this episode was going to be made eventually and with Donald now out of the way and by not attending the interview for the job in Yvonne's Korean firm, Gary's relationship and opportunity with Phoebe was back on track again.
