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Choked. So sad, and so well done. Have got a sore throat from holding the tears back.

Needed a good cry tonight. That did it

I’m in the same state as you Auntiflo with a sore throat from trying not to cry, problem is I’ve been feeling a bit low and needed cheering up, this didn’t do it.

Oh dear. so sad. I thought that Tom and Barbara were so well suited (the characters of course - I know that Jack and Helen are a couple in RL).

So sad, I shouldn`t have watched really, it brought back too many memories, but I love the programme. Poor Tom and Phyllis.

It was very upsetting tonight.

Wasn't it sad?

I wondered, last week, about the chance of Tom and Trixie getting back together but then Barbara rallied and I thought I had it wrong.

I always watch it with my two daughters. We were all crying. my eldest daughter said she was going to bed now properly depressed.

I just knew, when she’d rallied midway through the programme, that she’d have a relapse by the end. What an episode - the story of the bullied young dad who wouldn’t be going home for three years was sad too.

I seem to be a lone voice, but I didn’t feel involved last night. I was just too aware all the time of how the writers were manipulating our emotions, and how they were thinking of different ways of writing characters out. There seemed too many themes going on at once, so it was rather bitty. Perhaps I was just in the wrong mood.

I like a good weepie as well. Last night's episode was excellent I thought, Phyllis was portrayed so well. Think you are out voted Grandma70 I agree there were a lot of themes going on though.

But life is like that, it is a community not one family, would have been boring if the hour was only of Barbara dying

I've not read any posts about last nights episode and was avoiding the thread until I watch my recording this afternoon.
I opened the paper a few minutes ago and there's a full page article telling me just what I was avoiding finding out gggggrrrrr !!

Oh that's awful ninathenana but it's still definitely worth watching.
The acting is so understated that it gets such a powerful message across. This programme is definitely a contender for a television award.

Even DH was blowing his nose noisily at the end. Linda Bassett is wonderful in it.

I usually enjoy the programme, but this series has had too many sad episodes. So many deaths makes it very distressing for people recently bereaved, it has caused real distress to a relative. I know it is only a programme but is it really Sunday night entertainment.

Yes, very sad, was choked....Very well acted ...next week, the last week, wont be much cheerier either as its the funeral....

Yes was well acted, but I agree, I felt that we were being manipulated and found it difficult to get any real emotion. Also, surely, her parents should have been called when she was so ill.

I agree, Barbara's parents would undoubtedly have been informed and summoned as she was SO ill! BUT, I wept for Barbara, for Tom Nurse Crane, in fact everyone!! What a terrible disease this was/is. Even fifty years along the line it is still a killer. I know at times C.T.M is a bit dismal, but Nurse Anderson has found a lovely group of friends, there is hope for the young man and his young family, and Timothy likes the Rolling Stones, so it's not all despair!

Summed up perfectly niggly ?

So very sad, but I thought it was very well done. Phyllis is so real... I know it's corny but I really feel I know her! She is a brilliant actress. Don't know if I can bear to watch the funeral next week... I don't usually get emotional about telly dramas, tell myself it's not real, but last night's CTM was something different altogether!

Thanks annie, and as a postscript, the babies and the joy they bring are gorgeous - Quite takes me back!

Oh dear, can I bear to watch this episode now? DH back at work tomorrow so can watch it in peace. Life was hard for so many people and still is.

Oh loopyloo, I'm afraid the game has been given away! sorry!! Do watch it though, but make sure you have tissues at the ready!!!

It's ok Niggly, I am glad I have been forewarned. It was one reason why I read the thread.