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The Handsome Stranger

Episode Number: 22    Season Num: 5    First Aired: Monday December 25, 2006    Prod Code: n/a
It's time to celebrate when the vicar learns that she has done her 100th wedding. However Geraldine is far from happy realising she's still unwed herself.

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Star: Roger Lloyd-Pack (Owen Newitt),  Trevor Peacock (Jim Trott),  James Fleet (Hugo Norton),  John Bluthal (Frank Pickle),  Emma Chambers (Alice Tinker),  Gary Waldhorn (David Horton),  Dawn French (Reverend Geraldine Granger)
Guest Star: Richard Armitage (Harry Kennedy),  Keeley Hawes (Harry's Sister)

Notes

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The episode topped the UK TV viewing chart on Christmas day, 2006 with 11.4 million viewers. (edit)

Quotes

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Alice (to Geraldine about Harry): Has he parked his purple Porsche in your personal parking space? (edit)

Trivia

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"It Should Have Been Me", performed by Yvonne Fair, is the song to which Geraldine lip-synchs to in the imagined wedding between Harry and Rose. (edit)
In this episode Geraldine's name is given as Geraldine Julie Andrews Dick Van Dyke Supercalifragilistic-expialidocious Chim Chim Cher-ee Granger. But in the episode Spring she says her name is Boadicea Geraldine Granger. (edit)

Allusions

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This is not the first time Geraldine has fallen into a puddle. She also was fully submerged in the season 2 episode, Love and Marriage. Each circumstance involves a man that Geraldine is romantically interested in. (edit)
Geraldine's rising out the puddle is a reference to Captain Willard rising from the water in Francis Ford Coppola's Apocalypse Now. (edit)
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fireexit112
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10.0
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The Handsome Stranger
"Exactly why I watch this series"
Fantastic
Continue » Posted Feb 12, 2007 1:10 pm PST

GreenLion1993
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The Handsome Stranger
"Exactly why I watch this series"
A comeback episode after 3 years, Gerri meets a handsom Londonner who has moved into Dibley.
Continue » Posted Jan 16, 2007 10:14 am PST
10.0
Perfect
The Handsome Stranger
"Another great installment"
In this episode, the first of the final two, the Vicar meets Harry, a hansom stranger that is new to Dibley. After a brief misunderstanding, and many comedic moments, Harry proposes marriage to the Vicar.
Continue » Posted Jan 2, 2007 5:56 am PST
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The Handsome Stranger
"Well written"
How great was this episode!
Continue » Posted Jan 2, 2007 5:45 am PST
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Episode: The Handsome Stranger
Season Number: 5
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