Years of Sally - 2005

After a 4 year gap Sally was to work with Alexander Armstrong, once more, in 2005. 

The TV Movie and Romantic Comedy "Open Wide" featured Armstrong as David, a Teacher for inmates in a local prison. The Movie also featured Nigel Havers, as Armstrong's dentist. Sally played Havers' Dental Assistant Karen. A flirtation develops between the David and Karen which is destined to lead to nothing and David ends up with Karen's friend, Sally Tonkin, played by Angela Griffin. The story is another to come from typewriter of Simon Nye. Of particular note is the amusing scene where Karen performs her take on Riverdance for David.

An other TV Movie appearance, for Sally, was as Mary Ormond in "Blackbeard: Terror at Sea". Sally plays a "lady" who captures the heart of Blackbeard and they are married. However Blackbeard does not take kindly to Mary organising his life and his patience is stretched until it, eventually, breaks. Unable to take any more he hands Ormond over to his crew to entertain theirselves as they wished.

Sally's stay in Death in Paradise was a short one and was in the future in 2005. When she did appear, though, her time spanned the end of the Kris Marshall era and the commencement of the Ardal O'Hanlon era. Sally was not to share a scene with Ardal on Death in Paradise (though, oddly, one of the tops that she had worn while in St Marie appears in the background in a scene with Ardal long after she was back in the UK!). But O'Hanlon and Sally had already crossed paths. Sally had had a leading role in the 1 season of O'Hanlon's "Blessed". Sally, with Robert Webb, played Gary and Sue Chandler's (O'Hanlon and Mel Giedroyc) next door neighbours Bill and Mary Hathaway. Bill and Mary, played hilariously by Robert and Sally, were a "snooty" couple that would be sure to, and did, get on the nerves of Gary.

2005 saw the final series of Absolute Power. Sally was back as Cat Durnford still grabbing plenty of laughs as part of the Prentiss/McCabe team.The series came to an end for, apparently, no more serious a reason than it had run it's 2 seasons which was a typical lifespan for series at the time. Although it courted controversy, on occasion, it was very funny with an exceptional cast and could have continued.