A battered child and a curmudgeonly old man cement an abiding friendship in Masterpiece Theatre's adaptation of "Goodnight Mr. Tom", by Michelle Magorian. John Thaw (Inspector Morse on Mystery!) stars as Tom Oakley, a reclusive widower living in rura... (more)l England at the outbreak of World War II. Nick Robinson is Willie Beech, a nine-year-old Londoner who is evacuated to the countryside with other children and ends up in Tom's care.