Into That Good Night Into That Good Night Into That Good Night is the season 9 finale of "Roseanne" and was the original show's series finale until the revival and the tenth season premiered in 2018. The episode aired May 20, 1997 on ABC. After a panned season, this episode undid all the plot progressions since the Conners winning the lottery by claiming it was all a fictionalization. This confused and annoyed many critics, and it remains one of the most controversial finales of all time. The title refers to the poem "Do not go gentle into that good night" by Dylan Thomas. The
That Evening Sun (film) a "career-highlight star turn as an irascible octogenarian farmer who will not go gentle into that good night." "That Evening Sun" also was screened at the 2009 Nashville Film Festival, where Holbrook was honored with a special Lifetime Achievement Award, and the film itself received another Audience Award. The film opened in limited release in November 2009, and was released on DVD and Blu-ray Disc on September 7, 2010. Abner Meecham (Hal Holbrook), an aging Tennessee farmer discarded at a nursing facility by his lawyer son, flees the old folks home and catches a ride back to his country farm