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Sitcom about the love-hate relationship between upper-class Audrey fforbes Hamilton and Richard DeVere, the nouveau rich businessman who buys her manor house when she can no longer afford to keep it.

3 Seasons
21 Episodes
Ended
Comedy
Cast & Characters
episode image Grape Vine
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#1 Grape Vine

S1:E6

No longer able to afford an annual holiday to an exotic locale, Audrey pretends to leave for Spain while actually hiding inside the lodge with a sunlamp and Spanish language records.

episode image A Touch of Class
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#2 A Touch of Class

S1:E7

Richard is chosen to star in a tv commercial as the quintessential English gentleman enjoying spirits at his country estate, but Audrey, who now knows Richard isn't English, reveals it to the producers and lands the starring role for herself.

episode image The First Noel
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#3 The First Noel

S1:E8

Audrey and Richard engage in battle yet again, this time to see who can provide the best Christmas creche to the local church, Audrey with her homemade version or Richard with his commercially bought one.

episode image The New Farm Manager
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#4 The New Farm Manager

S2:E1

Richard sends Audrey over the edge yet again as he brings in an efficiency expert to try to modernize every aspect of the estate's management, and sending everything and everyone into varying states of chaos.

episode image The Spare Room
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#5 The Spare Room

S2:E2

Audrey gleefully sets up a blind date between Richard and an old school chum of hers who was always dumpy and unattractive, then does everything in her power to prevent it when she finds out that her old friend is now an attactive single woman who she fears might catch Richard's interest.

episode image Never Be Alone
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#6 Never Be Alone

S2:E3

Audrey agrees to help Richard catalog his antique china collection, then becomes the prime suspect when a valuable piece goes missing.

episode image Tramps and Poachers
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#7 Tramps and Poachers

S2:E4

A wandering itinerant laborer pits Audrey and Richard against each other in a contest to show that each is the most charitable towards him.

episode image The Honours List
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#8 The Honours List

S2:E5

Richard upsets Audrey again, this time by proposing to cut down the estate's ancient hedgerows in order to increase the amount of farmable acreage, and Audrey leads a local protest to stop him.

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#9 Vive Le Sport

S2:E6

Audrey learns firsthand the horrors of the national healthcare system when she injures her back and her private doctor refuses to treat her due to her unpaid bills, and refers her to the public clinic. Meanwhile, Richard, who's never skied in his life, learns the folly of pretending to the world that he's an expert on skis.

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#10 Scout Hut

S3:E1

Richard, leading the local Boy Scout troup, and Audrey, heading the local Girl Guides group, nearly come to blows as they compete for their troups' rights to use the building both groups must share.

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#11 Station Closing

S3:E2

When Audrey learns of plans to close the local railway station, she leads a protest to save it. Meanwhile, Richard plans to buy the site so he can tear down the station and build a new grocery store in its place.

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#12 Horse vs Cars

S3:E3

A repair bill for Audrey's Rolls-Royce finally convinces her to revert to four-legged horsepower.

episode image Birds Vs Bees
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#13 Birds Vs Bees

S3:E4

Audrey starts a business selling honey. A rare bee-eating bird spotted by Marjorie brings lots of people to the village. Audrey sees this as an ideal opportunity to sell her honey.

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#14 Cosmetics

S3:E5

Richard must get Audrey to agree to pose as his wife for a weekend so he can fend off the amorous attentions of a cosmetics businesswoman who has decided to visit the estate.

episode image Connections in High Places
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#15 Connections in High Places

S3:E6

The stockholders of Richard's company conspire to throw him off the board of directors, and Audrey asks her rich uncle to help him fight off the threat.

episode image Back to the Manor
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#16 Back to the Manor

S3:E7

Richard loses control of his company when his main supporter, Audrey's rich uncle, dies suddenly, and Richard is forced to sell most of his assets, including Grantleigh Manor.

Cast & Chracters

character image Richard DeVere

Richard DeVere

Actor: Peter Bowles
character image Audrey fforbes-Hamilton

Audrey fforbes-Hamilton

Actor: Penelope Keith
character image Marjory Frobisher

Marjory Frobisher

Actor: Angela Thorne
character image Mrs. Polouvicka

Mrs. Polouvicka

Actor: Daphne Oxenford
character image Ned

Ned

Actor: Michael Bilton
character image The Rector

The Rector

Actor: Gerald Sim

Brabinger

Actor: John Rudling

Mrs. Polouvicka

Actor: Daphne Heard

Name Department Job
Gareth Gwenlan Production Producer

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