The Darling Buds of May

Season 3

The Larkin family lives in rural idyll in 1950s England. Father Larkin never pays his bills, but the big, sprightly family is never short of money. Father Larkin is always working on a new plan to provide the family with cash.

6 Episodes

  • The Happiest Days of Your Life (1)
    E1
    The Happiest Days of Your Life (1)Ma and Pop have a serious think about sending two of the kids, Zinnia and Petunia, to boarding school, but the girls themselves of course are none too keen.
  • The Happiest Days of Your Life (2)
    E2
    The Happiest Days of Your Life (2)Charley and Mariette decide to buy the brewery; the whole family repairs the twins' boarding school.
  • Cast Not Your Pearls Before Swine (1)
    E3
    Cast Not Your Pearls Before Swine (1)Pop discovers that Edith has a boyfriend called George. He invites them to Ma's birthday party, complete with Punch and Judy show, and befriends George, who turns out to be very wealthy. He convinces Pop to get into a fraud involving pig breeding, though Ma does trust him. Primrose has a new love interest, George the poet from Liverpool, who is helping build a swimming-pool for Pop, but Victoria keeps making fun of her.
  • Cast Not Your Pearls Before Swine (2)
    E4
    Cast Not Your Pearls Before Swine (2)When he discovers that George Harran is a married conman who has tried to swindle both himself and Edith, Pop decides to play him an elaborate trick with Jasmine Brown, a friend of Angela Snow, at the swimming-pool opening. He also treats Edith to a trip to Paris and tries to protect her feelings. In the meanwhile, Primrose leaves for Liverpool to find George, but is disappointed.
  • Climb the Greasy Pole (1)
    E5
    Climb the Greasy Pole (1)Pop runs for rural councillor while Charley and Mariette struggle at the brewery and have issues in their relationship.
  • Climb the Greasy Pole (2)
    E6
    Climb the Greasy Pole (2)Gypsies get involved in Pop's campaign for rural councillor. Charley and Mariette have to work on their marriage, and finalize the deal to buy Bristow's brewery.

Cast of Season 3

  • David JasonPop Larkin
  • Pam FerrisMa Larkin
  • Catherine Zeta-JonesMariette
  • Philip FranksCharley
  • Stephanie RalphVictoria
  • Rachel BellEdith Pilchester
  • Abigail RokisonPrimrose
  • H. E. BatesWriter

 

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