To the Manor Born

To the Manor Born is a British sitcom that on the English television under the title To the Manor Born ran from 1979 to 1981, in the Netherlands the series follows Audrey Fforbes-Hamilton who after the death of her husband her beloved country house should sell to a become rich groenteman. In the Netherlands, the series was broadcast byVARA under the title "Noblewoman, Mendicant woman".



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[hide] *1 Story  ==Story[ Edit] == Read warning: text below contains details about the content and/or the end of the story.Audrey Fforbes-Hamilton is very happy. Of course she is saddened that her husband and cousin Marton is deceased but the fact that they are now the Grantleigh estate, full control of the country house that all four hundred years of the family is, pleased her more. If, however, the family lawyer knocks that Marton has made large debts, she gets a shock. The country house is to be sold. As Audrey on the auction comes and wants to buy the House, she is defeated by Richard DeVere, the owner of a chain of supermarkets, Cavendish Foods. The disgust of Audrey grows as she hears that started as a vegetable farmer and DeVere is actually not even British. DeVere is actually called Bedrich Polouvicki and is half Polish, half Czech. His parents fled to England in september 1939. DeVere has taken that out in full his mother Maria Jaroslava Vladimira Martinka Poluvicka hot, but everyone is called by Mrs Poo. Audrey hear this all with horror to and involves The Old Lodge, an old coach house near the Manor.From there she can keep a close eye on the country house, sometimes even with binoculars. She lives together with her loyal butler Brabinger and her beagle Bertie. She gets regularly visit the what muddled Marjory Frobisher who is in love with Richard DeVere. Audrey refuses to look for a job, because they make her duties as ' lady of the manor "will continue to exercise. They must regularly the ' grocery store ' as they call point to duties that he remains as DeVere new Lord of the manor should exercise. By refusing to seek a job, is Audrey in constant money problems. Audrey and Richard eventually grow more and more towards each other. If Cavendish Foods gets into trouble should Richard the country house sales. Fortunately, inherits a rich cousin Audrey than just money and buys the Manor. Richard asks her to marry him and they marry. ==Background[ Edit] == The show was created by Pete Spence. In the early 1970s he was invited for a house warming party by a British comedian of ordinary origin who had become rich with his television work. The comedian had a country house bought and the owner as it were driven out to a cottage in the village. Spence met the woman at the party and knew right that the combination has become a rich man of simple origins opposite arm rich woman could be an idea for a series. When the BBC asked him for a radio series with Penelope Keith in the lead role the idea came up again. Penelope Keith was become very popular by her performance as Margo Leadbetter in the series The Good Life (broadcast as In Netherlands back to nature). Margo is a shrew and a haughty wiseacre and Spence saw her become the right arm Lady of the manor. Initially, a rich American hair from player. The radio series was pushed aside and replaced by a television series. The American disappeared and was replaced by a greengrocer who has become a millionaire. ==Production[ Edit] == The series is set in the fictional village of Grantleigh in Somerset. The film shots were used for the village of Cricket St. Thomas located in Somerset. The country house that had to go by was the Grantleigh estate Cricket House, which was owned by the father-in-law of Pete Spence. Indoor scenes were made in Cricket House and at Pinewood Studios. The Old Lodge, the home of Audrey, was in reality The West Lodge and lay one mile (1.6 km) from Cricket House removed. To preserve the illusion that both houses are located close to each other in the series, was an imitation Gateway built. ==Division Of Roles<span class="mw-editsection-bracket" len="1" style="color:rgb(85,85,85);">[ Edit<span class="mw-editsection-bracket" len="1" style="color:rgb(85,85,85);">] == ==Episodes<span class="mw-editsection" len="336" style="-webkit-user-select:none;font-size:small;margin-left:1em;line-height:1em;display:inline-block;white-space:nowrap;unicode-bidi:-webkit-isolate;font-family:sans-serif;"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket" len="1" style="color:rgb(85,85,85);">[ Edit<span class="mw-editsection-bracket" len="1" style="color:rgb(85,85,85);">] == <p style="margin-top:0.5em;line-height:22.3999996185303px;color:rgb(37,37,37);font-family:sans-serif;">In total, the series three seasons. The first season had seven episodes. The second six and the third season seven episodes. In 1979, there was an extra Christmas special and in 2007 there was an extra episode in which Audrey and Richard celebrate their 25th wedding anniversary.
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