The Darling Buds of May (UK)
Pop and Ma Larkin lead idyllic lives in the apple blossomed Kent countryside. They own 22 acres of land and somehow manage to live off it in considerable splendour despite never paying their bills. The Larkins have immense appetites and even eat while sharing a bath. One day they are visited by a tax inspector He soon falls for the considerable charms of Mariette.
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Directors
- David Giles (III) (7 episodes)
- Robert Tronson (6 episodes)
- Rodney Bennett (4 episodes)
Writers
- H.E. Bates (20 episodes)
- Richard Harris (7 episodes)
- Bob Larbey (4 episodes)
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- John Blenheim's full name: John Marlborough Churchill Blenheim Charlton.
- H.E. Bates took the title from William Shakespeare's Sonnet 18: "Shall I compare thee to a summer's day? Thou art more lovely and more temperate; Rough winds do shake the darling buds of May,…
[show]H.E. Bates took the title from William Shakespeare's Sonnet 18: "Shall I compare thee to a summer's day? Thou art more lovely and more temperate; Rough winds do shake the darling buds of May, And summer's lease hath all too short a date".
[hide] - In the books upon which the TV-series is based, Ma and Pa Larkin had another child after Oscar; a girl called Phyllida.
