To The Manor Born - Complete Series 1-3 (Box Set)
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To the Manor Born is one of those brilliant English comedies. First aired in 1979, it went on to be one of the most popular shows on British TV.
Penelope Keith, one of the mainstays of many of these comedies, plays Lady fforbes-Hamilton. She is one of the vanguard of the upper class in Britain. All around her, society is falling to pieces - foreigners and lower class people are taking over Britain. Even worse, they are the nouveau-riche. With the death of her husband, she finds herself in dire straits as she is forced to sell the family home in which her family has resided for over 400 years.
Much to her horror, the mansion is bought by someone who is not even of British descent - a foreigner! Richard DeVere is played with consummate skill by Peter Bowles, and his down-to-earth foil to Lady fforbes-Hamilton is a mainstay of the programme. While the DeVeres try and settle into British country life, even though he has brought his work with him and coverts one of the rooms of the mansion into a modern study, Lady fforbes-Hamilton has moved into a much more modest house on the edge of the estate - in times gone past this was the lodge of the manor. She has purchased the lodge so that she can keep an eye on the manor, and on Mr. Richard DeVere, which she does with a pair of binoculars.
While the two are attracted to each other, they live in different worlds: Richard with the money and mansion but no history, and Audrey with all the lineage of British aristocracy behind her but nary a cent to her name. Audrey is a true blue- blooded aristocratic snob and her views on life give us about half of the many laughs in the show. They spend each episode revolving around each other's orbits, fatally attracted, but every time they get close the sparks fly and they move apart again (but not too far).
To The Manor Born - Complete Series 1-3 (Box Set)
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$18.95
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🔴 Condition - Very Good 🔴
To the Manor Born is one of those brilliant English comedies. First aired in 1979, it went on to be one of the most popular shows on British TV.
Penelope Keith, one of the mainstays of many of these comedies, plays Lady fforbes-Hamilton. She is one of the vanguard of the upper class in Britain. All around her, society is falling to pieces - foreigners and lower class people are taking over Britain. Even worse, they are the nouveau-riche. With the death of her husband, she finds herself in dire straits as she is forced to sell the family home in which her family has resided for over 400 years.
Much to her horror, the mansion is bought by someone who is not even of British descent - a foreigner! Richard DeVere is played with consummate skill by Peter Bowles, and his down-to-earth foil to Lady fforbes-Hamilton is a mainstay of the programme. While the DeVeres try and settle into British country life, even though he has brought his work with him and coverts one of the rooms of the mansion into a modern study, Lady fforbes-Hamilton has moved into a much more modest house on the edge of the estate - in times gone past this was the lodge of the manor. She has purchased the lodge so that she can keep an eye on the manor, and on Mr. Richard DeVere, which she does with a pair of binoculars.
While the two are attracted to each other, they live in different worlds: Richard with the money and mansion but no history, and Audrey with all the lineage of British aristocracy behind her but nary a cent to her name. Audrey is a true blue- blooded aristocratic snob and her views on life give us about half of the many laughs in the show. They spend each episode revolving around each other's orbits, fatally attracted, but every time they get close the sparks fly and they move apart again (but not too far).