Cold Comfort Farm (1968)
Synopsis
Adaptation of Stella Gibbons's comic novel of the same name. Following the death of her parents, 20-year-old Flora Poste (Sarah Badel) finds herself alone with insubstantial means in 1930s London. Fascinated by the little she knows of her distant relatives the Starkadders of Cold Comfort Farm in Sussex, she goes to stay with her aunt Judith Starkadder (Rosalie Crutchley) and a colourful array of cousins. There she finds a variety of earthy, passionate relations, dominated by Great Aunt Ada Doom (Fay Compton) who long ago saw "something nasty in the woodshed" and now holds the rest of the household in thrall. Flora decides to put to rights the lives of all of them.
First Air Date: 1968-06-22
Last Air Date: 1968-07-06
Number of Seasons: 1
Number of Episodes: 3
Created By: David Turner
Networks: BBC Two
Top Cast
- Alastair Sim as Amos Starkadder
- Sarah Badel as Flora Poste
- Fay Compton as Aunt Ada Doom (Starkadder)
- Rosalie Crutchley as Judith Starkadder
- Brian Blessed as Reuben Starkadder
- Peter Egan as Seth Starkadder
- Timothy Carlton as Richard Hawk-Monitor
- Sharon Gurney as Elfine Starkadder
- Freddie Jones as Urk Starkadder
- Joan Bakewell as Narrator
Seasons
Miniseries (1968)
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Episodes:
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Ep. 1: Folk
Flora Poste, fascinated by the little she knows of the Starkadders of Cold Comfort Farm, considers visiting them.
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Ep. 2: Woodshed
Flora has moved into Cold Comfort Farm and has begun to size up the Starkadders.
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Ep. 3: Doom
Flora, helped by Reuben, has planted the idea of a preaching tour in Amos's mind. On returning from Elfine and Richard's engagement party she finds the Starkadders' counting unexpectedly in progress.
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