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    Drama TV Shows - 1960s 2 Mins Read

    Cold Comfort Farm

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    3 x 50 minute episodes

    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.

    Other members of the tribe include Judith’s husband, farmer-preacher Amos Starkadder (Alastair Sim), their three children – the ambitious Ruben (Brian Blessed), fey Elphine (Sharon Gurney) and the incredibly sexy Seth (Peter Egan) – as well as Urk (Freddie Jones), Elphine’s “intended”, bawdy cowman Adam Lambsbreath (Billy Russell), and Meriam (Charlotte Howard), the Starkadders’ young daily who has a baby a year – usually by Seth.

    Flora decides to put to rights the lives of all of them and that’s exactly what she does.Β She succeeds in removing the curse on the farm, frees the cousins from the clutches of the aptly named matriarch, Ada Doom, finds love and even helps old Ada overcome her self-imposed solitude.

    Joan Bakewell provided the narration.

    This short BBC series was broadcast over three weeks in June and July 1968.

    Amos Starkadder
    Alastair Sim
    Great Aunt Ada Doom (Starkadder)
    Fay Compton
    Flora Poste
    Sarah Badel
    Judith Starkadder
    Rosalie Crutchley
    Ruben Starkadder
    Brian Blessed
    Seth Starkadder
    Peter Egan
    Adam Lambsbreath
    Billy Russell
    Mrs Agony Beetle
    Hazel Coppen
    Elphine Starkadder
    Sharon Gurney
    Rennett Starkadder
    Sheila Grant
    Charles Fairford
    John Golightly
    Meriam
    Charlotte Howard
    Urk
    Freddie Jones
    Mr Mybug
    Aubrey Morris
    Richard Hawk-Monitor
    Timothy Carlton
    Narrator
    Joan Bakewell

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