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    Comedy TV Shows - 1980s 2 Mins Read

    Blott on the Landscape

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    In 1985, George Cole temporarily abandoned Arthur Daley to play Sir Giles in Tom Sharpe’s Blott On The Landscape.

    Sir Giles Lynchwood was the Member of Parliament for South Worfordshire, a man with weird fetishes (which were indulged in extrovert sex sessions down in London) and a greedy desire to make more and more money.

    One of his plans (in response to his wife’s insistence that they should have children) was to direct a new motorway through the grounds of her ancestral stately home, Handyman Hall, which was picturesquely set in Cleene Gorge.

    Rallying to its defence, the eccentric Lady Maud (a devotee of country sports) fought tooth and nail to preserve her home, assisted by her surreptitious gardener, Blott – a mysterious former Italian PoW (played by David Suchet) who was gradually revealed as a bomb-making anarchist who dedicated himself to the cause

    At one point, the mad Lady Maud (Geraldine James) yanked out her left breast to ensure that a motorway hearing became a riot.

    Dundridge was the hapless man from the Ministry of Environment who found himself immersed in the murky goings-on.

    Manic characters and farcical situations abounded and the whole production seemed blessed with a colourful and vulgar joie de vivre never better demonstrated than by Julia McKenzie’s portrayal of Mrs Forthby  – the homely dominatrix who pandered to Sir Giles’ more devious sexual desires.

    The six-part series was an adaptation by Malcolm Bradbury of Tom Sharpe’s black comic novel of the same name, first published in 1975.

    The series first aired on Wednesday evenings at 9:00 pm on BBC2 between 6 February and 13 March 1985.

    Filming took place at Stanage Park, near Ludlow.

    Sir Giles Lynchwood MP
    George Cole
    Lady Maud Lynchwood

    Geraldine James
    Blott

    David Suchet
    Mrs Forthby

    Julia McKenzie
    Ganglion

    Geoffrey Bayldon
    Lord Leakham

    John Welsh
    Dundridge

    Simon Cadell
    Minister

    Geoffrey Chater
    Hoskins

    Paul Brooke
    Prime

    John Grillo
    Densher

    Jeremy Clyde
    General Burnett

    Nicholas Selby
    Mr Bullett-Finch

    Patrick Godfrey
    Mrs Bullett-Finch

    Georgine Anderson
    Miss Percival
    Matyelok Gibbs (1)
    Sylvia Barter (2)
    Bessie Williams
    Sarah Porter
    Colonel Chapman
    John Rapley
    Sir Francis Puckerington
    Esmond Knight
    Marjorie
    Ursula Jones

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