THE DARLING
BUDS OF MAY
Complete Series 6 Disc Box Set
Distributor:
Universal Home Entertainment Certificate: PG |
Region 4
Available to buy
Extras:
No
ANYONE
IN IT WE KNOW?
David Jason, Catherine Zeta Jones, Pam Ferris, Philip
Frannks, Michael Jayston, Rachel Bell, Murray Watson
WHAT’S
IT ABOUT THEN?
Set
in the late 50s in an idyllic
Kentish countryside The Darling
Buds of May is about the big,
brash and boozy Larkin family.
The family leads a wonderful
existence where "Pop"
Larkin manages to keep his large
20-acre family farm and a Rolls
Royce without doing any work
while the six children radiate
happiness and hardly have a care
in the world.
SO
IS IT ANY GOOD?
Back in 1991 The Darling Buds of May was easily the
most popular show on TV, proving that David Jason could do no wrong and
propelled a fresh faced and sexy Catherine Zeta Jones into stardom.
Jason played the irrepressible Pop Larkin a man for
whom the only thing in life was the simple pleasures of the countryside,
at the start of the series tax inspector Cedric “Charlie” Charlton
(Philip Franks) arrives to investigate Pop’s non payment of taxes,
immediately smitten by the Larkin’s gorgeous lifestyle and even more
so by their beautiful daughter Mariette (Zeta Jones) Charley never goes
home, instead getting married to Mariette and embracing the Larkin
lifestyle, the rest of the series focusing on various of Pop’s schemes
and the growing of the Larkin family as Mariette and Charley have a
child.
This complete six disc collection also includes the 2
specials. Probably the ultimate feel god show and one guaranteed to make
you hungry, every episode sees the Larkin family getting stuck into
mountains of food for breakfast lunch and dinner.
Classic Sunday evening viewing and despite the lack of
extras a great addition to your TV DVD collection and look we even
managed to avoid using the word Perfick – oh bugger!
