The Darling Buds of May Season One

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David Jason, Catherine Zeta Jones, Pam Ferris, Philip Frannks, Michael Jayston, Rachel Bell, Murray Watson

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.

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.

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!

No extras.