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Period
drama serial. Teenaged Flora
Poste goes to stay with her
extremely eccentric relatives in
the country.
regular
cast
ALASTAIR
SIM as Amos Starkadder / FAY
COMPTON as Ada Doom / SARAH
BADEL as Flora Poste / ROSALIE
CRUTCHLEY as Judith Starkadder /
BRIAN BLESSED as Reuben / BILLY
RUSSELL as Adam Lambsbreath /
PETER EGAN as Seth
production
details
Writer:
David Turner / Novel: Stella
Gibbons / Director: Peter Tucker
UK
/ BBC / 3x50m-e / 1968
black and white
1.
FOLK
When
Flora Poste finds an orphan at
20 and with only a hundred
pounds a year to live on she
writes to her various relatives
asking for a home, the most
intriguing off comes from the
Starkadders at Cold Comfort
Farm.
2.
WOODSHED
Flora
has moved into Cold Comfort Farm
and has begun the task of
civilising her wild earthy
doomladen country cousins.
3.
DOOM
Flora
finally meets the formidable Ada
Doom at a gathering of the
Starkadders.
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