Замок Бландингс (сериал) Сезон 1 (2013)

Glamorous Monica Simmons arrives at Blandings as the new 'pig man' and Freddie,despite a vow to forswear women for drink,is smitten. Connie has also invited Lady Daphne Littlewood,whom she believes is a rich widow,hoping she will be a suitable match for Clarence. Lady Daphne and her obnoxious son Huxley show an unusual interest in the Empress,which endears her to Clarence. But Monica discovers she is a penniless fortune hunter out to marry Clarence for his money and that,after the wedding, Beach,Connie,Freddie and the Empress will all be thrown out.

Fiery Scots gardener McAllister threatens to quit when the Empress nibbles his carefully-sculpted topiary but McAllister is needed for the annual fete so Clarence must grovel to make him stay. Cockney children Ern and Gladys are billeted at Blandings as part of a Fresh Air for Children scheme and,whilst Freddie falls for their teacher Miss Younghusband,Clarence indulges them to annoy Connie. They even,to Clarence's delight,destroy the dreaded fete.

Freddie is in debt to savage book-maker Nobby,whose sister,dancer Georgia,accompanies him to Blandings for the money. Baxter also reappears as a tutor to Clarence's grandson George,hired by Connie. When Clarence shoots Baxter in the bottom with an air rifle Freddie tries to blackmail his father into paying the debt but Georgia is so besotted with Beach that she agrees to make her brother wipe out what is owing if the butler will dance with her. Baxter finally leaves after most of the family have shot him with the air rifle - including Connie.

Freddie comes to Blandings with Paquita, a Portuguese night club dancer who speaks no English but whom he has married. Wrongly believing her to be a princess the snobbish Connie is impressed. She is less enamoured of the fact that her niece Gertrude wants to marry Beefy Bingham, a clumsy,penniless vicar, when Connie has set her sights on a wealthy husband for the girl. So Freddie passes him off as Beefy Popjoy,a rich suitor though Beefy's maladroitness lands Clarence in plaster.

Connie engages an officious secretary,Baxter, to organize Clarence but his aloof manner quickly offends Clarence and the staff so Clarence and butler Beach hide his precious ledger in the manure heap. At the same time Freddie hopes to impress new girlfriend Pandora by buying a lorry-load of dog food and selling it to Connie's canine loving friend Veronica. He stores the tins in the bedroom but their weight causes the ceiling to collapse - onto the freshly-manured Baxter,who departs in a huff.

Vindictive magistrate Sir Gregory Parsloe jails drunken Cyril Wellbeloved for a week,knowing that Cyril is the only person who can prepare the Empress of Blandings,prize sow of eccentric Clarence,Lord Emsworth,in time for the Shropshire Show. And if the Empress is not on top form Parsloe will win with his pig Her Majesty. Clarence's feckless son Freddie has money riding on the Empress's victory and is anxious to help whilst Parsloe's odious son Heacham is pursuing Clarence's daughter Angela,who is really in love with penniless Jimmy Belford.