Blott on the Landscape - Season 1 - Eps 1: A Phone Call

Name: Eps 1: A Phone Call
Released: 1985-02-06
Rating: 3.8

1985-02-06 • 60 min • ⭐ 7.5/10

Sir Giles and Lady Maud Lynchwood are not the most happily married of aristocrats. She wants an heir but he cheats on her with incompetent dominatrix Mrs Forthby. The pair agree to divorce but, to stop Maud hanging onto her ancestral home Handyman Hall Giles approaches the Ministry of Transport, suggesting the house be demolished to make way for a motorway. At a public meeting Lady Maud, supported by Blott, her gardener, whips up local support against the motorway, leading to a riot with the destruction of buildings and her ultimate arrest.

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About Blott on the Landscape

Title: Blott on the Landscape

First Air Date: 1985-02-06

Last Air Date: 1985-03-13

Status: Ended

Rating: 7.5/10 (from 2 votes)

Language: EN

Seasons: 1

Total Episodes: 6

Network: BBC Two

Genres: Comedy

Production Companies: BBC, Picture Partnership Productions

Synopsis

A thwarted Lady Maud runs off to her solicitor to start divorce proceedings and that gives Sir Giles his bright idea-why not run the proposed bypass for the area through their very own Cleene Gorge, thereby wrecking Lady Maud's ancestral home and copping rather a lot of compensation from the government to boot? Witness the frolics of the bumbling dundridge - the Y-front clad man from the ministry, Sir Giles' versatile Mrs Forthby - Mediterranean harlot and naughty schoolgirl extraordinaire, not forgetting Blott himself, gardener and mystery man, casting his enigmatic eye over the eccentricities of the great British aristocracy... Starring, George Cole, Geraldine James, David Suchet, Simon Cadell and Julia McKenzie