Blott on the Landscape - Season 1 - Eps 3: Blackmail

Name: Eps 3: Blackmail
Released: 1985-02-20
Rating: 3.8

1985-02-20 • 60 min • ⭐ 7.5/10

Purporting to side with his wife, Sir Giles uses the compromising photos of Dundridge to dissuade him from his tunnel idea and to run the motorway through the alternative route, the new town of Otterton. Thus, at the resumed hearing, Dundridge leans on convenor Lord Leakham -using Lady Maud's threats to sue him for having her falsely imprisoned - to save the hall. He is, reluctantly, put in charge with supervising the construction of the new route. A grateful Lady Maud invites him to dinner and contrives to have him stay the night but, after being pursued by an amorous lady and shot at by Blott, "defending her honour", an irate and nude Dundridge vows to run the motorway through Handyman Hall after all.

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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