Cold Comfort Farm
tv show
3 total episodes
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1 seasons
First Aired June 22, 1968
Overview
Adaptation of Stella Gibbons's comic novel of the same name. Following the death of her parents, 20-year-old Flora Poste (Sarah Badel) finds herself alone with insubstantial means in 1930s London. Fascinated by the little she knows of her distant relatives the Starkadders of Cold Comfort Farm in Sussex, she goes to stay with her aunt Judith Starkadder (Rosalie Crutchley) and a colourful array of cousins. There she finds a variety of earthy, passionate relations, dominated by Great Aunt Ada Doom (Fay Compton) who long ago saw "something nasty in the woodshed" and now holds the rest of the household in thrall. Flora decides to put to rights the lives of all of them.
Cast
Alastair Sim
as
Amos Starkadder
Sarah Badel
as
Flora Poste
Fay Compton
as
Aunt Ada Doom (Starkadder)
Rosalie Crutchley
as
Judith Starkadder
Brian Blessed
as
Reuben Starkadder
Peter Egan
as
Seth Starkadder
Timothy Carlton
as
Richard Hawk-Monitor
Sharon Gurney
as
Elfine Starkadder
Freddie Jones
as
Urk Starkadder
Joan Bakewell
as
Narrator
Fionnula Flanagan
as
Mary Smiling
Aubrey Morris
as
Mr. Mybug