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The Darling Buds of May Season 2 Episodes
Season 2 Episode Guide
7 Episodes 1992 - 1992
Episode 1
Oh! To Be in England: Part 1
50 mins
Mariette gives birth to a boy, John Blenheim, and, when the vicar, Reverend Candy, comes to see about the christening, he persuades the Larkins to have all their children baptised. Primrose takes an immediate shine to the young parson. Pop buys some jumble from elderly Mrs. Meredith and comes up against her nephew, Captain Broadbent, who accuses Pop of swindling his aunt when, in fact, Broadbent is the swindler, anxious to get his hands on his aunt's antique vase. Pop plays him at his own game, making him pay over the odds for the vase and giving Mrs. Meredith the takings but Charley is less successful with his venture into scrap-dealing.
Episode 2
Oh! To Be in England: Part 2
50 mins
Pop comes across a fun-fair owned by his friend Fruity Pears, though it is losing money. Fruity tells off two teddy boys for causing trouble and they attack and hospitalize him, also injuring Pop. Mademoiselle Dupont arrives to be a godmother at the christenings and is initially upset to find that Pop is not a lord, but he apologizes and she ends up having an enjoyable stay. Pop buys the fun-fair and installs it in his yard where everyone celebrates after the church service. The teddy boys return but the Reverend Candy shows off his judo prowess and sends them packing, before taking a stroll with the adoring Primrose. Everyone else stuffs themselves with strawberries, left over from Charley's latest failed business venture.
Episode 3
Stranger at the Gates: Part 1
50 mins
Whilst Pop buys the adjacent quarry to stock as a trout farm and Charley considers buying a hop farm to supply the local brewery the main news in the village is the arrival of Pieter, a handsome Dane who endears himself to everyone - except perhaps Charley who is resentful of his wife's enthusiasm - with his willingness to work and his skill as a jack of all trades. Until, that is, Charley inadvertently exposes him as being a German, who pretends to be Danish to field hostility following the war. The Larkins all stand by him but the other villagers are hostile forcing Pieter to move on.
Episode 4
Stranger at the Gates: Part 2
50 mins
Whilst the Larkins and John Candy shame some of the villagers into accepting Pieter for himself Charley and Mariette track him down and return him to the farm. They discover that he can stay in England if he marries an English girl and he does have a girlfriend, Eileen, but she feels tied to her selfish, supposedly invalid mother. However the Larkins persuade her to act for herself and she arrives at Home Farm to marry Pieter, now a village hero after rescuing one of the bigot's bullying son from falling in the quarry. Primrose, however, ends her infatuation with the young vicar when she mistakes his visiting sister for his girlfriend.
Episode 5
The Season of Heavenly Gifts: Part 1
50 mins
When ex-fighter pilot 'Honey' Honeyman crash lands in a field near Home Farm he asks Pop to deliver some boxes to his drinking club, the Ace of Clubs. He says they contain kitchen utensils but he has been smuggling drink over from France. The hop garden is Charley's if he can find the cash but ruthless property developer Marcus Cope tries to bribe him into letting him have it. Charley refuses. Cope is present at the Ace of Clubs where Ma, Pop, Charley and Mariette are 'Honey's guests. When the Larkins get home they find a bag full of money in their car. It was hidden there by a burglar on the run who was apparently on his way to see Cope at the club before he was arrested. Charley feels they should tell the police but Pop says they should sleep on it until they hear anything further.
Episode 6
The Season of Heavenly Gifts: Part 2
50 mins
Pop and Ma go to an open day at their son Monty's Naval Training College, where Pop publicly humiliates a bullying instructor who has been making Monty's life a misery. Charley gets his gun to see off Cope's thugs when they try to destroy the hop-garden, for which he has now got his bank loan to purchase. They return when Cope learns that Pop has got the money from the burglary, which he bank-rolled. They lock Pop in his barn whilst they search the house but he escapes and catches up with Ma, Mariette and Charley, who are setting out on a Ban the Bomb march. They rally all the protesters to drive the heavies away and, after Cope is arrested, Pop gets a reward of three thousand pounds. Monty arrives to say he has his first posting on a ship to Australia.
Episode 7
Le Grand Weekend
51 mins
Pop and Ma have won a trip to Paris, so they leave Charley and Mariette in charge of the farm and kids. A storm breaks out, meaning that no airplane can take off, so Pop and Ma's group is stuck in England. Though the rest of the group is very disappointed, and Cynthia, who is responsible for the trip, is at a loss what to do, but Pop saves the day by finding a "chateau" in which he organizes a French party. After having a lot of fun and helping an old couple to revive the flame, Pop and Ma go back to the farm, only to find that a foal is born during the week-end.