TV series · 1968
Cold Comfort Farm
First aired 22 June 1968 TMDB ↗
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.
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Fay Compton
as Aunt Ada Doom (Starkadder)
Rosalie Crutchley
as Judith Starkadder
Hazel Coppen
as Mrs. Agony Beetle
Aubrey Morris
as Mr. Mybug
Freddie Jones
as Urk Starkadder
Joan Bakewell
as Narrator
Brian Blessed
as Reuben Starkadder
Fionnula Flanagan
as Mary Smiling
Sarah Badel
as Flora Poste
