The BEST episodes written by Peter Spence
#1 - The First Noel
To the Manor Born - Season 1 - Episode 8
Richard and Audrey compete in supplying the traditional Christmas crib to the village church, and the question soon becomes which offer is more ridiculous - her homemade monstrosity or his crassly commercial model?
Watch Now:Amazon
#2 - Up the Garden Path
Rosemary & Thyme - Season 2 - Episode 9
Rosemary and Laura are called to Rowfield to find out the cause of a mysterious blight, which only seems to affect the plants from gardens competing in the local open day competition. The competition is fierce between those after the first prize and the duo soon discover that the competitors are blaming each other for the troublesome blight. Suspecting the soil in each garden is being contaminated by weed killer as an act of sabotage, Rosemary and Laura discover the competitors will do anything to win, when they come across the dead body of last years winner Mr Westwood...
Watch Now:Amazon
#3 - Station Closing
To the Manor Born - Season 3 - Episode 2
When Audrey learns of plans to close the local railway station, she leads a protest to save it. Meanwhile, Richard plans to buy the site so he can tear down the station and build a new grocery store in its place.
Watch Now:Amazon
#4 - Never Be Alone
To the Manor Born - Season 2 - Episode 3
Audrey agrees to help Richard catalog his antique china collection, then becomes the prime suspect when a valuable piece goes missing.
Watch Now:Amazon
#5 - Vive Le Sport
To the Manor Born - Season 2 - Episode 6
Audrey learns firsthand the horrors of the national healthcare system when she injures her back and her private doctor refuses to treat her due to her unpaid bills, and refers her to the public clinic. Meanwhile, Richard, who's never skied in his life, learns the folly of pretending to the world that he's an expert on skis.
Watch Now:Amazon
#6 - Birds vs. Bees
To the Manor Born - Season 3 - Episode 4
Audrey becomes a beekeeper to raise needed money from selling the honey her bees produce, only to find her bees being eaten by a bird which turns out not only to be extremely rare, but also to draw hordes of birdwatchers from all over to come trampling across her property. Leave it to resourceful Audrey to again find a creative solution to triumph against the odds!
Watch Now:Amazon
#7 - The New Farm Manager
To the Manor Born - Season 2 - Episode 1
Richard sends Audrey over the edge yet again as he brings in an efficiency expert to try to modernize every aspect of the estate's management, and sending everything and everyone into varying states of chaos.
Watch Now:Amazon
#8 - Cosmetics
To the Manor Born - Season 3 - Episode 5
Richard must get Audrey to agree to pose as his wife for a weekend so he can fend off the amorous attentions of a cosmetics businesswoman who has decided to visit the estate.
Watch Now:Amazon
#9 - All New Together
To the Manor Born - Season 1 - Episode 2
The staff of Grantleigh Manor bid Audrey farewell with evident relief at her departure, only to find out the well kept secret of where she's moving--only a few hundred yards down the drive to the old gatekeeper's lodge, where she can still keep an eye on things and keep the new owner in his place.
Watch Now:Amazon
#10 - The Tree of Death
Rosemary & Thyme - Season 1 - Episode 6
Rosemary and Laura go to the village of Baffington where they are asked by the vicar to clean up the local churchyard in time for the upcoming Medieval Fayre. They soon meet Mr Danvers, a medieval times enthusiast who tells them about his plans to buy a local site called Brockett's farm but has competition for the land from drugs firm Knussens. At a village meeting to discuss the matter, the co-owner of Brockett's farm, the long lost Malcolm Sutton turns up, vowing not to sell the property. When Rosemary and Laura return to the churchyard the next day, they discover Malcolm under a yew tree, with an arrow through his chest...
Watch Now:Amazon
#11 - The Language of Flowers
Rosemary & Thyme - Season 1 - Episode 3
Rosemary and Laura are called to Vincent House Health Spa to rejuvenate 'The Dell' a water cascade designed by a women named Fenella Gothe, who has since died. Fearing they may not be able to get the water running again, they are surprised when Frances Caldecott, the owner of the site, requests a whole new plant arrangement to the one her late husband Edwin originally chose. Rosemary is given a book entitled 'The Language of Flowers' written by Edwin before he died, but not published until recently. In the book, Edwin has documented how different flowers can symbolize a range of actions and emotions. Laura and Rosemary are invited to dinner with Frances and her children Kate and Jeff. When Frances doesn't arrive, the party are shocked to find her strangled in her study...
Watch Now:Amazon
#12 - The Honours List
To the Manor Born - Season 2 - Episode 5
Richard upsets Audrey again, this time by proposing to cut down the estate's ancient hedgerows in order to increase the amount of farmable acreage, and Audrey leads a local protest to stop him.
Watch Now:Amazon
#13 - A Touch of Class
To the Manor Born - Season 1 - Episode 7
Richard is chosen to star in a tv commercial as the quintessential English gentleman enjoying spirits at his country estate, but Audrey, who now knows Richard isn't English, reveals it to the producers and lands the starring role for herself.
Watch Now:Amazon
#14 - Scout Hut
To the Manor Born - Season 3 - Episode 1
Richard, leading the local Boy Scout troup, and Audrey, heading the local Girl Guides group, nearly come to blows as they compete for their troups' rights to use the building both groups must share.
Watch Now:Amazon
#15 - Horses vs. Cars
To the Manor Born - Season 3 - Episode 3
Unable to pay the repair bills for her ancient Rolls, Audrey decides to go everywhere by horse and carriage, much to the dismay of Richard, who has secretly bought her a tiny car to get around in.
Watch Now:Amazon
#16 - Connections in High Places
To the Manor Born - Season 3 - Episode 6
The stockholders of Richard's company conspire to throw him off the board of directors, and Audrey asks her rich uncle to help him fight off the threat.
Watch Now:Amazon
#17 - The Spare Room
To the Manor Born - Season 2 - Episode 2
Audrey gleefully sets up a blind date between Richard and an old school chum of hers who was always dumpy and unattractive, then does everything in her power to prevent it when she finds out that her old friend is now an attactive single woman who she fears might catch Richard's interest.
Watch Now:Amazon
#18 - The Summer Hunt Ball
To the Manor Born - Season 1 - Episode 5
Richard uses psychology to trick Audrey into organizing the annual Hunt Ball at Grantleigh, then becomes so distracted by ongoing business deals that he forgets to invite her to the Ball as his guest.
Watch Now:Amazon
#19 - Grape Vine
To the Manor Born - Season 1 - Episode 6
No longer able to afford an annual holiday to an exotic locale, Audrey pretends to leave for Spain while actually hiding inside the lodge with a sunlamp and Spanish language records.
Watch Now:Amazon
#20 - Nation's Heritage
To the Manor Born - Season 1 - Episode 4
Audrey is appalled at Richard's plans to remodel the Manor, including his removal of the old fireplaces, though she never especially liked them and only wants a chance to lecture him about respecting history and "put him in his place" yet again.
Watch Now:Amazon
#21 - Going to Church
To the Manor Born - Season 1 - Episode 3
Audrey berates Richard for failing to attend church at the Manor chapel on his first Sunday at Grantleigh, as well as lecturing him about other duties she feels he's failing to live up to as the new lord of the manor.
Watch Now:Amazon
#22 - Tramps and Poachers
To the Manor Born - Season 2 - Episode 4
A wandering itinerant laborer pits Audrey and Richard against each other in a contest to show that each is the most charitable towards him.
Watch Now:Amazon
#23 - Grantleigh
To the Manor Born - Season 1 - Episode 1
Newly-widowed Audrey fforbes-Hamilton, rejoicing in finding herself the sole owner of Grantleigh Manor Estate, is devastated to find out she must sell the estate to pay the debts left by her late husband, Marton.
Watch Now:Amazon