#french fields

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Go Fishing with John Wilson by John Wilson

French Fields: "Surprise, Surprise"

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Toujours Provence by Peter Mayle

French Fields: "The Merry, Merry Pipes"

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Sailing to Timbuctoo by John Marriner

French Fields: "Double or Quilt"

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“French Countryside”

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French Fields (Full TV Series) 1989 - 1991

Resuming the story three years later as William accepts a position with a French company and the series follows Hester (Julia McKenzie) and William (Anton Rodgers) as they move from London to Calais. The pair were regularly visited by their daughter Emma (Sally Baxter) and son-in-law Peter (Philip Bird). Much humor is also derived from their maid, an elderly woman who speaks an obscure, old dialect of French that no one understands. Other regular cast members included their French real-estate agent Chantal Moriac (Pamela Salem), who was also the Fields' neighbour to the left, and snobbish English couple Hugh (Robin Kermode) and Jill (Liz Crowther) Trendle, the neighbours to the right. Hester and William also coped with Madame Remoleux (Valerie Lush), the unintelligible, ancient, and generally useless (but unsackable) French cleaner who lived on and cared for the estate, "Les Hirondelles," ("Swallows" in English) where they all lived. Also popping in regularly were local farmer and mayor Monsieur Dax (Olivier Pierre in series 1 and 2 and Philip McGough in series 3) and his cheeky daughter Marie-Christine (Victoria Baker), to whom Hester did her best to teach English. Nicholas Courtney also appeared frequently as the estate's owner, the Marquis. Ann Beach, who played Sonia in Fresh Fields, made a guest appearance in the final episode, in which Hester and William decide to return to their former UK home. Written by John T. Chapman (who created and wrote all the episodes of Fresh Fields) and Ian Davidson.