The Green Green Grass -The Complete Season One (2005)

S01E01 Keep on Running September 9, 2005   BBC One All is well in Peckham. Marlene is off to a health farm as Boycie rises to take the dog for a walk and their son Tyler is off to France for a school trip. It’s just another ordinary day in the Boyce household. Then Denzil arrives bringing news that the infamous Driscoll Brothers are being released early from prison and they’re on the hunt for the supergrass who helped get them banged up. Boycie is horrified. By the time Marlene and Tyler return, he’s sold the house, sold the car dealership and planned a new life in Shropshire. Reluctantly Marlene agrees to the move and Tyler is dragged with them. Moving day comes and once north of the safe confines of the Thames, they find themselves hopelessly lost and out of their depth. They eventually track down their new home and discover that “The Grange“ comes complete with some very strange characters.  S01E02 A Rocky Start September 16, 2005   BBC One Tyler is not impressed by his new surroundings in rural Shropshier and Marlene wants to return to Peckham. However, the only fools and horses car supremo, Boycie, warms to the idea of becoming a gentleman farmer - a role which involves doing little work and mingling with the country set. Meanwhile, Boycie’s manager. Elgin, pursuades him to retain all his staff and set about creating a working farm even if it means forking out £ on a bull.  S01E03 The Country Wife September 23, 2005   BBC One Boycie outs Marlene under pressure to fit in with the locals, so she decides to take up cookery, an idea which doesn’t go down to well with the family.  S01E04 Hay Fever September 30, 2005   BBC One Marlene allows Boycie to buy a maximum of six cows for the farm, but is less than impressed when Elgin, Jed and Bryan turn up with a herd of 300 claiming they were on special deal and Marlene has but one thing to say “what kind of offer? Buy six, get 294 free“. Meanwhile, The vet is called out when Rocky the bull fails to take notice of the females and Tyler prepares to sit a local private schools entrance exam.  S01E05 Pillow Talk October 7, 2005   BBC One Tyler may have received a wakeup call from the Driscoll Brothers. However, his first day at school provides him with a sudden interest in the works of Thomas Hardy. Marlene has trouble sleeping until Jed provides an unusual remedy  S01E06 Sex and the Country October 14, 2005   BBC One Marlene discovers the farmhands making a virility potion for Rocky the bull, and sneaks a dose into Boycie’s coffee. Tyler arouses suspicions when make up is found in his room, and his parents are relieved to be told he has a girl friend, untill they learn she is his teacher. SPECIAL 0x1 One Flew Over the Cuckoo Clock December 25, 2005   BBC One When the family are meant to go to ski resort, Boycie starts having nightmares of the Driscoll brothers coming to get him. Unfortunately all the snow outside stops them going to the ski resort. But luckily Boycie then finds out that the Driscoll Brothers were going to kill at that resort, and they then end up getting captured.