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The Best Episodes of The Darling Buds of May Season 2

Every episode of The Darling Buds of May Season 2 ranked from best to worst. Discover the Best Episodes of The Darling Buds of May Season 2!

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An idyllic picture of 1950's rural England as seen through the lives of the Larkins, a farm family living in Kent. The show revolves around Pa Larkin, a man of a kind and mischievous nature

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  1. #1 Fan Favorite
    The Darling Buds of May Season 2 Episode 7 - Le Grand Weekend
    8.5/10(85 votes)

    S2:E7

    Ma decides she and Pop should have a second honeymoon after she wins a competition prize of a weekend away in Paris.

    Director:Gareth Davies
    Writer:Unknown

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  2. The Darling Buds of May Season 2 Episode 1 - Oh! To Be in England (1)
    8.3/10(84 votes)

    S2:E1

    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.

    Director:David Giles
    Writer:Richard Harris

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  3. The Darling Buds of May Season 2 Episode 2 - Oh! To Be in England (2)
    8.3/10(76 votes)

    S2:E2

    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.

    Director:David Giles
    Writer:Richard Harris

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  4. The Darling Buds of May Season 2 Episode 4 - Stranger at the Gates (2)
    8.2/10(82 votes)

    S2:E4

    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.

    Director:Steve Goldie
    Writer:Richard Harris

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  5. The Darling Buds of May Season 2 Episode 3 - Stranger at the Gates (1)
    8.1/10(81 votes)

    S2:E3

    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.

    Director:David Giles
    Writer:Richard Harris

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  6. The Darling Buds of May Season 2 Episode 5 - A Season of Heavenly Gifts (1)
    8.0/10(81 votes)

    S2:E5

    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.

    Director:Robert Tronson
    Writer:Richard Harris

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  7. The Darling Buds of May Season 2 Episode 6 - A Season of Heavenly Gifts (2)
    8.0/10(71 votes)

    S2:E6

    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.

    Director:Robert Tronson
    Writer:Richard Harris

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Season 2 Ratings Summary

"Le Grand Weekend" is the best rated episode of "The Darling Buds of May" season 2. It scored 8.5/10 based on 85 votes. Directed by Gareth Davies and written by Unknown, it aired on 12/26/1992. This episode is rated 0.2 points higher than the second-best, "Oh! To Be in England (1)".