In 1901, a middle-class schoolboy whose parents are working abroad spends his summer in Bedfordshire with his great-uncle Silas. Though sixty years old, Silas relishes life—he’s a womaniser, drinker, and a poacher. At the prompting of his long-suffering housekeeper, Mrs Betts, he takes on the occasional odd job.
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Air Date: 2001-10-28
In the last years of Queen Victoria's reign, Ned, a middle-class schoolboy whose parents are working abroad, spends h...
Air Date: 2001-10-28
Silas takes Ned to decorate the Railway Hotel and is appalled to find that the landlord, once a jolly man, has become...
Air Date: 2001-11-04
On his way to see his solicitor to make a will Silas makes a detour to visit Mrs. Gadsby, a feisty, attractive middle...
Air Date: 2001-11-04
Whilst digging a grave in the local churchyard Silas meets the aristocratic Lady Sylvia, who, unknown to herself is t...
Air Date: 2001-11-11
Silas agrees to fight a much younger and fitter boxer known as the Gorilla, in a fairground side-show and plans to we...
Air Date: 2001-11-11
All is revealed when Silas takes a bath and tells Ned how years earlier, when he was a teenager, he was swimming nude...