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The Larkins (2021)
- TV comedy drama
- ITV1
- 2021 - 2022
- 13 episodes (2 series)
Adaptation of H.E. Bates's novels about the eccentric, rural Larkin family, starring Bradley Walsh and Joanna Scanlan. Also features Sabrina Bartlett, Tok Stephen, Peter Davison, Barney Walsh, Kriss Dosanjh and more.
Episode menu
Series 2, Episode 1 - Bad Neighbours
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Series 2 overview
Pop, Ma and their many children including Baby Oscar are preparing for another riotous school holidays. Only Mariette is missing, zigzagging across Europe on her honeymoon with Charley.
Primrose is leaving school and planning a career as a journalist. With Ma's help she lands a job at The Mid Kent Times. She's also looking for love which comes in the handsome shape of Rev Candy, arriving in the parish much to the chagrin of gnarled old Vicar who is determined to exploit his new housemate.
The other newcomers are Pinkie Jerebohm, her waspish husband and their two dreadful children. They are determined to buy crumbling mansion Bluff Court from Pop Larkin but then regret paying such a high price. When Pop won't give them a refund the Jerebohms vow revenge... First by taking up shooting, increasingly loudly and then, with the help of Alec Norman, by entrapping Pop.
Other highlights of the series are several tumultuous gatherings of our village regulars including Pop-fanatic Miss Pilchester and local VIP Johnny Delamere. They include a barbecue, wheelbarrow race, funfair, and a mass christening in a swimming pool - all held on the Larkins' sunkissed Kent farm. Then the return from their honeymoon
Episode 1: Bad Neighbours
Pop Larkin hustles himself an offer he can't refuse from Pinkie and Mr Jerebohm for the huge crumbling mansion next door. It's a lucrative deal and there's enough profit to start building a swimming pool. Ma and Pop struggle to warm to their new neighbours after a hilariously dire dinner party at the big house. And despite the Larkins' typically upbeat efforts, it goes downhill from there, as the Jerebohms reach for their guns, are humiliated by Pop, and declare war.
Primrose is about to leave school and is set on a career as a journalist. She's also falling in love with the Rev Candy, newly arrived and locking horns with the tricky old Vicar. Primrose fearlessly asks the heavenly Reverend out and is shocked when he turns her down, but she's not giving up.
Broadcast details
- Date
- Sunday 16th October 2022
- Time
- 8pm
- Channel
- ITV1
- Length
- 60 minutes
Cast & crew
Bradley Walsh | Pop Larkin |
Joanna Scanlan | Ma Larkin |
Peter Davison | Vicar |
Barney Walsh | PC Harness |
Kriss Dosanjh | Brigadier |
Amelia Bullmore | Miss Edith Pilchester |
Seeta Indrani | Miss Chand |
Francesca Wilson Waterworth | Libby Fothergill |
Tony Gardner | Alec Norman |
Selina Griffiths | Norma Norman |
Lydia Page | Primrose Larkin |
Liam Middleton | Montgomery Larkin |
Lola Shepelev | Victoria Larkin |
Natalie Mitson | Pauline |
Maxim Ays | Reverend Ian Candy |
Julian Rhind-Tutt | Cuthbert Jerebohm |
Morgana Robinson | Phyllis 'Pinkie' Jerebohm |
Summer Miller | Zinnia Larkin |
Sienna Miller | Petunia Larkin |
Lucy Allix | Blanche Jerebohm |
Hector Bateman-Harden | Gilbert Jerebohm |
Arthur Devoy | Baby Oscar |
David Langham | Berndt |
Richard Sandling | Ivor |
Simon Nye | Writer |
Victoria Wicks | Script Consultant |
Andy de Emmony | Director |
Serena Cullen | Producer |
Ben Farrell | Executive Producer |
Sophie Clarke-Jervoise | Executive Producer |
Simon Nye | Executive Producer |
Toby Stevens | Executive Producer |
Bradley Walsh | Executive Producer |
Andy de Emmony | Executive Producer |
Paula Watkins | Line Producer |
William Webb | Editor |
Richard Drew | Production Designer |
Tracey Gillham | Casting Director |
Cressida Lewis | Costume Designer |
Matt Wicks | Director of Photography |
Jill Stansfield | Make-up Designer |
Nick Green | Composer |
Louis Bailey | Graphics |
Claire Grossmith | 1st Assistant Director |