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The Darling Buds of May (1991-1993) series poster
Comedy · Drama

The Darling Buds of May

1991-1993 3 seasons 20 episodes
69 Pulse
7.8 IMDb
Long haul 20 hours
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Plot

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 with a penchant for getting into scrapes and talking his way out of them with equal equanimity; and his daughters, as they deal with growing up and discovering the joys and sorrows of young love.

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Credits

Directed by: David Giles, Robert Tronson, Rodney Bennett

Cast: David Jason, Pam Ferris, Catherine Zeta-Jones, Philip Franks, Stephanie Ralph, Rachel Bell

How the Pulse Score works

For series, Pulse starts from the IMDb rating shrunk by vote count, then applies FORMAT CALIBRATION. Series score systematically higher than films on IMDb, so using the raw number would unfairly push a show like The Darling Buds of May to the top of a film catalogue. Calibration maps the series distribution onto the film one; meaning 69 is COMPARABLE to a film with the same Pulse.

One more difference from films: Letterboxd does not track series, so series Pulse derives from a single source (IMDb) rather than two.

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