Sun, Nov 29, 1981
Richard's position at Cavendish Foods is saved but he still needs money to keep going after buying the Argentinian plant and feels that selling the manor is his only alternative. But Audrey has had a far-better reversal of fortune: Uncle Greville has died and left her a huge sum of money. This enables her to buy back the manor as its lady twice over, as she also proposes to Richard, who accepts.
Sun, Nov 15, 1981
Richard is about to sign a lucrative deal with cosmetics-firm boss Mademoiselle Dutoit, but to fend off her advances he claims to have a wife. When Marjory volunteers to impersonate 'her' for Dutoit's weekend stay, a previously-reluctant Audrey quickly jumps in, using the masquerade to have a few alterations made to the estate as the rightful lady of the manor. Richard's mother almost ruins the deception, but Mademoiselle Dutoit owns that she has known all along and is impressed by Audrey's apparent assumption of an alien role.
Tue, Dec 25, 1979
Audrey and Marjory follow family tradition by building a crib for the church although it's crudely assembled. Meanwhile, the vicar asks Richard, the new lord of the manor, to contribute one, but his is a far more commercial model. Both parties claim to prefer the other. On Christmas Day, Audrey and Marjory decline an invitation to the manor but are bored and relieved when Richard and his mother come to them.
Sun, Nov 11, 1979
To make himself appear more English, Richard decides to appear in a TV advert for Fontleroy's Old English Tonic, to be filmed at the manor and utilise Audrey's butler and Rolls-Royce. But when the film crew arrives, Audrey delights in telling the director that the manor is not Richard's ancestral home but her, and she appears in the advert herself instead of him.
Sun, Oct 19, 1980
With Marjory away on a theatrical residential course, Audrey is pleased when Richard asks her to help him catalogue his collection of valuable china. A recently-acquired vase worth 40,000 pounds goes missing and Audrey is the prime suspect until Richard's mother eventually admits the vase's fate.
Sun, Oct 21, 1979
When Audrey sees Richard throw out an Adam fireplace which he considers ugly, she lectures him on the need to preserve the nation's heritage, then mentions that her mantelpiece is very small. After she helps him buy a horse, she returns to the lodge to find that he has had the fireplace installed in her lounge as a thank-you gift.
Sun, Oct 26, 1980
Educated tramp Arthur Smith makes his annual visit to the manor, where Audrey had always looked out for him before. Though more concerned with the poachers who are stealing his pheasants, Richard agrees to house Arthur, but it's soon clear that Arthur is playing the couple against each other in their efforts to be the more charitable to him.
Sun, Nov 8, 1981
Audrey takes up beekeeping and starts to do well selling her own honey until a rare bird turns up at Grantleigh. She's not happy because it's a bee-eater, but its rarity and its protected-species status ensure that people will flock to see it--providing Audrey with a steady flow of customers for her honey.