Freddie talks quite a lot and you need a speed ... He is forever piling up gambling debts and having to come down to Blandings to try and squeeze some more money out of the family to carry on ...

Blandings is threatened by the return of dictatorial secretary ... It is not long before there is an outbreak of clandestine shooting and smarting buttocks. Meanwhile, Freddie returns to coax Clarence ...

The Duke of Dunstable (guest star Harry Enfield) - the most obnoxious man in England - has come to stay at Blandings. Not content with smashing the fixtures, he is determined to have Clarence ...

How has she ended up at Blandings? Her husband has died, so she's having to live with her brother and his ridiculous son Freddie. Because of primogeniture, Clarence has all the money and power ...

Jennifer Saunders felt totally at home returning to Crom Castle to film the second series of Blandings for BBC One ... we have the usual business of Freddie dangling girls around the house ...