Earnest young tax inspector Cedric Charlton visits the sizeable Larkin family at Home Farm in the countryside. They have not paid tax in an age and he has come to help them fill in their tax forms. However, they get him drunk and, intoxicated as he already is with the charms of the Larkins' eldest daughter Mariette, he decides to stay with them and share their rural idyll.

For 16 years Miss Bentley has been spending April at an elegant hillside villa on Lake Como. This year, 1937, her London society artist father has recently died and the only other English-speaking guests are brash Americans. Then Major Wilshaw arrives. He suggests they meet for cocktails and Miss Bentley stands him up -- not even thinking about it -- as she helps the new nanny of an Italian family settle in. Miss Beaumont, a tall, young American who has dropped out of finishing school in Switzerland, is bored and finds some amusement in flirting with the major, whose libido is awakened for the first time since before the great war. And Miss Bentley now finds more about the major to admire than his ears.

本剧根据H.E. Bates 同名小说改编。《窗外有蓝天》、《此情可问天》、《长日将尽》原班制作搭档再一经典之作！
这是一段发生在十九世纪末叶英格兰的爱情故事,一位女子无意中介入一家人的生活,并出人意料地决定嫁给其中的儿子。 但是,无法逃避的过去始终缠绕着她,曾经山盟海誓而最终弃她而去的情人又来到了她的身边,他的出现引起了一连串的事件……

科林尼特利制作、导演并改编了H.E.贝茨的短篇小说《可爱的农场》（The Little Farm）。小说讲述的是五十年代中期的一个中年男人的恋爱故事。奥勒夫（Rolf Lassgard）是一个四十岁的单身汉，从九年前母亲去世后，就独自一人居住在瑞典西部自家的农场上。他唯一的朋友以前是个水手，27岁，名叫埃瑞克（Johan Widerberg饰）。埃瑞克总爱在奥勒夫面前大讲自己的艳史，欺负奥勒夫宽厚老实。奥勒夫在报纸上登广告招聘管家，一个迷人的中年女子埃伦（Helena Bergstrom饰）应征而来。奥勒夫和埃瑞克都爱上了埃伦，而埃伦却爱上了奥勒夫，对埃瑞克并不信任。埃瑞克决心查明埃伦究竟是为什么来到这座边远之地的败农场的。 　　"在太阳底下"这部影片在三位主演的精湛演技和詹斯费歇尔（Jens Fischer）的经典摄影而著称。女主角海伦娜贝里斯特姆是导演的妻子。

This thirteen-part series explores just how painful love can be for young people. Would-be writer Edward Richardson is in love with heiress Lydia Aspen and wants her all to himself. Lydia professes to be in love with him, but her first love is excitement. There are several other young men who vie with Richardson for Lydia's affection, and she sends mixed signals to them all, playing them off against each other, sometimes with dire results. At least that's the way Richardson sees things, but it's not the whole story. Written by George S. Davis

1955 film by David Lean