The Darling Buds of May is a British comedy drama first broadcast between 1991 and 1993. It was produced by Yorkshire Television for the ITV network. It is set in an idyllic rural 1950s Kent, among a large, boisterous family. The three series were based on novels by H. E. Bates. Yorkshire TV called it a drama but it has been considered a comedy.
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