My Uncle Silas(2001)

series - first aired/released 2001-10-28 - audience 8.5

Drama, Comedy, Family

Directed by Philip Saville, Tom Clegg

In 1901, a middle-class schoolboy whose parents are working abroad spends his summer in Bedfordshire with his great-uncle Silas. Though sixty years old, Silas relishes life—he’s a womaniser, drinker, and a poacher. At the prompting of his long-suffering housekeeper, Mrs Betts, he takes on the occasional odd job.