Adaptation of Stella Gibbons's comic novel of the same name. Following the death of her parents, 20-year-old Flora Poste (Sarah Badel) finds herself alone with insubstantial means in 1930s London. Fascinated by the little she knows of her distant relatives the Starkadders of Cold Comfort Farm in Sussex, she goes to stay with her aunt Judith Starkadder (Rosalie Crutchley) and a colourful array of cousins. There she finds a variety of earthy, passionate relations, dominated by Great Aunt Ada Doom (Fay Compton) who long ago saw "something nasty in the woodshed" and now holds the rest of the household in thrall. Flora decides to put to rights the lives of all of them.
as Amos Starkadder
as Flora Poste
as Aunt Ada Doom (Starkadder)
as Judith Starkadder
as Reuben Starkadder
as Seth Starkadder
as Richard Hawk-Monitor
as Elfine Starkadder
as Urk Starkadder
as Narrator
as Mary Smiling
as Mr. Mybug
as Earl P. Neck
as Adam Lambsbreath
as Mrs. Agony Beetle
as Rennett Starkadder
as Charles Fairford
as Meriam
