Kingdom - Season 1 (2007)

Mr. and Mrs. Forshaw engage Peter in a case of discrimination when their daughter Laura is refused a place at Cambridge, bringing him into contact with his former tutor Professor Barkway. Gloria fails to show up for work, a squirrel gets into the attic, Beatrice is pining for Alan, and of course there's the ever-present Sidney Snell, with his cunning plan to stop the gas company building on grazing land, whilst more information about Simon's nefarious dealings comes to light.

With Gloria still away Beatrice takes over the running of the office and, especially in view of her disastrous efforts last time, proves very competent, even getting Sidney to help. Lyle helps Herb Griffiths acquire a field in which to keep his prize-winning horse and things turn ugly when the horse disappears and travellers are blamed. Peter gets involved in a marital case involving Mr. and Mrs. Collins. He likes wearing women's clothes and, unlike his wife, can see nothing wrong in it, so it takes all of Peter's resources to come up with a solution. Hill returns, in...

Mr. Narbutowicz, an elderly Polish man who has survived a concentration camp, comes to see Peter,as the council want to evict him in view of all the rubbish in his house. Peter gives the case to Lyle who acquits himself well. With Gloria back at work Beatrice makes efforts to befriend her by suggesting that they do 'girly' things together, a suggestion met with some wariness. Peter judges the rudest shaped vegetable at the church fete - where Mrs. Thing is persuaded to leave her money to the church - but a ruder shock is in store for him when Honor, Simon's girlfriend...