The story of Peggy Sawyer, a talented young performer with stars in her eyes who gets her big break on Broadway.

A salesman tries to juggle the stress of his job with his increasing alcoholism, while his long hours away from home mean his family life has all but collapsed in the quest for sales.

Set during the 1960s in the fictional North Yorkshire village of Aidensfield, this enduringly popular series interweaves crime and medical storylines.

The lives of several families in the Yorkshire Dales revolve around a farm and the nearby village. With murders, affairs, lies, deceit, laughter and tears, it's all there in the village.

Anne struggles to the point of exhaustion to keep her small fruit and vegetable farm going. After her husband Harry left her and Cornwall to devote himself to his new lover and the Ministry of Agriculture in London, she has to take care of everything on her own. Including her teenage daughter Jamie, who is a talented footballer, and her mother Molly, who is fed up with her life as a hard-working farmer and is less and less able to help. But then an unexpected gift suddenly arrives on the doorstep: John, Lady Sally's butler. She is Molly's sister, who broke off contact with the family after her marriage to the diplomat Lord Trevenna. Sally, now widowed, wants to borrow her butler for six weeks. Anne is firmly against it. But Molly, who believes that her sister has lived the life she was entitled to, wants to make the most of the butler's services.