It serves as both a sequel and a spin-off of the long-running sitcom Only Fools and Horses and stars John Challis, Sue Holderness, and Jack Doolan.

The series follows three supporting characters from Only Fools and Horses: Boycie (John Challis), his wife Marlene (Sue Holderness), and their teenage son Tyler.

In an attempt to save his life, Boycie and his wife, Marlene (Sue Holderness) and son, Tyler (Jack Doolan) move overnight to the agricultural town of Oakham, Shropshire, along with their pet Rottweiler, Earl.

[1] The situation focuses primarily on their attempts to run the farm efficiently through utilising the current staff consisting of the farm manager Elgin Sparrowhawk (David Ross), herdsman Bryan (Ivan Kaye), ploughman Jed (Peter Heppelthwaite) and housecleaner Imelda Cakeworthy (Ella Kenion).

As the series progresses, Boycie and Marlene began to settle into their surroundings, however, situations occasionally arise – usually involving their irritable Welsh neighbour, Llewellyn.

The elitist in Boycie is often his own hindrance, as he found out when he attended the Agricultural Ball in 2005, where his photo was taken and published in a magazine that stated where he would be that Christmas.

However, luck ensured that Boycie remained at home when he was snowed in and missed his plane, thus not getting scammed by con artists and not getting murdered by the Driscoll brothers, who had travelled to meet him.

As the series progressed further, Boycie started to use artificial fertiliser on his organic farm, applied to be mayor, fired Mrs Cakeworthy, only to rehire her and, to Marlene's disdain, became obsessed with Tyler's promiscuous French exchange.

He also ended up naked in front of Tyler's girlfriend through a massage gone wrong, and took part in a pub quiz, in which a £10,000 bet with Llewellyn – of his own money – was up for grabs.

[2] In 2006, a whole year after they escaped, Boycie allowed Marlene to invite her sister Petunia up to stay; she was, however, followed by the Driscoll brothers, without anyone knowing.

However, they cannot return to Peckham due to a deal between the Driscoll brothers and Boycie – he would allow them to bury a secret item (later revealed to be 5 million Spanish pesetas in cash) on his land and he must protect it.

The departure of Lisa Diveney as Beth was then filled with the arrival of Samantha Sutherland, who played Sara, Tyler's new girlfriend.

Boycie fell in fear of the Driscoll brothers once more when they turned up at The Grange and machine gunned his front door down when he refused to answer it.

[8] Location shooting of Boyce's farm was recorded at John Challis' own home at the time, near Leintwardine, on the Herefordshire/Shropshire border, and the surrounding area.

However, John Sullivan wanted a theme tune that explained the obscure title (as with Only Fools and Horses) and reasons for the characters' sudden dash.

The end credits occasionally appeared over continuing footage ("Home Brew"), or a slideshow of photographs ("For Richer For Poorer") or a shot of a river, forest or part of Winterdown Farm.

She is a cheerful, slightly daft, optimistic person who is speculated to have had an ongoing affair with Del which resulted in the birth of Tyler.

One of his appearances in Only Fools and Horses was in the episode "The Jolly Boys' Outing", in which Uncle Albert told him one of his many war stories.

He always carries his briefcase with a string shoulder strap around with him, to help remind people that he is still farm manager, even though it looks empty on occasions.

[13] He has said on occasions that she dislikes him, and at one point he started to have his mail redirected to Boycie's house just to ensure that she does not find out that he is still living there.

Whenever she has her back turned, he is copping an eyeful; on one occasion he went as far as to dive across to kitchen floor in an attempt to woo an unsuspecting Marlene.

Jed's workload has also been known to expand from ploughman to various other areas of expertise, such as in the episode "Home Brew" when he gets involved in Ye Potato Cyder business.

First, Tyler showed no interest in supporting her horse racing protests, then he put meat before her, and, to top things off, she peers through the window to see Boycie completely naked, thanks to Earl, in Mother Earth.

The first guest star was in the very first episode, Keep on Running which saw Denzil (Paul Barber), an Only Fools and Horses regular, warn Boycie about the Driscoll Brothers' release from prison and the fact that they know who grassed them up.

Occasionally guest actors were essential to the plot such as when Tyler fell in love with his school teacher, Rhian (Karen Paullada) and four con men tried to get Boycie to invest in a fictional polo club.

This included appearances from Sara Crowe, Liz Robertson, Roger Alborough and Matthew Marsh in the special, One Flew Over the Cuckoo Clock.

Other guest stars, essential to the plot included the Farm Inspector (David Cann) in the episode Testing Times, Simon (Ian Bonar) in Here's to You, Mrs Boyce and Laurence (Beatriz Romilly) in Schoolboy French.

Further guest appearances in the series included Paul Bown as Colin Cakeworthy,[14] Lucy Briers as the Doctor,[15] Fiona Bruce as herself in two separate episodes,[16][17] Jeremy Clyde as Tristram[18] and the Animal Protestors, as played by Danny Morgan and Tony Bignell.

Well-known actors who appeared in the program include Paula Wilcox who played Pertunia,[21] Marlene's sister, in the episode Brothers and Sisters, George Wendt who played Cliff Cooper,[22] a rich American soldier revisiting old haunts, in the 2007 Christmas special, The Special Relationship and June Whitfield (details above) as Dora.

The first, aired 2005, was 50 minutes in length and featured a guest appearance from The Driscoll Brothers (Roy Marsden and Christopher Ryan).