Season 10 (1974) 13 episodes
1924: “The Season With The Vampires.” The sinister and attractive Von Mont family move into the area, building a gothic castle on a nearby farm.
10A Mrs Merryday’s Meringues
10B A Vampire of Property
10C We Do Not Drink… Port
10D That Von Mont Woman
10E A Taste of The Good Life
10F Good Fences Make Good Neighbours
10G Dead Men’s Table Manners
10H Nosferatu
10I Unexpected Death
10J A Lovely Neck
10K Turbot Soup
10L Sleep By Day
10M Bat Among the Pigeons — The Wildegreen family are relieved when the Von Monts finally vacate the nearby farm. Sir Victor is alarmed to realise his stepson Ichabod went with them. He and Evans the chauffeur speed to London to stop Ichabod marrying Miss Scarlet, but they are too late. Gladioli discovers that Bones the butler is the vampire responsible for many of the recent murders! She agrees to keep his secret…
Season 11 (1975) 13 episodes
1925: “The Season With The Time Travellers.”
11A Boudicca’s Berry Blancmange — the legendary Queen of the Iceni (guest star: Britt Manning) appears in the grounds of Cramberleigh and befriends Gladioli the maid on the eve of the local village fair. Whose blancmange will win first prize?
11B Rasputin in Residence — another surprise time traveller arrives at Cramberleigh
11C The Wrong Viking
11D An Unexpected Guest
11E The Tables Turned
11F Time of the Traveller
11G Hons and Vandals
11H The Man in the White Toga
11I Timepiece
11J A Passage To Somewhere — the concept of time aisles is introduced
11K When We Were Very Late
11L Wildegreens at Waugh — Lucy demands a divorce
11M Who Invited Guy Fawkes? — The episode concludes with an explosion in the drawing room.
KILLED: Sir Victor Wildegreen, Rudolf Radcliffe, Aubrey Waugh, assorted other members of the household including family and servants.
SURVIVORS: Gladioli the maid, Evans the chauffeur, Lucy (“Mrs Waugh”), Lady Cradoc. Mr Bones the Butler is later revealed to have survived the explosion due to his vampire nature.
Absent family members such as Rosamund Radcliffe-Swythe, Ichabod Radcliffe and Abigail Wildegreen were later revealed to be still alive in 1977, though Rosamund only appears offscreen in phone calls to her granddaughter Sheena.)
Season 12 (1976) 13 episodes
Thrown forward fifty years in time, four survivors of the explosion find themselves in 1976. Cramberleigh is now the secret base of C Squad, British Intelligence.
12A A House Called Central — After going their separate ways and trying to start new lives in 1976, Gladioli, Evans and Lucy are eventually drawn back to Cramberleigh, and accept jobs in the secret service. Gladioli replaces the receptionist, working on behalf of their unseen boss, Agent A. Lady Cradoc, who refused to leave Cramberleigh in the first place, barricades herself in the pineapple parlour.
12B Four Spies and An Archaeologist — Lucy Waugh meets her step-great-niece Sheena Swythe, the secret agent assigned to train the new recruits in C Squad. Sheena and the mysterious Mr Knight take Lucy and Evans on an intensive on-the-job training weekend, where they uncover a sphinx-themed secret society, a sarcophagus-smuggling operation, and a cranky archaeologist in her 50s named Dr Abigail Wildegreen.
12C Hot Ice — Evans and his driving skills are put to the test as C Squad deal with a series of diamond heists around the Home Counties.
12D The Secret Silver Service — Lucy is assigned to assist Mr Knight on a top secret job, only to discover that Bones, her family’s former butler, is alive and well and working as a double agent. (“Alive” is an overstatement, he’s still a vampire.)
12E Sheena’s Day Out
