Tom buys an old-fashioned range for their kitchen from a passing rag-and-bone man, but Barbara becomes irate when she ends up doing most of the hard work to get it ready for use, while he tries to make a system for scaring the birds off their crops.

• Esmonde and Larbey
• Bob Larbey
• John Esmonde

• Timothy Bateson
• Richard Briers
• Philip Madoc