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	To the Manor Born - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Audrey fforbes-Hamilton (Penelope Keith) takes control of her ancestral home Grantleigh Manor shortly after death of her husband Marton fforbes-Hamilton (also her cousin), only to find that the estate is heavily in debt and that the creditors insist on selling the estate.
		The fictional manor and estate were stated as being near the equally fictional town of Marlbury in Somerset.
		Also, the lodge and the manor are within sight of each other in the programme: in reality there is two miles between the two.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/To_the_Manor_Born (742 words)

	AmericanHeritage.com / To the Manor Born
		But in 1688, the year before David’s death, the manor was annexed to East Hampton by the Assembly of New York and subjected to assessment for property taxes.
		Born on the island in 1820, she grew into a tall, dark, flirtatious young lady who dazzled the society balls of New York in winter and graced the elegant resort of Saratoga Springs in summer.
		Moving on to the social whirl of Washington, she was introduced to President John Tyler, the Virginia aristocrat and a recent widower.
	www.americanheritage.com /articles/magazine/ah/1975/6/1975_6_8.shtml (5518 words)

	Episode Descriptions - To the Manor Born
		But in the face of the demands of her late husband's creditors, she has to fight to maintain a family hold on the estate.
		Richard allows the traditional Hunt Ball to be held at the manor, but he is not pleased when Audrey refuses to organize it.
		As Audrey has not advertised her drop in status from Lady of the Manor, she is not keep to receive the visitor.
	www.bbcprograms.com /pbs/catalog/tothemanor/manodesc.htm (767 words)

	BBC - Comedy - Guide - To The Manor Born
		The Good Life elevated Penelope Keith from well-respected minor actress to the status of a fully-fledged star, and her next sitcom, To The Manor Born, proved to be equally as popular.
		To make matters worse, the new owner of the manor is a nouveau-riche businessman, Richard DeVere, a man of distant Czech ancestry whom Audrey views as rather common and vulgar because he made his millions in the wholesale grocery business.
		To The Manor Born finally appeared in its originally intended medium when BBC Radio 2 aired ten especially recorded episodes from 25 January to 29 March 1997, six being adaptations by Peter Spence of his television scripts, four being written expressly for the purpose.
	www.bbc.co.uk /comedy/guide/articles/t/tothemanorborn_7776370.shtml (506 words)

	Amazon.co.uk: To The Manor Born [1979]: Video (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
		To the Manor Born is another BBC sitcom from the genre's golden age, one that came to dominate the ratings during its initial three series run from 1979-80.
		These run from the start of Audrey's losing the manor through to her regaining the manor, along with the hand of Richard in marriage, but not by the means often expected throughout the series.
		To the Manor Born is a classic and unmistakably English sit-com, with all the whit and intelligence you'd expect of 'good old British humour'.
	www.amazon.co.uk /exec/obidos/ASIN/B00005NJFX (1693 words)

	To The Manor Born - Nostalgia Central (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
		She retains the gatekeeper's lodge on the end of the manor grounds and the two become uneasy neighbours.
		The exterior scenes of To The Manor Born were filmed on location at the 1,000 acre Cricket St Thomas estate in Somerset, with Grantleigh House being, in reality, Cricket House.
		From January to March 1997, 10 episodes (six adaptations and four specially written) of To the Manor Born were broadcast on BBC Radio 2, with Keith and Thorne reprising their roles, with Keith Baron stepping in as Richard DeVere.
	www.nostalgiacentral.com /tv/comedy/tothemanorborn.htm (343 words)

	DVD.net : To the Manor Born - The Complete Series One - DVD Review
		Grantleigh Manor, the ancestral home of her husband's family for the past 400 years, is mortgaged to the last escutcheon.
		And, more significantly, a life when she is no longer running the Manor, its grounds, and pretty well the entire neighbouring village.
		Yes, To the Manor Born is totally snobbish and hideously class and status ridden.
	www.dvd.net.au /review.cgi?review_id=4096 (1066 words)

	cookbook (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
		In the U.S.A. 'To The Manor Born' by Peter Spence was published by St. Martin's press in 1979.
		When Peter Spence the creator and writer of To The Manor Born was typing the draft copy of the original radio pilot he made a typing error.
		TTMB was sold all over the world to many different countries.
	homepages.which.net /~roger.still/countylibrary.htm (874 words)

	To The Manor Born (Guide) (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
		Unfortunately, her solicitor tells her that the manor will have to be sold to pay off all of the debts left by Martin.
		Audrey is determined not to lose the manor, so she raises money from relatives to cover the cost of buying Grantleigh when it comes up for auction.
		She doesn't raise quite enough money, however, and the manor is bought by a businessman named Richard de Vere.
	www.phill.co.uk /comedy/manor/guide.html (768 words)

	To the Manor Born
		As beneficiary of Grantleigh Manor, the snobbish Lady fforbes-Hamilton becomes a happy widower upon the death of her husband.
		But in the face of her late husband's creditors, bank, and the government, she can no longer afford to maintain the family's hold on the estate.
		Audrey is annoyed at her new position on the estate, and she is forced to move, with butler, to the Manor lodge.
	www.bbcprograms.com /pbs/catalog/tothemanor/manomain.htm (154 words)

	British Sitcom Guide - To The Manor Born - Characters (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
		Richard DeVere was born Bedrich Polouvicki, son of a Czechoslovakian mother and Polish father.
		The Rector of Grantleigh is delighted when Audrey loses the Manor; he's only sorry she doesn't leave the neighbourhood altogether.
		After she loses the Manor, Audrey is forced to endure lectures on equality, along with being called "dear" and presented with the "please do not ask for credit" sign: something that is whisked away as soon as Richard appears.
	www.british-sitcom.co.uk /manor_born/characters.shtml (1129 words)

	British Sitcom Guide - To The Manor Born (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
		In this sitcom Penelope Keith plays another snob (as she did so well in "The Good Life") and proves to be just as popular.
		When first shown, "To the Manor Born" attracted huge viewing figures - as many as 24 million watched the love between the pair slowly grow.
		Many now would find the sitcom a little slow with jokes few and far between however it can't be denied that TTMB appealed to a huge chunk of the previous generation and represents the golden age of gentle, warm traditional English comedy.
	www.sitcom.co.uk /manor_born (162 words)

	To the Manor Born
		The premise and the consequences are ultimately not so distinct from the logic of The Bell Curve, the volume that Bellow edited at the pinnacle (or nadir) of his career until now.
		We need to square our meritocratic values with a realization that some people really do deserve the manor to which they are born.
		Bellow's talk of giving the powers of the state back to the family may be as benign-sounding as "a thousand points of light." But let's at least be clear about what it really means.
	www.mclemee.com /id29.html (898 words)

	To the Manor Born TV Show - To the Manor Born Television Show - TV.com
		Forced to sell Grantleigh Manor, which has been in her family for 400 years, she graciously adjusts to her new circumstances in The Lodge at the edge of the estate.
		The staff of Grantleigh Manor bid Audrey farewell with evident relief at her departure, only to find out the well kept secret of where she's moving--only a few hundred yards down the drive to the old gatekeeper's lodge, where she can still keep an eye on things and keep the new owner in his place.
		Meanwhile, to her complete surprise and delight, Audrey finds herself the main beneficiary of her uncle's will and is able to secretly buy Grantleigh back at the auction that's held to sell it off for the second time...
	www.tv.com /to-the-manor-born/show/8026/summary.html (286 words)

	From the Manor Born: Atop Barneburg Hill, the view keeps expanding - August 22, 2004
		The Manor’s impressive towers atop Barneburg Hill dominate the Bear Creek Valley, and its expansive campus covers 608 acres.
		Nonprofit Pacific Retirement Services was born out of the need for tighter control of the Rogue Valley Manor Corp.’s far-flung influence in 1991 to create, develop, and manage retirement communities, affordable-housing facilities and charitable foundations.
		If the Manor’s turning point came with Becker’s hire, its growth era can be traced back to the creation of PRS in 1991.
	www.mailtribune.com /archive/2004/0822/biz/stories/01biz.htm (1959 words)

	The Mavens' Word of the Day
		I'm wondering about the phrase "to the manor (manner) born." I have always been under the impression "manor" is the original, and correct word, signifying a person who naturally understood or readily adapted to highfalutin' ways.
		The common variant to the manor born is found chiefly in the sense 'being a member of the upper class', that is, born on a landed estate.
		Since the "manor" variant is perfectly sensible (more sensible in this meaning than the "manner" version, in fact) and is phonetically identical to the Shakespearean original, it is no surprise that this has become widespread.
	www.randomhouse.com /wotd/index.pperl?date=19990721 (408 words)

	to the manor born (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
		“As if to the manner born” is used to praise someone’s skill: “Reginald drives the Maserati as if to the manner born” (as if he were born with that skill).
		“To the Manor Born” was the punning title of a popular BBC comedy, which greatly increased the number of people who mistakenly supposed the original expression had something to do with being born on a manor.
		Perhaps because of the poetically inverted word order in “manner born” the expression tends to occur in rather snooty contexts.
	www.wsu.edu /~brians/errors/manor.html (144 words)

	To The Manor Born - The British Comedy Club
		When her husband Martin dies, Audrey fforbes-Hamilton is made sole owner of her beloved Grantleigh Manor.
		To her horror, Martin has left her bankrupt and the manor must be sold to pay off debts.
		Fireplaces are removed to reveal older hearths that are, in turn, covered up again at the manor and the lodge.
	www.rmpbs.org /britcom/manor_ep.html (388 words)

	Telegraph \| Sport \| Ferguson: to the Manor born (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
		For a manager who was to win the Champions League, eight Premiership titles and five FA Cups, as well as gaining a knighthood, a 2-0 league defeat at Oxford United's Manor Ground on a rainy afternoon in November 1986 hardly seemed an auspicious start to Alex Ferguson's Manchester United reign.
		It was a gloomy welcome in every sense for Ferguson, who had previously been in charge of Scotland and had taken Aberdeen to success in the European Cup-Winners' Cup.
		Ferguson's United arrived at the Manor, an archaic football ground from another era, without his injured captain, Bryan Robson.
	www.telegraph.co.uk /sport/main.jhtml?xml=/sport/2004/11/17/sfnfer17.xml (576 words)

	To The Manor Born - VHS - Title T Shopping at dooyoo.co.uk
		To The Manor Born epitomised this though it was very successful in its own way.
		To the Manor Born was a very successful BBC sitcom first screened between 1979 and 1981.
		The show is set around Grantleigh Manor, and opens as Audrey Fforbes-Hamilton (Penelope Keith), the lady of the manor, has just lost her husband, Martin.
	www.dooyoo.co.uk /vhs-title-t/to-the-manor-born (268 words)

	TO THE MANOR BORN (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
		Audrey Fforbs-Hamilton enjoys all the little luxuries that a women of her standing and ancestry might expect, that is until her husband dies and the death duties force her to sell Grantleigh Manor, and move into the coach house, only retaining her faithful butler, Brabinger.
		The Manor is bought by a successful business man, Richard De Vere, and at first audrey resents him for taking her place, but secretly likes him.
		To The Manor Born Acorn Media have released the entire first series of this classic comedy on a double DVD priced £24.99.
	www.britishcomedy.org.uk /comedy/manorborn.htm (281 words)

	WOFF - Vintage Radio - To the Manor Born (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
		Peter Spence originally wrote To the Manor Born for radio.
		After the pilot was made, it was decided that the programme would be better suited to television.
		The scripts were rewritten, changing the new owner of the manor into a “businessman of Czech origin” in the process.
	homepage.mac.com /woffradio/classic-TMB.html (198 words)

	To the Manor Born - episode guide - tv serie
		But although it was recorded, the show never aired, and it was only after the premise had been novelised that it finally arrived on TV, with the American element dropped and Christopher Bond on board to help translate the idea for the small-screen.
		To the Manor Born - The Complete Series.
		This is just one of the items that you can find in To the Manor Born Merchandise
	www.kartelle.com /episodes/tothemanor (326 words)

	To the Manor Born-Series 1 (1979)
		For example, Peter Spence is married to the daughter of the family that lived in the manor that features in the show.
		Audrey does Richard a favour and helps him to purchase a horse for the manor and in gratitude he has one of the removed fireplaces installed in the lodge.
		Shadow detail is good for both media but there is some low level noise triggered both by the grain and the video noise.
	www.michaeldvd.com.au /Reviews/Reviews.asp?ReviewID=4755&SID=2&PID=226832 (1365 words)

	ABC Shop - To the Manor Born - Series 1
		She may not have been royalty but Penelope Keith was majestic in the classic BBC 1980s comedy, To the Manor Born.
		A classic tale of riches to rags, To the Manor Born traces the fortunes of the widowed Audrey as she adjusts to life without wealth or dominion.
		Meanwhile dashing supermarket magnate Richard DeVere (played by Peter Bowles) takes over the Manor but doesn’t give the traditions of the English countryside quite the same reverence as the former Lady, and swords cross frequently as a result.
	shop.abc.net.au /browse/product.asp?productid=726516&promoid=162 (205 words)

	To The Manor Born (Summary/Cast)
		Audrey fforbes-Hamilton (Penelope Keith) is looking forward to taking sole charge of the Grantleigh Manor estate after the death of her husband.
		Unfortunately, the Manor has to be sold to cover outstanding debts.
		The new owner is Richard De Vere (Peter Bowles), the Managing Director of a major supermarket chain.
	www.phill.co.uk /comedy/manor (74 words)

	To the manor born: A region's best addresses - The Boston Globe
		To the manor born: A region's best addresses - The Boston Globe
		Quite a lot when it involves an address in one of the South Shore's most desirable neighborhoods.
		The list includes Canterbury Village, she said, with its stone and stucco houses built in the English manor style.
	www.boston.com /news/local/articles/2005/10/16/to_the_manor_born_a_regions_best_addresses (832 words)

	To The Manor Born - The British Comedy Club
		Her attempt to buy back Grantleigh Manor is foiled by a supermarket tycoon named Richard De Vere.
		From the Lodge at the edge of the property, Audrey keeps an active role in the affairs at Grantleigh Manor even while she adjusts to her new, less exalted position.
		A scheme to reclaim her ancestral house is never far from her mind.
	www.krma.org /britcom/manor.html (133 words)

	Re: "of the manor born"
		In Reply to: Re: "of the manor born" posted by ESC on April 09, 2001
		Developers often give ritzy names to streets to make the area sound swank.) But "manor born" is a pun on the original phrase:
		: THE MANNER BORN - "Though I am native here and to the manner born, it is a custom more honored in the breach than in the observance." Hamlet by William Shakespeare.
	www.phrases.org.uk /bulletin_board/8/messages/488.html (339 words)

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