My Uncle Silas

My Uncle Silas (2001) is a drama, comedy, family with 2 seasons created by H. E. Bates, rated 8.5/10.

In 1901, a middle-class schoolboy whose parents are working abroad spends his summer in Bedfordshire with his great-uncle Silas. Though sixty years old, Silas relishes life—he’s a womaniser, drinker, and a poacher. At the prompting of his long-suffering housekeeper, Mrs Betts, he takes on the occasional odd job.