Land Girls: Story, Cast and Series Facts

Story and premise

Follow the lives, loves and highs and lows of four members of the Women's Land Army who are working at the Hoxley Estate during World War II.

Land Girls is a British television period drama series, first broadcast on BBC One on 7 September 2009. Land Girls was created by Roland Moore and commissioned by the BBC to commemorate the 70th anniversary of the outbreak of World War II. The programme was BBC Daytime's first commission of a period drama. Land Girls was filmed in and around the city of Birmingham. The first series features Summer Strallen, Christine Bottomley, Jo Woodcock and Becci Gemmell as four different girls doing their bit for Britain in theWomen's Land Army during the War.

Land Girls won the "Best Daytime Programme" at the 2010 Broadcast Awards and in that same year the BBC announced that it had commissioned a second series, comprising five episodes. Woodcock and Gemmell reprised their roles as Bea and Joyce and Seline Hizlimade her debut as new girl, Connie Carter. The second series began airing from 17 January 2011 and two months later BBC Daytime Controller, Liam Keelan, renewed Land Girls for a third series. It began airing from 7 November 2011.

Series details

• Title: Land Girls
• Format: Scripted
• Language: English
• Genres: Drama, Romance, War
• Premiere date: 2009-09-07
• Final broadcast date listed: 2011-11-11
• Status in TVmaze: Ended
• Network listed by TVmaze: BBC One
• Network country: United Kingdom
• Typical episode runtime: 60 minutes
• TVmaze community rating: 7.2/10
• TVMaze ID: 7827
• IMDb ID: tt1449940
• TVDB ID: 112871

Cast and credited roles

• Becci Gemmell — Joyce Fisher
• Mark Benton — Frederick Finch
• Mykola Allen — Martin Reeves
• Susan Cookson — Esther Reeves
• Sophie Ward — Lady Ellen Hoxley
• Danny Webb — Sgt. Dennis Tucker
• Jo Woodcock — Bea Holloway
• Liam Boyle — Billy Finch
• Christine Bottomley — Annie Barratt
• Nathaniel Parker — Lord Lawrence Hoxley
• Summer Strallen — Nancy Morrell
• Christian Brassington — Corp Cal Gillespie

Seasons in the TVmaze catalogue

• Season 1: premiered 2009-09-07; final listed air date 2009-09-11; episode order: 5.
• Season 2: premiered 2011-01-17; final listed air date 2011-01-21; episode order: 5.
• Season 3: premiered 2011-11-07; final listed air date 2011-11-11; episode order: 5.

Source and licence

Adapted from Land Girls on TVmaze. The synopsis is reproduced as plain text; catalogue facts, cast and season records are selected and reformatted. This adapted text is available under CC BY-SA 4.0, following the TVmaze API licence. Network and web-channel credits identify the service listed in this source; they do not establish current streaming availability.