Episodes: 6 | Released: 2009 | Certificate: 12 | Genre: Comedy | Director: Metin Huseyin
Actors: Stephen Fry
, Celia Imire
, Hermione Norris
Returning to Market Shipborough, we find that Peter has found a new lease of life for himself, free from the troubles of his wayward brother who now rests in peace – for certain this time. Beatrice is getting on with motherhood in her own unique way. Lyle is now a fully qualified solicitor and keen to prove himself. The flood has long retreated and everybody is getting on with their lives.
Complex crop circles have appeared overnight in a Market Shipborough field, and a local die-hard Sci-Fi enthusiast, Terry, is certain that the symbols contain messages from a higher source.
Peter is working late when a brick comes through the window, announcing the arrival of the latest member of the Kingdom family – a guinea pig who turns out to have been liberated from the local medical research facility.
Judge Harding is a known nightmare of a judge and Peter’s inarticulate client, Warren, is up against him for benefit fraud. Peter tries his best to stand up for Warren, plead for a second (or is that fifth?) chance to mend his ways, but Judge Harding is unremitting and actually rather mean.
Peter is looking forward to a well-earned, restful holiday, fly-fishing in Scotland. His packing is rudely interrupted though by the intrusion of a CCTV camera peeking through his bedroom window. It turns out that the Market Shipborough police department have splashed out on a high tech surveillance system to help cut crime. But Peter is worried about his, and his fellow citizens’, privacy.
Lyle picks Peter up from the hospital, and despite the mollycoddling of Gloria and Auriel, Peter is determined that whatever the tests he’s taken are going to bring up, he’s perfectly fine and happy to go on being Peter Kingdom.
