The new series is still set in 1929 in the fictional Blandings Castle, home to the chaotic family struggling to keep itself in order. This time around Clarence, who wants nothing more than to spend time with his precious pig, faces the prospect of being committed to an asylum thanks to an obnoxious house guest. In other episodes Clarence and Connie's censorious elder sister Charlotte comes to stay, Clarence grows a preposterous beard, Colonel Fanshawe calls to sound out Clarence as his successor as Lord Lieutenant of Shropshire, and Connie plans to marry Freddie off to Sir Gregory Parsloe-Parsloe's unusual niece.