Fresh Fields

- Season 1

(1984)

Hester spices things up with a foray into haute cuisine, landing a job as a part-time chef at a local restaurant. However, she's missing one vital ingredient for her debut, and only William can save the day.

Suddenly feeling her years, Hester is determined to prove she's not too old to start a new career. But her confidence is shaken after she gets turned down for a job at a trendy boutique.

William plans to get away from it all with a day's fishing. But there's a catch--his wife and mother-in-law want to come along, too. The addition of yet another person to the party threatens to change the whole trip entirely.

Keen to impress a prospective client visiting from the Middle East, William enlists Hester's help to ensure the trip goes off without a hitch. The Fields soon discover that the man has an unusual understanding of mixing business with pleasure.

With property taxes due, William comes up with a drastic solution. He decides it's time to sell their home and move to a smaller place. Hester has other ideas and enlists two co-conspirators to help execute her plan.

Hester is unnerved when she learns that a food critic will be at the restaurant during her shift. She gets edgier still when her unmarried daughter Emma tells her she's going to have a baby.