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Escape to the Country: Season 4

19 episodes Premiered May 6, 2008
Previously on Escape to the Country

Season 4 Lore Primer

Key plot threads, lore context, and character stakes you need to remember before diving into this season.

  • Directly follows the overarching narrative developments of Escape to the Country Season 3.
  • Faction dynamics and core character alliances shift under escalating external stakes.
  • Crucial mysteries introduced previously reach key turning points and narrative reckonings.
  • Sets up serialized story arcs that build directly toward the climactic season finale.
Season 4 Episodes

Episode Guide

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Season 4: Filler vs. Essential Canon

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S4·E1 Mytharc

Twickenham to North Oxfordshire

May 6, 2008

Catherine Gee meets a family living in a Victorian terrace in Twickenham who are tired of the noise from the motorway and the Heathrow flight path. She helps them fulfil their drea

S4·E2 Core

Forest Hill to Kent

Oct 9, 2006

Kalle Hogh and partner Daniel Friend are looking to trade in their cramped one bedroom flat in London for a cottage in commutable Kent. Having both grown up in the countryside they

S4·E3 Core

Hampstead to Cotswolds

May 8, 2008

Advertising executive Jules Hinds has had enough of city life. Despite living in one of London's most desirable postcodes, NW3, she wants to swap her two bed Hampstead flat for a c

S4·E5 Core

Aylesbury to North Cornwall

May 21, 2008

John and his daughter Emma are looking for a house in Cornwall to indulge their passion for extreme sports.

S4·E6 Core

Chafford Hundred to Kent

Mar 23, 2007

A family try to move away from their estate near the M25 into the Kent countryside, hoping their £300,000 budget can find them a period property with space for a photography dark r

S4·E8 Core

Cardiff to Gwynedd

Feb 23, 2007

Catherine Gee helps a bilingual couple move from Cardiff and return to their rural roots in the Welsh valleys and mountains. Rhys works as a fishing officer for the Welsh Tourist B

S4·E10 Core

Nottinghamshire to Lincolnshire

Catherine Gee comes to the rescue of the Smithson family from Nottingham who want to swap their three-bedroom, Thirties home for a property in the Lincolnshire countryside with a l

S4·E11 Core

Taunton to Dorset

Aug 23, 2007

Tim Fisher and Bea Reitmeier have found love in later life with each other and are now looking to set up their first home together. Luckily, Tim works as a garden designer and Bea

S4·E14 Core

Sutton to Suffolk

Mar 28, 2007

Having lived in London's greenest borough for 11 years, Clare Ladd and her partner David Hackett are ready to swap city life for a B&B venture in the country. They restored their E

S4·E16 Core

Dulwich to Hampshire

Mar 30, 2007

Simon and Sam Clough have just had their first child and woken up to the fact that most of their friends have moved out of London. In a bid to follow them, they're looking for a de

S4·E17 Core

Leeds to North Yorkshire

Mar 7, 2007

Alison Taft and partner Mark Rusten have lived in their five-bedroom Edwardian house for five years. But with two small children and a front garden that leads to a busy road, they

S4·E18 Core

Port Talbot to North Devon

Mar 8, 2007

Catherine Gee meets a family with £700,000 to spend, who want to swap their Port Talbot home with one on the north coast of Devon. Dad Steve runs a diving and marine repairs busine

S4·E19 Core

Stratford-upon-Avon to Somerset

Mar 9, 2007

A couple decide to retire to the country following a cancer scare, and look for a quiet period cottage on a budget of £350,000

S4·E20 Core

Westbury-on-Tryn to Wiltshire

Mar 12, 2007

A Bristol-based couple who met while involved in a property sale, and who also own a place in France, hope to sell their home in the UK and buy another in the Wiltshire countryside

S4·E21 Core

Manchester to Derbyshire

Mar 13, 2007

Catherine Gee comes to the aid of a conservationist and a former air hostess who are searching for a two-bedroom cottage in the rural Peak District on a budget of £250,000

S4·E22 Core

Liverpool to the Wash

Mar 14, 2007

Catherine Gee helps a 60-year-old woman who has lived in her eight-bedroom Liverpool house since birth to scale-down her work as a complementary therapist and move somewhere quiete

S4·E23 Core

Bury to the Wold

Mar 15, 2007

A couple who met in a Manchester bar in 2004 and are about to get married hope to swap their homes in Cheadle and Bury for a detached house in the East Riding of Yorkshire

S4·E24 Mytharc

Battersea to North Norfolk

Mar 16, 2007

Catherine Gee meets a 75-year-old woman and her daughter who have £300,000 to spend on a four-bedroom house with views of the country or the sea in Norfolk

S4·E25 Mytharc

Torquay to East Anglia

Mar 19, 2007

The Haines are looking to swap the tourist hot spot of Torquay for the rural charms of East Anglia. With half a million pounds to find the detached property of their dreams it soun