Escape

Denise Nurse takes a look at the best big budget properties featured in past programmes.

Jules Hudson takes a look back at the best Devon properties featured on past programmes. Along the way he visits the secluded village of Clovelly.

Catherine Gee helps prospective buyers to find their dream home in the country. She has two budgets to find a couple a two/three bed house with land for the horses, in Somerset. The lower, £210,000, is based on them renting out their Bristol house, and the higher, £260,000, is based on them selling it. Catherine hopes to surprise them with what she finds in both price brackets.

Catherine Gee comes to the aid of the secretary of Canvey Island FC, who has £500,000 to spend on a property in rural Essex, which must be within commuting distance of his beloved football ground

Catherine Gee helps a Norwich family find its ideal property in Cumbria - and the pressure is on as the mother has already accepted a teaching post in the area but still has no home to go to

Melissa Porter comes to the aid of a Streatham couple who are fed up with living next to a railway line. They fancy somewhere quieter in Cambridgeshire, and have £350,000 to spend on their dream ho

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 dreams of finding some peace and quiet in north Oxfordshire on a budget of £500,000

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 want to return to their roots. Catherine Gee has a budget of £250,000 to find them a home with a garden and enough space for friends to stay.

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 chocolate box cottage in the Cotswolds. To achieve her goal she has given Catherine Gee a wide ranging budget - between 300,000 and 500,000 pounds. But will Catherine have to spend all of her funds to find Jules the house of her dreams?

Melissa Porter helps Sixties pop icon Jess Conrad and his wife Renee leave behind the Denham home they have shared for more than 40 years and find the perfect property in the country away from the hustle bustle of London

Alistair Appleton helps Andrew and Lisa Donley, who want to move to Northamptonshire.

Jules Hudson is on the hunt for the perfect country escape for Emma Cook and Malachi Trout, who live in Twickenham and are desperate to move to Dorset. Emma wants to live by the coast and Malachi is happy to go further inland. Will Jules manage to find a house they can agree on?

When ex-air hostess Julia Baynes posted a lonely hearts advert for a leather clad rocker she wasn't expecting to fall for Tim Ryan, one of the respondents. Tim's a committed conservationist and was living in a hut in the woods at the time, but he gave it up to move into Julia's Manchester house. They've since decided his home in the rural back-woods wasn't such a bad idea and are looking for a two bed cottage in the Peak District. Catherine Gee has £250,000 to make their dreams come true.

Alistair Appleton helps a couple from near Swindon who are hoping to find their dream house in Sussex.

A young couple are keen to move to Monmouthshire to be near their family. Jules Hudson is on hand to try and find them their ideal home, but will he succeed?

Jules Hudson leads the search for a couple from Leamington Spa who are house-hunting in Northamptonshire. Among the properties of interest are homes with traditional features and contemporary barn conversions

Alistair Appleton helps a Manchester-based couple find a country pad in Cheshire. First broadcast: 07 Oct 2008

Property expert Jules Hudson helps a couple from Hertfordshire hoping to retire in style in Dorset. They have a healthy budget and are shown some stunning properties, including one with regal connections

Alistair Appleton is in sunny Norfolk helping a couple find an amazing country pad. They have four horses currently in livery and they want to find a place with enough land to accommodate them. Plus they have a teenage daughter who'd like her own annex. Alistair shows them some real treats. Will any of them take the couple's fancy?

Jules Hudson helps a young couple look for the perfect rural retreat in Warwickshire. They have a budget of over half a million pounds and need a property where they can run their own company from home. They love history and character features, but don't want a place that needs a lot of fixing up. Will Jules find them the perfect combination?

Alistair Appleton is in Bedfordshire helping a couple who dream of a country home in excellent horse-riding territory with outstanding rural views. But will their budget of £350,000 stretch as far as their aspirations? Alistair also shows them a mystery house that causes quite a stir.

Alistair Appleton is in Shropshire helping a couple looking for a dream home and a new pace of life. But the couple are divided over what they want - one likes period properties, whereas the other likes clean and contemporary features. Will Alistair help them find something they agree on?

Jules Hudson is in South Devon helping a couple search for their dream home. They want a cottage-style property with a country kitchen and easy access to the coast. Will they find what they are looking for?

Denise Nurse is helping a mother and son find a home that will give them a fresh start. They are moving from a big house in Norfolk closer to friends and family in Worcestershire. They want to downsize but need lots of space for their animals and an outbuilding to turn into a craft centre. Will Denise show them any suitable properties?

Nicki Chapman heads north to Leicestershire to help a couple of hoteliers find their perfect retirement home. After moving house twelve times, they've decided to put down roots. With a budget of £350,000, they are looking for a three-bedroom detached house with plenty of space and light, a good-sized reception room, a hobby room each, and a garden large enough for a vegetable patch - plus a village pub to round it all off. It's an impressive wish list - let's hope they'll be able to compromise.

Nicki Chapman meets a couple who can't wait to leave suburbia behind and trade it in for cosy country living in Kent. With a budget of £550,000 they want to downsize but are still looking for at least three bedrooms, a kitchen/diner, a garage and a large garden to grow vegetables in.

Jules Hudson is helping a couple and their cats leave suburbia behind and start a new life in the countryside. They want to move to Kent or East Sussex and have a very healthy budget of £800,000. For that, they want a spacious three- or four-bedroom house with a utility room and a study. Above all, they want a garden large enough to accommodate a vegetable patch.

Alistair Appleton helps a Dublin family find an English country home in the East Midlands.

Jules Hudson visits Monmouthshire to help a couple find some rural peace.

Jonnie Irwin visits the Mourne Mountains to find a three-bedroom modern bungalow.

Nicki Chapman visits Gwynedd, North Wales, to help an artistic couple find a home with inspiring views for £450,000. While in Gwynedd, Nicki takes a tour of a local slate mine and learns how to craft one of the region's famous tiles.

Jonnie Irwin travels to Yorkshire to help find a rural home for a budget of 300,000 pounds. But there is a surprise in store for today's buyers.

Alistair Appleton meets a couple with £1.5 million to spend on a Hampshire home.

Jonnie Irwin is under starter's orders in Suffolk to find a country retreat for a horse loving couple with a budget of £575,000. While in the county, Jonnie takes a tour of one of the largest open air free range pig farms in the UK to discover how they keep their animals content.

Alistair Appleton travels to north Devon to see if he help can cook up the perfect rural home for a pair of baking enthusiasts with a budget of £450,000. Away from the property search, Alistair travels to Arlington Court to see one of the best collections of 19th-century horse-drawn vehicles in the country.

Jules Hudson takes on the mammoth challenge of helping a couple escape from Shanghai to Warwickshire with a budget of £800,000. Jules also meets up with the workers at Britain's longest established cycle manufacturer.

Jules Hudson helps a recently retired Baptist minister and his charity-worker wife find peace and tranquillity in Somerset, with a budget of £500,000. While in the county Jules goes on the hunt for the elusive bittern, a type of heron that nests in the Somerset levels.

Nicki Chapman joins a couple from London, with a generous £900,000 budget, in search of a rural retreat in West Sussex. Whilst there, Nicki visits a local wetlands centre to see some of the world's most rare wildfowl.

Alistair Appleton goes property shopping in Dumfries and Galloway with a couple who have £300,000 to spend in the Celtic countryside. Away from the house search, Alistair visits Drumlanrig Castle to learn how working dogs have played an important role in the history of the Buccleuch estates.

Nicki Chapman helps a couple of equestrian enthusiasts swap suburban life in Farnborough, Hampshire, for a new rural existence in Somerset. Their budget of £600,000 needs to secure not only a country home but also land for their horses. In the country, Nicki wades through mud as she encounters an age old fishing technique.

Alistair Appleton is on a rural property hunt with a couple of American expats who have a generous budget of one million pounds to spend on a country, family home in the Surrey countryside. Away from the house search, Alistair learns about Surrey's motor racing history and takes to the track in a 1929 Bentley.

Jules Hudson is house-hunting with a couple from Essex with £450,000 to spend, who are seeking a rural home with business potential in North Wales. While in the area, Jules visits one of Snowdonia's hidden treasures that has been opened up to the public for the first time in 140 years.

Jonnie Irwin takes a soon-to-be-married couple from Hertfordshire on a property-searching mission to rural Lincolnshire. With a budget of £375,000, Jonnie pulls out all the stops to find them a character property, before buckling up to experience a miniature motoring icon.

Jules Hudson leads a spiritual couple from London's Stamford Hill on a fact-finding property search in rural Essex. With £495,000 to spend, they are looking to escape city life and embrace active living in the countryside.

Sonali Shah is on the hunt for a home in rural Norfolk for a retired couple who are living in Manchester. Looking for a slower pace of life, they have £400,000 to fund their country move.

Sonali Shah is down on the Dorset coast with a couple who are hoping to find literary inspiration and some seaside serenity for their £500,000 budget. Whilst in the region, Sonali meets a pair of printmakers already taking influence from the county's rural splendour for their beautiful handcrafted designs.

Nicki Chapman is in Cambridgeshire helping a couple from south east London with a budget of £625,000 to find an idyllic rural home closer to their family. Nicki also visits a fenland potato farm, where she develops a brand new flavour of crisp.

Ginny Buckley travels to the Somerset countryside to help a couple with a £450,000 budget find their very own patch of greenery after 18 years without a garden. Whilst in the county, Ginny visits the Rural Life Museum to join the medieval multimillion-pound refurbishment project.

Jonnie Irwin's property search is in the Wye Valley, where he helps an entrepreneurial couple with a £650,000 budget find a dream home which allows them to build a rural business.

Ginny Buckley is in Northumberland with an adventurous couple of empty nesters who want their £500,000 budget to buy them a country house with land to earn an income from running a yurt campsite.

Jonnie Irwin is in Wiltshire helping a couple with a £650,000 budget to go the distance and make the 500-mile move from a Scottish city to the English countryside.

Sonali Shah is property hunting in the Derbyshire countryside with a couple who have a £450,000 budget and hopes that this move will transport them to a village with community spirit and a complete change of scenery.

Sonali Shah is house hunting with a couple who have a budget of £650,000 and want to quit the city to find a house with great entertaining potential in the Cheshire countryside. Sonali also delves into the region's manufacturing heritage at one of the country's best preserved textile mills from the Industrial Revolution.

Margherita Taylor is on a house-hunting mission in the Dorset countryside, helping a couple with £500,000 find a character property with space for entertaining and a baby grand piano, as well as an outdoor setting to keep a keen gardener busy. Along the way, Margherita heads out to the oyster beds of Poole harbour to discover more about how they are farmed and harvested sustainably to meet popular demand.