List of Upstairs, Downstairs episodes
Upstairs, Downstairs is a British television drama series created by Jean Marsh and Eileen Atkins, and developed by Alfred Shaughnessy for London Weekend Television. The series consists of 68 hour-long episodes that aired in the United Kingdom on ITV from 1971 to 1975, in Ireland on RTÉ from 1972 to 1976 and in the United States as part of Masterpiece Theatre on PBS from 1974 to 1977.[1] It was eventually broadcast in over 70 countries to an audience of over one billion viewers.[2]
The series is set during the period 1903–1930 and takes place largely in the London town house of the Bellamy family. The "upstairs" and "downstairs" of the title refers to, respectively, the Bellamys and their servants. The first season introduced David Langton as Richard Bellamy, Rachel Gurney as his wife, Marjorie, Nicola Pagett as their daughter, Elizabeth, and Simon Williams as their son, James. The household servants were Gordon Jackson as Angus Hudson (the butler), Angela Baddeley as Mrs Bridges (the cook), Jean Marsh as Rose Buck (the head maid), Pauline Collins as Sarah Moffat (maid), Patsy Smart as Maude Roberts (Lady Marjorie Bellamy's personal maid), Christopher Beeny as Edward (first servant), and George Innes as Alfred (the footman).[1] In the second series Jenny Tomasin was introduced as Ruby (a kitchen/scullery maid) and George Innes was replaced by John Alderton as Thomas Watkins.[3] Alderton and Pauline Collins later played their characters in a spin-off series, Thomas and Sarah.[4]
Rachel Gurney and Nicola Pagett both left the show after the second series. The third series introduced Meg Wynn Owen as Hazel Forrest, Lesley-Anne Down as Georgina Worsley (Richard Bellamy's "niece" – the stepdaughter of Lady Marjorie's late brother Hugo), and Jacqueline Tong as Daisy Peel (another maid).[5] Owen was dropped from the cast after the fourth series and replaced in the fifth by Hannah Gordon as Virginia Hamilton, who becomes Richard Bellamy's second wife. Anthony Andrews also became a regular in the fifth series in the role of Lord Robert Stockbridge, as did Karen Dotrice as Lily Hawkins, another maid in the Bellamy household.[6]
During its run Upstairs, Downstairs won two BAFTA Awards, seven Emmys, and a Peabody and Golden Globe Award.[7][8][9][10][11] The complete series has been released on DVD in regions one, two, and four.[12]
Series overview
Episodes
A total of 68 hour-long episodes were produced and broadcast during the original run of Upstairs, Downstairs. They are listed in order of their original airing in the UK.
Series 1 (1971–72)
The first series is set from November 1903 to June 1908 and consists of 13 episodes that aired in two separate sections (October–November 1971 and January–March 1972). For this series the show won the BAFTA for Best Drama.[7]
The first six episodes were made in black and white due to a strike at the ITV companies.[13] When colour facilities became available again midway through production of the series, London Weekend Television remade the first episode in colour at the end of the first series block, thus making the series more marketable for overseas broadcasts. The original black-and-white version was subsequently destroyed. Two colour versions of the episode were edited, with the episode intended for overseas broadcast showing Sarah (Pauline Collins) leaving Eaton Place (as she does in "Board Wages") to maintain the series' continuity with the black-and-white episodes omitted.[14]
For original showings in the United States three episodes from the first British series and ten from the second were merged into a single season of 13 episodes. The unused episodes from these two series were eventually shown in 1989 under the banner "The Missing Episodes".[1]
| No. overall | No. in series | Title | Directed by | Written by | Original air date |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | 1 | "On Trial" | Raymond Menmuir | Fay Weldon | 10 October 1971 |
| 2 | 2 | "The Mistress and the Maids" | Derek Bennett | Alfred Shaughnessy | 17 October 1971 |
| 3 | 3 | "Board Wages" | Derek Bennett | Terence Brady & Charlotte Bingham | 24 October 1971 |
| 4 | 4 | "The Path of Duty" | Joan Kemp-Welch | John Harrison | 31 October 1971 |
| 5 | 5 | "A Suitable Marriage" | Joan Kemp-Welch | Jeremy Paul | 7 November 1971 |
| 6 | 6 | "A Cry for Help" | Derek Bennett | Julian Bond | 14 November 1971 |
| 7 | 7 | "Magic Casements" | Joan Kemp-Welch | John Hawkesworth | 23 January 1972 |
| 8 | 8 | "I Dies from Love" | Raymond Menmuir | Terence Brady & Charlotte Bingham | 30 January 1972 |
| 9 | 9 | "Why Is Her Door Locked?" | Brian Parker | Alfred Shaughnessy | 6 February 1972 |
| 10 | 10 | "A Voice from the Past" | Raymond Menmuir | Jeremy Paul | 13 February 1972 |
| 11 | 11 | "The Swedish Tiger" | Brian Parker | Raymond Bowers | 20 February 1972 |
| 12 | 12 | "The Key of the Door" | Raymond Menmuir | John Hawkesworth & Alfred Shaughnessy | 27 February 1972 |
| 13 | 13 | "For Love of Love" | Herbert Wise | Rosemary Anne Sisson | 20 March 1972 |
Series 2 (1972–73)
For its second series Upstairs, Downstairs is set from 1908 to 1910. As with the first series a total of 13 episodes were produced. This time all were made in colour. As mentioned above, the first season broadcast in the United States was a conglomeration of three and ten episodes from, respectively, the first and second British series.[3] For its first American season, Upstairs, Downstairs won the 1974 Emmy Award for Outstanding Drama Series while Jean Marsh was nominated for an Emmy as Best Lead Actress in a Drama Series.[9]
| No. overall | No. in series | Title | Directed by | Written by | Original air date |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 14 | 1 | "The New Man" | Raymond Menmuir | Rosemary Anne Sisson | 21 October 1972 |
| 15 | 2 | "A Pair of Exiles" | Cyril Coke | Alfred Shaughnessy | 28 October 1972 |
| 16 | 3 | "Married Love" | Raymond Menmuir | John Harrison | 4 November 1972 |
| 17 | 4 | "Whom God Hath Joined..." | Bill Bain | Jeremy Paul | 10 November 1972 |
| 18 | 5 | "Guest of Honour" | Bill Bain | Alfred Shaughnessy | 17 November 1972 |
| 19 | 6 | "The Property of a Lady" | Derek Bennett | Alfred Shaughnessy | 24 November 1972 |
| 20 | 7 | "Your Obedient Servant" | Derek Bennett | Fay Weldon | 1 December 1972 |
| 21 | 8 | "Out of the Everywhere" | Christopher Hodson | Terence Brady & Charlotte Bingham | 8 December 1972 |
| 22 | 9 | "An Object of Value" | Raymond Menmuir | Jeremy Paul | 15 December 1972 |
| 23 | 10 | "A Special Mischief" | Raymond Menmuir | Anthony Skene | 29 December 1972 |
| 24 | 11 | "The Fruits of Love" | Christopher Hodson | John Hawkesworth | 5 January 1973 |
| 25 | 12 | "The Wages of Sin" | Christopher Hodson | Anthony Skene | 12 January 1973 |
| 26 | 13 | "A Family Gathering" | Raymond Menmuir | Alfred Shaughnessy | 19 January 1973 |
Series 3 (1973–74)
The third series is set in the pre-World War I era of 1912–1914 and consists of 13 colour episodes.[5] For this series Upstairs, Downstairs won the BAFTA for Best Drama Series and the Emmy and Golden Globe Awards for Outstanding Drama Series.[7][9][11] Jean Marsh won the Emmy for Outstanding Lead Actress in a Drama Series and a Golden Globe nomination for Best Actress in a drama.[11] Angela Baddeley was nominated for Emmy for the Outstanding Continuing Performance by a Supporting Actress.[9][15]
| No. overall | No. in series | Title | Directed by | Written by | Original air date |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 27 | 1 | "Miss Forrest" | Bill Bain | Alfred Shaughnessy | 27 October 1973 |
| 28 | 2 | "A House Divided" | Christopher Hodson | Rosemary Anne Sisson | 3 November 1973 |
| 29 | 3 | "A Change of Scene" | Bill Bain | Rosemary Anne Sisson | 10 November 1973 |
| 30 | 4 | "A Family Secret" | Derek Bennett | Alfred Shaughnessy | 17 November 1973 |
| 31 | 5 | "Rose's Pigeon" | Bill Bain | Jeremy Paul | 24 November 1973 |
| 32 | 6 | "Desirous of Change" | Lionel Harris | Fay Weldon | 1 December 1973 |
| 33 | 7 | "Word of Honour" | Christopher Hodson | Anthony Skene | 8 December 1973 |
| 34 | 8 | "The Bolter" | Cyril Coke | John Hawkesworth | 15 December 1973 |
| 35 | 9 | "Goodwill to All Men" | Christopher Hodson | Alfred Shaughnessy & Deborah Mortimer | 22 December 1973 |
| 36 | 10 | "What the Footman Saw" | Cyril Coke | Jeremy Paul | 29 December 1973 |
| 37 | 11 | "A Perfect Stranger" | Christopher Hodson | Jeremy Paul | 5 January 1974 |
| 38 | 12 | "Distant Thunder" | Bill Bain | Alfred Shaughnessy | 12 January 1974 |
| 39 | 13 | "The Sudden Storm" | Bill Bain | John Hawkesworth | 19 January 1974 |
Series 4 (1974)
Series Four of Upstairs, Downstairs is set during the period of World War I (1914–1918) and consists of 13 colour episodes.[16] This series won an Emmy for Outstanding Limited Series, and Gordon Jackson won the Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Guest Actor in a Drama Series. Jean Marsh, Angela Baddeley and Christopher Hodson received Emmy nominations for, respectively, Outstanding Lead Actress in a Drama Series, Outstanding Continuing Performance by a Supporting Actress, and Outstanding Directing in a Drama Series.[9]
| No. overall | No. in series | Title | Directed by | Written by | Original air date |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 40 | 1 | "A Patriotic Offering" | Derek Bennett | Rosemary Anne Sisson | 14 September 1974 |
| 41 | 2 | "News from the Front" | Derek Bennett | John Hawkesworth | 21 September 1974 |
| 42 | 3 | "The Beastly Hun" | Bill Bain | Jeremy Paul | 28 September 1974 |
| 43 | 4 | "Women Shall Not Weep" | Christopher Hodson | Alfred Shaughnessy | 5 October 1974 |
| 44 | 5 | "Tug of War" | Derek Bennett | Rosemary Anne Sisson | 12 October 1974 |
| 45 | 6 | "Home Fires" | Bill Bain | Jeremy Paul | 19 October 1974 |
| 46 | 7 | "If You Were the Only Girl in the World" | Raymond Menmuir | John Hawkesworth | 26 October 1974 |
| 47 | 8 | "The Glorious Dead" | Raymond Menmuir | Alfred Shaughnessy & Elizabeth Jane Howard | 2 November 1974 |
| 48 | 9 | "Another Year" | Cyril Coke | Alfred Shaughnessy | 9 November 1974 |
| 49 | 10 | "The Hero's Farewell" | Bill Bain | Rosemary Anne Sisson | 16 November 1974 |
| 50 | 11 | "Missing Believed Killed" | Christopher Hodson | Jeremy Paul | 23 November 1974 |
| 51 | 12 | "Facing Fearful Odds" | Raymond Menmuir | John Hawkesworth | 30 November 1974 |
| 52 | 13 | "Peace out of Pain" | Christopher Hodson | Alfred Shaughnessy | 7 December 1974 |
Series 5 (1975)
The final series is set in the post-war period of 1919–1930 and consists of 16 colour episodes.[6] Once again Upstairs, Downstairs won an Emmy for Outstanding Drama Series while Jacqueline Tong received a nomination for Outstanding Continuing Performance by a Supporting Actress in a Drama Series.[9] The series also received a Peabody Award for this season.[10]
| No. overall | No. in series | Title | Directed by | Written by | Original air date |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 53 | 1 | "On With the Dance" | Bill Bain | Alfred Shaughnessy | 7 September 1975 |
| 54 | 2 | "A Place in the World" | Christopher Hodson | Jeremy Paul | 14 September 1975 |
| 55 | 3 | "Laugh a Little Louder Please" | Derek Bennett | Rosemary Anne Sisson | 21 September 1975 |
| 56 | 4 | "The Joy Ride" | Bill Bain | Alfred Shaughnessy | 28 September 1975 |
| 57 | 5 | "Wanted - A Good Home" | Christopher Hodson | John Hawkesworth | 5 October 1975 |
| 58 | 6 | "An Old Flame" | Derek Bennett | John Hawkesworth | 12 October 1975 |
| 59 | 7 | "Disillusion" | Bill Bain | Alfred Shaughnessy | 19 October 1975 |
| 60 | 8 | "Such a Lovely Man" | Christopher Hodson | Rosemary Anne Sisson | 26 October 1975 |
| 61 | 9 | "The Nine Days Wonder" | Simon Langton | Jeremy Paul | 2 November 1975 |
| 62 | 10 | "The Understudy" | James Ormerod | Jeremy Paul | 9 November 1975 |
| 63 | 11 | "Alberto" | Christopher Hodson | Alfred Shaughnessy | 16 November 1975 |
| 64 | 12 | "Will Ye No Come Back Again" | Bill Bain | Rosemary Anne Sisson | 23 November 1975 |
| 65 | 13 | "Joke Over" | Bill Bain | Rosemary Anne Sisson | 30 November 1975 |
| 66 | 14 | "Noblesse Oblige" | Cyril Coke | John Hawkesworth | 7 December 1975 |
| 67 | 15 | "All the King's Horses" | Simon Langton | Jeremy Paul | 14 December 1975 |
| 68 | 16 | "Whither Shall I Wander?" | Bill Bain | John Hawkesworth | 21 December 1975 |
References
- ^ a b c Phillips, S. (2010). "Season One". Upstairs, Downstairs. Retrieved 26 June 2010.
- ^ Phillips, S. (2010). "Introduction". Upstairs, Downstairs. Retrieved 26 June 2010.
- ^ a b Phillips, S. (2010). "Season Two". Upstairs, Downstairs. Retrieved 26 June 2010.
- ^ Phillips, S. (2010). "Thomas & Sarah". Upstairs, Downstairs. Retrieved 26 June 2010.
- ^ a b Phillips, S. (2010). "Season Three". Upstairs, Downstairs. Retrieved 26 June 2010.
- ^ a b Phillips, S. (2010). . Upstairs, Downstairs. Archived from the original on 20 August 2007. Retrieved 26 June 2010.
- ^ a b c "BAFTA Awards – Upstairs Downstairs". British Academy of Film and Television Arts. 2010. Retrieved 26 June 2010. (Page 1)
- ^ "BAFTA Awards – Upstairs Downstairs". British Academy of Film and Television Arts. 2010. Retrieved 26 June 2010. (Page 2)
- ^ a b c d e f "Emmy Awards – Upstairs Downstairs". Academy of Television Arts and Sciences. 2010. Retrieved 26 June 2010.
- ^ a b (PDF). Peabody Awards. 2010. p. 39. Archived from the original (PDF) on 26 July 2011. Retrieved 26 June 2010.
- ^ a b c "Award search – Upstairs, Downstairs". Hollywood Foreign Press Association. 2010. Retrieved 26 June 2010.
- ^ Phillips, S. (2010). . Upstairs, Downstairs. Archived from the original on 25 August 2010. Retrieved 26 June 2010.
- ^ Runyon, Steve (2010). "Upstairs, Dowstairs". The Museum of Broadcast Communications. Retrieved 19 July 2010.
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Bibliography
- Marson, Richard (2005). Inside UpDown – The Story of Upstairs, Downstairs. Bristol: Kaleidoscope Publishing. ISBN 978-1-900203-13-5.
External links
- Phillip, S. (2010). "The Upstairs, Downstairs web pages". Retrieved 2 July 2010.
- Upstairs, Downstairs at IMDb