Each episode of Upstairs, Downstairs was made in a fortnightly production schedule. Created by Jean Marsh (Rose Buck) and Eileen Atkins, who were tired of period dramas where the servants were voiceless extras. Hazel is particularly close to Richard, Georgina and Rose, but Hudson never truly accepts her, a middle class woman, as mistress of the house. Upstairs, Downstairs Series 3 Episode 9. Eileen Atkins was scheduled to play the other maid, Sarah Moffat, opposite Jean Marsh's Rose, but was playing Queen Victoria in a stage show at the time, so Pauline Collins took the role. Alfred Shaughnessy, script editor and frequent writer, was nominated for a Primetime Emmy Award twice for the episodes "Miss Forrest" and "Another Year". After a week being listed as missing Miss Roberts shows up at 165, to the astonishment of the household, having not been registered on the Carpathia's manifest of survivors. Mrs. Bridges is the cook, always harried by the butler or … Honor Blackman was short-listed for the role of Lady Marjorie and George Cole for that of the butler, Hudson. In 1974, 1975, and 1977 it won the Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Drama Series. Richard and Lady Marjorie are now in Karekin's debt. When William cruelly drops Emily like a stone, Emily is so devastated that she hangs herself. Actresses Meg Wynn Owen as Hazel Forrest Bellamy, James's wife; and Lesley-Anne Down as Georgina Worsley, Richard's ward and James's cousin became the major female upstairs characters. After the outbreak of war, he becomes a sergeant in the ANZACs and fights at the Battle of Gallipoli. [13][14], The ITV series Downton Abbey, which ran from 2010 to 2015, has many similarities with Upstairs, Downstairs. She agrees to hide him in one of the basement rooms, but is horrified when it later transpires Alfred is actually on the run from the police having murdered his previous employer. Portrayed by Nicola Pagett, Miss Elizabeth Bellamy, later Elizabeth Kirbridge and then The Honourable Elizabeth Wallace after her father's elevation to the peerage (b. Hudson originally came from Scotland, born to Ian and Margaret Hudson; he also has a brother Donald and a sister Fiona. Hudson even offers a song on the vaudeville stage, but their enjoyment is curtailed by an announcement that Britain is at war with Germany. Elizabeth is sent to finishing school in Germany and upon her return to London, finds the upper class life of the Bellamys claustrophobic. [1] In the United States, Upstairs, Downstairs was aired as part of PBS' Masterpiece Theatre. In 2000, a stop-motion animated series called Upstairs, Downstairs Bears, co-produced by Canada's Cinar and Scottish Television for the CITV block, was based upon Upstairs, Downstairs. After losing his fiancé, he left the military for a position with an investment firm prior to meeting Hazel Forrest, whom he married in 1912 (?) In 1903, Sarah Moffat applies to be under-house-parlour maid for the Bellamy family, pretending to be of French parentage but soon revealed to be illiterate, English, and with no work history. Portrayed by Meg Wynn Owen, Hazel Bellamy (née Hazel Patricia Forrest; circa 1883–1918) first appears in the episode "Miss Forrest" as secretary to Richard Bellamy, a middle class young woman who has been earning a living as a secretary for ten years, against her parents' wishes. To compensate for William's absence, Rose gives Alice a dog - a cairn terrier named Thimble. Elizabeth tries to have the marriage annulled, but becomes pregnant by Lawrence Kirbridge's publisher, through a cold-blooded arrangement between Lawrence and the publisher to seduce her. Portrayed by George Innes, Alfred Harris (1868–1913) is the original footmanat Eaton Place from 1895. James is banished to India, while Sarah is sent to the Southwold estate for the duration of her pregnancy. In 1930 she goes with Mr and Mrs Hudson to work at their boarding house with hopes to inherit it after their deaths. A social climbing colonial of Dutch descent, Mrs. Van Groeben (born 1862) is a haughty and unpleasant nouveau riche woman from Cape Town, South Africa. A pregnant Sarah returns to Eaton Place the night the Bellamys host the King; Sarah goes into labour, but the baby, a son, is stillborn. The following year, 1907, Mrs Van Groeben arrives from South Africa. [2] Jean Marsh was already slated to take the part of Rose Buck, the head house parlourmaid. Tim tours the Upstairs concentrating on the architecture and events of Victoria's visit, while Rosemary concentrates on the downstairs, demonstrating recipes cooked for the Queen. Fay Weldon won a Writers Guild of America Award for Best British TV Series Script of 1971 for "On Trial". Rose catches him having sex with Alfred, the footman, and he flees Eaton Place before the police arrive and arrest them. Virginia returns about a year later, when her seventeen-year-old son Michael (who is at that time serving as a midshipman aboard a British Navy Coastal Patrol Boat) is court-martialled for cowardice. DVDs of the series have also been released in Denmark, Finland, Germany, the Netherlands, Portugal, Spain, and Sweden. Illiterate and inexperienced, she is sent to Eaton Place by an agency for domestic servants. Portrayed by Brian Osborne, Mr Pearce (1872–? A later exchange of letters clears up the alleged rumor that he already had a wife. Richard Bellamy attempts to help Mary, but the Radfords refuse to take responsibility and the legal system proves ineffective. Many writers wrote episodes throughout the five series, including Alfred Shaughnessy, John Hawkesworth, Fay Weldon, Terence Brady and Charlotte Bingham, John Harrison, Julian Bond, Raymond Bowers, Jeremy Paul, Rosemary Anne Sisson, Anthony Skene and Elizabeth Jane Howard. In 2005, VCI stopped making these DVDs, none of which had included any extras. According to Series One, they married in 1909. Frederick leaves service at the Bellamy house in the eleventh instalment "Alberto" when he discovers the allure of escorting young upper-class women to balls and other functions. Some episodes also featured audio commentaries, the LWT logo, commercial bumpers and the original preceding countdowns. When Lady Marjorie reveals the news about Emily, Mrs. Van Groeben is uncaring about what happened. Diana, faced with James' ambivalence and defeatism, returns to Bunny who takes her on a world cruise to try and rekindle their relationship. Portrayed by Hannah Gordon, Virginia, Viscountess Bellamy of Haversham (formerly Virginia Hamilton) is the widow of Naval Officer Charles Hamilton (killed during World War I when HMS Monmouth sank in 1914). He served gallantly in the Great War up to 1917 when he was promoted aide de camp and taken out of the frontlines. In the summer of 1906, Lady Marjorie is enamored with her son, James' friend, Captain Charles Hammond. Towards the end of World War I the old lady insisted on a private ambulance being used to bring her wounded grandson James back from France. The only spin-off to make it onscreen was Thomas & Sarah, which broadcast in 1979, and this followed the adventures of Thomas and Sarah after they left Eaton Place. The following year, Rose briefly becomes engaged to an Australian sheep-farmer called Gregory Wilmot whom she meets on an omnibus. According to the narrative, Pearce does not like new-fangled motor cars, and returns to his previous position as head groom to Lady Wanborough tending to her stables. 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