| Description |
24 videodiscs (4144 min.) : sound, color and black and white ; 4 3/4 in. |
| System Details |
DVD; region 1; Dolby Digital stereo. |
| Cast |
John Alderton, Angela Baddeley, Celia Bannerman, Christopher Beeny, Joan Benham, Pauline Collins, Evin Crowley, Karen Dotrice, Lesley-Anne Down, Hannah Gordon, Rachel Gurney, Gareth Hunt, Raymond Huntley, Gordon Jackson, David Langton, Jean Marsh, Ian Ogilvy, Brian Osborne, Meg Wynn Owen, Nicola Pagett, John Quayle, Patsy Smart, Jenny Tomasin, Jacqueline Tong, Simon Williams, Anne Yarker. |
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Thomas & Sarah: John Alderton, Pauline Collins, Pam St. Clement, Graham Cull, Maria Charles. |
| Credits |
Script editor, Alfred Shaughnessy ; designer, John Clements, Michael Yates, Barbara Bates, Roger Hall, John Emery, Andrew Drummond, Rodney Cammish ; music composed by Alexander Faris. |
| Note |
Originally broadcast on television from 1971 through 1979. |
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Contains all episodes of Upstairs downstairs and Thomas & Sarah. |
| Audience |
MPAA rating: Not rated. |
| Summary |
Upstairs downstairs: The saga of the aristocratic Bellamy family and their loyal and lively servants. Real-life events from 1903-1930 are incorporated into the stories of the Bellamy household. Thomas & Sarah: After giving notice at 165 Eaton Place, the enterprising Thomas Watkins and Sarah Moffat make a go of it on their own. |
| Contents |
The complete first season (1971). On trial / by Fay Weldon ; director, Raymond Meninuir -- The mistress and the maids / by Maureen Duffy ; director, Derek Bennett -- Board wages / by Terence Brady & Charlotte Bingham ; director, Derek Bennett -- The path of duty / by John Harrison ; director, Joan Kemp-Welch -- A suitable marriage / by Jeremy Paul ; director, Joan Kem-Welch -- A cry for help / by Julian Bond ; director, Derek Bennett -- Magic casements / by John Hawkesworth ; director, Joan Kemp-Welch -- I dies from love / by Terence Brady & Charlotte Bingham ; director, Raymond Menmuir -- Why is her door locked? / by Alfred Shaughnessy ; director, Brian Parker -- A voice from the past / by Jeremy Paul ; director, Raymond Menmuir -- The Swedish tiger / by Raymond Bowers ; director, Brian Parker -- The key of the door / by John Hawkesworth & Alfred Shaughnessy ; director, Raymond Menmuir -- For love of love / by Rosemary Ann Sisson ; director, Herbert Wise. |
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The complete second season (1972). The new man / by Rosemary Anne Sisson ; director, Raymond Menmuir -- A pair of exiles / by Alfred Shaughnessy ; director, Cyril Coke -- Married love / by John Harrison ; director, Raymond Menmuir -- Whom God hath joined / by Jeremy Paul ; director, Bill Bain -- Guest of honour / by Alfred Shaughnessy ; director, Bill Bain -- The property of a lady / by Peter Wildeblood ; director, Derek Bennett -- Your obedient servant / by Fay Weldon ; director, Derek Bennett -- Out of the everywhere / by Terence Brady & Charlotte Bingham ; director, Christopher Hodson -- An object of value / by Jeremy Paul ; director, Raymond Menmuir -- A special mischief / by Anthony Skene ; director, Raymond Menmuir -- The fruits of love / by John Hawkesworth ; director, Christopher Hodson -- The wages of sin / by Anthony Skene ; director, Christopher Hodson -- A family gathering / by Alfred Shaughnessy ; director, Raymond Menmuir. |
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The complete third season (1973). Miss Forrest / by Alfred Shaughnessy ; director, Bill Bain -- A house divided / by Rosemary Anne Sisson ; director, Christopher Hodson -- A change of scene / by Rosemary Anne Sisson ; director, Bill Bain -- A family secret / by Alfred Shaughnessy ; director, Derek Bennett -- Rose's pigeon / by Jeremy Paul ; director, Bill Bain -- Desirous of change / by Fay Weldon ; director, Lionel Harris -- Word of honour / by Anthony Skene ; director, Christopher Hodson -- The bolter / by John Hawkesworth ; director, Cyril Coke -- Goodwill to all men / by Deborah Mortimer ; director, Christopher Hodson -- What the footman saw / by Jeremy Paul ; director, Cyril Coke -- A perfect stranger / by Jeremy Paul ; director, Christopher Hodson -- Distant thunder / by Alfred Shaughnessy ; director, Bill Bain -- The sudden storm / by John Hawkesworth ; Bill Bain. |
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The complete fourth season (1974). A patriotic offering / by Rosemary Anne Sisson ; director, Derek Bennett -- News from the front / by John Hawkesworth ; director, Derek Bennett -- The beastly Hun / by Jeremy Paul ; director, Bill Bain -- Women shall not weep / by Alfred Shaughnessy ; director, Christopher Hodson -- Tug of war / by Rosemary Anne Sisson ; director, Derek Bennett -- Home fires / by Jeremy Paul ; director, Bill Bain -- If you were the only girl in the world / by John Hawkesworth ; director, Raymond Menmuir -- The glorious dead / by Elizabeth Jane Howard ; director, Raymond Menmuir -- Another year / by Alfred Shaughnessy ; director, Cyril Coke -- The hero's farewell / by Rosemary Anne Sisson ; director, Bill Bain -- Missing believed killed / by Jeremy Paul ; director, Christopher Hodson -- Facing fearful odds / by John Hawkesworth ; director, Raymond Menmuir -- Peace out of pain / by Alfred Shaughnessy ; director, Christopher Hodson. |
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The complete fifth season (1975). On with the dance / by Alfred Shaughnessy ; director, Bill Bain -- A place in the world / by Jeremy Paul ; director, Christopher Hodson -- Laugh a little louder please / by Rosemary Anne Sisson ; director, Derek Bennett -- The joy ride / by Alfred Shaughnessy ; director, Bill Bain -- Wanted a good home / by John Hawkesworth ; director, Christopher Hodson -- An old flame / by John Hawkesworth ; director, Derek Bennett -- Disillusion / by Alfred Shaughnessy ; director, Bill Bain -- Such a lovely man / By Rosemary Anne Sisson ; director, Christopher Hodson -- The nine days wonder / by Jeremy Paul ; director, Simon Langton -- The understudy / by Jeremy Paul ; director, James Ormerod -- Alberto / by Alfred Shaughnessy ; director, Christopher Hodson -- Will ye no come back again / by Rosemary Anne Sisson ; director, Bill Bain -- Joke over / by Rosemary Anne Sisson ; director, Bill Bain -- Noblesse oblige / by John Hawkesworth ; director, Cyril Coke -- All the king's horses / by Jeremy Paul ; director, Simon Langton -- Whither shall I wander? / by John Hawkesworth ; director, Bill Bain. |
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Thomas & Sarah (1979). Birds of a feather / by Terence Brady and Charlotte Bingham ; director, Christopher Hodson -- The silver ghost / by Alfred Shaughnessy ; director, John Davies -- The biter's bit / by Terence Brady and Charlotte Bingham ; director, David Askey -- The vanishing lady / by Jeremy Paul ; director, Christopher Hodson -- Made in heaven / by Anthony Skene ; director, John Davies -- Alma mater / by Alick Rowe ; director, David Askey -- A day at the metropole / by Jeremy Paul ; director, David Askey -- The poor old widow of Peckham / by Jeremy Paul ; director, Marek Kanievska -- There is a happy land / by Terence Brady and Charlotte Bingham ; director, David Askey -- Return to Gethyn / by Angharad Lloyd ; director, Christopher Hodson -- Putting on the ritz / by Terence Brady and Charlotte Bingham ; director, Christopher Hodson -- The new rich / by Anthony Skene ; director, John Davies -- Love into three won't go / by Terence Brady and Charlotte Bingham ; director, Christopher Hodson. |
| Note |
Special features: Disc 4. Upstairs downstairs remembered : the 25th anniversary special; Disc 24. Household hierarchy - Edwardian England. |
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GMD: videorecording. |
| Subject |
Families -- Drama.
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Women household employees -- Drama.
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Household employees -- Drama.
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| Added Author |
Marsh, Jean.
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Atkins, Eileen, 1934-
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Firkin, Rex.
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Hawkesworth, John.
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Alderton, John, 1940-
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Baddeley, Angela, 1904-1976.
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Bannerman, Celia, 1944-
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Beeny, Christopher.
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Benham, Joan, 1918-1981.
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Collins, Pauline, 1940-
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Crowley, Evin, 1945-
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Dotrice, Karen.
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Down, Lesley-Anne.
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Gordon, Hannah.
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Gurney, Rachel, 1920-2001.
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Hunt, Gareth, 1942-2007.
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Huntley, Raymond, 1904-1990.
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Jackson, Gordon, 1923-1990.
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Langton, David.
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Ogilvy, Ian, 1943-
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Osborne, Brian, 1940-
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Owen, Meg Wynn.
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Pagett, Nicola.
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Quayle, John, 1938-
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Smart, Patsy, 1918-1996.
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Tomasin, Jenny.
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Tong, Jacqueline, 1951-
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Williams, Simon, 1946 June 16-
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Yarker, Anne.
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Faris, Alexander.
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Sagitta Productions.
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London Weekend Television (Firm)
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A & E Home Video (Firm)
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New Video Group.
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| Added Title |
Thomas & Sarah (Television program)
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| ISBN |
0767087372 |
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9780767087377 |
| Standard No. |
733961740813 |
| Music No. |
AAE-74081 A&E Home Video |
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AAE-74082--AAE-74093 A&E Home Video |
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