After Upstairs Downstairs - Documentary
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After Upstairs, Downstairs
4th August 2002 (Granada-Tyne Tees for ITV1)
Narrated by Matthew Kelly
With: Hannah Gordon, Simon Williams, Jackie Tong, Jean Marsh, Gareth Hunt, Jenny Tomasin, Lesley-Anne Down, Meg Wynn Owen and Sheila Jackson - Zábava
One of the greatest dramas ever made and stands the test of time even today. Fantastic.
A truly entertaining, educational and intelligent programme - historically accurate - the like of which you don't see these days
They can never remake such a fantastic classic.
My mom would not let me watch . She said I was to young ....oh how I miss her she passed away 27 years ago. I am now 53 and loving all episodes
Oh my, this is so wonderful to watch 😊 a treat to see them in later life. Fabulous series 📺
This and I, Claudius are the greatest TV dramas ever written
My all time favorite show. No scrumptious settings, no big budget costumes, no splashy scenery - just top-rate writing, acting, and directing. The series was like a fine wine that has to be uncorked and allowed to breathe. The drama was generally low key, and unfolded gently - but completely riveting, nonetheless. I really enjoyed this, thank you so much for posting.
There was a lot of work getting the settings right & what they wore & not forgetting the wonderful food what Mrs Bridges made, not forgetting Ruby!
I don't agree whatsoever with your first 3 points re " settings costumes or scenery " surely the total opposite of you suggest.
Love Jean Marsh so much. Fabulous series 👏 👌 👍.
I loved this. I watch the repeats.
i have every season on dvd georgina is my favorite charector. the majors humanity is first rate. mr. hudson man among men. the very best goes out to rose.
While living in Köln-Longerich, Germany, pursuing my PhD in organic chemistry during the years 1982-1986, I watched this television series "Upstairs Downstairs" (Das Haus am Eaton Place) in the afternoons. I enjoyed it very much. The class act was a kind of exercise in the stiff upper lips of British upstairs people. It was absolutely unforgettable!
I saw this when I was a boy. I can’t believe it’s almost 50 years later. I can still remember scenes and snatches of dialogue verbatim
Used to watch this with my parents on Sunday s way back in the 1970s. It was one of the few shows that we all liked. It was brilliantly written with a fantastic cast of characters ..
"I asked for fairy cakes and you brought me a rock, Hudson!"
The English *own* English.
I love 💗 this show! I was a young girl living in the US🇺🇸 when it started so, I never knew about it 🤷🏼♀️. But, during the COVID19 pandemic year, I found it on Prime Video and, watched over several weeks trying not to binge too much so I could keep it going longer! I even watched the newer “Upstairs Downstairs” that wasn’t the same, of course. But, I at least got to see “Rose” in her “new career” for a brief bit. No one makes period movies, series, etc., like the UK 🇬🇧!
Cannot understand leaving off mentioning or even showing the remarkable Nicola Pagett as Elizabeth. Surely so many of the episodes she starred in were just groundbreaking, so much so that the first season of Downton Abbey lifts whole cloth the plots of those episodes. Ms. Pagett may not have wanted to be in this documentary, but the character Elizabeth was a crucial part of the early series and she was amazing in that role.
i think tha she had a problem with the powers that be on the show and they never used her again. I think i read that there was a film being planned after the 2nd series and NP got in some kind of argument about being in it and then they wrote her out and never showed her again, even as a voice at the end of the show.
Elizabeth was great a Character, A Affair with a Armenian Jew, A fling as a Sufferjet, time in the women's prison and Running her own Madames Hat Shop. One of many Strong women,but she just disappeared to New York? Sad to hear of Nicola Pagetts passing in 2021. A fine Actress.🇬🇧🍾🍾🙏🇬🇧
@@brucekilby9957 its alwasy implied that Eliz was just dabbling with all these ideas, and not really committed to them.
Glen . I think your right about Eliz,because Kevorkian wouldn't have gone to NY,he had his Shares and his London Ladies. It was a surprise That a Character as popular would Dissapear. I think Rose says why she went,she was always very Noing, like most of the staff,with the Exception of Ruby. Thanks.🍸🥂🍾
@@brucekilby9957 they had to write her out... so going ot the US was a way of doing that.
When I was young my mom & I would watch this together. My mom passed away 26 years ago & when I can I get this series from the library. Now it's a mixed emotion of happy, nostalgia & sadness, especially the last episode when everyone went their own ways & the house was closed.
Better With Wisconsin Cheddar Since 1848 I was exactly the same. I watched this with my mother. We used to be glued to the tv when it was on, we absolutely loved itt. My mother passed away last November and when I put it on it brings back great memories. I often put it on. I feel like I must be nuts because I still watch it very often.
And The Pallisers and Lily Langtree. Loved them all.
I used to watch this with my mum too. We also loved the Onedin line. Mum has been gone for 28 years, but I have such fond memories.
My wife and I thought we would actually perish if we missed one episode....we watched from the beginning..she's gone now, we were young then..I can't watch them now.. just too painful.... but we lived for every Sunday evening...I mean, we raised our kids on Monty Python, Reggie Perrin, Open All Hours, "Granville, fetch yer cloth." Very happy days...people were free then.... tragic how the world has gone dark now, and our individual liberty as humans lessening every year....
I just got a notice for my comment on this video just now but I did like all the replies, I know how you all feel!🙂
My mother would let me stay up late to watch "Mundos Individuales' ( its name in Spanish) every Thursday night. I was only 8 or 9 but I was totally fascinated with the series. I've always thought what a phenomenal show. One of the best tv series ever.
One of my favorite television series.
Wonderfully painful ending.
The best TV series ever made !
okay, as a budding lesbian, I have to admit the relationship between Rose and Sarah intrigued me...what with Rose';s ocassional bouts of jealously and Sarah's running around calling Rose her "special friend!" still makes e weak in the knees!
@@violetduncan3712 Oh God!
They're getting like Vegans...
After “The Prisoner”.
The greatest EVER British t.v. show,l loved it when l was a boy and still love it now watching the repeats.l dont think there is anyone who is as beautiful as Lesley Anne down a real stunner then and now still.
My wife and I, in our 50's, recently bought this on DVD: 21 discs.
It was absolutely stunning, everything from the script, the characters, the impeccable dialogue, the stories which remain so poignant and relevant today, the wonderful sets and costumes... Everything was just so very wonderful.
We were both upset when the series eventually ended, the pathos of the last episode. We wanted it to go on for ever and ever.
And look at the country today. Please, someone invent a time machine - we'd all buy tickets.
I’m watching it now for the first time, I’m in the middle of series 3 and loving it!!! Downton Abbey took a lot from this show
I used to watch this when I came home from school in the early 80s.
it really broke new ground, myself and my sister still love these D.V.D.S , now we still watch
the BEST British TV SHOW to ever grace the small screen. I've been watching it my whole life. Usually I bring it out around the Christmas season and see it again with ALL the generations of my family. Only the original Star Trek had a bigger impact on our culture. This is next in line. BTW I'm not British so this isn't bias, just the plain truth.
Me encanta esta serie !!
Simply brilliant, Downton is shameful compared to this. I must have watched most of it even if I was only 11 or 12 when it started being broadcast in The Netherlands. Watching this I can remember most of it. That's how much of an impact this was. Absolute top class as only the British can.
I quite agree.
Downton is a third-rate imitation of Upstairs Downstairs. Yes, it has a much bigger budget, but the acting and writing aren't anywhere near the level of the original.
Downton is not in the same class.
It's a charming series. I have series 4 &5 on box-set
Obviously I meant Ruby and the actor Jenny Tomasin,who perhaps was so good she was too type-cast.
May she R.I.P. .
I really enjoyed it. This was lovely. Thank you.
Wonderful actors!!! Absolutely amazing. No special effects just real core acting.
My grandfather had a house just off Eaton square pretty posh with housemaids and a valet.
We inherited a ridiculous amount of silverware which I loved polishing to see it on the table but my god they had a silver thing for everything .
The hallmark of a truly great book or tv show is that when it ends you miss the characters.
Creator/writer for Downton Abbey DEFINITELY got a lot from this show.
123 Four As did the creators of You rang m'Lord
Stole EVERYTHING!!!!!!! No creativity.
whole cloth some episodes!
Julian Fellows is a tory ponce
I think upstairs. Downstairs. Was one of the best television programmes. Yes. It was a breakthrough. In TV. Thanks for posting
I didn’t realise it was broadcast. In the early seventies.
This is British drama at it's best. Love watching this on Talking TV. It's also sad. Most of them are now dead or very elderly. Love Rose and Sarah.
I grew up with this show. I watched it with my father when I was only about three or four but I loved it so much. Beautiful show.
I adore this show
My Dad was a Stage hand on this show. I still like too listen to his T.V. tales.
Sounds like they were mostly down the pub! 🤣
Auch als Kind in der DDR habe ich diese Serie regelmäßig gesehen. Bei uns hieß sie damals "Das Haus am Eaton Place". Ich kann mich noch sehr deutlich an alle Charaktere erinnern. Am meisten mochte ich natürlich Mister Hudson und Rose. As a child in former GDR I often watched this in tv, but the German title hasn´t been "Upstairs, Downstairs", but "The House at Eaton Place". I pretty enjoyed it.
It was such a great cast, each were so suited to the characters that they played.
and special thanks to PBS stalwart "Masterpiece Theatre" for bring it to us Yanks. (mom, was a huge fan!)
A magnificent series; watched 'em all, when new.
My grandparents moved to a very large house in Victoria park, Manchester. It was just after the 2nd world war. They didn’t have a ‘full set’ of servants and were considered ‘beyond the pale’ by the neighbours. Haha house has gone now, to be replaced by student halls of residence.
A true classic.
"One day you'll fall and break your neck and good RIDDANCE"!! Mrs Bridges was so mean to poor old Ruby!
So nice to see the actors after the series never seen Meg Wynn Owen before at a later age. Loved this series not the first time round as too young but repeats. Like my own family - you got to know them so well so when one of them died it hurt!! Well done to all and bless Gordon Jackson. xx
Jackie Tong has the loveliest voice. Absolutely dulcet.
I loved watching this series
loved this program
Jean Marsh once said that the upper class family actors on the show had better dressing rooms than the servant actors!
Lesley was and remains insanely beautiful.
Watching I'm 2019 sep n love da series
Ah the memories. Such wonderful parts with some excellent actors of their time. I will always love that series, saw if when first on LWT in the 1970’s, I later years later bought the series first on DVD, then on iTunes on my iPhone.
I just wacht it here on youtube the whole serie- its great.
Gordon Jackson was made to play Hudson.
I love him so much. And I love his Scottish accent, so beautiful.
@@just4music687 the most memorable part for me with Gordon Jackson wasnt U -stairs D- Stairs..it was the very kind solicitor who fell in love with JEAN , in that wonderful series ..A TOWN LIKE ALICE which is my all time favourite and Gordon Jackson didnt disappoint..as always the sincerity in his acting came thru again..WE never did see any more of his earlier series in the UK as we left in 1960 to live in the USA !! but I hope to remedy this from UTUBE! Sometime soon.. ( The professionals etc) ...
wonderful series, will live forever. thank you for uploading this documentary
Every time I see Lesley-Anne Down all I can think of is Olivia Richards from Sunset Beach!
Always loved Jean Marsh great actress with a fantastic spirit.
I learned so much history from this series
I loved watching the show on PBS, over and over. It was a history/social/cultural lesson. I thought Ruby's role was very demeaning, the way she was treated. A mistake I made was letting the show become too real for me and I had to pull back from it after awhile. I guess that shows how well it was made. I appreciate that the writers/researchers tried very hard to make it authentic for the period. But as an American, I came away with a low opinion of the class structure and the "upper crust."
why? all societies at the time had a class structure and the lower classes were not treated well
My mum used to watch U/D and so I had to watch it, at first I didn't like it but then ait grew on me, many years later I realised that Jean Marsh was one of my favourite actresses, she aced that part!
Why hasn't Jean Marsh hasn't been made a "Dame" yet?
Good question.
Right!
Mention must go to jacqueline Tonge as daisy. Very underrated. Producers must have rated her as they used a lot of actresses for the under house parlour maid. When she came in at series 3 she stayed till the end of the series. I think in series 4 she was in every episode.
@@Willsey she was very beautiful too. I've seen sexy pics of her and the actress who playd Georgina in sexy poses. All the women in this TV show are Beautiful.
Wow... That's exactly what I thought.. I suspect she may have refused it?
My most favourite television show of all time. Never could get into 'Downton Abbey' -- tried but failed.
Me too
"I went apeshit!"
LOL!! I never imagined that Jean would swear! :D
Why did the film makers not even mention the Thomas/Sarah duo? They even had a short spin-off series featuring them. That would have fit very well with what happened after.
DId it do all that well?
I actually agree that Sarah was good for James.
Wow! A great series, but not even a mention of David Langton as Richard Bellamy. Why?
Sad to see Daisy had problems in real life afterwords because she was a great actor.
One of my very favourite episodes was when she joined a dating agency, hooked up with a man who worked for the post office , she brought him back for tea with the rest of the staff, he was a wonderfully acted boring character that Ruby “blew out “ because he was “nothing like Rudolf Valentino” .
Absolutely wonderful episode.
This show was popular in Denmark too. Way before my time though.
I love the story about Gordon Jackson handing sandwiches round and giving a little bow. Didn't Lesley-Ann Down, who tells the story here, realise that Gordon, hilarious man that he was, was almost certainly taking the piss ?
Missing out so many characters has made this slightly disappointing, but still great! I picked this up a few years back watching it on Channel 4 in the mornings before work. I had a job that felt a bit servant-y being a care-worker in a small but nice rest-home, where we'd carry trays, make beds etc. they say this kind of trade doesn't go on anymore but I think it's just shifted and changed a little to what a lot of care work is like today.
Daisy hasn't aged a day!
Wish they mentioned Elizabeth , Lady Marjorie , Edward and Sarah!
Olivia Briggs I think Nicola Pagett who played Elizabeth, was having a bit of a meltdown when this documentary was made.
Me too! I adored Nicola Pagett in this series. Through the character of Elizabeth we were shown many of the social controversies and also those episodes laid bare the economic and social inequities of the time. What a tremendous series, and Elizabeth was a crucial character.
@@mannixflinn6227 But they could have mentioned the character!
Thank you a lot for great USDS tv series.
Lolll “Hudson-ofication” Love that (Simon Williams expressed it perfectly).
Thank you so for the upload!!
"The second Lady Bellamy?" There wasn't even a first Lady Bellamy.
I sobbed through the episode in which Edward and Daisy marry and he goes off to war, and for an hour afterward. I adored Edward!!!
? Lady Marjorie Bellamy, Richard's first wife. A titled Lady in her own right. Then Lady Virginia Bellamy, Richard's second wife after he was made a Viscount.
technically no but Richard dd have a second wife
Up/Down was a remarkable show. If you watch it today, you'll see how much better it is than Downton Abbey. To this day, I'm PISSED that Hazel died. Georgina and James should have died in a car crash. They were both annoying. At least she grew up at the end and married.
Blimey Frank, I thought it was just me who remains traumatised by lovely Hazel's unjust and terrible demise !
James treated her abominably and her secret true love was killed in the war.
She should have run off with Richard, who clearly was secretly in love with her.
I also loved Daisy, so much sexier than the ghastly Georgina who very unnervingly looks about 15 in this doc.
@@ysgol3 - Hazel was my favorite character and Meg Wynn Owen was superb. Whenever she was onscreen, I couldn't take my eyes off of her - but as she said herself, the character had run its course - it would have been unthinkable for her to divorce James (and quite unbelievable) - and there were rumors that Meg Wynn could be difficult - my sense is that she was disliked by most of the cast - she had her own ideas about Hazel that didn't align with the producers and the writers - as it happens, her instincts were spot on, but as much as a shock as it was, I think Hazel's death was right-headed - and hard as that episode is to watch, it's one of the best in the series with a tour de force performance by Ms. Owen.
@@jonathanyodice8732 Hi Jonathan, please just remember that Hazel is MINE !!!
Interesting about Meg Wynne's alleged difficultness (if that's a word). Ludicrously, the loveliness of her character makes me instinctively doubt this, but of course it may be true ! If it is, I hope it was just for professional reasons and not personal - as you say she was spot on in her instincts, however they may have contradicted the production team.
Whatever she said later, I do think her character could have gone on - with a Georgina/Hazel/James triangle going on, and with her at last finding a proper, true ally in Virginia. But that never happened, and so the last series stands as it is.
It's like Lady Marjorie, apparently she was never written out, the actress left, and the series continued in its brilliant way without her, so now it's unthinkable that she wouldn't have been on/ would have survived the Titanic. But, had she continued, her clashes in series 3 with the 'unsuitable' Hazel would have been brilliant I think, especially given the wonderful, glorious Hazel's (sorry, carried away again) wonderful steely core.
Merry Christmas !
@@ysgol3 -Hazel is for EVERYONE! :-)
@@jonathanyodice8732 NO NO NO !!!! .........LOL.
Perfection!
terrible how the better looking, from a more affluent child hood actors and actresses were treated like a higher class even by fans. The accents really do create a class divide.
we still watch these D.V.D.S . such great acting. they dealt with the Titanic, votes for women, problems with being Gay, unmarried mothers, poverty, relegion ,Death of a king and so much more.
So so so much better than that Downton rubbish. Completely different class.
Absolutely the word class is very important in this context Upstairs Downstairs cannot be compared its in a class all its own,even the richness of the upper class accents do not do any justice to the way they express it in Upstairs Downstairs...
You are so, so right. D Abbey doesn’t come close.
god I love the english and their bloody english stoicism!!!!!
love it
Leslie Ann Down was one of the most beautiful women ever - such a lovely woman.
Yeah!
Don’t understand why, the baking of Mrs. Bridges reminds me of St. Michael’s biscuits. In the mid seventies, the sole distributor of St Michael in Hong Kong: Dodwell at the Ocean Terminal. Mom loved to purchase their jam cookies, almond cookies and ginger cookies, normally on a Saturday afternoon. In the early eighties, they sold jelly candy packed in square tray with heavy gelatin, moulded in the shape of a pack of chocolate, again don’t understand why, only on the Sunday afternoon Mom would let us had this treat. This day, the cookies’ recipes were not the same and not packed as many cookies in one tube as in the past. Dodwell no longer exist and Marks and Spencer resumed their distributorship in Hong Kong.
Mrs. Bridges and her kitchen, the whole package, really let me relive the good old days of the seventies, how do I put it, not really the Edwardian Era but you know, the tradition.
St. Michael also produced skirts with beautiful cutting in well made fabric, Mom also liked to dress in those. She had quite a few items of pleated skirts by them. Also their scarves, when mom put around the scarf upon her shoulders, she looked like an air hostess.
Why did they not mention Edward? He was a major part of the show and was even shown in many clips but not even a whisper of him.
+Rachel Clark and Thomas and Sarah.
A pedifile?
Couldn't find anything on the internet to support that claim.
starquant i just made it up
Dimitri James You naughty youtuber ☻.
The upstairs cast was beautiful,
I would like to see comedic version of upstairs downstairs...
Best series ever
Check out this show , You Rang M'Lord, I can't find a non blocked episode currently on CZcams , but this will give you an idea,
m.czcams.com/video/boDXGYYXTZU/video.html
Luck, ..there looks like the series is on Daily Motion
www.dailymotion.com/video/x6kbzov
The British TV show you rang m'lord is the comedy version of upstairs downstairs
I loved this show,and Hudson was the biggest snob of all!
Lordy, Jumbo has aged well 😍
Not.
Yes he has. He's a solid fellow.
+Paula Williams I so agree!
Gosh that nickname grated on me somehow. :)
BEAUTIFUL. LEAVES A MARK, SORT OF FEELING WHICH DOES NOT FADE, IT LEFT A FEELING OF BEING THERE AND THEN, AND YET NOW ' IN A WAY REMINDS US OF THOSE NICE HOUSES AND RANKS BEING POPULAR,,, YET HORRIBLE TIMES OF WW1 AND WW2' THOUGH I WAS BORN IN WW2, STILL WAVES OFF WW1 AND WW2 WERE THE TALK OF THE PRESENT , BECAUSE OF THE ATROSITIES AND DEVASTATIONS IT CAUSED , LET ALONE THE POVERTY IT CAUSED..
Iam watching these days its awedomy
14:30 James gets Sarah pregnant. I remember Lady Marjorie's reply to Sir Jeffrey, who posited If this should reach the Queen's ears... "SHE'S DEAF! And I should like to know when this particular court has set an example of moral impeccability!"
"She's deaf" was 100% true, as Queen Alexandra was deaf caused by a hereditary disease.
I absolutely loved this series!It was the 7th Downton Abbey.
Linda Watkin better than downton Abbey this came first
Why was Elizabeth never - or only fleetingly - mentioned, in all of these documentaries? Did something happen between Nicola Pagett (Elizabeth) and the rest of the cast?
Nicola paget left the show after rows, and I think they didn't want any more to do with her. also the actress had mental health problems on and off
Did Ruby say she's not doing well and the tax man is knocking on her door??? LOL someone help that girl!
Bailiff...a debt collector..such a shame...it’s a harsh profession.
Why aren't the actor playing Edward and the actress playing Elzabeth mentioned at all? For a documentary about the show this is a bit inadequate.
Elizabeth was played by the gorgeous and beautiful Nicola Pagett. She died in March 2021. 🕯
It's too bad Lady Marjorie had to go down on the RMS Titanic. I think the series wouldhave been a bit more realistic to see her Ladyship witness the changes brought on bythe Great War and then the tremendous social upheavals of the 1920's.
I think she had run her course as a character.... cant see her adjusting to modern life
She wanted to leave the show as she didnt want to be be typecast,then regretted the decision
I can't believe that very many Americans still believed England was Edwardian in the 1970s, after growing up with the Beatles, the Rolling Stones, and Carnaby Street! lol
I never could understand why they 'offed' Marjorie Bellamy. I think the series might have really been more 'realistic' having the aristocratic Marjorie deal with the oncoming drastic changes. The Great War, the crazy twenties, the frivolity of James and Miss Georgina, and the ultimate loss of Eton Place in1930.......Did she just want out?
The actress' agent told her it was a mistake to be "stuck" on a tv series. She asked to be released from the show. I'm sure the actress shot and killed the agent later.
Pity. The show was really less regal with out her. If I could have, I would have provided the gun!
according to IMDB she loathed the character and requested an out.
that's too bad, I liked "Lady Marjorie"