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Upstairs Downstairs - The Complete Third Season

starring: Raymond Huntley, Hannah Gordon, Madeleine Cannon, Christopher Beeny, Nicola Pagett
directed by: Derek Bennett, Bill Bain, Raymond Menmuir

: Upstairs Downstairs - The Complete Third Season
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Aspect Ratio: 1.33:1
Audience Rating: NR (Not Rated)
Binding: DVD
EAN: 9780767044288
Format: Box set, Color, DVD-Video, NTSC
ISBN: 0767044282
Label: A&E Home Video
Manufacturer: A&E Home Video
Number Of Items: 4
Publisher: A&E Home Video
Region Code: 1
Release Date: March 26, 2002
Running Time: 663 minutes
Sales Rank: 37811
Studio: A&E Home Video
Theatrical Release Date: January 06, 1974



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This seminal British television series is just as enjoyable now as when it first aired in the early 1970s. Richard, Lady Marjorie, and their son James comprise the aristocratic Bellamy family that reside upstairs while their loyal servants maintain the household from downstairs. The series follows the upper-class family's troubles as times change and the ongoing lives of their resilient staff. Clean, clear, and presented in order, the third season's 13 episodes follow the London household through the prewar years (1912-1914).

In these episodes, Hudson (Gordon Jackson) gives notice over James's (Simon Williams) luncheon with his father's typist, Miss Forrest (Meg Wynn Owen), who helps run the household after Lady Marjorie dies aboard the R.M.S. Titanic. Tensions again erupt when another family strives to hire Hudson away and Miss Forrest refuses James's marriage proposal, afraid of a past secret. Former servant Alfred reappears, taking a hostage when Hudson discovers he is wanted for murder, and a French countess is romantically interested in Richard's money until James exposes the truth. James's new wife, Hazel Forrest, resolves a stock-trading scandal, but remains uneasy with her new society position, particularly while fox hunting at Lord and Lady Newbury's country estate. A disregard for class differences nearly ends in disaster during Georgina Worsley's (Lesley-Anne Down) holiday visit, and a casual remark by the Bellamys' footman Edward erupts into a scandal that threatens Parliament's Tory constituency. Rose (Jean Marsh) almost marries an Australian sheep farmer, and James's rocky marriage must survive Hazel's miscarriage. In July 1914, when war looms, James looks to rejoin his regiment to escape his troubled marriage; Mrs. Bridges (Angela Baddeley) has a suitor and two servants, Edward and Daisy, defy the downstairs' rules by falling in love. --Tara Chace



Customer Reviews
Average Rating: out of 5 stars

Rating: 4 out of 5 stars - Changes at 165 Eaton Place
The third season of Upstairs Downstairs brings some sad but needed changes. Marjorie Bellamy goes ... Read More


Rating: 5 out of 5 stars - Upstairs Downstairs
The Upstairs Downstairs series was excellent. I purchase the entire series and I enjoyed every one.


Rating: 5 out of 5 stars - #1 TV Show Of All Time
Upstairs Downstairs is TV's greatest programme. Season Three
depicts the years of 1912, 1913 and ... Read More


Rating: 4 out of 5 stars - The weakest of the series...
Which is not to say that this is in any sense bad television, I just find the 3rd Series of USDS to be the ... Read More


Rating: 5 out of 5 stars - yet another superb season
The third season of UPSTAIRS DOWNSTAIRS continues the lives of the Bellamy family and their servants of Eaton ... Read More

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