Upstairs Downstairs - Series 1 - The Colour Edition

Image Not Available Director: Brian Parker, Herbert Wise, Joan KempWelch, Raymond Menmuir Dvd Release: 18th June, 2001 Number Of Discs: 1 Format: Box set, Full Screen, PAL, Region 2 Encoding

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Upstairs, Downstairs was a 1970s British television series set in a grand Edwardian town house in London & depicting the events of the early twentieth century as they affected the servants & masters. The concept of the series was created by Jean Marsh & Eileen Atkins as a comedy, called Behind the Green Baize Door, about two housemaids who worked in a Victorian country house. After approaching a development company in 1969 their ideas were expanded & developed to include the upstairs element & it became a drama known variously as Two Little Maids in Town, Below Stairs, The Servants Hall, That House in Eaton Square & 165 Eaton Place until becoming Upstairs, Downstairs shortly before going into production. The series was first offered to Granada Television in Manchester who passed on it as they were working on another period drama but London Weekend Television liked the concept & in April 1970 commissioned a series of thirteen plays with an option for a second.

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