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Upstairs Downstairs. Photos Top cast Edit. Adrian Scarborough Mr. Warwick Pritchard as Mr. Warwick Pritchard …. Anne Reid Mrs. Clarice Thackeray as Mrs. Clarice Thackeray. Art Malik Mr. Amanjit Singh as Mr. Amanjit Singh …. Jean Marsh Mrs. Rose Buck as Mrs. Rose Buck. Alex Kingston Dr. Blanche Mottershead as Dr.
Blanche Mottershead. Heidi Thomas. From the outset Upstairs Downstairs failed to capitalise on the rivalry with Downton Abbey. They were slow to produce a follow-up to the successful first outing and by the time the second series aired, momentum was lost. There have been constant murmurings of "Not fair! Jean Marsh, who devised the original series with Dame Eileen Atkins, has always implied that Downton was deliberately commissioned as a spoiler for Upstairs Downstairs.
She once said: "The new Upstairs Downstairs had been in the works for about three years. We were trying to sort out 40 years of rights and then it also started - Downton Abbey. It might be a coincidence. And I might be the Queen of Belgium. But Upstairs was also dogged by a series of practical problems. Atkins quit the second series two months before filming began amid rumours that she was unhappy with the scripts. Lady Maud had to be hastily killed off, swiftly followed by Solomon her pet monkey, who died in an accident involving a gas-proofed pram.
Meanwhile Jean Marsh suffered a minor stroke, which meant most of the second series had to be rewritten and her character barely featured at all. This made the connection with the s series even more tenuous.
Both have compelling narratives, and as in many of our favorite period dramas, their story lines often revolve around relationships between the sexes. The Gender Question. Below stairs, the role of women remain fundamentally the same from one series to the next with few exceptions.
The female servants remain in harness, both versions have plot lines involving the thwarted dreams of maids who dare to reach for a better life. The choices are not much better for the above-stairs women, who find themselves just as boxed in and optionless as the women servants below them.
Both Lady Marjorie in the original series and Lady Agnes in the second are meant to be merely stunning accessories to their husbands. Both series provide insight into class-based societal expectations for women at the time. The original version shows this against the backdrop of the minor progress that was made in the first decades of the new century, such as women winning the vote.
In the newer version, the coming war means that the women, both above and below stairs, are beginning to question the established norms. The Decision. So which is best? Try both! Watch Upstairs, Downstairs Cox holds a B. She suspects she may have once lived in the s and, having yet to discover a handy time machine lying around, has resorted to writing about the era as a way of getting herself back there.
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