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Season 1 Breakdown

Normal Episodes: 3
TV Specials: 0
TV Movies: 0

	1x01 The Fledgling Sir Hallam Holland and his beautiful wife Lady Agnes inherit a dilapidated 165 Eaton Place, and set about restoring the house to its full glory. Former housemaid Rose Buck finds herself ...	Dec. 26, 2010
	1x02 The Ladybird With no sign of a thaw in relations between Lady Agnes and Maud, Hallam finds his diplomatic skills put to the test at home as well as at work. The servants are intrigued by a mysterious ...	Dec. 27, 2010
	1x03 The Cuckoo Sir Hallam finds himself at the centre of a national crisis when his friend, the Duke of Kent, asks for help. Meanwhile, storm clouds are gathering within 165 Eaton Place, with Lady ...	Dec. 28, 2010

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Lady Agnes Holland	played by Keeley Hawes
Sir Hallam Holland	played by Ed Stoppard
Mrs. Rose Buck	played by Jean Marsh
Maud	played by Eileen Atkins
Lady Holland	played by Eileen Atkins
Mrs. Thackeray	played by Anne Reid
Mr. Amanjit	played by Art Malik
Mr. Pritchard	played by Adrian Scarborough
Lady Persie	played by Claire Foy
Harry Spargo	played by Neil Jackson (IV)
Ivy Morris	played by Ellie Kendrick
Anthony Eden	played by Anthony Calf
The Duke of Kent	played by Blake Ritson
Johnny Proude	played by Nico Mirallegro
Ribbentrop	played by Edward Baker-Duly
Lotte Perlmutter	played by Alexia James
Rachel Perlmutter	played by Helen Bradbury
Instructress	played by Sarah Crowden
Dr. Gascoine	played by Ian Barritt
Mrs. Simpson	played by Emma Clifford
Cecil Beaton	played by Christopher Harper
Esmond Harmsworth	played by Richard Teverson
Mrs. Proude	played by Caroline O'Neill

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	Season 1 / Episode 3: - The Cuckoo Mr. Pritchard: [to the other servants referring to the dining room] I don't know what's under discussion in the dining room but every time I knock the silence is so thick, you could stuff a cushion with it.
	Season 1 / Episode 1: - The Fledgling Lady Persie: My sister says you're all to call me Lady Persie if that's what I want, and I do. Harry Spargo: I'll call you anything if you don't act like one.

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Episode 03 - Goof (anachronisms): When the radio is switched on for the King's Abdication speech, the dial light turns on and sound is heard instantly. In the 1930's radios did not switch on instantly - they had valves which required a minute or so to "warm up". (The filaments in them needed to become virtual
Episode 01 - Goof (revealing mistake): The bath that drops down into the vestibule is clearly made of plastic, not cast iron. Firstly a cast iron one would most likely have smashed on landing. Secondly you can see light shining through it. Thirdly when Ivy is fooling around in it, you can hear it is plastic when she touches it
Episode 01 - Goof (anachronisms): The story takes place in 1936, but while Sir Hallam Holland and his wife wait on the station platform to join the boat train a 'British Railways' poster can be seen behind them. British Railways, as an organisation, didn't come into being until 1st January 1948.
Episode 02 - Goof (anachronisms): As Lady Agnes is knitting with her husband at home, Ivor Novello's song "We'll Gather Lilacs" is playing in the background on the wireless. This song only appeared in 1945 in Novello's musical "Perchance to Dream". However the events of the episode took place ni
Episode 01 - Goof (anachronisms): The paving stones outside 165 Eaton Place are a far more modern type than would have been used in 1936.

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Upstairs Downstairs (UK) Season 1 (2010)