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Upstairs Downstairs
Topic Started: Apr 11 2011, 07:48 PM (354 Views)
musicasacra
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I never saw the original, but a new version began airing last night on Masterpiece Classic on PBS. I'm enjoying it -- and I love the house! It's gorgeous, delightful details. I wish I could find photos to share.
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Never saw the original either. People rave about it, and I feel like there's something missing in my life.

OK, something small, perhaps, but it's missing nonetheless.
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I just watched it (recorded it last night). It was good, and I'm certainly going to watch the other two episodes, but it can't possibly compare with the original series. Perhaps because of the time they've given themselves with this; they simply can't build the characters and story lines as well.

I lived and breathed the original series. Horrible high school all week, but 165 Eaton Place one night a week. :hat:
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Never saw the original, but watched the episode last night and enjoyed it.

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Original was the best thing I have ever seen on TV. Evah!
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Both series are enjoyable, the first with Gordon Jackson was a 70's classic and one of the best series evah made, agreed;
(I'd rate Tinker Tailor in 1979 & Smiley's People in 1982 with Sir Alec Guiness as my favourites of that general era)
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I remember the original. I absolutely hated it. Of course, I was a 12 year old boy when it finished, and there weren't any explosions, which might have had something to do with it.
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No explosions, no tanks, no dinosaurs... Jeez, it already has three strikes against it. :lol2:
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This version is set in the mid 30s. Was the original set in the same time?
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It took place between 1903 and the 1930's. I think the new one is supposed to continue shortly after the last one finished.

When I was at school, one of the girls was nicknamed Ruby after the rather dim kitchen maid. I seem to remember the comparison was harsh, but fair.
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Apr 12 2011, 05:54 AM
This version is set in the mid 30s. Was the original set in the same time?
A bit earlier. It spanned from 1903 to 1930. I think that's one of the reasons I enjoyed it so much; it moved along. Slowly, and with a lot of time to understand the characters and the times they were in.

Dame Eileen Atkins (who's playing the matriarch in this series) co-wrote the original idea for the show with Jean Marsh. Very cool that she's now having a part in it. I didn't know who she was when I watched; just that she was really good.

Pauline Collins, Gordon Jackson......so many great people in that series.

And Angela Baddeley, the cook; she was so good. I remember finding out who her character was based on and reading books about that. Can't remember who/what, but it fascinated me.
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Jane Marsh wrote the first, I think I read she is in this one. I wonder if she is one of the writers too?
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Apr 12 2011, 07:15 AM
Jane Marsh wrote the first, I think I read she is in this one. I wonder if she is one of the writers too?
yes, Jean Marsh. The two of them, both actresses, had the original idea and I gather, meant to do exactly what's happening now. Eileen upstairs, Jean down, but Eileen was busy with theatre when it all started. Kind of cool that after all these years they're carrying on with that idea.
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Apr 12 2011, 07:13 AM
the cook; she was so good. I remember finding out who her character was based on and reading books about that. Can't remember who/what, but it fascinated me.
Ok, quick google clears that up. I'm wrong. I was thinking of Duchess of Duke Street, which came along after Upstairs Downstairs, I believe. The cook from that series was based on a real person, Rosa Lewis.


Also a good series. If you like Upstairs, Downstairs, you'd like this too, MS.
Edited by sue, Apr 12 2011, 07:56 AM.
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http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/masterpiece/upstairsdownstairs/bts_atkins_marsh.html

Video Interview: Eileen Atkins & Jean Marsh
Forty years after co-creating the original Upstairs Downstairs, Jean Marsh and Eileen Atkins return to clear the cobwebs out of 165 Eaton Place and begin a new saga. In an exclusive Masterpiece video interview, Atkins and Marsh explain the inspiration for the original series, and the overwhelming emotion and unexpected surprises of returning to a familiar and beloved address.
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Apr 12 2011, 07:54 AM
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Another show that ruined my childhood. When you've only got three channels, and one of them shows The Open University about 50% of the time, and another dedicates 50% of it's Sunday programming to religious crap Songs of Praise and other well-meaning but unwatchable programmes, you learn to hold a grudge about the fact that they stick historical drama on a Sunday night.
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Apr 14 2011, 05:17 PM
http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/masterpiece/upstairsdownstairs/bts_atkins_marsh.html

Video Interview: Eileen Atkins & Jean Marsh
Forty years after co-creating the original Upstairs Downstairs, Jean Marsh and Eileen Atkins return to clear the cobwebs out of 165 Eaton Place and begin a new saga. In an exclusive Masterpiece video interview, Atkins and Marsh explain the inspiration for the original series, and the overwhelming emotion and unexpected surprises of returning to a familiar and beloved address.
:smile: Thank you; that was great fun.
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Apr 14 2011, 07:38 PM
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Apr 12 2011, 07:54 AM
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Another show that ruined my childhood. When you've only got three channels, and one of them shows The Open University about 50% of the time, and another dedicates 50% of it's Sunday programming to religious crap Songs of Praise and other well-meaning but unwatchable programmes, you learn to hold a grudge about the fact that they stick historical drama on a Sunday night.
:lol2: And I lived for BBC historical dramas.

Any escape from the 3 channels we got. The Beachcombers and all that.
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We got the Beachcombers too. Imagine that - Canada's second most popular export during the 1970's, after Canadian Club whisky, which incidentally made said programming almost watchable.
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Apr 14 2011, 08:04 PM
We got the Beachcombers too. Imagine that - Canada's second most popular export during the 1970's, after Canadian Club whisky, which incidentally made said programming almost watchable.
Really? I had no idea it made it past our shores. Sorry about that.
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I don't think it's related, but the Yaz album: Upstairs at Eric's was their best work.
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Episode 1 is now viewable online, if you missed it last Sunday.

http://video.pbs.org/video/1872286271

Episode 2 airs tonight.
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