Why am I crying after watching this? I watched it as a child and now have turned 60.... It's just so upsetting to realise that some of the older characters have passed away 😢😢 you think of them as being exactly the same as they were many years ago....but time waits for no man, as they say....excellent series, they don't make them that that anymore ❤❤
i'm 61 and watched as a child too and i'm loving watching it again on ITV3 its sad to realise most are gone, but l don't think its dated as some series have
So true..I see we are the same age. I grew up watching this programme. It was the best that was around. Mr Hudson and Mrs Bridges were my favourite characters. So sad to know they’re not around. I think Jean Marsh is the only surviving actress now..
I absolutely LOVE this series. I've just binge watched all 5 series and now I'm starting it all over again. Simon Williams.....SWOON..... And Gordon Jackson what a magnificent actor. So many social issues depicted here.....its just a pure delight and the casting was perfect.
You know when a series is a classic because it is 50 years later from when it first was shown and yet even today, the series is fresh and still pertinent. I loved watching it 50 years ago and I love watching it again now!
The quality of casting and writing was far superior to other dramas at the time and many since ...truly outstanding it's pinnacle was the stories during the 1914-18 war
'Ruby are you stirring that or pot or thinking about Rudolf Valentino'? Ruby and Mrs Bridges,two important characters in Upstairs Downstairs and It was so understandable that Ruby would live with Mrs B and Mr Hudson after 165 was sold. A Beautiful series so well written and acted. R.I.P to those cast members who have past on.🇬🇧🎂🍾🌂🕯📮🚪🇬🇧
Incredible series. The precursor to, but much better than, Downton Abbey. I bought the complete Upstairs Downstairs DVD box set a couple of years ago and am currently on series 4... possibly the most powerful and dramatic of them all. R.I.P. Christopher Beeny, Nicola Pagett and all of those who sadly are no longer with us.
Yes, this show owns my heart and always will. I realize DA was a fine series, beautifully produced and acted, but it never had the same impact on me as UD.
Who else had tears of nostalgia..omg this truly got to me! They were part of our family everytime they were on TV ! So many are sadly missed so even a tear for that also! ...I especially loved the final episode where Rose went to look round the now empty house and ghostly voices of yesteryear echoed throughout the rooms.. ❤️ well that's how it felt for me just then too ❤️
I believe when it was filmed it was in such a way that it just ran. They didn't cut and start again if it wasn't to scratch. It was theatre. Fantastic drama. One of the best if not the best. It set the tone.
NOTHING ever topped Upstairs Downstairs the brilliant sets, scripts costume and ACTING was and will always play a very special part in the publics affection ❤
I watched Downton Abbey last year and I’m now watching Upstairs Downstairs, Downton Abbey definitely were “inspired by”(tongue in cheek) a lot of the characters and storylines in Upstairs Downstairs
I just finished watching all of the series 2x both shown on ITV3 and Drama. It will stay on my Planner forever something I know I will go back to again and again. Thank you to Jean Marsh and Eileen Atkins. ❤️
One of the finest episodes. I loved the scene where Hazel got Miss Roberts to give up Lady Margery's jewelry box. The third season was the best... excellent writing.
I’m watching the show for the first time as it’s being repeated on ITV3 I’m on series 3 but they’ve missed out some episodes unfortunately, it jumped from series 3 episode 1 to episode 4. I realise lady Marjorie died on the Titanic but they just said Miss Robert’s had been “put away”?
Absolutely loved and still love this series. It was many decades before my time but I really really got so fond of every character and it's so sad that many of them are not with us anymore. Beautiful
Fantastic actors.. especially john Alderton' s threatening statement to the belamys warning of all that he knew. Just seen it on TV again. Wonderful. 2021
Thanks for posting. Was too young to watch at the time. But seen it recently. A very emotional series. The last series. I was crying my eyes out. Talk about bad luck for a house
I've been SkyQing all this and my best bit lately was when Edward reeeally let Mr Hudson know what he thought about him. "All you did in the war was serve everyone bloody sherry!"
I loved the character of Ruby especially in the episode where she joined a dating agency and hooked up with a bloke from Balham, who she blew out when he proposed to her. She was a great actor who was a bit too type cast as a drudge.
Oh, that was a riot! The bloke was Herbert, who loved to read about both the aristocracy and murder cases. After breaking off with him, she started sending away for shipping brochures -- "Get the cruising habit!"
When this Brilliant series started, I was sharing a flat with my actor brother - it was also 165! Chris would answer the telephone with "165...." as Hudson. We all became the cast and never missed an episode. Like many, I still watch it and the wobbly set matters not a jot. Superb Television - and indeed also my preference.
The audience's laughter not only sounded canned here, it is completely inappropriate. Anyone who has seen the series would know that these clips were not funny, but poignant. Especially Sarah's remark about being an "in-between."
This show puts, in my opinion, the mediocrity that is Downton Abbey to shame. Downton is not even close a patch on this great show. A lot of that was due, of course, to the fact that Upstairs Downstairs had vastly superior writing to Fellowe's three minute per scene apologia for the manorial class.
I'm struck by how similar the storylines of Downton Abbey were to Upstairs Downstairs. It's often forgotten too Upstairs Downstairs was re-booted recently. ITV (its original broadcaster) didn't want it, but the BBC snapped it up. Why didn't ITV want it? It had, in pre-production, the juggernaut that was Downton Abbey! The Upstairs Downstairs re-boot, was quietly forgotten.
He's changed some since those days but considering he's probably in his late 70's here, I think he looks pretty good compared to others. I have liked John since his Please Sir days.
He was good looking in the Please Sir and his Roll in Up Down was perfect for him. Welsh,nasty,womanizer,Liar and what a fine performance. And so his wife.🇬🇧🕰
I cannot STAND Pauline Collins and her perpetual attempts at upstaging and scene-stealing. My favorites on the show were Gordon, Angela, Simon, and the various great guest stars.
I think 165 Eaton ple, was far superior to Downton although I did enjoy some of the episodes eg like the king's visit etc if gave us a little insight into life then, altho not impressed with the "upper classes" looking down on ppl, servants to put Ur clothes on take Ur clothes off, run Ur bath, cook Ur food, clean etc, ooooof & the poor ppl had nothing
it was a fantastic drama i watched it from the first episode to the last great cast and the acting was superb it showed the class system as it really was in the early nineteen hundreds
Without doubt still one of if not the best period drama ever made .
Why am I crying after watching this? I watched it as a child and now have turned 60....
It's just so upsetting to realise that some of the older characters have passed away 😢😢 you think of them as being exactly the same as they were many years ago....but time waits for no man, as they say....excellent series, they don't make them that that anymore ❤❤
i'm 61 and watched as a child too and i'm loving watching it again on ITV3
its sad to realise most are gone, but l don't think its dated as some series have
So true..I see we are the same age. I grew up watching this programme. It was the best that was around. Mr Hudson and Mrs Bridges were my favourite characters. So sad to know they’re not around. I think Jean Marsh is the only surviving actress now..
One of the best shows ever.
Mr. Hudson and Mrs. Bridges were the heart of that show.
Agreed.
I absolutely LOVE this series. I've just binge watched all 5 series and now I'm starting it all over again. Simon Williams.....SWOON.....
And Gordon Jackson what a magnificent actor.
So many social issues depicted here.....its just a pure delight and the casting was perfect.
2024 and I still watch it over and over, each year.
You know when a series is a classic because it is 50 years later from when it first was shown and yet even today, the series is fresh and still pertinent. I loved watching it 50 years ago and I love watching it again now!
Watching it on talking pictures now still great after all these years
@@stellabrennan6583 yes I'm watching on Talking Pictures too. Really enjoying it.
Unique in that fiction was weaved with fact. Much was learned from this drama. Brilliant.
The quality of casting and writing was far superior to other dramas at the time and many since ...truly outstanding it's pinnacle was the stories during the 1914-18 war
Still love Jenny Tomasin who played Ruby and her wonderful voice .
"Roo-bee!"
'Ruby are you stirring that or pot or thinking about Rudolf Valentino'? Ruby and Mrs Bridges,two important characters in Upstairs Downstairs and It was so understandable that Ruby would live with Mrs B and Mr Hudson after 165 was sold. A Beautiful series so well written and acted. R.I.P to those cast members who have past on.🇬🇧🎂🍾🌂🕯📮🚪🇬🇧
Incredible series. The precursor to, but much better than, Downton Abbey. I bought the complete Upstairs Downstairs DVD box set a couple of years ago and am currently on series 4... possibly the most powerful and dramatic of them all. R.I.P. Christopher Beeny, Nicola Pagett and all of those who sadly are no longer with us.
Yes, this show owns my heart and always will. I realize DA was a fine series, beautifully produced and acted, but it never had the same impact on me as UD.
my favourite show of all time downton abbey cant even compete
Who else had tears of nostalgia..omg this truly got to me!
They were part of our family everytime they were on TV !
So many are sadly missed so even a tear for that also!
...I especially loved the final episode where Rose went to look round the now empty house and ghostly voices of yesteryear echoed throughout the rooms.. ❤️ well that's how it felt for me just then too ❤️
Hands down, my favorite show of all time.
I believe when it was filmed it was in such a way that it just ran. They didn't cut and start again if it wasn't to scratch. It was theatre. Fantastic drama. One of the best if not the best. It set the tone.
Never tire of this wonderful, wonderful show. Brilliant scripts and performances. Magic!
Beautiful Lesley-Anne Down , Amazing Pauline Collins and all team they created unforgettably story , movie .
The episode when the King came to dinner and Sarah went into labour was superb.
Yes it was. One of the best acting displays on tv.
Just realized that the lady in the beige dress is Lesley-Anne Down. Always gorgeous.
NOTHING ever topped Upstairs Downstairs the brilliant sets, scripts costume and ACTING was and will always play a very special part in the publics affection ❤
Yup - I can't even begin to put it into words.
I just rewatched Upstairs Downstairs ❤ I can’t tell you how many times I’ve watched it!! Still a fan!
The original masterpiece, shamelessly ripped off by Downton Abbey.
Gave up on that halfway through the first series.
I watched Downton Abbey last year and I’m now watching Upstairs Downstairs, Downton Abbey definitely were “inspired by”(tongue in cheek) a lot of the characters and storylines in Upstairs Downstairs
My all time favourite period drama series - no equal in my opinion.
They talk about a soundtrack for life
. This was my screenplay for life
I just finished watching all of the series 2x both shown on ITV3 and Drama. It will stay on my Planner forever something I know I will go back to again and again. Thank you to Jean Marsh and Eileen Atkins. ❤️
Thanks for sharing. I‘m watching it again on DVD and see it with different eyes, now that I‘m an adult.
Just rewatched it! Downton wasn't a patch on upstairs downstairs!!
Started my love for british shows!
I have the series and have seen it countless times. This was great!
My favorite character was Ruby. Would have liked to have met Jenny Tomasin before she passed away. Died too soon at age 73. :/
I wish they gave Jenny Tomasin a show of her own. She had so much to do with Upstairs Downstairs' success.
‘My Lady!, My Lady!, I tried to save her….’
Miss Roberts return from the Titanic.
Cuts me up every time.
One of the finest episodes. I loved the scene where Hazel got Miss Roberts to give up Lady Margery's jewelry box. The third season was the best... excellent writing.
So well acted and written that scene. Miss Roberts was a important Character earlier in the series.🍾
I’m watching the show for the first time as it’s being repeated on ITV3 I’m on series 3 but they’ve missed out some episodes unfortunately, it jumped from series 3 episode 1 to episode 4. I realise lady Marjorie died on the Titanic but they just said Miss Robert’s had been “put away”?
I still watch this when it’s in, quite often episodes on talking pictures tv. What a treat to see this with the cast reunited 😊
Absolutely loved and still love this series. It was many decades before my time but I really really got so fond of every character and it's so sad that many of them are not with us anymore.
Beautiful
James looks better than ever
The amazing story. Love all actors 💯👍🌹
lesley ann down had so much work done, you wouldn’t know it was her unless you knew it was her
Just watch all the series of upstairs downstairs I was sobbing when they all had to leave the house a great series of the old days
The women were all very beautiful.
Still showing entire series on Britbox. Best money I ever spent, Roku + Britbox.
Sure beats the crap out of reality shows.
Roku...thanks
Fantastic actors.. especially john Alderton' s threatening statement to the belamys warning of all that he knew. Just seen it on TV again. Wonderful. 2021
Still watching it now, love it!
Loved this show.
A much better show than Downton Abbey.
Both made of their time and equally as good!
I like downton abbey
💯 Upstairs Downstairs really made you feel as if it was that time period
Sad that they cancelled the 2010 Upstairs Downstairs series
I loved this series so much. My favorite character was Mrs. Bridges.
Mine was Hazel. Someone who cared...
I always enjoyed the interaction between Mrs. Bridges and Ruby. There was love there, but exasperation too; just as it is in a real family.
@@nigelthebriton54 Meg Wynn Owen was incredible on that show. Very underrated. I think it went downhill when she left.
@@kabardinka1 Hi I was surprised she was killed off. A important character,but I suppose that flu pandemic was very bad.thanks.
Thanks for posting. Was too young to watch at the time. But seen it recently. A very emotional series. The last series. I was crying my eyes out. Talk about bad luck for a house
I love that show !!!! Loved Hudson. Never could deal with Sarah.
Yes, I tried to but she never worked for me. I was glad when she left!
@@gwynnethcoan761 The third and fourth seasons of Upstairs Downstairs were the best. The writing really got in a groove.
Well Anthony Andrews was part of that cast, as well.
Lousy crowd should have given them 3 standing ovations! And is this really all there was of the reunion? Thanks so much for sharing it!
Yes, that was all there was.
Dreadful audience, laughing mindlessly and inappropriately.
Everyone looked great! I enjoy watching these shows over and over again and never get tired of them (although Hudson gets my goat, sometimes still!).
Christopher Beeny was so cute ! God bless him.
La mejor serie de época. Qué guiones, qué actores, qué bien dirigida está. Es maravillosa.
Jean marsh... Still pretty x
Since this.....Jenny Thomasin, Meg Wynn Owen and Christopher Beeny have very sadly left us......😢
2023 repeated again & I know it word for word, timeless
Fantastic show
More "absent friends": Christopher Beeny (Edward), Jenny Tomasin (Ruby) and Nicola Duffett (Elizabeth).
Nicola Paget
That must be half of that great show have passed away.Bless those who remain. The beauty of Technology.🇬🇧🕰
It was Nicola Pagett
The star of this show was...no.one..the show itself was the star which is what made it great.
Recently saw the episode with the Belgian refugees..very moving and even more so with what is happening in Ukraine 😥
I've been SkyQing all this and my best bit lately was when Edward reeeally let Mr Hudson know what he thought about him. "All you did in the war was serve everyone bloody sherry!"
@@hopebgood very unfair of Edward. Hudson was way too old but he tried ot join up.... and he was injured when working as a specail policeman
Still love watching this show! I first watched it as an au pair in London!❤️🇨🇦
I still think James Bellingham is one of the most handsome men I've ever seen
Who?
@@ppotter sorry I forgot the character's surname. James.
@@psychosoma5049 James Bellamy. Son of Lord Bellamy. James's wife passed away in the Flu epidemic.
ago, jenny (Ruby) now gone in 2012 so sad also hazel dementia a few years ago so sad 😢😢😢
Super, loved it.
Pauline Collins rarely acknowledges the beginning of her career.
Im watching Upstairs Downstairs now I’m on series 3 and loving it! Downton Abbey certainly borrowed quite liberally from this.
Lesley Ann Dawning is still beautiful.
Leslie-Anne Down is her name.
I loved the character of Ruby especially in the episode where she joined a dating agency and hooked up with a bloke from Balham, who she blew out when he proposed to her.
She was a great actor who was a bit too type cast as a drudge.
Oh, that was a riot! The bloke was Herbert, who loved to read about both the aristocracy and murder cases. After breaking off with him, she started sending away for shipping brochures -- "Get the cruising habit!"
When this Brilliant series started, I was sharing a flat with my actor brother - it was also 165! Chris would answer the telephone with "165...." as Hudson. We all became the cast and never missed an episode. Like many, I still watch it and the wobbly set matters not a jot. Superb Television - and indeed also my preference.
The audience's laughter not only sounded canned here, it is completely inappropriate. Anyone who has seen the series would know that these clips were not funny, but poignant. Especially Sarah's remark about being an "in-between."
Exactly.
Loved upstairs downstairs
Beautiful
Total respect!
This show puts, in my opinion, the mediocrity that is Downton Abbey to shame. Downton is not even close a patch on this great show. A lot of that was due, of course, to the fact that Upstairs Downstairs had vastly superior writing to Fellowe's three minute per scene apologia for the manorial class.
I'm struck by how similar the storylines of Downton Abbey were to Upstairs Downstairs. It's often forgotten too Upstairs Downstairs was re-booted recently. ITV (its original broadcaster) didn't want it, but the BBC snapped it up. Why didn't ITV want it? It had, in pre-production, the juggernaut that was Downton Abbey! The Upstairs Downstairs re-boot, was quietly forgotten.
Aw how sweet, tear.
Shame Hannah Gordon wasn't there.
Brilliant
I loved naughty Sarah
They're such a cute couple
1:50 Fun Fact: John Alderton is also known for narrating the Original Fireman Sam
So sad that Angela Baddeley, David Langton and Rachel Gurney were missing. I wonder why Hannah Gordon wasnt there ?
Jacqueline tong looks so beautiful her voice too .
Anthony Andrews was in the last season of the show.
❤️💜🥰💕💕
Blimey Lesley Anne Down's had some work done hasn't she ?
Where is george innes?
I can't place the guy with the beard?
John Alderton.
John Alderton played Watkins, the chauffeur who married Sarah. They are also married in real life.
He's changed some since those days but considering he's probably in his late 70's here, I think he looks pretty good compared to others. I have liked John since his Please Sir days.
He was good looking in the Please Sir and his Roll in Up Down was perfect for him. Welsh,nasty,womanizer,Liar and what a fine performance. And so his wife.🇬🇧🕰
why only 5:06 minutes ... ?
That's all it was.
I cannot STAND Pauline Collins and her perpetual attempts at upstaging and scene-stealing. My favorites on the show were Gordon, Angela, Simon, and the various great guest stars.
Loadsa fluffed lines, must of been short on time
I think 165 Eaton ple, was far superior to Downton although I did enjoy some of the episodes eg like the king's visit etc if gave us a little insight into life then, altho not impressed with the "upper classes" looking down on ppl, servants to put Ur clothes on take Ur clothes off, run Ur bath, cook Ur food, clean etc, ooooof & the poor ppl had nothing
it was a fantastic drama i watched it from the first episode to the last great cast and the acting was superb it showed the class system as it really was in the early nineteen hundreds