Jean Marsh is 90! God love her❤ Eileen Atkins is 90 as well! Such talented ladies. Thanks to you both for the years of entertainment you've given us❤ I'm a big American fan by the way.
Watched it as a child with my parents and now I watch reruns I'll never stop watching it brings bk great memories of my parents plus I love that era when life was a lot less rushed and manners were still important but this show was a gem bk in t he day and so loved it still is sad most have passed away now Mr Hudson Mrs bridges, edward ruby, mr Bellamy, hazel the older cast are all gone sad
Yes, me too. I notice that his son Simon, directed Smiley's People! And of course 'James' was also a Simon. David is in many things and I even saw a young Lady Margery in Tom Brown's School Days, with Hermione Baddely, the twin sister of Mrs. Bridges, 20 years before UP/Down!:]
I had the pleasure of working with Russell on all his television programmes from the BBC in Manchester, as well as several outside broadcast locations, and have to say that he was one of the most kind and friendly people I've ever worked with during my career in UK broadcast television. RIP Russell x
Jean Marsh is always an absolute delight and she totally deserved all the success she enjoyed with Upstairs Downstairs and her wonderful career afterwards in film and on American TV. Re. Upstairs Downstairs, it was a terrible shame Rachel Gurney (Lady Marjorie) and Nicola Pagett (Elizabeth) chose to leave the show early on. They were both brilliant actresses and their characters were irreplaceable, as was Pauline Collins as Sarah.
I’m Italian, when I saw the London Weekend logo on tv I knew I was in for a treat. I was a young girl and, even without knowing the cultural differences between USA and UK, British programmes were always my favourites. This one, together with Poldark, and Brideshead Revisited are among my favourites and some of the fondest memories of my childhood.
What an extraordinary trip down memory lane. I was only a small child living in Mexico City when I first saw Upstairs Downstairs series. The show made a last In impression and changed me forever. Little did I know that I would have had the opportunity of living in the city where this program is based on. What a privilege!. Thank you LWT for creating this program and thus, preserving important details of this period in the history of this Great Nation
I adored the series, it was the very best and to my mind has never been surpassed. Jean Marsh was an early crush of mine i don't mind admitting. If only we made such great TV today. Alas.
I have recently finished watching all 5 Series and this was a lovely bonus find. The programme is as old as me now and I just find it fascinating. Hate to speak ill of the dead but I didn't realise what an utter tool Russell Harty was. I also watched the interview Angela Baddeley mentions and in that too he is so passive aggressive and snide for no good reason. He also if you notice asks a question then cuts people off half way through the answer. The classic example of not listening, just waiting to speak. In his case, he doesn't even wait. Just an arrogant, rude idiot. I remember he himself died quite young, my parents going on about it at the time. Anyway, a lovely show and a lovely cast. Couldn't deal with all the smoking though. What a beautiful and beautifully spoken girl the actress who played Daisy was. Thanks for posting.
Upstairs Downstairs was a great series. I miss it. Mr. Hudson and Mrs. Bridges always loved each other - you could see that in several episodes. For example, when Mr. Hudson had a heart attack. You could see how much Mr. Hudson meant to Mrs. Bridges.
This made my day! Christmas 1975! Shivers on my backbone. Amazing clip beyond words. I remember Edward been offscreen for a while and Rose explaining to Elizabeth he broke his leg by fallling from the servant stairs. Now we know what really happened to Christopher Beeny. Thank you for sharing. This is my Christmas present for 2021 😍
Angela Baddeley was herself from a wealthy background. I'm sure I've read that she based her characterisation of Mrs Bridges on one of her own family's cooks.
Upstairs Downstairs was arguably the greatest TV drama of all time. The only other drama that equalled it was Brideshead Revisited with Jeremy Irons,etc. Upstairs Downstairs was sheer magnificence, a phenomenon of the 1970s 🎩🏛🎩
While back I took a job for a wealthy family and this show helped me knowing how to conduct myself. Painful servitude only lasted for 4 months. Job just was not for me.
This would have been absolutely stellar with anyone other than Harty doing the interviewing. Everybody has already covered what's not to like about him. I still enjoyed it, though... the actors are real class!
That's a fine overcoat he picks up from the hanger, must buy one this winter - elegant cut design, exquisite lapels and fine lining. Russell Harty. The 1st time i saw him here on the Tube was with the now famous Bowie satellite interview. Hope it's being studied at Journo facs (along with Grundy's Incident).
Love Upstairs Downstairs which first saw in the 1990's but never got Russell Harty, he always comes across as a bit snide, like when he draws attention to David Langton's slight pot belly or tells Raymond Huntley he has the look of a seedy headmaster. He's insulting the individuals not the characters they play.
yes Russell Harry could be a bit gossipy in his style and appear somewhat snobbish .....he was though pretty good at getting artists to be less guarded and intimate in conversation.
You’re quite right about Harty, he was so much about celebrating himself at the expense of his guests. No wonder Grace Jones battered him with her handbag!
@@malcolmjawohowelll2892 I did like the interview he did with Dirk Bogarde, mainly for Dirk Bogarde, fascinating look into his acting but also harrowing when Bogarde described entering a concentration camp when serving in WWII. A fascinating man, many say his film Victim was part of the movement that helped decriminalise homosexuality in UK. Now he's mostly forgotten, it seems?
I worked on all of Russell's weekday programmes from the BBC in Manchester, and he was one of THE most kind and genuine people I've ever had the pleasure and privilege of working with. R.I.P. Russell 💖 🥰 X X X
Russell Harty was cringe worthy and totally the wrong interviewer. What a wonderful opportunity missed. He always had a sweaty upper lip as I recall. The series is being shown again on ITV3. I never get tired of watching it. Thank you Jean Marsh and Eileen Atkins for your brilliant creation.
I remember reading comments about this when I was younger (I got into UpDown when I was a kid in the late 90s) and I saw people putting how this was awfully done…I find it very clever! Interviewing in character is fantastic! Plus as a northerner how clever this was!
If only, we have taken a path i fear we can never return from, very sad. The generations to come will never know what its like to actually not queue going into towns and cities, and to walk down the street in a town without constantly moving out of the way. Happy days.
Rather confused by this! I sometimes found myself wondering if the questions were meant for the actors or the characters they were playing. It was a good idea to interview the whole cast (or most of them) but I think it would have been better to interview them all as their real selves. Just about all of them are sadly gone now so this is a good memento to a cast that was simply the best at playing these fascinating characters. I loved this series but missed an awful lot due to going out boozing with my mates, but all was not lost as I recently watched the whole series on youtube. One question would have loved to have asked is the one I would have asked Gordon Jackson. '' What is your absolute honest opinion of Hudson?'' I bet he hated him!
Totally agree. I’d love to have had the actors being themselves rather than their characters - which did come across as rather confused. Great nostalgia, though.
Watch Tom Brown's Schooldays 1951, and see a 30 year old un-aristocratic Rachel Gurney as at the mother of a dying boy, Wow, she had me in tears in less than two minutes!:]
I didn't like Russell Harty's top shelf remark which felt very snidey and creepy. The actors in this marvellous show were so magnificent and classy, all of them!
Upstairs Downstairs started airing on PBS from January 1974. In regards to spin off, in 1975 just as the original version was ending, Jean was in discussion with American television producers to do a spin off with Hudson immigrating to the United States where he reunites with Rose. Other spin off ideas where also talked about, non of them came to anything. Instead the series was repeated a lot during the rest of the seventies in the UK, and later in the 80s on Channel 4.
Russel hearty such an odious character, had no idea how to be civil and interview people, you can tell from the actors involved that the entire process for them was unpleasant and even the infamous interview with grace jones he ignored her like she was trash he was not a pleasant individual rather stuck on himself and yet he. Had nothing to justify the opinion he had of himself. His interviews are truly cringeworthy
2:00 a most unpleasant woman. In real life she bore well deserved ignominy when acting on stage she fell off straight into the orchestra pit. Very like intoxicated at the time.
Awful cringy and dreadful just go to the offical upstairs and downstairs web pages its really slated on there by the webmaster apparently Simon Williams hated doing it and so did Jean Marsh !
No, because it was great then and has stood the test of time today, all the tv companies seem to produce today is the like of Love Island and Britains got talent (which is clearly has not), the re-runs of the series are making money even today....... i doubt todays rubbish will be doing the same.
Upstairs Downstairs is one of the greatest TV dramas ever made
Jean Marsh is 90! God love her❤ Eileen Atkins is 90 as well! Such talented ladies. Thanks to you both for the years of entertainment you've given us❤ I'm a big American fan by the way.
Watched it as a child with my parents and now I watch reruns I'll never stop watching it brings bk great memories of my parents plus I love that era when life was a lot less rushed and manners were still important but this show was a gem bk in t he day and so loved it still is sad most have passed away now Mr Hudson Mrs bridges, edward ruby, mr Bellamy, hazel the older cast are all gone sad
I never saw an actor so perfectly cast as David Langton.He played the role effortlessly.
He portrayed H.H. Asquith in "Number Ten."
I never tire of watching Upstairs Downstairs or Thomas & Sarah episodes.
David Langton was such a gentleman in real life. Fought in WWII....I mean what a guy. A real man's man. The whole cast was splendid to say the least.
David Hutchinson he was also a hunk of man. as well as you stated a gentleman, he knew how to act the part of lord Bellamy.
Yes, me too. I notice that his son Simon, directed Smiley's People! And of course 'James' was also a Simon. David is in many things and I even saw a young Lady Margery in Tom Brown's School Days, with Hermione Baddely, the twin sister of Mrs. Bridges, 20 years before UP/Down!:]
Wonderful actor. YT has episodes from Hadleigh. Mr. Langton is great in that and slightly different from Lord Bellamy.
DL is really nuanced in his one off appearance in Hadleigh. It is well worth searching out the episode.
This is one of the greatest productions of all time as it captured so much of a time that was our history.
Indeed watching Upstairs Downstairs was far better than just reading about history
The best ever. Nothing but fine memories. Always a joy to see it again. Fine childhood memories
I had the pleasure of working with Russell on all his television programmes from the BBC in Manchester, as well as several outside broadcast locations, and have to say that he was one of the most kind and friendly people I've ever worked with during my career in UK broadcast television. RIP Russell x
Oh!!! my goodness I. miss this show so much. I was moved to tears the time James, too his life. It was so well acted made it so real😢
Jean Marsh is always an absolute delight and she totally deserved all the success she enjoyed with Upstairs Downstairs and her wonderful career afterwards in film and on American TV. Re. Upstairs Downstairs, it was a terrible shame Rachel Gurney (Lady Marjorie) and Nicola Pagett (Elizabeth) chose to leave the show early on. They were both brilliant actresses and their characters were irreplaceable, as was Pauline Collins as Sarah.
Rachel Gurney later regretted her decision and I agree that Nicola Page and Rachel would have been wonderful with further episodes.
I’m Italian, when I saw the London Weekend logo on tv I knew I was in for a treat. I was a young girl and, even without knowing the cultural differences between USA and UK, British programmes were always my favourites. This one, together with Poldark, and Brideshead Revisited are among my favourites and some of the fondest memories of my childhood.
What an extraordinary trip down memory lane. I was only a small child living in Mexico City when I first saw Upstairs Downstairs series. The show made a last In impression and changed me forever. Little did I know that I would have had the opportunity of living in the city where this program is based on. What a privilege!. Thank you LWT for creating this program and thus, preserving important details of this period in the history of this Great Nation
this must have been so much fun! It looks like a good idea for a lot of modern shows
I adored the series, it was the very best and to my mind has never been surpassed. Jean Marsh was an early crush of mine i don't mind admitting. If only we made such great TV today. Alas.
I still watch this today! Re-running on Talking Pictures, and all 5 series is now on the new ITV X streaming app.
This is pure gold. It's as good as finding a lost episode. It's amazing how positive and upbeat they all were, despite "Harty" .
Brilliant brilliant show,l remember it well,a never to be forgotten series thank you.
Blimey! Daisy sounds the poshest of the lot!
That's Leeds West Yorkshire for ya!...🤣🤣 We brush-up well here!
How did i EVER miss this ? This series was magnificent !
I have recently finished watching all 5 Series and this was a lovely bonus find.
The programme is as old as me now and I just find it fascinating.
Hate to speak ill of the dead but I didn't realise what an utter tool Russell Harty was.
I also watched the interview Angela Baddeley mentions and in that too he is so passive aggressive and snide for no good reason. He also if you notice asks a question then cuts people off half way through the answer. The classic example of not listening, just waiting to speak. In his case, he doesn't even wait. Just an arrogant, rude idiot.
I remember he himself died quite young, my parents going on about it at the time.
Anyway, a lovely show and a lovely cast. Couldn't deal with all the smoking though. What a beautiful and beautifully spoken girl the actress who played Daisy was.
Thanks for posting.
I LOVE when Gordon said to Angela, "I worship you," because it's obvious he did.
Upstairs Downstairs was a great series. I miss it.
Mr. Hudson and Mrs. Bridges always loved each other - you could see that in several episodes. For example, when Mr. Hudson had a heart attack. You could see how much Mr. Hudson meant to Mrs. Bridges.
This made my day! Christmas 1975! Shivers on my backbone. Amazing clip beyond words. I remember Edward been offscreen for a while and Rose explaining to Elizabeth he broke his leg by fallling from the servant stairs. Now we know what really happened to Christopher Beeny. Thank you for sharing. This is my Christmas present for 2021 😍
Well... what díd happen to Christopher Beeny?
He broke his leg very badly in a motorbike accident.. so they wrote Edward out, as having fallen down the kitchen stairs and breaking his leg
@@glen7318 Thank you.
Thank you for this wonderful treat. Really enjoyed seeing the cast reflect on their characters and the show. Excellent
Gosh they’re all so very well spoken! New actors and actresses these days are rough and delinquents in their manners and speech and even inarticulate.
Angela Baddeley was herself from a wealthy background. I'm sure I've read that she based her characterisation of Mrs Bridges on one of her own family's cooks.
Gordon Jackson the ultimate British butler.
Think David Langton spoke so well. Would have loved to have met him. He seems such a gentleman the word seems to been invented by him
I've never seen this, though watched Upstairs Downstairs when it originally aired in the 70s
Upstairs Downstairs was arguably the greatest TV drama of all time. The only other drama that equalled it was Brideshead Revisited with Jeremy Irons,etc. Upstairs Downstairs was sheer magnificence, a phenomenon of the 1970s 🎩🏛🎩
As "Dolly" would've said: "It's *too* thrilling." What a gift this is, thank you!
Dolly is in King Edward VII, and played the King's suppressed daughter! She was as sexy as it was possible to be in U/D when I was 20!:]
This is so wonderful. Didn't know it existed. X
Just darned wonderful. Good old LWT as
Christmas has come early this year. Thank you for this.
While back I took a job for a wealthy family and this show helped me knowing how to conduct myself. Painful servitude only lasted for 4 months. Job just was not for me.
ITV PLC can only dream of making quality programmes like this.
This would have been absolutely stellar with anyone other than Harty doing the interviewing. Everybody has already covered what's not to like about him. I still enjoyed it, though... the actors are real class!
That's a fine overcoat he picks up from the hanger, must buy one this winter - elegant cut design, exquisite lapels and fine lining. Russell Harty. The 1st time i saw him here on the Tube was with the now famous Bowie satellite interview. Hope it's being studied at Journo facs (along with Grundy's Incident).
OMG I am so happy now
what a lovely gang of people bless
Watching it atm my fav of all time
Mr Rissole Hardly 😂😂
This is great...so lovely to see all the actors and they get on. Stupid questions as usual from RH...shame it wasn't a better interviewer.
I have never seen this it is a pity it was not included in the DVD set
Love Upstairs Downstairs which first saw in the 1990's but never got Russell Harty, he always comes across as a bit snide, like when he draws attention to David Langton's slight pot belly or tells Raymond Huntley he has the look of a seedy headmaster. He's insulting the individuals not the characters they play.
yes Russell Harry could be a bit gossipy in his style and appear somewhat snobbish .....he was though pretty good at getting artists to be less guarded and intimate in conversation.
You’re quite right about Harty, he was so much about celebrating himself at the expense of his guests. No wonder Grace Jones battered him with her handbag!
@@malcolmjawohowelll2892 I did like the interview he did with Dirk Bogarde, mainly for Dirk Bogarde, fascinating look into his acting but also harrowing when Bogarde described entering a concentration camp when serving in WWII. A fascinating man, many say his film Victim was part of the movement that helped decriminalise homosexuality in UK. Now he's mostly forgotten, it seems?
Yes I agree,there's a certain Smugness about that Harty Guy. He seems to be just annoying.🇬🇧🍾
I worked on all of Russell's weekday programmes from the BBC in Manchester, and he was one of THE most kind and genuine people I've ever had the pleasure and privilege of working with.
R.I.P. Russell 💖 🥰 X X X
This was delightful. I would love to be disrespected by Mr. Hudson. :o)
Russell Harty was cringe worthy and totally the wrong interviewer. What a wonderful opportunity missed. He always had a sweaty upper lip as I recall. The series is being shown again on ITV3. I never get tired of watching it. Thank you Jean Marsh and Eileen Atkins for your brilliant creation.
However, when he finally asked the downstairs "trumvirate" about the writing, the response of all three was a joy to hear.
I remember reading comments about this when I was younger (I got into UpDown when I was a kid in the late 90s) and I saw people putting how this was awfully done…I find it very clever! Interviewing in character is fantastic! Plus as a northerner how clever this was!
Those were the days, when there were no queues at Harrods and plenty of room inside.
If only, we have taken a path i fear we can never return from, very sad. The generations to come will never know what its like to actually not queue going into towns and cities, and to walk down the street in a town without constantly moving out of the way. Happy days.
Thank you Big Al 🙂
Rather confused by this!
I sometimes found myself wondering if the questions were meant for the actors or the characters they were playing.
It was a good idea to interview the whole cast (or most of them) but I think it would have been better to interview them all as their real selves.
Just about all of them are sadly gone now so this is a good memento to a cast that was simply the best at playing these fascinating characters.
I loved this series but missed an awful lot due to going out boozing with my mates, but all was not lost as I recently watched the whole series on youtube.
One question would have loved to have asked is the one I would have asked Gordon Jackson.
'' What is your absolute honest opinion of Hudson?''
I bet he hated him!
Totally agree. I’d love to have had the actors being themselves rather than their characters - which did come across as rather confused. Great nostalgia, though.
Drama back then was phenomenal. Not like the PC rubbish that's made today. How I long for entertainment from the past.
Time passing is such a strange thing…
I loved that
Jean Marsh should sue Julian Fellowes for plagiarising Upstairs Downstairs with Downton Abbey.
The majority have left us now ?but what a super legacy they have left
I was disappointed Rachel Gurney (Lady Marjorie) didn`t appear in this program. I rather liked her. She had an altogether "preoccupied" way about her.
She didn't leave on the best of terms and was done with show, and wanted no further part of it.
Lady Marjorie was never preoccupied. She was wondering,who was this impertinent cad?🕰🇬🇧
Watch Tom Brown's Schooldays 1951, and see a 30 year old un-aristocratic Rachel Gurney as at the mother of a dying boy, Wow, she had me in tears in less than two minutes!:]
@@davidgladstone6588 Hi David. Thanks for the tip. Will do. Regards.
@@LadyDragonsblood But later on seriously regretted her decision to leave
What year was this made?
I didn't like Russell Harty's top shelf remark which felt very snidey and creepy. The actors in this marvellous show were so magnificent and classy, all of them!
Didn’t like Russell Harty. Came over as rude and generally unprofessional.
Around the 25:45 mark, Jean mentions a spin-off in America. What was the spin-off? Or is she just referring to its airing on PBS?
Upstairs Downstairs started airing on PBS from January 1974. In regards to spin off, in 1975 just as the original version was ending, Jean was in discussion with American television producers to do a spin off with Hudson immigrating to the United States where he reunites with Rose. Other spin off ideas where also talked about, non of them came to anything. Instead the series was repeated a lot during the rest of the seventies in the UK, and later in the 80s on Channel 4.
@@johnking5174 interesting stuff! Thanks for the info!
@@jzer21 I love the show, have done for over 20 years. I know a lot about it.
@@johnking5174 there was a spin off Thomas and Sarah
I believe the American spin-off was called Beacon Hill and it was set in Boston.
Forget Downton Abbey; it is a rip off of this superlative show. "Roobeeeeeeee!"
Angela Baddley doesn't look well bless her. I still don't understand why my grandmother rated Russel Harty. She thought him 'a dish'.
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Yep, don't make em like that anymore!.
Classic.
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How inept an interviewer was Russel Harty? Im surprised he lasted so long on television
I'm a gay man and even I found this cringe-worthy queen embarrassing to watch, especially his overt gushing over Simon Williams "beautiful face".
Don’t know if it’s part of the bit, but Harty came across as a bit of a dick!
Creepy Russell harty
Russel hearty such an odious character, had no idea how to be civil and interview people, you can tell from the actors involved that the entire process for them was unpleasant and even the infamous interview with grace jones he ignored her like she was trash he was not a pleasant individual rather stuck on himself and yet he. Had nothing to justify the opinion he had of himself. His interviews are truly cringeworthy
2:00 a most unpleasant woman. In real life she bore well deserved ignominy when acting on stage she fell off straight into the orchestra pit. Very like intoxicated at the time.
Harty is quite annoying in this.
Very poor interviewer
Never a fan of Harty, couldn’t listen to him and couldn’t watch him.
ok
Awful cringy and dreadful just go to the offical upstairs and downstairs web pages its really slated on there by the webmaster apparently Simon Williams hated doing it and so did Jean Marsh !
It’s very obvious Simon Williams doesn’t enjoy it! 😊
Yes, you can see Jean Marsh rightly giving him the sideways look of disdain at the table.
We liked it because there was bugger all else to watch back then.
No, because it was great then and has stood the test of time today, all the tv companies seem to produce today is the like of Love Island and Britains got talent (which is clearly has not), the re-runs of the series are making money even today....... i doubt todays rubbish will be doing the same.
harty couldn't say 'one' ie WUN.
Another awful interviewer
Russell Harty was such a dick, he made this very awkward, you could tell the cast were like What is he on about?? most of the time!