Upstairs, Downstairs

Upstairs, Downstairs was a 1970s British television series set in a grand Edwardian town house in London and depicting the events of the early twentieth century as they affected the servants ('downstairs') and masters ('upstairs').

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1970s - British - Television - Edwardian - London

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The series was originally conceived by Jean Marsh and Eileen Atkins as a comedy, called Behind the Green Baize Door, about two housemaids (to be played by themselves) who worked in a Victorian country house. After approaching a development company in 1969 their ideas were expanded and developed to include the upstairs element and it became a drama known variously as Two Little Maids in Town, Below Stairs, The Servants' Hall, That House in Eaton Square and 165 Eaton Place until becoming Upstairs, Downstairs shortly before going into production.

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Jean Marsh - Eileen Atkins - Victorian - 1969

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