History Series / UpstairsDownstairs

* AnimatedAdaptation: Called ''The Upstairs, Downstairs Bears'', and it aired on ITV's CITV block in the early 2000s. (Somewhat ironically, it aired on the final day of LWT under its' own brand in 2002; [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7jjtJzCzA1o it even featured in their recreated startup sequence.]])

* WrittenInAbsence: Edward spends almost half a season off-screen supposedly recovering from having fallen down the back stairs and broken his leg. In reality, actor Christopher Beeny broke his leg in a motorcycle accident on the way to the studio.

* WrittenInAbsence: Edward spends almost half a season off-screen supposedly recovering from having fallen down the back stairs and broken his leg. In reality, actor Christopher Beeny broke his leg in a motorcycle accident on the way to the studio.

* {{Rewrite}}: The First Season ended in the setting of the year 1909, but it was deemed important to keep the storyline within the reign of Edward VII, who died the next year. So, although the Second Season continued its developed storylines, it reversed the chronology to the year 1908.

* LinearEdit

* LoadsAndLoadsOfCharacters: More than 20 recurring ones!

* AbsenteeActor: Due to having LoadsAndLoadsOfCharacters, the entire cast is rarely present at any given time. Even during the more crowded episodes, there are absences; for example, Mrs. Bridges misses Elizabeth Bellamy's wedding.
** If you watch consecutively, the amount of time the staff spend in hospital due to one accident or another becomes absolutely astounding. In later seasons, Rose seems to spend half her time visiting her family.
** Edward spends almost half a season off-screen supposedly recovering from having fallen down the back stairs and broken his leg. In reality, actor Christopher Beeny broke his leg in a motorcycle accident on the way to the studio.

* TheBabyTrap

* GenteelInterbellumSetting

* RomanticTwoGirlFriendship: Rose and Sarah.

''Upstairs Downstairs'' is a British (LWT for Creator/{{ITV}}) period drama that ran from 1971 to 1975 (with a {{Revival}} in 2010; see below). It details the lives of the well-to-do Bellamy family of 165 Eaton Place and their staff of servants between the years of 1903 to 1930. Created by Creator/JeanMarsh (Rose Buck) and Creator/EileenAtkins, who were tired of period dramas where the servants were voiceless extras.

-->--'''Season 4, Ep 9. "Another Year" January, 1917'''

* NotSoDifferent: Elizabeth to Lady Marjorie [[spoiler: when confronted about her recent infidelity]] in the episode "The Fruits Of Love".

* ThemeTuneCameo: Sarah performs the stately march of the titles as BawdySong in her music hall act.

* CastHerd: They're conveniently labeled for you in the title!

* NeverMyFault: In season 2, Hallam blames just about everyone but himself for his marital problems and Agnes drifting away from him. [[spoiler:This reaches its peak when ''he'' starts a fight with another man over the mistaken belief that said man was having an affair with Agnes (both of them truthfully told him they weren't) and then insists that it was ''Agnes's'' fault, that she somehow orchestrated the scenario to have two men fight over her honor.]]

''Upstairs Downstairs'' is a British (LWT for Creator/{{ITV}}) period drama that ran from 1971 to 1975 (with a {{Revival}} in 2010; see below). It details the lives of the well-to-do Bellamy family of 165 Eaton Place and their staff of servants between the years of 1903 to 1930. Created by Creator/JeanMarsh (Rose Buck) and Eileen Atkins, who were tired of period dramas where the servants were voiceless extras.