Upstairs Downstairs British TV

[Pleater]

'Upstairs, Downstairs' is a fairly good program depicting the lives of servants and an upper class family at the beginning of the last century.

It is intersting for the costumes and the day to day happenings.

A fund raising pagent was organised, to benefit the Red Cross.

At the dress rehersal, in the drawing room, the organiser requested that Mister Hudson, the butler, and the other staff should show in the audience, which he was perfectly willing to do, however she went too far in suggesting that he should put on a kilt, such as the Highland regiments wear - they had one in the properties box.

The request was politely but firmly declined.

Later on downstairs, Mister Hudson was telling Mrs Bridges (the cook housekeeper) about it, indignant that he had been asked to wear part of a uniform to which he was not entitled, and Mrs Bridges was tut tutting in sympathy.

Mister Hudson is a somewhat 'strait laced' character.

He concluded with 'and anyway it was the wrong tartan!'

It was difficult to tell what tartan it might have been, it was dark and pleated to a white stripe, and the organiser suggested that it was the Black Watch.

Last week there was the brief appearance of an officer in the Seaforths, very smart and terribly youthful.

Anne the Pleater :ootd:

[Dall_Piobaire]

I realize I only see what we are allowed on this side of the pond, and some of it is quite old, but, it is so much better than our, ahem, Television/advert delivery system. A fifteen miute show is half an hour because of the adverts!

But the depth, the subtlety of the humour, even the outragous stuff is so much more entertaining.

BBC America is what I had, and was almost all I watched, I missit! The BBC can't be beat for news either

[JolyStNicholas]

I haven't had the opportunity to view this program but one of my all time favorites and I do miss it greatly is "All Creatures Great and Small." If you have ever seen it yo would know what I mean!

[Dall_Piobaire]

That was a great series, wonder if you can get it on Netflix!

I loved "One foot in the grave", and "Laird of the Glen"

[Galician]

It should be noted, for those who feel that they might have missed something, this series was originally broadcast in the early 1970's.

[Pleater]

Only this week 'All creatures great and small' began a rerun from the very first episode.

Monarch of the glen is also well into its stride - Hector has just died and the wolves have arrived on the estate.

These are all on channels available through a 'freeview' box; I think it was twenty pounds at the supermarket, plus another few pounds for the scart lead, and I was able to plug it in and get it to work.

I can happily sit and hand sew most of a kilt whilst watching the TV with half an eye, and sew on the machine in the adverts.

Anne the Pleater :ootd: