Upstairs, Downstairs [TV Series] overview

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The internationally popular British series Upstairs, Downstairs was created by actresses Jean Marsh and Eileen Atkins, and originally conceived as a contemporary half-hour situation comedy. By the time the series had been accepted by London Weekend Television, it had been revised as a hour-long period drama, covering the years 1903 through 1930. Most of the action was set at 165 Eaton Place, the fashionable London home of the prosperous Bellamy family. The series' title referred to the fact that the stories focused on both the "upstairs" members of the household--that is, the Bellamys--and the large retinue of servants, who lived "downstairs.