Desirous of Change

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"Desirous of Change"
Upstairs, Downstairs episode
Episode no.Season 2
Episode 6
Directed by Lionel Harris
Written by Fay Weldon
Original air date1 December 1973 (1973-12-01)
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"Desirous of Change" is the sixth episode of the third series of the British television series, Upstairs, Downstairs . The episode is set in 1913.

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Richard Bellamy has a brief, steamy affair with a Vienna-born French Countess de Ternay, which ends on wistfully friendly terms when they both realise neither has the wealth that their public appearances imply. Gwyneth Davies falls in love with Richard Bellamy and goes away telling that it's time for her to leave for she is "desirous of change". [1]

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