Guest of Honour (Upstairs, Downstairs)

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"Guest of Honour"
Upstairs, Downstairs episode
Episode no.Season 2
Episode 5
Directed by Bill Bain
Written by Alfred Shaughnessy
Original air date17 November 1972 (1972-11-17)
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"Guest of Honour" is the fifth episode of the second series of the British television series, Upstairs, Downstairs . The episode is set in 1909.

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Cast

Regular cast

Guest cast

Plot

Early in 1909, the Bellamys host a dinner, attended by King Edward VII. The servant Sarah, who is heavily pregnant by James Bellamy, has been sent to Lady Marjorie's family estate at Southwold to be out of the way, but finds it too boring and returns to Eaton Place, turning up on the evening the king is dining upstairs. Sarah goes into labour and gives birth to a boy the same evening, but the baby dies minutes after birth. [1]

References

  1. "Upstairs, Downstairs - Season Two". Updown.org.uk. Retrieved 27 May 2017.