Upstairs, Downstairs

Availability


After many years of being practically ignored for the home market, Upstairs, Downstairs fans are lucky that the availability of the series is now very good, with the episodes available on DVD in various releases across the world. The chart below lists those episodes currently available, and those with fixed future release dates:

 

UK
PAL/Region 2

USA
NTSC/Region 1

Australia
PAL/Region 4 (+?)

Denmark
PAL/Region 2 (+?)
(Herskab Og Tjeneste Folk)
Finland
PAL/Region 2 (+?)
(Kahden Kerroksen Väkeä)
Sweden
PAL/Region 2 (+?)
(Herrskap & Tjänstefolk)

Spain
PAL/Region 2
(Arriba y abajo)

Portugal
PAL/Region ?
(A Família Bellamy)

Germany
PAL/Region 2 (+?)
(Das Haus Am Eaton Place)

Netherlands
PAL/Region 2

Label:

Network

A&E7

Timelife Midget Entertainment Futurefilm Noble Entertainment

Circulo Digital10

PrisVideo

ZYX/Movieman6

Memphis Belle

Languages:

English

English

English English English English

Spanish, English, Catalan

English

German, English

English

Subtitles:

none

none

? Danish Finish, Swedish, Norwegian Swedish, Finnish, Norwegian

Spanish, English
(switchoffable)

Portuguese

none

Dutch
(switchoffable)

 

 

 

       

 

 

 

 

Season 1

YES (all eps)4

YES1

YES (all eps)3

YES3

YES (eps 1-3) YES (all eps) YES (all eps) YES (all eps)

YES (eps 1,7,8)

YES (S1 eps 1,7-13 S2 all)

YES (all eps)3

YES (S1 eps 1,3,7,9,13 S2 eps 1-6,8-12)

YES (S1 eps 1,3,7,9,13; S2 eps 1-3)

YES (eps 1,3)

YES (colour eps)

tba (all eps inc b/ws)
YES (eps 4-7)

YES (eps 9,10)

YES (eps 7,9)

YES (eps 8-10)

YES (eps 11,12)

YES (S1 ep 13, S2 ep 1)

YES (eps 11-13)

YES (S1 ep 13, S2 ep 1)

YES (S2 eps 2,3)

Season 2

YES5

YES

YES (eps 1-4)     YES

YES (eps 2,3)

YES

YES (eps 4-6,8-12)

tba (eps 4,5)

YES

YES (eps 5-7)    

YES (eps 4,5)

tba (eps 6,8)

     

YES (eps 6,7)

tba (eps 9,10)

     

YES (eps 8,9)

tba (eps 11,12)

     

YES (eps 10,11)

 

     

YES (eps 12,13)

 

Season 3

YES8

YES

      out 16/4/08

 

YES

 

 

 

 

out 2008

Season 4

YES9

YES

       

 

YES

 

 

 

 

out 2008

Season 5

YES2

YES

       

 

tba

 

 

 

 

out 2008

Thomas & Sarah

YES

 

YES

       

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Note that the US range (apart from Thomas & Sarah) is also available on VHS video.

1 This is just as repackaging of the season-by-season disks, so extras are as per those.
2 Includes Part Five of The Story of Upstairs, Downstairs, and commentaries on 4 episodes.
3 Includes the Upstairs, Downstairs Remembered documentary.
4 Includes both edits of On Trial ("Sarah leaves" and "Sarah stays") and Part One of a special documentary, The Story of Upstairs, Downstairs. Also commentaries on 6 episodes.
5 Includes Part Two of The Story of Upstairs, Downstairs, and Simon Williams & Alfred Shaughnessy in Conversation.  Also commentaries on 4 episodes.
6
The German releases only include the episodes which were part of the original showing in the Seventies and were dubbed into German. The episodes are also all cut by about 5 minutes each.
7
Episodes are released in season-by-season sets. In addition there is the so-called "collector's edition megaset" which also includes Thomas & Sarah on 4 extra disks. However, this release is just a repackaging of the old season-by-season disks and does not offer any improvement in picture quality.
8 Includes Part Three of The Story of Upstairs, Downstairs, and Sandy's Last Stand.  Also commentaries on 6 episodes.
9 Includes Part Four of The Story of Upstairs, Downstairs, and commentaries on 4 episodes.
10 A boxed set of the 21 colour episodes from the first two seasons is available, alongside the 2 (or 3) episode releases.  Seasons 3 and later are only as boxed sets. Some of the Spanish episodes appear to be slightly abbreviated.


The covers of the UK range from VCI: