Upstairs, Downstairs
The Post-War Years 2

The last season required Virginia's children (a boy and a girl, from her first marriage) to appear. Anne Yarker, aged 14 and training in ballet at Elmhurst Dance School, won the audition. During her four episodes, she had to 'age' by 11 years, and the series just about managed to pull off this tall order. Her final appearance in UpDown was a small walk-on role as a bridesmaid at Miss Georgina's wedding.

Whilst the other Bellamys resisted the changes of the post-war world, Georgina threw herself into the Roaring Twenties with all the abandon of the 'gay young things'. Girls cast aside the last vestiges of Edwardian clothes and Victorian inhibitions, bobbed their hair and kicked their legs and, less innocuously, started experimenting with drugs.

Inevitably, the Hollywood Dream Machine cast its spell over Georgina and she jumped at the chance to appear in a film. But her moment of stardom was as brief as her revealing costume. Finding her co-star to be none other than Frederick, the Bellamys' footman, James snatched Georgina from the set and returned her to a shocked Eaton Place.

Hudson revisits his native Scotland in Will Ye No Come Back Again.

The penultimate episode, All the King's Men, introduced a new maid, Mary. Writer Jeremy Paul annotated his script with comments about Mary, such as: "a vision and copy of Sarah" and "Ghosts ... another apparition". Sadly this idea of a "spectre" of Sarah - a reminder of James' failed relationship - didn't end up translating to the screen very well.

After James' suicide, it was obvious that Eaton Place, with all its contents, would have to be sold to meet James' creditors. Georgina was beginning a new life with her husband, the Marquis of Stockbridge, and asked Edward and Daisy if they would like to become their butler and housemaid in the country. Richard and Virginia moved to a smaller and cheaper house in Dorset, taking Rose with them as Virginia's lady's-maid. Mr Hudson and Mrs Bridges slipped away for a quiet Register Office wedding before resettling in Hastings to begin a new life running a guest house. Seeing that she had little future, they took Ruby with them as "general help".

One of the final moments of the series. Rose wanders through the empty house, remembering the many past events to have happened between its walls.