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<blockquote data-quote="Mel O&amp;#039;Drama" data-source="post: 347766" data-attributes="member: 23">The documentary bonus feature The Story Of Upstairs Downstairs is proving absolutely fascinating. Knowing next to nothing about the background of the series and having actively avoided digging round while watching it&#039;s proved informative and I really appreciate how open - even critical at times - the actors and creative team are in their interviews.While The Story... for the first two series had a little background and then what felt like a quick rundown of most episodes that year, Part Three spent around half its running time on the exit of Rachel Gurney as Lady Marjorie and the arrival of Meg Wynn Owen as Hazel. It was good to see that Meg herself was interviewed.It&#039;s also fascinating to hear the background on the decision to put Lady Marjorie on board RMS Titanic and Rachel Gurney changing her mind about wanting to leave even as they filmed her final episodes. Especially pleasing was to get the background of the terrific scene where we learn the ship&#039;s name through David Langton&#039;s dialogue as Richard dictates his Marconigram to Hazel. It was actually based on a similar reveal in the Noël Coward play Cavalcade (which I haven&#039;t seen but now want to), where two characters are speaking on the deck of a ship and at the end a jacket is picked up from a lifeboat behind them to reveal the legend &quot;RMS Titanic&quot;. It was so effective in UpDown, any intellectual theft is forgiven.Jean Marsh is as open as ever about her views on the series and its topics. She (among others) had thought the return of Roberts, soaking wet in the thunderstorm at night,&nbsp; just too obvious and melodramatic and fought against it. But it was admitted that it worked. It was also great to hear her views against capital punishment spoken even more passionately than Rose as she discussed the hanging of poor Alfred.It&#039;s a little sad, actually, to think that The Story Of...&nbsp; is itself now a period piece, with many participants in the 2006 documentary&nbsp; - including Meg; Christopher Beeny; Nicola Paget and Jenny Tomasin - having died in the relatively short time since it was made. We&#039;re extremely lucky to have this time capsule with the voices of the people who were there.</blockquote>

[QUOTE="Mel O'Drama, post: 347766, member: 23"] The documentary bonus feature [I]The Story Of Upstairs Downstairs [/I]is proving absolutely fascinating. Knowing next to nothing about the background of the series and having actively avoided digging round while watching it's proved informative and I really appreciate how open - even critical at times - the actors and creative team are in their interviews. While [I]The Story... [/I]for the first two series had a little background and then what felt like a quick rundown of most episodes that year, Part Three spent around half its running time on the exit of Rachel Gurney as Lady Marjorie and the arrival of Meg Wynn Owen as Hazel. It was good to see that Meg herself was interviewed. It's also fascinating to hear the background on the decision to put Lady Marjorie on board RMS Titanic and Rachel Gurney changing her mind about wanting to leave even as they filmed her final episodes. Especially pleasing was to get the background of the terrific scene where we learn the ship's name through David Langton's dialogue as Richard dictates his Marconigram to Hazel. It was actually based on a similar reveal in the Noël Coward play [I]Cavalcade[/I] (which I haven't seen but now want to), where two characters are speaking on the deck of a ship and at the end a jacket is picked up from a lifeboat behind them to reveal the legend "RMS Titanic". It was so effective in [I]UpDown[/I], any intellectual theft is forgiven. Jean Marsh is as open as ever about her views on the series and its topics. She (among others) had thought the return of Roberts, soaking wet in the thunderstorm at night, just too obvious and melodramatic and fought against it. But it was admitted that it worked. It was also great to hear her views against capital punishment spoken even more passionately than Rose as she discussed the hanging of poor Alfred. It's a little sad, actually, to think that [I]The Story Of...[/I] is itself now a period piece, with many participants in the 2006 documentary - including Meg; Christopher Beeny; Nicola Paget and Jenny Tomasin - having died in the relatively short time since it was made. We're extremely lucky to have this time capsule with the voices of the people who were there. [/QUOTE]

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