Quick Overview

Decades before ITV launched Downton Abbey, the BBC created a sensation with Upstairs Downstairs, which revived interest in the British manor house. In 2010, the series came back to life with a new cast–plus holdover Miss Buck (co-creator Jean Marsh)–centering on Sir Hallam Holland (Ed Stoppard), a foreign-service diplomat, and his wife, Lady Agnes (MI-5’s Keeley Hawes). In season two, which takes place in 1938, World War II darkens their doorstep as they welcome three new arrivals to 165 Eaton Place: Beryl (Laura Haddock), a nursery maid with ambition; Hallam’s aunt, Blanche (Alex Kingston), an archeologist with a secret; and Caspar Landry (Michael Landes), an American entrepreneur with an eye for Agnes, who finds the attention flattering–and it isn’t as if Hallam doesn’t have an admirer of his own. Chauffeur Spargo (Neil Jackson), a former boxer who once tangled with Agnes’s bad-girl sister, Persephone (Claire Foy), also takes an interest in Beryl, but she proves harder to win over.

Main Features:

Actors: Keeley Hawes, Ed Stoppard, Adrian Scarborough, Neil Jackson, Anne Reid
Directors: Anthony Byrne, Marc Jobst, Brendan Maher
Format: Multiple Formats, Color, NTSC
Language: English
Region: Region 1 (U.S. and Canada only.)
Aspect Ratio: 1.33:1
Number of discs: 2
Studio: BBC Home Entertainment
DVD Release Date: October 23, 2012
Run Time: 360 minutes