"A Perfect Stranger" is the tenth episode of the third series of the British television series, ''
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''. The episode is set in 1914.
Cast
Guest cast
* Gregory Wilmot (
Keith Barron)
Plot
Rose has become engaged to Gregory Walter Wilmot, a British
sheep farmer
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living in Australia, who professes
socialist
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views. They first meet on a
tram
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in April 1914 when he accidentally sits on a plum cake she is carrying. They soon start
courting. Gregory proposes on 12 April 1914 and gives Rose an engagement ring.
Gregory takes Rose to visit his friends. There, a childhood friend (and former love interest) of Gregory's becomes jealous and sneeringly declares that Gregory would be marrying below himself should he wed Rose. His other friends are more supportive, and encourage her to marry him. Rose agrees to go back to Australia with him and become his wife, but hesitant and fearful, she changes her mind at the last minute.
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See also
* Home Fires (Upstairs, Downstairs)
"Home Fires" is the sixth episode of the fourth series of the period drama '' Upstairs, Downstairs''. It first aired on 19 October 1974 on ITV.
Background
''Home Fires'' was filmed in the studio on 25 and 26 June 1974. The location footage was ...
References
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Upstairs, Downstairs series 3 episodes
1974 British television episodes
Fiction set in 1914