"The Bolter" is the eighth episode of the third series of the British television series, ''
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''. The episode is set in 1913.
Cast
;Guest cast
* Major Cochrane-Danby (
Richard Vernon
Richard Evelyn Vernon (7 March 1925 – 4 December 1997) was a British actor. He appeared in many feature films and television programmes, often in aristocratic or supercilious roles. Prematurely balding and greying, Vernon settled into playi ...
)
* Mrs. Cochrane-Danby (Helen Lindsay)
* Bunny Newbury (
John Quayle)
* Diana Newbury (
Celia Bannerman
Celia Bannerman (born 3 June 1944) is an English actress and director.
Career
Bannerman was born at Abingdon, Oxfordshire, and trained at the London Drama Centre. She started her professional career with Ralph Richardson as Dolly in Bernard S ...
)
* Colonel Harry Tewkesbury (
Bernard Archard
Bernard Joseph Archard (20 August 1916 – 1 May 2008) was an English actor who made many film and television appearances.
Early life and career
Archard was born in Fulham, London, where his father Alfred James Aloysius who was born in Maryleb ...
)
* Mrs. Tewkesbury (Kate Coleridge)
* Lord Charles Gilmour (
Anthony Ainley)
* Breeze (
Anthony Dawes)
* Joseph (Tony Bateman)
* Cecile (Elisabeth Day)
* Henry (John Flint )
Plot
James and Hazel Bellamy are going for a weekend hunting party to Somerby Park in 1913, the country house of James' school-friend Lord "Bunny" Newbury. The other guests encourage her to surprise James and join the hunt, something she has never done before.
Diana Newberry, a childhood friend and love interest of James Bellamy, is jealous and contemptuous of James' middle-class wife Hazel. Diana secretly switches the horses on James' wife Hazel and gives her one that is too spirited. It bolts and runs away so that she almost has a fatal accident. She and James then argue, as he feels humiliated. This, in addition to Major Cochrane-Danby claiming that James and Diana are sleeping together, leads Hazel to flee Somerby with
Rose
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. James follows her back to
London
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when he discovers she has left, and they soon make up.
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References
Upstairs, Downstairs (series 3) episodes
1973 British television episodes
Fiction set in 1913
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