"The Property of a Lady" is the sixth episode of the second series of the British television series, '' Upstairs, Downstairs''. The episode is set in 1909. "The Property of a Lady" was among the episodes omitted from ''Upstairs, Downstairs initial ''

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'' broadcast in 1974, and was consequently not shown on US television until 1989.

Cast

;Regular cast *

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(Lady Marjorie Bellamy) * Gordon Jackson (Mr. Agnus Hudson) *

Angela Baddeley Madeleine Angela Clinton-Baddeley, CBE (4 July 1904 – 22 February 1976) was an English stage and television actress, best-remembered for her role as household cook Mrs. Bridges in the period drama '' Upstairs, Downstairs''. Her stage career ...

(Mrs. Kate Bridges) *

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(Rose Bucke) *

David Langton David Muir Langton (born Basil Muir Langton-Dodds; 16 April 1912 – 25 April 1994) was a British actor who is best remembered for playing Richard Bellamy in the period drama '' Upstairs, Downstairs''. Early years David Langton was born Basi ...

(Richard Bellamy) *

Pauline Collins Pauline Collins (born 3 September 1940) is a British actress who first came to prominence portraying Sarah Moffat in '' Upstairs, Downstairs'' (1971–1973) and its spin-off, '' Thomas & Sarah'' (1979). In 1992, she published her autobiography, ...

(Sarah Moffat) *

Christopher Beeny Christopher Winton Beeny (7 July 1941 – 3 January 2020) was an English actor and dancer. He had a career as a child actor, but was best known for his work as the footman Edward Barnes on the 1970s television series '' Upstairs, Downstairs'', ...

(Edward) *

Patsy Smart Patsy Smart (14 August 1918 – 6 February 1996) was an English actress, best remembered for her performance as Miss Roberts in the 1970s ITV television drama '' Upstairs, Downstairs''. She also appeared in: ''Danger Man'', '' Only When I Laug ...

(Roberts) *

Jenny Tomasin Jenny Tomasin (22 March 1938 – 3 January 2012) was an English actress best known for her roles in '' Upstairs, Downstairs'' and ''Emmerdale''. Early life Tomasin was born in Leeds, West Riding of Yorkshire, in 1938 to working class parents. S ...

(Ruby) ;Guest cast * Desmond Perry (Mr.Dooley)

Plot

Mr Dooley arrives at Eaton Place with a packet of love letters that Lady Marjorie had written to her much younger lover, Captain Charles Victor Hammond of the

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regiment and a friend of her son James. Dooley had been Hammond's military batman (personal attendant). Hammond, by then a major, was later killed during a battle in India in 1909 and was awarded the

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. Rebuffed at the front door of 165 Eaton Place by the butler Mr Hudson as an "unwashed Irish vagrant", Dooley goes with the love letters round to the mews to make himself agreeable to Thomas the chauffeur. In a con trick by the chauffeur, who was given the letters for the purpose of negotiating with Lady Marjorie, monies are extorted from both of the Bellamys, each unknown to the other, with the result that ends with Mr Dooley in jail on an unrelated charge, and all monies restored to the individuals—with Thomas receiving a gratuity from each of the Bellamys.'' The Property of a Lady - Updown.org.uk''
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References

External links

- ''Upstairs, Downstairs'' Fansite Upstairs, Downstairs series 2 episodes 1972 British television episodes Fiction set in 1909 {{tv-episode-stub