The Best Episodes of Upstairs, Downstairs Season 3

News of the Titanic disaster arrives at Eaton Place, and the entire household anxiously await word of Lady Marjorie's fate.

Director: Christopher Hodson

Writer: Rosemary Anne Sisson

A downstairs dalliance and a happy outing to a seaside resort divert the staff as war looms on the European continent.

Director: Bill Bain

Writer: John Hawkesworth

The disparity between James' and Hazel's background is cut wide open when Hazel suffers a miscarriage.

Director: Bill Bain

Writer: Alfred Shaughnessy

James' weekend visit to Somerby Park, with Hudson in tow as his valet, presents an opportunity for both to appreciate their beloved Eaton Place and what they've left behind there.

Director: Bill Bain

Writer: Rosemary Anne Sisson

It's Christmas 1913 and two young ladies, one from upstairs and the new parlor maid, conspire to spread holiday cheer to the less fortunate.

Director: Christopher Hodson

Writer: Alfred Shaughnessy

In the spring of 1912, Lady Marjorie prepares to visit Elizabeth in New York and James takes an interest in Richard's comely and respectable new secretary, Miss Forrest.

Director: Bill Bain

Writer: Alfred Shaughnessy

The race is on downstairs -- who will marry first upstairs -- Captain James or his father, Richard?

Director: Derek Bennett

Writer: Alfred Shaughnessy

While running an ordinary errand, Rose's life takes an extraordinary turn.

Director: Christopher Hodson

Writer: Jeremy Paul

Hazel's first substantial encounter with fashionable society causes her great humiliation, marital distress and a near-fatal accident, when she and James visit Lord and Lady Newbury at Sommerby Park.

Director: Cyril Coke

Writer: John Hawkesworth

Richard Bellamy, who has been in considerable financial distress since the death of Lady Marjorie, finds himself at the center of a insider trading firestorm in his capacity as a member of Parliament.

Director: Christopher Hodson

Writer: Anthony Skene

Alfred, the former Bellamy footman, is on the run and dupes Rose and uses her kindness as a shield from the law.

Director: Bill Bain

Writer: Jeremy Paul

A leisurely evening out with his chums, a few beers and some downstairs gossip give Edward a bigger headache than any hangover ever could.

Director: Cyril Coke

Writer: Jeremy Paul

Hazel Bellamy assumes her role as mistress of the household with great trepidation and Richard becomes the quarry of a bounty-hunting Austrian woman and her wily and rapacious brother.

Director: Lionel Harris

Writer: Fay Weldon