Another Year (Upstairs, Downstairs)
| "Another Year" | |
|---|---|
| 'Upstairs, Downstairs' episode | |
| Episode no. | Season 4 Episode 9 |
| Directed by | Cyril Coke |
| Written by | Alfred Shaughnessy |
| Production code | 9 |
| Original air date | 9 November 1974 |
Another Year is the ninth episode of the fourth series of the period drama Upstairs, Downstairs. It first aired on 9 November 1974 on ITV.
Another Year was recorded in the studio on 25 and 26 July 1974. In this episode, Hannah Gordon made her debut appearance as Virginia.
On 27 December 1916, Daisy gets a letter from Edward telling her that he is coming home for a fortnight's leave and he will arrive at Eaton Place on New Year's Eve. When he arrives, he is subdued and shortly after midnight on 31 December, he leaves the party downstairs and Richard comes across him crying on the stairs. Richard then takes him into the Morning Room and gives him a whisky. Edward then tells him how Charlie Wallace, his best friend and best man, was killed by a shell going off. This talk cheers him up, but shortly after going downstairs, he breaks down again, with Mrs. Bridges comforting him. Shortly after, Richard asks Sir Geoffrey to lean on General Frank Nesfield to get Edward discharged on grounds of severe shell shock. Edward is soon sent to Barnes Hospital for treatment.
Meanwhile, a Mrs Charles Hamilton, a widow from Inverness, comes to see Richard. She is the Chairman of a committee of Royal Navy widows who want to raise money to educate the children of Navy and Marine officers killed in action. She asks Richard, as Civil Lord of the Admiralty, for Admiralty backing and money, but Richard merely gives her the name and address of a person to write to. However, the following day Richard is given a dressing down by the First Lord of the Admiralty Sir Edward Carson after Carson had accidentally met Mrs Hamilton at dinner the night before. She had told him about Richard's unhelpful attitude and he is ordered to help. In addition, Mrs Hamilton's father-in-law is the second cousin of Admiral Beatty. Virginia then comes round to apologise for getting Richard into trouble.
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