Home Fires (Upstairs, Downstairs)

"**Home Fires**"
"Home Fires"
Upstairs, Downstairs episode
	Rose and Gregory
Episode no.	Season 4; Episode 6
Directed by	Bill Bain
Written by	Jeremy Paul
Production code	7
Original air date	19 October 1974
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"Home Fires" is the sixth episode of the fourth series of the

ITV

.

Background

Home Fires was filmed in the studio on 25 and 26 June 1974. The location footage was shot on 17 June 1974 at Barnsbury Square, Islington.^[1] The episode was set in 1916, and was the second and final episode featuring Keith Barron as Gregory Wilmot.

Cast

Gordon Jackson - Hudson
Rose
David Langton - Richard Bellamy
Meg Wynn Owen - Hazel Bellamy
Lady Prudence Fairfax
Daisy
Gregory Wilmot
Auriol Smith - Mrs Lorimer
John Lyons - Charlie
Julia Sutton - Dorothy Matthews ^[2]
Robert McBain - Hamish Matthews
Audrey Joyce - Mrs Ganton ^[3]

Plot

Rose's former fiancée Gregory Wilmot arrives to see Rose, but she is working on the buses. He is now a

Gallipoli have changed how he thinks. They agree to marry once the war

is over, and soon tell Richard and Hazel, who both like him. Gregory then insists that he and Rose leave by the front door.

Lady Prudence goes to Eaton Place to suggest that Hazel hold a Wounded Officers' Tea Party in the drawing room. Hazel says there are too few servants to hold the event, and also thinks that ordinary soldiers might be a more deserving cause. But on her way out Lady Prudence asks Hudson whether it would be too much and he says it would not be, making Hazel annoyed that Lady Prudence used Hudson to get her own way. Also, Mrs Bridges is in Yarmouth at her sister and brother-in-law's house, helping out after it was bombed. Mrs Ganton is her temporary replacement.

Footnotes

^ Marson, Richard (2005). "Inside UpDown - The Story of Upstairs, Downstairs". Kaleidoscope Publishing.
^ When Hamish and Dorothy appeared in the series three episode A Perfect Stranger, their surname was spelt "Mathews", but in this episode it was spelt was "Matthews"
^ Audrey Joyce's role as Mrs Ganton was uncredited.

References

Richard Marson, "Inside UpDown - The Story of Upstairs, Downstairs", Kaleidoscope Publishing, 2005
Updown.org.uk - Upstairs, Downstairs Fansite

[1] Marson, Richard (2005). "Inside UpDown - The Story of Upstairs, Downstairs". Kaleidoscope Publishing.

[2] When Hamish and Dorothy appeared in the series three episode A Perfect Stranger, their surname was spelt "Mathews", but in this episode it was spelt was "Matthews"

[3] Audrey Joyce's role as Mrs Ganton was uncredited.

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