The Bolter
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| "The Bolter" | |
|---|---|
| Upstairs, Downstairs episode | |
| Episode no. | Season 3 Episode 8 |
| Directed by | Cyril Coke |
| Written by | John Hawkesworth |
| Original air date | 15 December 1973 |
"The Bolter" is the eighth episode of the third series of the British television series, Upstairs, Downstairs. The episode is set in 1913.
Cast
- Guest cast
- Major Cochrane-Danby (Richard Vernon)
- Mrs. Cochrane-Danby (Helen Lindsay)
- Bunny Newbury (John Quayle)
- Diana Newbury (Celia Bannerman)
- Colonel Harry Tewkesbury (Bernard Archard)
- 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
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