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Upstairs Downstairs - The Complete Series MegasetRating:
Release Date: 26 November, 2002 Retail Price: $299.95 OUR Price: $269.99 You SAVE: $29.96! Cast: |
Upstairs Downstairs - The Complete Series Megaset Reviews
Rerelease coming 10/25/05, hopefully with better video quality
As others have noted this first release of Upstairs, Downstairs had a horrible transfer to DVD (see e.g., http://www.updown.org.uk/dvdus.htm). It had the video quality of a VHS tape of a city council meeting aired on a cable public access channel. Hardly worthy of one of the most memorable and beloved series in TV history. A new DVD release of this wonderful series is coming 10/25/05. Based upon the supplements announced with the new release, one can hope that the video in the new release will be notably better than in this collection.
Great Historical Show...
This was a wonderful show. I like how it covered both the stories of the servants and the masters. It also went through some very unusual times. I'm very sick of the History Channel always playing World War II, like it was the only war besides Vietnam that ever existed. Remember, we might not have had a WWII, if WWI hadn't been dealt with the way it was. Upstairs, Downstairs does deal with WWI and all the difficulties associated with it, both mentally and physically from the perspective of the soldiers and the homefront.
The series also deals with themes that history often glosses over, such as the wealthy being just as prone as the poor to having affairs. That's a theme Victorian and Edwardian society glossed over.
The only downside was this series covered about 20 years in not enough episodes. It would have been better with maybe a ten year run, so the stories didn't skip around quite so much and certain secondary characters could be better developed.
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