Episode no. Season 3
Episode 11 Written by Jeremy Paul | Directed by Christopher Hodson Original air date 1971 | |
A Perfect Stranger was the eleventh episode of the thirth series of the British television series, Upstairs, Downstairs. The episode is set in 1913.
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Gregory Walter Wilmot is Rose's fiancé. A British sheep farmer living in Australia, he has socialist views. He and Rose meet on a tram in April 1914 when he accidentally sits on a plum cake she is carrying. They soon start courting. Gregory proposes on 12 April 1914 and gives Rose an engagement ring.
Gregory takes Rose to visit his friends and a childhood friend and former love interest of Gregory W. Wilmot, is jealous and contemptuous of Gregory' fiancé Rose and thinks he's marrying below himself. The other friends encourage her to marry him. Rose agrees to go back to Australia with him and become his wife, but hesitant and fearful, she changes her mind at the last minute.