Episode no. Season 3
Episode 1 Written by Alfred Shaughnessy | Directed by Raymond Menmuir Original air date 1973 | |
Miss Forrest was the first episode of the third series of the British television series, Upstairs, Downstairs. The episode is set in 1913.
Plot
On 15 April 1912 Lady Marjorie Bellamy and her lady's maid, Miss Roberts are preparing to visit Elizabeth Bellamy in New York. They are passengers on the ill-fated maiden voyage of the RMS Titanic.
Richard hires Hazel Forrest to type the biography of his father-in-law, the old Earl of Southwold, which he is writing. The secretary to Richard Bellamy, a middle class young woman who has been earning a living as a secretary for ten years, against her parents' wishes. This conflict gives the viewer a rare view of the interior of her parents' middle class home: one of the few locations other than the Bellamys' home. James is immediately attracted to her.