The BEST episodes written by Jeremy Paul
#1 - All the King's Horses
Upstairs, Downstairs - Season 5 - Episode 15
(Audio commentary available on some DVDs). The Wall Street crash hits Eaton Place. October, 1929. After making a killing on Wall Street, James returns to England with his spirits renewed. His homecoming is a joyous one for the Bellamys, despite Richard's doubts as to the soundness of his son's speculations. Indeed, his fears are prophetical; the stock-market crash wipes out James and Rose, who invested her savings on the strength of James' advice. Enraged, Richard berates James over this and past failures, opening old and still painful wounds.
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#2 - For Love Nor Money
Hetty Wainthropp Investigates - Season 4 - Episode 6
Robert's brother Frank comes to stay, and brings Hetty the case of a missing Victorian school ma'am.
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#3 - The Understudy
Upstairs, Downstairs - Season 5 - Episode 10
On the eve of an important dinner party for a French diplomat, Hudson suffers a heart attack.
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#4 - The Master Blackmailer (2)
Sherlock Holmes (1984) - Season 6 - Episode 2
Concluding the case of Charles Augustus Milverton, king of blackmailers, who has given Holmes a good run for his money.
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#5 - The Nine Days Wonder
Upstairs, Downstairs - Season 5 - Episode 9
The entire household comes together when a General Strike is called throughout Britain in May 1926
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#6 - The Last Vampyre
Sherlock Holmes (1984) - Season 6 - Episode 3
Holmes investigates a killing which has all the hallmarks of the worst kind of Ruritanian vampire. He is sceptical (to say the least) about the possibility that the undead are up to their mischief just a short train journey from his rooms in Baker Street. If a local resident really found his South American wife sucking blood from their young son, what might it signify?
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#7 - Missing Believed Killed
Upstairs, Downstairs - Season 4 - Episode 11
Grasping at straws, the Bellamy family continue to search for any information to indicate James is still alive, but when Trooper Frederick Norton, James' servant, arrives to deliver James' personal belongings, Hazel loses all hope.
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#8 - A Harmless Vanity
Tales of the Unexpected - Season 5 - Episode 9
Mary Hitchman's disbelief turns to curiosity when a friend tips her off that her husband George is having an affair with a pretty young secretary. Mary arranges a chance meeting with her rival at a beach party - and George does not foresee what is coming to him.
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#9 - A Place in the World
Upstairs, Downstairs - Season 5 - Episode 2
After James' Letter to the Editor garners strong public approval. the conservative Tory party, hoping to cash in on his moment of popularity, invite him to run for Parliament as a Tory. James accepts but everyone soon realizes that his progressive views for moving the country forward are not aligned with the party views which want to go back to the way things were before the war. Meanwhile, Edward and Daisy are struggling financially but realize they have friends who love them at Eaton Place.
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#10 - The Problem of Thor Bridge
Sherlock Holmes (1984) - Season 5 - Episode 2
Maria Gibson, the wife of a gold-mining millionaire, is found shot dead at their country house. Gibson asks Holmes to find his wife's killer and thus to clear the name of his children's governess, Miss Dunbar, who has been charged with the crime. Is Gibson acting as a kindly employer, and what are the hidden depths of the case?
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#11 - An Object of Value
Upstairs, Downstairs - Season 2 - Episode 9
After her father dies, Lady Marjorie has her mother, Lady Southwold come to Eaton Place. When a valuable broach goes missing, finger pointing causes a disruption throughout the household. Meanwhile, Thomas' hopes for a career change are dashed when his potential employer tries to impose himself on Sarah.
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#12 - Wisteria Lodge
Sherlock Holmes (1984) - Season 4 - Episode 4
On a visit to Wisteria Lodge, Scott Eccles gets a strange reception. A mysterious note arrives for his host, Garcia, and the next morning Garcia and his servants have vanished without trace. Eccles consults Holmes, who decides to treat the case as a murder investigation, but it appears that Holmes and Watson are on a wild goose chase.
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#13 - The Musgrave Ritual
Sherlock Holmes (1984) - Season 3 - Episode 4
Holmes and Watson are staying with Reginald Musgrave, the head of an ancient Sussex family, when his butler, Brunton, suddenly disappears. Brunton (something of a ladykiller and a highly educated man) had been taking an interest in an ancient family tradition called 'the Musgrave Ritual', which centres on a Carolingian riddle. And then a second member of the household vanishes, equally suddenly. The old riddle proves to be the key to tracing the butler's body and finding the treasure the dead man was after - the crown jewels lost in the English Civil War. And as so often, it's a case of 'cherchez la femme'.
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#14 - The Master Blackmailer
Sherlock Holmes (1984) - Season 6 - Episode 1
Holmes and Watson are called in to deal with a blackmailer. A dazzling young lady is about to be married, and Charles Augustus Milverton, the slithery king of all blackmailers, has letters she wrote to another man. Watson is astonished when Milverton calls at Baker Street at the invitation of Holmes, who has a plan to thwart him. As ever, things are not quite as they appear to be.
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#15 - The Red Circle
Sherlock Holmes (1984) - Season 7 - Episode 4
Mrs Warren, a London lodging-house keeper, comes to Holmes with a curious story of a reclusive and eccentric tenant. Mrs Warren's husband has been abducted and then quickly released again, perhaps a case of mistaken identity. Holmes decides the case is more important than it appears.
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#16 - Friends in High Places
Lovejoy - Season 3 - Episode 1
As the third series begins, Lovejoy returns to Felsham after a long break in Spain, where he was trying (without marked success) to learn to paint. He quickly seeks out Tinker (who has joined a monastery), Jane, who has a new look, and Eric, now working as a security guard. Victoria Cavero, an old friend of Jane's, comes to stay, and Lovejoy loses no time in falling for her. Victoria wants to sell a South American gold ring, and the ring sets in motion strange events for Lovejoy and Jane, including safecracking, kidnapping, polo and betrayal.
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#17 - The Last Vampyre (2)
Sherlock Holmes (1984) - Season 6 - Episode 4
Concluding the case in which Holmes unmasks an ingenious vampire.
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#18 - Home Fires
Upstairs, Downstairs - Season 4 - Episode 6
The reappearance of Gregory Wilmot throws Rose into a tailspin. Lady Prudence butts heads with Helen over a tea party for wounded officers.
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#19 - The Speckled Band
Sherlock Holmes (1984) - Season 1 - Episode 6
Holmes is approached by Helen Stoner, who feels threatened by her domineering step-father, Dr Grimesby Roylott. Her sister died mysteriously just before her planned wedding, and Helen has heard again the curious whistle she first heard on the night of her sister's death.Holmes perceives great danger and lays a complicated plan to defeat the threat to the beautiful Helen.
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#20 - Who is the Fairest of Them All?
Lovejoy - Season 5 - Episode 2
Jane's old dance teacher wants Lovejoy to sell a mirror. This then leads to a deal which involves the apparently one-eyed Roderick Frew. Jane informs Lovejoy that Alexander is broke, Felsham is in the hands of the receivers, and she is leaving.
#21 - What the Footman Saw
Upstairs, Downstairs - Season 3 - Episode 10
At the pub with some friends, Edward shares stories about the recent weekend hunting party he attended with James and Hazel, and inadvertently opens a huge can of worms.
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#22 - A Suitable Marriage
Upstairs, Downstairs - Season 1 - Episode 5
December 1905: Elizabeth falls for a young German baron, whom her father is suspicious of. Richard quickly uncovers the Baron's secret, but as it turns out, Baron Klaus von Rimmer is hiding another secret, which Rose accidentally stumbles upon. The events of the evening compel one of the servants to betray not only the family, but the country as well.
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#23 - Who Killed Cock Robin?
Midsomer Murders - Season 4 - Episode 4
Barnaby and Troy are drawn to Newton Magna where their search for a horse whisperer allegedly struck by a car is complicated by the discovery of a body in the town well.
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#24 - Whom God hath Joined...
Upstairs, Downstairs - Season 2 - Episode 4
Elizabeth comes home for Christmas without Lawrence. The Bellamys face another family crisis when it is discovered that Elizabeth is expecting a baby.
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#25 - A Perfect Stranger
Upstairs, Downstairs - Season 3 - Episode 11
A chance meeting on a bus leads to a proposal of marriage for Rose and a chance to make a new life in Australia.
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#26 - The Naval Treaty
Sherlock Holmes (1984) - Season 1 - Episode 3
Holmes is approached by Percy Phelps, of the Foreign Office, to recover a document which has been stolen - before it can cause an international scandal and ruin Phelps's career. It seems the British Empire and the Kingdom of Italy have entered into a secret and embarrassing treaty.
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#27 - A Voice from the Past
Upstairs, Downstairs - Season 1 - Episode 10
Autumn 1908: While providing food for the homeless, James and Elizabeth are surprised to run into Sara whose been living on the street. Elizabeth insists on taking her back to Eaton Place where she's given a job as a scullery maid. Sarah immediately reverts back to her old tricks and, claiming to be a medium, causes an uproar when she tries to conjure up the spirit of Emily during a seance.
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#28 - Somewhere Over the Rainbow
Lovejoy - Season 6 - Episode 3
Tinker disappears, and Lovejoy sets off to find him. He arrives in Devon, where he discovers that Tinker's real name is Archie and that he has a sister whose hotel business is threatened by a rogue property developer. Charlotte and Beth join them and they look for ways to raise money to save the hotel. Meanwhile, Tinker has lost the key of Charlotte's safe-deposit box.
#29 - The Beastly Hun
Upstairs, Downstairs - Season 4 - Episode 3
The bitter anti-German sentiment generated by the sinking of the Lusitania causes the Bellamy servants to consider their own attitudes when a local tradesman of German descent is attacked, along with his family. Hazel discovers that Hudson has been spreading scare stories around the servants' hall and displaying an exaggerated hatred of Germans.
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#30 - Rose's Pigeon
Upstairs, Downstairs - Season 3 - Episode 5
Alfred, the Bellamy's former footman from a few years ago, shows up on the doorstep, cold, wet, and hungry, with no where else to go. Although his behavior is erratic, Rose lets him in to eat and stay the night in a storage room. When he's discovered the next morning, Alfred panics and the situation quickly falls apart.
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#31 - Loveknots
Lovejoy - Season 3 - Episode 8
Jane decides to sell an Anatolian rug. When it comes up for auction, an old lady at the sale, Harriet Fisher, buys a Berber rug for her dog, but a young Arab who also wanted it promptly steals it from Harriet. Lovejoy is curious and decides to investigate... Meanwhile, Alexander and Jane are quarrelling badly, and they decide to split up.
#32 - Goose Bumps
Lovejoy - Season 5 - Episode 10
After a dealer apparently disappears over the side of a cross-channel ferry, Lovejoy acquires two china geese. Charlie Gimbert, in pursuit of local ambitions, decides to impress the community and asks Charlotte to act as hostess at a Dog Show and Wildlife Auction at Felsham Hall. Lovejoy organises the auction, including his geese - and Charlotte invites him home for a dinner for two.
#33 - Dainty Dish
Lovejoy - Season 4 - Episode 11
The Lovejoy Antiques team is in Brighton, scouring the town for a really grand set of old china. Charlie Gimbert (as ever) causes some havoc, and then there's the story of the antique chairs...While on the china trail, Lovejoy chances on a stunning rip-off with hundreds of porcelain plates.
#34 - The Three Gables
Sherlock Holmes (1984) - Season 7 - Episode 1
Holmes investigates when a man dies and the manuscript of his recently-completed book is stolen. He has to discover who was behind an unusual proposal to buy a house and all of its contents.
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#35 - Who's Got the Lady?
Tales of the Unexpected - Season 5 - Episode 17
Parnell is an art dealer who plans to steal an important picture from his own London art gallery. During a ceremony to unveil The Patrician Lady (a masterpiece on temporary loan) gun shots and an explosion suggest a robbery. Afterwards, surprisingly, The Patrician Lady seems to be unharmed, but then Parnell finds the name 'Zarchetti' stamped on the back of the canvas, suggesting the picture is a fake. With the original under suspicion, Parnell plans that his artist girlfrend will then forge copies of the painting, which he can sell to several of his collectors who will each pay a good price for what appears to be the real masterpiece. But something goes wrong with the plan...
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