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The Bolter

8th episode of the 3rd season of Upstairs, Downstairs

"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 (1973-12-15)

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"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 Rose. James follows her back to London when he discovers she has left, and they soon make up.^[1]^[2]

References

^ The bolter - imdb.com
^ The bolter - updown.org.uk

Upstairs, Downstairs

Episodes

Series one	"On Trial" "The Mistress and the Maids" "Magic Casements" "I Dies from Love" "Why Is Her Door Locked?" "A Voice from the Past" "The Swedish Tiger" "The Key of the Door" "For Love of Love"
Series two	"The New Man" "A Pair of Exiles" "Married Love" "Whom God Hath Joined..." "Guest of Honour" "The Property of a Lady" "Your Obedient Servant" "Out of the Everywhere" "An Object of Value" "A Special Mischief" "The Wages of Sin" "A Family Gathering"
Series three	"Miss Forrest" "A House Divided" "A Change of Scene" "A Family Secret" "Rose's Pigeon" "Desirous of Change" "Word of Honour" "The Bolter" "Goodwill to All Men" "What the Footman Saw" "A Perfect Stranger" "Distant Thunder" "The Sudden Storm"
Series four	"A Patriotic Offering" "News from the Front" "The Beastly Hun" "Women Shall Not Weep" "Tug of War" "Home Fires" "If You Were the Only Girl in the World" "The Glorious Dead" "Another Year" "The Hero's Farewell" "Missing Believed Killed" "Facing Fearful Odds" "Peace Out of Pain"
Series five	"On with the Dance" "A Place in the World" "Laugh a Little Louder Please" "The Joy Ride" "Wanted – A Good Home" "An Old Flame" "Disillusion" "Such a Lovely Man" "The Nine Days Wonder" "The Understudy" "Alberto" "Will Ye No Come Back Again" "Joke Over" "Noblesse Oblige" "All the King's Horses" "Whither Shall I Wander?"