Thomas and Sarah

Season

1979

UK

6.5

This spin-off of Upstairs, Downstairs (1971) follows Sarah (parlour-maid) and Thomas (chauffeur) some time after leaving service with the Bellamys.

Episode List

S1 • E1

Birds of a Feather

A near tragic car accident between mechanic Thomas Watkins in his auto and nanny Sarah Moffat results in the one-time couple reuniting.

S1 • E2

The Silver Ghost

When Thomas is tasked with selling the Bellamy's Silver Ghost, he finds himself involved in a high risk smuggling scheme involving stolen jewelry.

S1 • E3

The Biters Bit

Circumstances put Thomas and Sarah at a costume party for the gliteratti dressed as servants and it's assumed that the two are aristocrats.

S1 • E4

The Vanishing Lady

After Madge's friend, an ex-policeman, locates Sarah performing in a music hall, she and Thomas decide to sell the garage and collaborate on a magic act.

S1 • E5

Made in Heaven

While caretaking the townhouse of vacationing aristocrats, Thomas and Sarah take the opportunity to use the premises as a matrimonial agency.

S1 • E6

Alma Mater

Sara is working at a private boys' school when Thomas arrives and brazens himself into becoming a teacher.

S1 • E7

A Day at the Metropole

Thomas' mechanical skills earn him a holiday as the seashore Metropole Hotel, where Sarah meets an old chorus girl friend now married to a rich sportsman.

S1 • E8

The Poor Young Widow of Peckham

While trying to win a photography contest run by a local tabloid, Thomas comes down with pneumonia, and the prognosis is grim.

S1 • E9

There Is a Happy Land

With the profits from a jewelry swindle, Thomas and Sarah open a successful haberdashery as Sarah announces she is pregnant.

S1 • E10

Return to Gethyn

Thomas becomes suddenly homesick for his native Wales and with Sarah travels back to his village home for the first time in ten years with dire consequences.

S1 • E11

Putting on the Ritz

Hoping to pull profitable con, Thomas and Sarah impersonate an inventor and a French countess but get taken in by another pair of con artists.

S1 • E12

The New Rich

Nouveau riche Sarah and Thomas have the use of the Andover townhouse, but their egalitarian attitude towards their servants is frowned upon by their butler Wilson.