Thomas & Sarah (1979)
Synopsis
Thomas & Sarah is a British drama series that aired on ITV in 1979. A spin-off from the BAFTA Award-winning series Upstairs, Downstairs, it stars John Alderton and Pauline Collins reprising their Upstairs, Downstairs roles.
Network
ITV1
Episodes
Birds of a Feather
A near tragic car accident between mechanic Thomas Watkins in his auto and nanny Sara Moffat results in the one-time couple reuniting.
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.
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.
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.
Made in Heaven
While caretaking the townhouse of vacationing aristocrats, Thomas and Sarah take the opportunity to use the premises as a matrimonial agency.
Alma Mater
Sara is working at a private boys' school when Thomas arrives and brazens himself into becoming a teacher.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
Love into Three Won't Go
Thomas and Sarah go into the service of a depressed and dissipated aristocrat with a death wish, but their good cheer lifts him out of his doldrums.
Cast
Details
Original Title
Thomas & Sarah
Status
Ended
Seasons
1
Episodes
13