So a friend told me to look behind Daisy in the season 2 finale Ouija board scene. They thought the directors had conjured up a subtle spirit of Lavinia image. And there does appear to be a purplish light/reflection/something to the centre right. It's likely just a reflection but still, a fun thought.

I'm really desperately looking for the titel of the composition of season 6/ finale when mr barrow is saying goodbye.

Is there any internal evidence to tell how long Tom was in Boston?

since there is a movie coming out, what do you want to see in it,

for me i would want

Tom to find love again, this time someone who is not rude and disrespectful , and find a place of his own with Sybbie, close to the abbey, so that he can be close to the family but still have a place of his own, and regain his interests in politics but find a middle ground, between his old self and who he ended up becoming. maybe he could become scared of becoming a father again due to how Sybil died.

Tom and Henry's business to be a success, maybe it will be a struggle at first, but by the end they made it work, and Tom makes Mary the full agent while he moves to London but still remains close to the family.

Mary a lot nicer, she and Henry to be happy and i want them to have a little girl, while Mary handles being the sole agent.

I want Edith to continue to thrive with her newspaper and gain another child with Bertie, perhaps a little boy. a plot could be how she would handle the paper and be a wife at the same time, maybe people could question that.

Mosley to be a successful teacher and he and ms Baxter to get together.

Mr Carson to fully retire.

Thomas to stop tormenting himself and others.

Daisy to move to the farm and maybe get together with Andy. we could see how she would manage the farm.

Mrs Patmore to get together with Mr Mason.

Isobel and Merton to cut of his sons.

Violet to remain exactly the same.

Cora and Robert as loving and doting grandparents.

and i want to see more of kids and how they evolve, what their personalities would be like, i kind of hope we will see some of Sybil in Sybbie, and some of Matthew in George.

and to see the crash of 29

I think Jessica Brown Findlay is so beautiful. I have seen her in DA, Winter's Tale, Albatross, Victor Frankenstein, This Beautiful, Fantastic, and I just watched the first episode of Jamaica's Inn. Very good :) Sybil is my fave character and Jessica played her so well. I'm glad her legacy lived on after her death. I think she was the prettiest on DA.

I think Sybil Crawley was about the most beautiful woman on DA. She was also ahead of her time and quite intelligent. Mary and Rose were also beauties. Anyone else think so?

I just LOVED Sybil and Tom! :) Such a great couple. A great story of forbidden love. They were so cute together. They were one of my favorite couples along with Matthew and Mary.

I have never see more beautiful and more cute person than Lily. I think she is perfect and the best accress and singer in The World. What do you think about that??

Has anyone ever created a guide to the dialects or accents of the various characters in the series? For those of us who don't know the intricacies of spoken English language variations (read Americans) it would be helpful to have the insight of one knowledgeable about this subtlety of each character's portrayal. I would expect the writers to have deliberately chosen characters from specific backgrounds for specific roles and that the dialect/accent of those characters is meant to impart information about what to expect or infer about the character's upbringing, life expectations, cultural experiences, and so forth. This would certainly go for the upstairs characters as much as the downstairs.

I am assuming the baby's name was John? What are y'all thoughts?

Was anyone else as annoyed with Miss Bunting, as I was? She was so rude and obnoxious, she claimed to love Tom, but did nothing but antagonize Robert.

Did anyone else think that Atticus' face looked odd when he came back for the last episode? I thought his face looked a bit puffy and his skin looked blotchy.

Does anyone know the episode where the Dowager explains the system of titles to Tom? I believe this scene is at a party of some kind.

Hi, I would like to know what is the music from the Servants' Ball - there is some really nice, cheerful music just after the scene with the maid affair being discovered.

Can anybody tell me the name of the song?

Where did Edith suddenly get the typing skill she used in the episode where the editor walked out?

In the finale episode, when Lord & Lady Grantham arrive at Brancaster Castle, they look around at it as if they had never been there before. Why? Hadn't they been there when they were invited by the Sinderby's for hunting? And hadn't Robert been there when he was young and single?

How old would you have to be to start working as a servant in downton times? I was looking at the info for Thomas and it says his birth date is 1896 so wouldn't that make him 14 Or 15 when he started working there in 1910? I was just wondering if that would be the minimum age back then for working as a junior footman or as another servant. And how old would Thomas have been at the beginning of the series?

Orchestra Collective of Orange County will be performing our Annual Pops Concert. We will be performing theme music from movies and musicals and included in our playlist will be the Theme Music for Downton Abbey! As a fan myself, I'm beyond excited! March 25th Sunday at 6PM in Anaheim. Please go to ocofoc.org for more info.

Hello all! There is a particular piece of music that I am looking for; it is the one featured when Barrow and Sir. Reresby discuss the old days while looking up the staircases. Does anyone know it's name? Thank you very much!

K, so imagine if Julian Fellowes said, "I'm making another Downton Abbey TV show." Take this very seriously: What do you want it to be about? Would it be a prequel? If so, would it be centered around Robert and Cora's early relationship? Or would it be back when Robert was just a boy? Or would it be when Robert and Cora were already married, with young Mary, Edith, and Sybil? Perhaps it would take place after Downton Abbey? If so, would it be during World War II when Violet and Carson are dead? Would it be during the Great Depression? Perhaps it would have an unrelated cast of characters and take place during the 20th century in a different household? I want your ideas!

Rewatching the series again it really strikes me as odd as to why Robert is so put off on Edith marrying Strallan. I know the reasons he states, but think about it, back in those days (and earlier) fathers made all sorts of arranged marriages for their daughters, many with much younger daughters being married off to men much older than Strallan, whom the daughters did not even want to marry. Here is his daughter, past the age many girls/women get married at the time, in love with this man, wants to marry him, and he is a titled, well-off upper class gentleman. It seems Robert should be glad of it.

Tom seems to have gained about 20 pounds from season 1 to the finale. So you think it was in the script? That he was living the good life and so wasn't so lean and mean? I think not, but that the director didn't think it mattered for his character, so let it be. Your thoughts?

While I thoroughly enjoy the series, did anyone else find the story line of Marigold completely unbelievable? Even though Lord & Lady Grantham were more liberal minded that other aristocrats of the day, there is absolutely no way they would have allowed Edith to keep an illegitimate baby, no matter how much they might love her.

Especially as the whole point of the aristocracy was blood lines, inheritance and legitimacy. For an Earl's daughter to give birth out of wedlock would have meant she would have been forced to give the child up for adoption end of story. To not do so would have caused such a scandal, the entire family would have been outcasts.

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When taking care of the dowager, why does Isabelle say "The family took me in and kept me close while living in Cannes"?

I started watching DA about 10 days ago and now im at s06e08. I remember that i didnt like Mary as much in the first few episodes but later on I was rooting on her. And after Sybil died, Edith and Mary talked and I thought their fighting came to its end. But since then Mary is acting so awful. In this season, it's pain for me nearly everytime she's on the screen because of the "entitled cold snobbish" look I always see on her face? I'm just at the part when she reveals Edith's secret about Marigold to Bertie. And dammit I do HATE her. I don't think she deserves a happy ending at all. I know that of course she will have a happy ending with Talbot but I wish she hadnt. Or that someone makes her realise what an awful way she is behaving. I understand that she is nice to Anna and Carson and that Edith revealed her secret about Pamuk, but the hell.. I hope she is punished for it.

At the Servant's Ball (after Rosamund finds her "admirer" in bed with her maid, there's a dance scene, in which Isobel dances with Carson, Mrs Padmore with Matthew and Edith with Thomas, BUT does anybody know the song/musical piece they used in that scene? It is so great, I love music from the 1900s, 1910s,...

Please tell me if you know it!

I have just started watching Downton for the seventh time.  You know what it's like, you start actually watching what is going on more carefully, and you notice things.  For instance.  Has anyone ever noticed, in the scene where Thomas is dressing Kemal for dinner.  what a performance he goes through to tie the tie. After all, It is one thin piece of material.  And then, to cap it all, Kemal finishes the whole procedure by pushing up this tiny knot, as you would a full knot in a man's tie. I'm not being picky as I love Downton with a passion as do we all, I was just amused.

Why was Mr. Green supposed to be addressed as "Mr. Gillingham" in the first episode he appears in Season 4?  Were all valets addressed by their employers' last name traditionally?  if so why; some remnant of English paternalism/feudalism or something like that?  I haven't finished the whole season yet, so I'm sorry if this is answered later in the series.

why is Sarah Crowden as Lady Manville not in the listings ?

Can you tell me the music-genre / how to find such music: This little Band playing, when Lady Mary is in London and meets Henry Talbot for dinner?!

Thank you very much!

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Sybil for sure.. I admired her for rebelling against the way that aristocrats were supposed to act at the time and she had such a kind and positive personality. Also I 100% ship Sybil and Tom and they are definitely my two favourite characters. Who is everyone else's favourite sister? :)

Does anyone know what the instrumental music is at the very start of s04e01 while miss O'Brien is leaving? Would be appreciated thanks :)

Wonder why neither Netflix or Hulu have it uploaded, both have the series ending with episode 8. Had to read about it here.

Hello, can someone help me. I'd like to know where Cavenham Park (home of Larry and Amelia, former home of Lord Merton) is situated. Is it in Downton, in the neighbourhood or somewhere in Yorkshire? How far from Downton Abbey is it? The best I can find on this site is "Yorkshire". Thanks for your answer. ;-)

I have noticed that during a conversation, someone will say the odd word in the French way.  For instance, The Dowager might say 'they were preoccupe, instead of preoccupied'  Was this something the nobility did in those days? 

Please, please, please let there be, like, a two or three hour movie, beginning in early Feburary, 1926 and ending in early Jaunrary, 1929! I hope it shows the new life Edith has with Bertie and how young Marigold (age 6 or 7 in the movie) will enjoy her childhood in the home of her stepfather and step-grandmother.

And young George will be 5-8 years old, Sybbie will be 6-9 years old.  And I want to hear young Marigold talking more often.

Plus I want to see Anna and John's young son would be at four years old and what his name is. And hearing Anna called "Mummy" and Bates called "Daddy" would bo so adorably sweet!  And Rose and Atticus' little daughter Victoria Rachel Cora.

And find more mysteriouss secrets being kept by the Crawley family and others!!

See what we have so far at Downton Abbey movie. Some media outlets remain skeptical, but this has been the most official news about a potential movie.

I'm curious about the origins of the Crawleys.  Where do their status, land and wealth come from.  With their seat at Downton Abbey, should we understand that the Crawleys were jumped-up Tudor courtiers rewarded at the Dissolution with this beautiful estate ?

I've been searching for a Carson/Mrs Hughes (Chelsie) scene where Mrs Hughes chides or jokes with Carson about his lack of self-awareness. Can anyone tell me what ep it was in?

Hope someone can shed light;

- If I've got any of the timeline wrong, forgive and correct me! This is driving me crazy..

Looking for a scene regarding the Bates/murder/Arsenic/Vera story which describes how she must have been ingesting arsenic a while, as the halo affect is a commonly know side effect of arsenic poisonong.

Vera was known to ingest arsenic, which became clear in Season 3. 

The first time the "halo" is mentioned is by Mrs Whatserrname ( Vera's old lady friend who lived nearby).

The lady mentioned the halo and scrubbing her fingers really hard, and that Vera was edgy and nervious  on the day she ended up dying.

Later on in the show ( I presume within Season 3 before Bates gets out of the lockup), someone mentioned how Vera MUST have committed suicide by ingesting Arsenic because the halo is often seen in people who ingest Arsenic. 

I can't find this scene anywhere - where someone discusses how the arsenic effect creates a  halo and the scrubbing of the fingers would have created more arsenic poisoning. 

Its driving me crazy I can't find it. And I'm re-watching every episode in Series 2-3 to find it. 

I don't mean the first time Anna goes to see that woman friend of Vera ( which is the first time the halo is mentioned). This explanation of the arsenic halo must come after that as a means to clear Bates even more, and prove that Vera was secretly eating arsenic for a while. 

Please point me to this episode?

I know that it says on one of the scripts early in season 1 that Sybil is 17 at the begining which is 1912 which would make her birth year 1895, but in season 2 episode 7 when Mary and Edith find Sybil and Branson in the inn Mary says Sybil is 21 and the time period then was 1919 after WW1. If that is true wouldn't her real birth year be 1898?

I was wondeing - the wiki lists Mrs. Barrow as dead, but I don't remember bieng told that in the series. The only place I remember her being mentioned at all, in fact, was when he was talking with Matthew in the trenches and said "If only my mother could see me now", which can be a sign that someone is dead, but can also mean they're just a long way off and unable to see what's become of someone.

Is this clarified somewhere that I'm not aware of or are people simply assuming from the phrasing and the fact that she (along with the rest of his family, including his very alive father) are always refered to in the past tense in cut scenes and such?

I have a very unique situation and am not sure how to make it into a wonderful event. I am 67 and am the youngest member of the United Women's Club of Concord in Massachusetts.  Most of the members are in their 80s but we also have some in their 70 and few in their 90s.  We are all avid British Masterpiece Theater watchers and it's hard to avoid watching at least one season of Downton Abbey. Our club meets once a month September through March and we have speakers come to give talks and other interesting programming.  I was offered the job of getting the programming for the 2015-16 club year.  I contacted Channel 2 in Boston (WGBH) to see if they have anyone who will come and speak to our group about the period in British history Downton Abbey was based on, and possibly about the Crowley family but they do not have any outreach programs. Hope someone could help me with this.  Thanks.   Lisa

Could you believe this [CENSORED]'s view on divorcee people?! Try being Hugh's shoes putting up with that cast-iron battle-axe for twenty-something years!

Okay, so my family and I are arguing about this: when did you guys first get a sense of romance between Mr. Carson and Mrs. Hughes, something more than friendship? Thanks, I can't wait to see your answers!

what ever happened to the fellow who came to DA and claiimed to have neen on the Titamic and   related to the  DA  family? 

When Robert and Patrick talk in episode 2.6, Patrick moves his finger as if he was touching his moustache (or if he was making a "shh!" sign touching his lips) and Robert says "Where did you learn to do that?". Does it mean that Patrick Gordon used to have a moustache, but Patrick Crawley didn't?

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What can you say about the characters just when you hear them speak? Is it possible to recognize where they are from, if they are upper, middle or lower class etc.? Do the actors imitate the accents well? I've heard that they speak in very different manners, but English is not my first language, so it's difficult for me to say much more about it.

When Rose and the others are leaving the Lotus, Jack Ross sings a song. The first verse is "A rose by any other name would smell as sweet. A violet renamed would still be blue. The daffodils will grow in spring. No matter what you call the thing. So what's in a name?"  

What is that song?

I was thinking something like:

Timeline

Year(s)

Story

Story Notes

So we have the episode, the story that occurs and any extra notes for other things. E.g. we'd have a mention of pre 1895 for Robert's father creating a trust fund as that is the latest he was alive.

Thoughts?

My question is, what do you think happens next? I read an article where the author wrote her ideas on what happens. I wasn't pleased as she was a Lady Edith fan and I've always stood behind Lady Mary. It showed Lady Mary alone at downtown while the rest of her family (including Tom and Sybbie) living happily in London with Edith, claiming that Mary had no heart. I have never seen signs of Mary not having a heart, only that it was barricaded behinds walls upon walls built up from decadeds of Edith's pin pricks. Has anyone else noticed that the only time Mary does something or says something that shocks everyone it's because of Edith goading her. Edith always plays the victim, the Drews had to give up their farm because of Edith, when she fires her editor, she tells Bertie that he walked out. I've gone off on a rant, sorry, so back to the original question, what do you think happens next in the story line?

Fellowes was not finished with DA and there were rumours about an upcoming movie, but it seems it could be a prequel... Anyone can confirm this?

Hollywood reporter

Telegraph

Dailymail.co.uk

CBS News

Pros: Cora as central character, young Violet in her young sassy days

Contras: Fellowes' writing, not to see most of the actual characters (some of them weren't born)

What do you think?

PLEASE, PLEASE, PLEASE  let there be, like, two movies; each set in the course of two years; the first movie in 1926 and 1927, and the second movie in the years 1928 and 1929.

I hope it shows the new life Edith has with Bertie and how young Marigold will enjoy her childhood in the home of her stepfather and step-grandmother!

And young George will be 8 years old, Sybbie will 9 yrs old, and Marigold six or seven yrs old.  And I want to hear Marigold actually start talking more!

Plus I want to see Anna and John's young son, like, 3 or 4 years old and what his name is. And hearing Anna called "Mummy" and Bates called "Daddy" would bo so adorably sweet!  And Rose and Atticus' little daughter Victoria.

And find more mysteriouss secrets being kept by the Crawley family.

ANYONE AGREE WITH ME ON THIS AS STRONGLY AS I!!?

Jim Carter is presenting a documentary on Lonnie Donegan on ITV at 10:20pm on Sunday the 17th of April. It looks pretty good and has Paul McCartney and Ringo Star in it (amongst others).

There was an embroidery sampler, above the doorway downstairs, but the camera was never slow enough to enable one to read what it said. Any help here? Thank you.

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Doesn anyone know the piece of music played when Thomas Barrow goes for an interview at Sir Michael's place and Sir Michael starts remembering the parties that were held and the fcaes of the girls as they walk up the stairs?

Thank you.

I have looked for the music that plays while Mary talks to Granny Violet after she ruined Ediths relationship with Bertie. It sounds like a soothed version of the suite, but i simply can't find it :( Can anybody help?

I have looked for the music that plays while Mary talks to Granny Violet after she ruined Ediths relationship with Bertie. It sounds like a soothed version of the suite, but i simply can't find it :( Can anybody help?

Where did Lady Mary meet Lord Gillingham in series 4 episode 8 I think when she asked him to get rid of his valet Green?  It was a glass conservatory type of building and I would like to know where this is in real life.  Thanks.

What is the significance of all the blue and red flags folks are waving.  Small hand-held flags that are half blue and half red.

When the man claiming to be Patrick came to Downton Abby after the war. What happen with that story line?

There are a new series #7!

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in season 5, how did Edith's daughter Marigold get so old? Shouldn't she have been only a few months old?  She's bigger than George!

Can anyone help me with the make and model of the car that is crashed at the race track in series 6 episode 7? In particular I am looking for the make and model of the car that Charles Rogers (the guy who dies) is driving. It is a green car with red interior. 

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I think Branson has great character development, making the transition from servant to family, and from an angry revolutionary patriarch to a kind, supportive man. What do you think?

Hello together,

How long did it take to go from York to Kings Cross before and after the war?

I found that the "flying Scotsmen" would need around 10 1/2 hours from Edinburgh to Kings Cross around 1910. York is one stop on this journey.

I haven't found the traveltime from York to Kings Cross.

I'm wondering about this, because it was mentioned several times that it is possible to travel from Downton to London and back on one day. Mentioned from Lord Grantham and also from the Police while investigation wheather Bates could have murdered Mr. Green.

Regards

What happened to that character?

Can somebody please help me? I have been trying to find the background music from I think s5 ep 4 Secrets of the Catwalk and like the actual song playing during the fashion show. Somebody please tell me if you know. Thanks a lot!!

Can somebody please help me? I have been tryingto find the background music from I think s5 ep 4 Secrets of the Catwalk and like the actual song playing during the fashion show. Somebody please tell me if you know. Thanks a lot!!

If Matthew had become Earl, what would his mother, Isobel, be?  Im thinking both her and Cora cannot both be a Dowerger Countess.

Fellowes has completed a script. Going to go pray for Edith and Thomas.

In the last season Lady Mary & Anna are packing suite cases while talking about Anna's baby.  They then ring for Bates to carry the bags down to the car that is waiting in the sabble yard. Why are they packing suite cases there was nor is there any mention of a journey....?  

Hi,

In other Wikia topics, "other names" are usually listed as Alias, but in this Wikia, they're regarded as Title. Perhaps they should be fixed? Because from my understanding, Title is for royalty or prefix title of the characters.

Can someone please confirm? Thank you!

His profile says he was born "on or before 4/5 August 1896", but surely he has got to be a bit older than that? 1896 would mean he is only 16 when we first meet him in series 1- and 15 when he was taken on as a footman. Apart from the fact that James-Collier looks older, the way Thomas is portrayed suggests a man in his twenties rather than his teens. I'd say 1890 sounds a more reasonable date. 

I can't stand her and she is so annoying why could Mr. Bates get her run over too? Jesus Christ!

It seems that the ancestral Crawley was ennobled in the mid 18th century.  I guess that before then the family belonged to the gentry, the knight class.  Perhaps he who became the first earl achieved some distinction in the military, the Seven Years War?  Perhaps he was a wealthy man among the merchants who purchased a patent of nobility (although earl seems like quite a leap).  At any rate, the title does not extend back to the middle ages or even to the time of Henry VIII--even though Lord Grantham insists that there had been no Catholic Crawleys since the Reformation.

My first guess was that the Crawleys performed some service in the Restoration (that large painting of Charles II having offered the suggestion), but this seems not to be the case.  Is there any information at all on how the Crawleys gained their title?

Where is the wine cellar?  How does Carson gain access to it?

I didn't follow downton Abbey when it started, nor was I familiar with it.   I stumbled across it about 2 months ago and was immediately addicted.  I've watched 6 seasons in two months.  (Come on, they were short seasons).   Actually, I have two episodes left and I'm stalling a little because I don't want it to be over.  If I had heard someone else say that, I would they get a life.   Anyway, I have noticed some other shows that look like they are supposed to be similar.  Upstairs Downstairs, Manor House, etc.  I'm wondering what other Downton Abbey fans have watched and would recommend.   Thanks

What Bates,doing with t by e wine bottle?

Please, please, please let there be, like, a two or three hour movie, taking place in the years of 1926, 1927, 1928 and 1929! I hope it shows the new life Edith has with Bertie and how young Marigold (age 6 or 7 then) will enjoy her childhood in the home of her stepfather!

And young George will be 8 years and old, and Sybbie 9.  And I want to hear Marigold actually start talking more!

Plus I want to see Anna and John's young son, like, 3 or 4 years old and what his name is. And hearing Anna called "Mummy" and Bates called "Daddy" would bo so adorably sweet!  And Rose and Atticus' little daughter Victoria Rachel Cora.

ANYONE AGREE WITH ME ON THIS AS STRONGLY AS I!!?

She married Richard Grey, aka Lord Merton, so she is Baroness Merton. But what is her full style?