Hello Old Friend (Upstairs Downstairs 2012)

[Dave (imported)]

Last Friday, I couldn't sleep.

I watched the first season (three episodes) of the 2011 sequel to Upstairs Downstairs and while I thought I that I lost the appetite for historical costume drama, an old friend appeared on the TV. 165 Eaton Place is back.

Season 2 starts tonight on the Eve of Chamberlain's appeasement, a new baby, the arrival of a wet nurse, and Alex Kingston with her lesbian lover...

(ps - Alex Kingston played River Song on Dr Who and Elizabeth Corday on ER)

[bobover3 (imported)]

I've become a reluctant fan of Downton Abbey. 165 Eaton Place sounds like the same genre. I'll give it a try.

[devi (imported)]

Downton Abbey is about the best series that I have ever ever seen. I was never able to watch Upstairs, Downstairs much but I would like to watch that in it's etirety too. Right now I'm watching a Mexican series (in Spanish) that's really really good too. There was a Brazilian series that I also liked although most would call it totally silly called "Uga, Uga". With Downton Abbey, I have been planning to order the 3 seasons of the dvd set from KNME -our PBS but first I need to get a simple dvd player when I get around to it. I don't care about bluetooth particularly. I've been blowing all my free time lately on cable television which I happen to have access to for right now. I've been watching stupid but interesting programs for which I typically do for the times that I happen to have cable. But then that IS how I get introduced to certain really good shows such as Downton Abbey and such. Masterpiece Theater has a lot of good programs to it.

[bobover3 (imported)]

Devi, you can get the first seasons of Downton on Netflix. If you use BitTorrents, you can get all of them.

Best series: these days I'm in love with Breaking Bad. I just discovered it recently and watched the whole series. Superb.

[devi (imported)]

Probably should get a Netflix or some other subscription come to think of it. Really good dvd players with the screen are less than a hundred dollars nowadays. Most of my old stuff had broken down and I just wasn't that interested in replacing anything. The funny thing is that I've been watching television on an old forty year old Mitsubishi screen. My aunt said that they had it when they had first moved into the house and put it up since it was just too small. She had stopped the cable but I'm still getting it. So that a few years ago for a few months after she had fractured her spine I was watching cable then and later when she broke her hip I was there but now that she's with my cousins I'm taking care of the house and for now I have free cable.

[curious_guy (imported)]

The funny thing is that I've been watching television on an old forty year old Mitsubishi screen.

Forty years old would make it from 1972. Is it really that old? I think that most (or all televisions) made then used tubes in the electronics and not just a picture tube. Does the TV have tubes in the chassis? Your TV should have a sticker on the back with a manufacture date. If it does, what does it say?

When I was shopping for a used TV around 1980, one guy said that the TV he was selling was only a year old. It had about 30 tubes in the chassis and the manufacture date sticker was missing. I knew he was lying because all TV sets were solid state except for the picture tube by 1975. TV sets made in the early 1970s had fewer than eight tubes.

[devi (imported)]

It's a transistor television with no tubes. In the late sixties and during the seventies the Japanese were cranking out transistor radios and small color televisions. But as a child my first recollection of having a television was with tubes. You had to turn it on in about five minutes in advance and hope that it still worked. If a tube quit working you'd go to a shop or store, test them on a contraption and replace the one that wasn't working. But then everybody quit restocking tubes. For the duration of my life I have spent more years with having a working computer than having a working television. Also a cell phone as opposed to a landline.

[curious_guy (imported)]

Last Friday, I couldn't sleep.

I watched the first season (three episodes) of the 2011 sequel to Upstairs Downstairs and while I thought I that I lost the appetite for historical costume drama, an old friend appeared on the TV. 165 Eaton Place is back.

Season 2 starts tonight on the Eve of Chamberlain's appeasement, a new baby, the arrival of a wet nurse, and Alex Kingston with her lesbian lover...

(ps - Alex Kingston played River Song on Dr Who and Elizabeth Corday on ER)

I just watched this and I thought it was not as good as last season. I missed Jean Marsh who plays Mrs. Rose Buck.

[curious_guy (imported)]

Downton Abbey is about the best series that I have ever ever seen.

A few days ago I downloaded and watched the first episode of Downton Abbey. It was superb. Now I will have to watch the whole series.

[Dave (imported)]

Episode three is sad drama. The birds have come home to roost and you won't like those birds.