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Downton Abbey Script Book Season

The Downton Abbey script books collect Julian Fellowes’s complete teleplays for the first three seasons of the drama, following the Crawley family and their servants from the sinking of the Titanic in 1912 through the First World War and into the early 1920s. The volumes preserve omitted dialogue and scenes alongside Fellowes’s introductions and episode commentary, showing how the household’s marriages, inheritances, scandals and losses were shaped by wider changes in British society.

Reading order

Books in this series (3 books)

Downton Abbey: The Complete Scripts, Season One cover

1. Downton Abbey: The Complete Scripts, Season One

Julian Fellowes

First published 2012

4.5(1,374)

News of the Titanic disaster reaches Downton Abbey with the deaths of the heirs to the Grantham estate, leaving the title and property destined for distant cousin Matthew Crawley. His arrival with his middle-class mother unsettles the aristocratic household and complicates the future of Lady Mary,…

Downton Abbey: The Complete Scripts, Season Two cover

2. Downton Abbey: The Complete Scripts, Season Two

Julian Fellowes

First published 2013

4.5(316)

By 1916, the First World War has separated the household and transformed Downton into a convalescent home. Matthew Crawley and William Mason serve at the front, Robert struggles with a diminished military role, and the women take on hospital work while Mary remains bound by Matthew’s…

Downton Abbey: The Complete Scripts, Season Three cover

3. Downton Abbey: The Complete Scripts, Season Three

Julian Fellowes

First published 2014

4.6(191)

In 1920, Mary and Matthew prepare to marry as Robert learns that a failed investment may cost the family Downton. The arrival of Cora’s wealthy American mother offers no simple rescue, while Matthew’s possible inheritance creates a conflict over money, duty and the future management of…