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Downton Abbey: The Complete Scripts, Season One
First published 2012
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, whose marriage prospects are already threatened by scandal.
Upstairs and downstairs, loyalties shift as valet John Bates tries to secure his place, Lady Sybil becomes involved in women’s politics, and the servants pursue rivalries and romances of their own. The season moves from 1912 to the summer of 1914, ending as Britain declares war on Germany. The volume presents the complete scripts with Fellowes’s notes, omitted material and commentary on the period.
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