Thomas & Sarah

50min

Drama

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.

Episodes

Cast

Birds of a Feather

1. Birds of a Feather

50min

14th Jan 1979

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

2. The Silver Ghost

50min

21st Jan 1979

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

3. The Biters Bit

50min

28th Jan 1979

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

4. The Vanishing Lady

50min

4th Feb 1979

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

5. Made in Heaven

50min

11th Feb 1979

While caretaking the townhouse of vacationing aristocrats, Thomas and Sarah take the opportunity to use the premises as a matrimonial agency.

Alma Mater

6. Alma Mater

50min

18th Feb 1979

Sara is working at a private boys' school when Thomas arrives and brazens himself into becoming a teacher.

A Day at the Metropole

7. A Day at the Metropole

50min

25th Feb 1979

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

8. The Poor Young Widow of Peckham

50min

4th Mar 1979

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

9. There Is a Happy Land

50min

11th Mar 1979

With the profits from a jewelry swindle, Thomas and Sarah open a successful haberdashery as Sarah announces she is pregnant.

Return to Gethyn

10. Return to Gethyn

50min

18th Mar 1979

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

11. Putting on the Ritz

50min

25th Mar 1979

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

12. The New Rich

50min

1st Apr 1979

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

13. Love into Three Won't Go

50min

8th Apr 1979

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.

First air date

14th Jan 1979

Last air date

8th Apr 1979

Status

Ended

Type

Scripted

Original language

en

Networks