Name: Downton Abbey
Genre: Drama, Classic, Romance

Downton Abbey Episode 1.02 Episode 2

Downton Abbey Episode 1.02 Episode 2

Episode Premiere

October 3, 2010

Genre

Drama, Classic, Romance

Production Company

Carnival Films

Official Site

http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/masterpiece/downtonabbey/

Information

Episode Premiere

October 3, 2010

Genre

Drama, Classic, Romance

Period

2010 - 2016

Production Co

Carnival Films

Distributor

PBS, ITV

Official Site

http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/masterpiece/downtonabbey/

Cast and Crew

Director

Ben Bolt

Screenwriter

Julian Fellowes

Main Cast

Hugh Bonneville
Elizabeth McGovern
Maggie Smith
Dan Stevens as Matthew Crawley
Penelope Wilton
Jim Carter
Phyllis Logan
Brendan Coyle
Joanne Froggatt
Michelle Dockery
Jessica Brown Findlay as Lady Sybil Crawley / Lady Sybil Branson
Shirley MacLaine as Martha Levinson

Synopsis

Set in September 1912. Matthew Crawley, a young solicitor and the new heir, arrives at Downton Abbey with his mother, Isobel. They, the other Crawleys, and the servants all have difficulty adjusting to differences in class and culture whilst facing some resentment from certain family members and staff. Isobel Crawley, having worked as a nurse during the war, pressures Dr Clarkson into performing pericardiocentesis on a hospital patient suffering from dropsy, and is made chair of the hospital board, upsetting the Dowager Countess.