Review of Upstairs, Downstairs

Perhaps, with the mindset of the naive 70's with hosts of mindless lookalike comedies this 'soap opera' stood somewhat above the rest but in my opinion, viewed from the caustic point of view of modern people it feels as subtle as a cartoon. Many.....too many incidents do NOT ring true to the spirit of the Victorian era and in that compromise lies, for me at any rate, the failure of this series in today's world. I am about to begin Downton Abbey and it will be interesting to see the qualitative differences between them. Were it not for Gordon Jackson and one or two others, I would have had difficulty even watching this to the end. Probably revolutionary in it's day it had, in my opinion, NOT survived the dramatic shift forward.