Thomas & Sarah (1979)
Synopsis
In the aftermath of Upstairs Downstairs, chauffeur Thomas Watkins and housemaid Sarah Moffat have gone their separate ways. But when a near fatal auto accident reunites them, the duo team up to hatch get-rich-quick schemes, pose as wealthy investors, or take on various odd jobs—often at the expense of others.
First Air Date: 1979-01-14
Last Air Date: 1979-04-08
Number of Seasons: 1
Number of Episodes: 13
Created By: Alfred Shaughnessy
Networks: ITV1
Top Cast
- John Alderton as Thomas Watkins
- Pauline Collins as Sarah Moffat
- Graham Cull as Tubby
- Maria Charles as Madge
- Peter Thornton as Charlie
- Norman Bird as Gilbert
- Zoe Bright as Dolly
- Charles West as Sir Joseph Weidler
- Jessica Benton as Grace Laughton
- Sally Home as Lady Selina Weillingham
Seasons
Series 1 (1979)
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Episodes:
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Ep. 1: Birds of a Feather
A near tragic car accident between mechanic Thomas Watkins in his auto and nanny Sarah Moffat results in the one-time couple reuniting.
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Ep. 2: The Silver Ghost
When Thomas is tasked with selling the Bellamy's Silver Ghost, he finds himself involved in a high risk smuggling scheme involving stolen jewelry.
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Ep. 3: The Biters Bit
Circumstances put Thomas and Sarah at a costume party for the gliteratti dressed as servants and it's assumed that the two are aristocrats.
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Ep. 4: The Vanishing Lady
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.
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Ep. 5: Made in Heaven
While caretaking the townhouse of vacationing aristocrats, Thomas and Sarah take the opportunity to use the premises as a matrimonial agency.
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Ep. 6: Alma Mater
Sara is working at a private boys' school when Thomas arrives and brazens himself into becoming a teacher.
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Ep. 7: A Day at the Metropole
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.
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Ep. 8: The Poor Young Widow of Peckham
While trying to win a photography contest run by a local tabloid, Thomas comes down with pneumonia, and the prognosis is grim.
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Ep. 9: There Is a Happy Land
With the profits from a jewelry swindle, Thomas and Sarah open a successful haberdashery as Sarah announces she is pregnant.
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Ep. 10: Return to Gethyn
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.
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Ep. 11: Putting on the Ritz
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.
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Ep. 12: The New Rich
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.
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Ep. 13: Love Into Three Won't Go
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.
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