The Bolter
| " The Bolter" | |
|---|---|
| 'Upstairs, Downstairs' episode | |
| Episode no. |
Season 3 Episode 8 |
| Directed by | Cyril Coke |
| Written by | John Hawkesworth |
| Original air date | 1971 |
| Episode chronology | |
The Bolter was the eighth episode of the thirth series of the British television series, Upstairs, Downstairs. The episode is set in 1913.
Cast
- Guest cast
- Major Cochrane-Danby (Richard Vernon)
- Mrs. Cochrane-Danby (Helen Lindsay)
- Bunny Newbury (John Quayle)
- Diana Newbury (Celia Bannerman)
- Colonel Harry Tewksbury (Bernard Archard)
- Mrs. Tewkesbury (Kate Coleridge)
- Lord Charles Gilmour (Anthony Ainley)
- Breeze (Anthony Dawes )
- Joseph (Tony Bateman )
- Cecile (Elisabeth Day )
- Henry (John Flint )
Plot
James and Hazel Bellamy are going for a weekend hunting party to Somerby Park in 1913, the country house of James' school-friend Lord "Bunny" Newbury. The other guests encourage her to surprise James and join the hunt, something she has never done before. Diana Newberry, a childhood friend and love interest of James Bellamy, is jealous and contemptuous of James' middleclass wife Hazel. Diana secretly switched and swapped the horses on James' wife Hazel and gives Hazel a spirited horse. Hazel's horse bolts and runs away with Hazel. Hazel Bellamy has nearly a disastrous accident when her horse bolts and she is nearly killed. She and James then argue, as he feels humiliated. This, in addition to Major Cochrane-Danby claiming that James and Diana are sleeping together, leads Hazel to flee Somerby with Rose. James follows her back to London when he discovers she has left, and they soon make up.[1][2]