4K Like a Hurricane
4L Leave it At That — finally done with her unhappy marriage, Lady Ann makes plans to travel abroad, and offers to take Gladioli with her. At the last minute, Gladioli chooses Cramberleigh over her mistress. Only after Lady Ann has left is it revealed to the TV audience that the ship she booked passage on was the Titanic. (final appearance of Fleur Shropshire as Lady Ann Wildegreen)
4M Nothing At All To Be Done — Sir Victor gets a telegram about the fate of Lady Ann. The household reacts to the terrible news.
Season 5 (1969) 13 episodes
1914-1918 The War Years: Edgar goes to war, Lucy drives an ambulance. Sir Victor marries Sophia, who looks remarkably similar to his 2 previous wives. Gains 2 stepsons: Rudolf and Ichabod Radcliffe, and a stepdaughter, Rosamund Radcliffe
Now shot on film and making regular use of locations, this is famously the season that introduced “the real” Cramberleigh, AKA Fenthorp, a manor house near the town of Kettlewick, which had previously featured in the opening and closing credits of the show, though many of the set designs were based on early visits to the house.
Final season to be produced by the iconic Valerie Forsyte, a groundbreaking and glass-ceiling-smashing female producer who had helmed Cramberleigh since its early days.
5A Edgar goes to War
5B The Next Lady Wildegreen
5C Patriotic Fellows
5D Lucy’s War
5E Meet the ANZACs
5F The Batman
5G To Whom It May Concern
5H The Telegram
5I Wounded Officers’ Tea Party
5J The Proposal
5K Hospital Corners
5L Fit For Heroes
5M Armistice
Season 6 (1970) 13 episodes
1919-20: The first season in colour! Birth of Abigail Wildegreen. Lady Sophia dies of Spanish flu. Lucy’s wedding to Aubrey Waugh.
6A Birth of A Wildegreen
6B Nanny Knows Best
6C Fevered Brow — Spanish flu hits Cramberleigh, and Lady Sophia falls gravely ill
6D To Let — after the death of Lady Sophia, Sir Victor plans to shut up the house and move to the seaside. The servants are all given 4 weeks’ notice
6E Victory Parade
6F In Pursuit of a Poet — Lucy meets Aubrey Waugh
6G My Man Bones
6H A Charming Argument
6I Ruin
6J In Chancery
6K Be Civil To The Girls
6L Maid of Honour — Lucy’s wedding part I
6M To Have and To Hold — Lucy’s wedding part II
Season 7 (1971) 13 episodes
1921: The last season that is considered ‘pure historical’ though a question mark is placed over the final episode.
7A Who Spoiled The Party
7B Sawn In Half
7C Mr Churchill’s Peaches — the Winston Churchill episode
