Nigel Hawthorne as Wilson, the butler.


Thomas & Sarah was mooted as an idea many years before it eventually hit the TV screen in January 1979, almost exactly three years after the last episode of "Upstairs, Downstairs". Pauline Collins and John Alderton reprised their roles from the original series as we followed their adventures after leaving Eaton Place in 1910.



Nigel Hawthorne appeared in the episode The New Rich:

"The episode The New Rich is a strange role-reversal piece of work in which we see Thomas and Sarah occupying a house which bears an uncanny resemblence to 165 Eaton Place (the hall may even be the original set) and becoming master and mistress to their own set of servants. Nigel Hawthorne turns in a sensitive performance as their upright butler who would rather lose his job than work in a household that fails to acheive his standards of 'correctness'."