<p>Rose was inserted into Downton Abbey for the same reason that Miss Georgina was inserted into Upstairs Downstairs - to replace in the plot lines a young, energetic,and impetuous female upstairs character whose actress had left the series, Lady Sybil in the case of Downton Abbey and Miss Elizabeth in the case of Upstairs Downstairs.</p>
<p>Oh, Miss Georgina! I loved her in Upstairs Downstairs. That was my first PBS series, the start of a long tradition. I watched that back in graduate school days, in 1974-6, I think! I do believe I like Downtown Abbey just as much. </p>
<p>Pheeeww… my spoiler is no longer a spoiler. What I knew from the beginning was that Edith was going to get pregnant. Sorry if anything I poster earlier alluded at giving it away. In fact, I think I sort of tried to deny it when someone suggested it, because I didn’t want to affirm it and give it away. What I didn’t know about was Gregson possibly disappearing; I have no idea where that storyline is going.</p>
<p>Darn, my DVR was full and Downton didn’t record :(</p>
<p>Uh, oh, maybe you shouldn’t read this thread until you see it.</p>
<p>Not sure if i will - do they rerun it on PBS?</p>
<p>You can see it on the web or the app, I dont know if they rerun it.</p>
<p>Our PBS station reruns it an hour before the next episode. Also saw a current season repeat when flipping channels one day.
Check your local station’s schedule. </p>
<p>You can watch recent episodes on-line here: <a href=“http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/masterpiece/watch-online/”>http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/masterpiece/watch-online/</a> I understand they also show them on our PBS channel on Wednesday evenings. </p>
<p>I was too far from the tv to read Edith’s letter and I forgot to go back to see it before deleting off the DVR. Was it confirmation of her pregnancy?</p>
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<p>Something is screwy with the PBS Downton Abbey website. I missed the first 10 minutes of last nights show so thought I would catch up this snowy Monday morning. So I clicked on episode 4. However, I could see that what they had listed as episode 4 was last weeks when Bates found out about Anna, so I started watching episode 5 but the beginning part of that, the “previously on Downton Abbey”, was last nights episode. I thought maybe something was screwy with that part so decided to watch the first few minutes but realized quickly that it really was the next episode - the one that will air next Sunday, the 9th! Of course, I couldn’t stop so now I’m ahead. Oh my!</p>
<p>Apparently, It’s not my imagination, there’s a bunch of comments about the mess up on the Downtown Abbey FB page.</p>
<p>Our PBS station replays each episode twice during the week - first in wee hours of Tuesday morning and again just before the new episode on the following Sunday evening.</p>
<p>Hmmm. Relatively few posts about Downtown Abbey this morning. Was something else on? Mischief minded LW.</p>
<p>“Something is screwy with the PBS Downton Abbey website” </p>
<p>It looks like that problem has now been fixed. What they are calling episode 5 now is indeed the show that aired last night. (Rats! I was hoping to get a sneak peek!!) I wonder if the mistake had to do with the fact that the episodes were numbered differently in the UK. I happened to be overseas this fall and caught the first two weekly episodes over there. I recall that they were each only 1 hour long. Here in the states, our “Episode 1” was a two hour episode, containing both shows. So, “our” episode 5 was really initially “episode 6” in the UK. Think someone would have carefully checked this though! </p>
<p>Was something else on? Yeah, but something else was 36-0 at the time Downton Abbey started in half the country, and over by the time it started in the other half. Ivy (the second-best kitchen maid) did a better job of defending against the pass than the Denver secondary!</p>
<p>Two weeks ago, I was watching two TVs simultaneously as Lady Mary shut down Lord Gillingham right at the goal line and the Seahawks intercepted Drew Brees in the end zone. This week, there wasn’t anything worth watching at the football game.</p>
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<p>Very well put!!!</p>
<p>I’m so delighted for Albert!! </p>
<p>So, Edith is pregnant [after just one tryst – that girl has the worst luck!] but can’t find Gregson, who has conveniently disappeared off the face of the earth.</p>
<p>Cora’s brother is in some huge financial mess, and that will probably somehow bite the Downton folks in the butt.</p>
<p>Rose was caught by Mary kissing the black bandleader in the kitchen. Mary had the grace not to say anything, but I wonder how long that will last. Then they’ll probably send Rose to a convent.</p>
<p>And Molesley is back being a footman.</p>
<p>Will Tom go to America? Will Edith continue her pregnancy? Will Gregson show up again? Will the evil Mr. Barrow overcome the very nice Baxter? I’m so enjoying this!!!</p>
<p>The game wasn’t all that great but our neighbors host a very fun superbowl party so it was a bit hard to break away even with the score so lopsided! Now, back to that PBS website…</p>
<p>Loved last night’s episode. All the storylines were well played out. Edith does have the worst kind of luck. I wonder what Thomas has on Baxter. She doesn’t want to be a snoop but apparently must as a condition of his recommendation for employment. When will Mary and her antagonistic guest set sparks flying? Good stuff!</p>
<p>Mary and the antagonistic guest will soon be an item, I say.</p>
<p>It sounded like Cora’s brother was in some sort of criminal trouble, not just financial difficulties.</p>
<p>I’m already tired of Tom’s waffling about going to America.</p>
<p>Loved the episode, which I just watched on the website.</p>
<p>I think that the agricultural antagonist is going to be Mary’s next flame. Such a Darcy/Elizabeth, Beatrice/Benedict, Petruccio/ Katarina couple cannot be denied! :)</p>
<p>I also noted Tom’s question about “another earl’s daughter”…could he be persuaded to marry Edith to spare her shame? I hope not.</p>