Christmas at Downton Abbey
- Episode aired Feb 19, 2012
- TV-14
- 1h 33m
Christmas 1919. Downton Abbey is hosting a lavish Christmas party, yet despite being the season of goodwill, tensions are rife and Bates' arrest has cast a shadow over the festivities.Christmas 1919. Downton Abbey is hosting a lavish Christmas party, yet despite being the season of goodwill, tensions are rife and Bates' arrest has cast a shadow over the festivities.Christmas 1919. Downton Abbey is hosting a lavish Christmas party, yet despite being the season of goodwill, tensions are rife and Bates' arrest has cast a shadow over the festivities.
- Thomas Barrow
- (as Rob James-Collier)
- Director
- Writer
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Storyline
Did you know
- Trivia"Mais où sont les neiges d'antan?" ("But where are the snows of yesteryear?"), Violet's line, spoken in French, referring to her having known Lord Hepworth's father in her youth, is from the poem "Ballade des dames du temps jadis" by François Villon.
- GoofsThe miniature lights that adorn the Christmas tree by the hundreds at the beginning of the episode -- which is supposed to take place during Christmas of 1919 -- were not introduced until 1970.
- Quotes
Sir Richard Carlisle: [watching the family playing its annual gane of charades] Do you enjoy these games in which the player must appear ridiculous?
Violet, Dowager Countess of Grantham: Sir Richard, life is a game, where the player must appear ridiculous.
Sir Richard Carlisle: Not my life.
- ConnectionsReferences Wives and Daughters: Episode #1.3 (1999)
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Details
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- Filming locations
- Byfleet Manor, Mill Lane, Byfleet, Surrey, England, UK(Dower House: Lady Violet Crawley's house)
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- Runtime1 hour 33 minutes
- Color
- Sound mix
- Aspect ratio
- 16 : 9