After the film I started remembering a television soap from when I was a teenager called Upstairs Downstairs. It was all about a posh house from about 1890 to the years just after the First World War. I did used to enjoy this, although I often hadn't a clue what the story was about. I thought about one of my favourite episodes, where Mrs Bellamy goes down on the Titanic.
Then I remembered a hilarious Stanley Baxter sketch, where the three remaining old-timers in the soap were checking their scripts to see when they would be written out of the story, and being outraged about the horrible endings that were in store for them. (Towards the end of the series, most of the original cast had been written out of the programme).
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