Upstairs Downstairs

Series Similar to Upstairs Downstairs

If you enjoyed Upstairs Downstairs, these series share similar themes, tone, and quality. Each recommendation is scored on genre overlap, tonal match, and critical acclaim.

1. Brideshead Revisited

   1981 · Drama · ended99% match

   Recommended for similar Drama profile, highly rated (8.1).

   Based on the novel by Evelyn Waugh, two years in the making, and the equivalent of seven feature films back-to-back, this epic drama tells a story of romantic yearning and loss in the glittering but fading world of the British aristocracy between the wars.

2. State of Play

   2003 · Drama · ended98% match

   Recommended for similar Drama profile, highly rated (8), also on BBC One.

   The serial begins with the murder of a young man, in what appears to be a drug-related killing, and the apparently coincidental death of Sonia Baker, the young researcher for MP Stephen Collins (Morrissey). As the deaths are investigated by journalist Cal McCaffrey of The Herald (Simm) and his colleagues (including Kelly Macdonald as Della Smith and Bill Nighy as editor Cameron Foster) it appears that not only were the deaths connected, but that a conspiracy links them with oil industry-backed corruption of high-ranking British government ministers.

3. The Deep

   2010 · Drama · ended97% match

   Recommended for similar Drama profile, hidden gem, also on BBC One.

   In the state-of-the-art research submarine Orpheus, Captain Frances Kelly leads a team of scientists deep below the Arctic ice. They are following the path of an earlier, disastrous expedition; searching the final frontiers of Earth for unknown and remarkable life forms, attempting to find the solution to the world's escalating energy crisis.Enduring crushing pressure, boiling vent gases, freezing temperatures and total darkness, the Orpheus arrives at the Lomonosov Ridge, an enormous area of sea bed which is disputed territory, currently under the United Nations' jurisdiction. Nobody comes here. But there is something else out here: something huge and bewildering. And, as the Orpheus crew struggle for survival and attempt to unravel the mystery, they uncover secrets more terrifying than they ever could have imagined…

4. Mr. Selfridge

   2013 · Drama · ended97% match

   Recommended for similar Drama profile.

   Mr. Selfridge tells the story of 'Mile a Minute Harry', a man with a mission to make shopping as thrilling as sex.

5. Broken

   2017 · Drama · ended96% match

   Recommended for similar Drama profile, hidden gem, also on BBC One.

   Drama series about a well-respected Catholic priest presiding over a large parish on the outskirts of a major city in northern England.

6. Sense and Sensibility

   2008 · Drama, Romance · ended96% match

   Recommended for similar Drama profile, hidden gem, also on BBC One.

   Widow Dashwood and her three unmarried daughters, Elinor, Marianne and Margaret, inherit only a tiny allowance. So they move out of their grand Sussex home to a more modest cottage in Devonshire. There, the prevailing ambition is to find suitable husbands for the girls. With help from wealthy neighbor Sir John Middleton, suitors for Elinor and Marianne are soon found, but not landed. They include dashing Willoughby, future vicar Edward Ferrars and retired colonial gentleman Colonel Brandon.

7. Cranford

   2007 · Drama · ended95% match

   Recommended for similar Drama profile, also on BBC One.

   A rich and comic drama about the people of Cranford, a small Cheshire town on the cusp of change in the 1840s. Adapted from the novels by Elizabeth Gaskell.

8. North & South

   2004 · Drama, Romance · ended95% match

   Recommended for similar Drama profile, highly rated (8), also on BBC One.

   Set against the backdrop of Victorian England's industrial north, it follows the fortunes of Margaret Hale, one of 19th century literature's most original heroines.

9. Capital

   2015 · Drama · ended95% match

   Recommended for similar Drama profile, also on BBC One.

   On one day, the people of one South London street all receive an anonymous postcard with the simple message 'we want what you have'. Its unsettling ripples affect every corner of the community.

10. The Newsroom

    2012 · Drama · ended95% match

    Recommended for similar Drama profile, highly rated (8.4).

    The Newsroom follows the members of a cable news team on their quixotic mission to do the news well in the face of a fickle audience, corporate mandates and tangled personal relationships.