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Secrets of the Manor House

★ 7.8 193 votes 2012–present 1 season · 5 episodes Ended PBS
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Starring
Samuel West
Starring
Samuel West
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About

Exactly 100 years ago, the world of the British manor house was at its height. It was a life of luxury and indolence for a wealthy few supported by the labor of hundreds of servants toiling ceaselessly "below stairs" to make the lives of their lords and ladies run as smoothly as possible. It is a world that has provided a majestic backdrop to a range of movies and popular costume dramas to this day, including PBS' "Downton Abbey." But what was really going on behind these stately walls? "Secrets of the Manor House" looks beyond the fiction to the truth of what life was like in these British houses of yesteryear. They were communities where two separate worlds existed side by side: the poor worked as domestic servants, while the nation’s wealthiest families enjoyed a lifestyle of luxury, and aristocrats ruled over their servants as they had done for a thousand years.

All Seasons

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Season 12012
7.464253h 43m
EpTitleRatingYoursVotesRuntime
▶1Secrets of the Manor House7.3
5760 min
▶2Secrets of Highclere Castle7.5
24355 min
▶3Secrets of Henry VIII's Palace7.2
127—
▶4Secrets of Althorp: The Spencers7.3
11754 min
▶5Secrets of Chatsworth7.6
9854 min

Full Cast & Crew

Cast

Samuel West Narrator
Elisabeth Kehoe Self - Author, Self - Author 'The Titled Americans'
Lawrence James Self - Author
Loraine McMurrey Self
Sarah Richardson Self - University of Warwick
Gavin Weightman Self - Author
Jay Winter Self - Yale University
John Norman Ide Leslie Self - 4th Baronet
Lady Palmer Self - Manderston House
Matthew Hughes Self - Brunel University

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