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<blockquote data-quote="Carrie Fairchild" data-source="post: 404639" data-attributes="member: 673"><p>[ATTACH=full]53787[/ATTACH]</p><p><em>The Cedar Tree</em> is one of my favourite daytime curiosities from ITV. A kind of bargain basement <em>Upstairs, Downstairs</em>, it followed the wealthy Bourne family at their country pile Larkfield Manor, in the 1930’s. The show actually shares a lot of parallels with <em>Downton Abbey</em>. By parallels, I mean, it could be said that it provided a template for the show. There’s the dutiful son, who gave up his legal career in the city to return and manage the family estate where he now lives with his wife and their three daughters - the rebellious one, the independent one and the meek one. There’s the opinionated granny and the single aunt who lives in London and drops in and out, adding a bit of flightiness to proceedings. Granted it probably reflective of the attitudes of the 30’s but some of the dialogue is quite comically “<em>women, know your place</em>” like something from a Harry Enfield sketch.</p><p></p><p>There is something quite cosy about the show though. The bulk of it takes place in the Bourne’s sitting room with the eponymous cedar tree only ever being mentioned but never seen. In an odd bit of recasting, when Phillip Latham left the role of patriarch Commander Bourne at the end of series 2, the part was taken over by Jack Watling, who’d played a friend of Commander Bourne’s throughout the second series. Originally airing twice a week in 30 minute afternoon episodes, the show was moved to primetime and expanded to 60 minutes once a week for its third and final series. Although based on listings that I’ve seen, some regions like LWT aired the hourlong episodes on Sunday afternoons. The whole series has been released on DVD and in one last bit of trivia, its creator, the late Alfred Shaughnessy, is the father of actor Charles Shaughnessy (<em>Days of Our Lives, The Nanny & General Hospital</em>).</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Carrie Fairchild, post: 404639, member: 673"] [ATTACH type="full"]53787[/ATTACH] [I]The Cedar Tree[/I] is one of my favourite daytime curiosities from ITV. A kind of bargain basement [I]Upstairs, Downstairs[/I], it followed the wealthy Bourne family at their country pile Larkfield Manor, in the 1930’s. The show actually shares a lot of parallels with [I]Downton Abbey[/I]. By parallels, I mean, it could be said that it provided a template for the show. There’s the dutiful son, who gave up his legal career in the city to return and manage the family estate where he now lives with his wife and their three daughters - the rebellious one, the independent one and the meek one. There’s the opinionated granny and the single aunt who lives in London and drops in and out, adding a bit of flightiness to proceedings. Granted it probably reflective of the attitudes of the 30’s but some of the dialogue is quite comically “[I]women, know your place[/I]” like something from a Harry Enfield sketch. There is something quite cosy about the show though. The bulk of it takes place in the Bourne’s sitting room with the eponymous cedar tree only ever being mentioned but never seen. In an odd bit of recasting, when Phillip Latham left the role of patriarch Commander Bourne at the end of series 2, the part was taken over by Jack Watling, who’d played a friend of Commander Bourne’s throughout the second series. Originally airing twice a week in 30 minute afternoon episodes, the show was moved to primetime and expanded to 60 minutes once a week for its third and final series. Although based on listings that I’ve seen, some regions like LWT aired the hourlong episodes on Sunday afternoons. The whole series has been released on DVD and in one last bit of trivia, its creator, the late Alfred Shaughnessy, is the father of actor Charles Shaughnessy ([I]Days of Our Lives, The Nanny & General Hospital[/I]). [/QUOTE]
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