Upstairs, Downstairs

Upstairs Downstairs is a British drama, focusing on an Edwardian family and especially their large domestic staff. First produced in 1971, the series aired on Masterpiece Theater from 1974 to 1977, along with later repeats. Sesame Street spoofed the series in a "Monsterpiece Theater" sketch, also called "Upstairs Downstairs", in which Grover repeatedly trudges up and down a staircase, exhausting himself. Later, series stars Gordon Jackson (Hudson the butler) and Jean Marsh (Rose the maid) appeared, dressed in character and suitably prim and proper, in the celebrity version of Put Down the Duckie.