Will Ye No Come Back Again
| "Will Ye No Come Back Again" | |
|---|---|
| 'Upstairs, Downstairs' episode | |
| Episode no. | Season 5 Episode 12 |
| Directed by | Bill Bain |
| Written by | Rosemary Anne Sisson |
| Production code | 16 |
| Original air date | 23 November 1975 |
Will Ye No Come Back Again is the twelfth episode of the fifth and final series of the period drama Upstairs, Downstairs. It first aired on 23 November 1975 on ITV.
Will Ye No Come Back Again was recorded in the studio on 1, 7 and 8 August 1975. The location footage was filmed in Applecross in Wester Ross, Scotland, and was filmed from 6 to 9 May. The idea behind part of the plot, regarding poaching, was taken from the 1953 film Laxdale Hall, which was written and produced by Alfred Shaughnessy, the script editor of Upstairs, Downstairs. The only main cast member needed for the location scenes was Gordon Jackson, who was provided with a double so he was only needed for one day of filming. Despite being the twelfth episode to air, Will Ye No Come Back Again was the last ever episode of Upstairs, Downstairs to be recorded in the studio.
The title of the episode is taken from the Scottish Jacobite song Bonnie Charlie written by Lady Nairne.
While Virginia and Rose are in Paris with Alice, Richard, James, Georgina, Hudson, Mrs. Bridges, Edward, Daisy and Ruby go to stay in a house owned by Lord Berkhamstead in Carnachy in the Scottish Highlands. Hudson, Mrs. Bridges, Daisy and Ruby arrives first, and find that there is no electricity, the grocery order has not arrived and there is no wood for the fire. On the first evening Roderick McKay, Lord Berkhamstead's head gillie, arrives and tells the servants the story of how the former laird died at the house after being injured at the Battle of Culloden. McKay says that the laird returns as a ghost on a handcart during the night, and that evening Ruby hears a cart. When she hears the same the second night, she screams.
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