Another series like it?


I loved this show and didn't want it to end!! Any other series like it? I've watched Dowtown abbey and it just doesn't have the charm of Berkeley Square.

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One that you might enjoy if you have not seen it--again focusing on the lives of young women in that era--is "Lilies."

Beloved "Lilies" also shares a sad legacy with "Berkeley Square" by being canceled abruptly after just one season, which like Berkeley Square, was crying out for a continuing story. I seem to recall at the time when the IMDB boards were active that we fans of "Lilies" crying out for "more! oh no!" It's cancellation was a huge disappointment for fans.

"Lilies" was written by Heidi Thomas who many years later created "Call the Midwife" with early episodes based on books by Jennifer Worth.

If you can find it, "Upstairs Downstairs" -- the original not the remake. It was written about social mores and lives of women and men in the same era as "Berkeley Square." It took on major social themes and many of the writers were highly prominent men and women in the literary world.

"North and South" (not the American civil war version) with Richard Armitage is a good quality series. Yes, it's from Mrs. Gaskell's famous book of the northern industrial world. Terrific series exploring the north/south English divide during the height of the industrial revolution through the "northern" man played by Armitage and the "southern England" love interest played by Daniela Denby-Ashe.

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