The Dowager Countess Refuses To Be Ignored | Downton Abbey

During an innovative and hazardous medical operation, we witness one of the many wit-and-will contests between the Dowager Countess and Isobel Crawley. All the while, a man's life hangs in the balance...

Clip From: Series 1 Episode 02: Everyone is anxious at the arrival of Matthew Crawley, the heir presumptive, and his mother, Isobel. Matthew encounters problems settling in to this new life whilst Isobel and Violet are immediately at daggers drawn. Carson is mortified to be confronted with his past and Gwen seems to have a secret correspondent.

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The costume drama series, Downton Abbey, written and created by Oscar-winning writer Julian Fellowes, stars Academy Award-winner Maggie Smith as a Dowager Countess of an Edwardian English country house in 1912. The series portrays the lives of the Crawley family and the servants who work for them, in a time before the last vestige of a century’s old tradition were stripped away by World War and the modern age. The all-star cast also includes Hugh Bonneville and Elizabeth McGovern.

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[pattywilliams]

All these years later and I still miss my weekly fix of Downton Abbey. 💔

[rrfirefly]

"We all have different parts to play.. and we must all be allowed to play them." -- wonderful way to look at life and everyone in it. (6:09)

[m.layfette]

"Will that serve as your excuse when he dies?!?"

[daniels]

The issue was that in the Dowager Countess's Victorian era understanding of medicine, there was nothing to be done in this situation but convince the wife to accept widowhood and destitution. Mrs. Crawley, the daughter, sister, and wife of physicians, as well as being a nurse herself, had more personal experience with the progress of medical science. Another case of the battle between "tradition" and "modernity". But also between the tendency to put members of the aristocracy into positions which were often meant to merely help them look busy and useful, rather than being based on genuine expertise.

[semicolongirl]

WAIT, the Dowager Countess had a cat?? I’ve rewatched this series so many times and I never noticed the cat on the window in the first scene

[RavinRay]

Yes, the hospital scene has been posted before, but it takes up only part of the whole video here, and I appreciate the other scenes.

[SerenaOkoli]

Love the way lady Crawley was holding the man's wife. Great compassion

[davidcorruthers]

Robert and his family may have been one of the few noble families that actually cared about their service staff and the working class

[SerenaOkoli]

Loved Mary and Sybil's relationship 🤍

[omercoeckelberghs]

Watch at 0:32 a cat can be seen on the windowsill. I think it is the only time this cat is seen in Downton Abbey. In my opinion, it is carefully and deliberately put into the scene. Greetings from Belgium.

[SueProv]

I don't remember this early scene with Mrs. Hughes and Mr. Carson. A nice little glimpse past the exterior.

[stephenwinter]

Greetings from Canada 🇨🇦 thanks for the presentation always enjoy downton abbey and their segments of scenes, but when it comes to the early days of science and medical advances I'm all attracted to the screen it's absolutely fascinating even though it's before world War 1 or after its all an important part of history

[siegfriedenea]

4:20 this frame explains it perfectly what do I mean by "immense actress"!

[kathybaker-ntlw]

It is still sad I do hope they show Downton Abbey again.wecwill never forget this series.

[hjkayel]

0.32 I didn't know that the Dowager Countess has a

[christopherstreet]

Can we please get a memoir series with tons of flashbacks … I love the dowager

[ninikiris]

I forgot how young Violet was at the start of the series 💔 Such a queen!

[盧璘壽로인수]

first time seeing a rigid teapot turned on axles
probably cost a lot for such a convenient innovation at the time

also this must what have been like during the first inoculations and first X-rays

[deltaboy]

And to think that decades later, a paramedic used this same method to kick start the heat of Nikki Six of Motley Crue.

[violetlavi]

I miss Robert in s1 😔 he was at his best here