Downton craps out - C'mon man!

[AZ*]

So last night my wife is watching the season's final episode of the world's favorite stuffy period soap opera (DVR'ed a couple of days ago), and what do I spy in the bad guy's room? An Indian crapophone complete with its shiny brass horn.

As the guys on ESPN would say, "C'mon man!"

[estott]

They used a proper HMV machine twice before- a household like that would have probably had a cabinet machine, but a big horn clues the audience into "Old Gramophone"

[epigramophone]

They were also rather slow to update their Edwardian Renault for the current Sunbeam. Both the BBC's and ITV's property buyers seem unaware that in pre-war Britain, old money (including the Royal Family) favoured Daimlers.

Whatever you may see in television dramas, no reigning British monarch prior to the current Queen Elizabeth II owned a Rolls-Royce. Daimler was the royal car of choice throughout the first half of the 20th century.

[howardpgh]

I think that Renault town car was also used in the old Upstairs, Downstairs TV series also.