Beacon Hill

Beacon Hill is a short-lived (13 episodes) dramatic television series shown on CBS in 1975. The show focused on the fictitious Lassiter family and their Irish servants who lived on Louisburg Square, in Boston's fashionable Beacon Hill area. It was considered to be an Americanized version of the popular British series, Upstairs, Downstairs, of which the premise was almost the same. The wealthy family lived upstairs, and the servants ruled belowstairs. Beryl Vertue, who produced Beacon Hill, was a former literary agent of Jean Marsh who had been instrumental in getting Upstairs, Downstairs on television. The show starred Stephen Elliott as Ben Lassiter, who worked as the "Gray eminence" at Boston City Hall and Nancy Marchand the Lassiter...