Beacon Hill (television series)
- Beacon Hill (television series)
"Beacon Hill" was a short-lived 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. 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.
The show starred Stephen Elliott as Ben Lassiter, who worked as the "Gray eminence" at Boston City Hall; Linda Purl as his granddaughter, Betsy Bullock; Beatrice Straight as their head housemaid, Mrs. Emmeline Hacker; Susan Blanchard as Maureen Mahaffey, an under maid, and Emmeline's niece; Paul Rudd as Brian Mallory, Emmeline's nephew and the Lassiter Family's chauffeur; Barry Snider as Harry Emmet, Mallory's predecessor as chauffeur, who also did special jobs for Ben Lassiter, until his firing for stealing his son's money; George Rose as the Lassiter butler, Arthur Hacker; David Rounds as Terence O'Hara, Hacker's assistant; Richard Ward as William Piper, the family cook; Don Blakely as William's son, Grant; Maeve McGuire as daughter, Maude Lassiter Palmer; Edward Herrmann played Maude's husband, Richard Palmer, a yachtsman; Kathryn Walker as Fawn Lassiter, the maverick and artistic daughter, Michael Nouri as Giorgio Bellonci, Fawn's music teacher; DeAnn Mears as Emily Lassiter Bullock, Betsy's more reserved mother; Ray Cooper as Trevor Bullock, Emily's husband, and Betsy's father; Kitty Winn as Rosamond Lassiter, the plain-jane daughter, who, despite her plain looks, was a whiz at the family business; David Dukes as the only son, Robert Lassiter, who was wounded in the war, and was still traumatized by his injuries (one of his arms was amputated), concerning his parents and his sister, Rosamond; Holland Taylor as Marilyn Gardiner, Mrs. Lassiter's personal assistant/secretary; and Nancy Marchand as the mother, Mary Lassiter, who was wealthy in her own right, and Ben married into the family fortune.
The premiere episode was a ratings success, but the ratings dropped drastically as the show went along, and was soon after cancelled.
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