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Following the end of ''[[Upstairs, Downstairs]]'' in 1975 there were [[Upstairs, Downstairs#Spin-offs|many ideas]] for spin-offs, and the idea for ''Thomas & Sarah'' was originally given the name ''In Confidence'' by [[Alfred Shaughnessy]] and [[John Hawkesworth (producer)|John Hawkesworth]]. At a memorial service for [[Cyril Bennett]], the LWT Controller who had died in November 1976, his successor [[Michael Grade]] agreed to do a programme with [[John Alderton]] and [[Pauline Collins]], now a celebrated television couple, reprising their former roles <ref>{{cite news|url=|title=Inside UpDown - The Story of Upstairs, Downstairs|first=|last=|publisher=Kaleidoscope Publishing|date=2005}}</ref>. In October 1977, John Hawkesworth was commissioned to write a synopsis for the programme, and it was filmed from September 1978 to March 1979. The writers, many of whom had worked on ''Upstairs, Downstairs'', were [[Terence Brady]] and [[Charlotte Bingham]], [[Alfred Shaughnessy]], [[Jeremy Paul (writer)|Jeremy Paul]], [[Anthony Skene]], [[Alick Rowe]] and [[Angharad Lloyd]].