Beacon Hill (television series)

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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 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 (married to the family butler, Arthur Hacker); Maeve McGuire as daughter, Maude Lassiter Palmer; Edward Herrmann played Maude's husband; 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; Kitty Winn as Rosamond Lassiter, the plain-jane daughter, who was a whiz at the family business; David Dukes as their only son, Robert Lassiter; Holland Taylor as Marilyn Gardiner, Mrs. Lassiter's personal secretary; and Nancy Marchand as the mother, Mary Lassiter. The premiere episode was a ratings success, but the ratings dropped drastically as the show went along, and was soon after cancelled.