The first full-length trailer of Downton Abbey series five has been released.
The one-minute clip shows Downton in flames as an unidentified blonde is scooped up into a man's arms, and a terrified Earl of Grantham despairing that Lady Edith's daughter will be snatched away from them.
No further hints
are given about Anna and John Bates' relationship following her controversial rape in series four, but the trailer shows the two worlds of above and below stairs coming together more than ever before, to the extent that Isobel Crawley even says: "Surely servants are human beings too?"
The Dowager Countess, who is rumoured to have a major storyline in series five, replies with a typically acerbic one-liner: "Yes, preferably on their days of."
Elsewhere, the clip shows the Downton household struggling to get to grips with the changing times in 1924.
