'Downton Abbey' minds its manors

DOWNTON ABBEY: SEASON 2

Series PBS' grand British manor soap runs headlong into the Great War, the Spanish flu and a modern society leaving its genteelly structured world behind. Set includes eight hourlong episodes and a double-length Christmas special. (Season 2 continues rolling out on PBS through Feb. 19.)

Extras Behind-the-scenes featurettes on World War I-era costumes (and military medals), production design of house-turned-soldiers' hospital, characters' wartime romances.

List price $45 DVD/$50 Blu-ray Disc, out today from PBS

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