Another Period

A mockumentary-style period piece comedy that follows members of the wealthy Bellacourt family and their servants in early 20th-century Newport, Rhode Island.

Genre: Comedy, History

Cast:Natasha Leggero , Riki Lindhome , Armen Weitzman , Michael Ian Black , Beth Dover , Jason Ritter , Paget Brewster , Brett Gelman , David Koechner , Christina Hendricks , Brian Huskey , Moshe Kasher , Alice Hunter , David Wain , Jon Daly , Missi Pyle , Will Sasso , Lauren Ash

0Season 1

S1.E0 ∙ Unaired Pilot

Sat, Jun 1, 2013

Add a plot

1Season 1

S1.E1 ∙ Pilot

Tue, Jun 23, 2015

A new servant arrives at Bellacourt Manor, the death of the Claudette sisters opens space in the Newport 400, and the Bellacourts get a visit from Helen Keller.

2Season 1

S1.E2 ∙ Divorce

Tue, Jun 30, 2015

When Pussy Van Anderstein pays a visit, Frederick and Garfield both fall victim to her powerful charms. Lillian learns that divorce is in vogue and concocts a scheme to procure one for herself.

3Season 1

S1.E3 ∙ Funeral

Tue, Jul 7, 2015

Now that Lillian and Beatrice have paid Victor and Albert off $2 million to pretend to be dead, they have to hold the mock funeral which will be populated by potential wealthy replacement husbands, in Beatrice's case some that hopefully resemble a certain twin brother. But Victor and Albert presumably being dead has an impact on others. Frederick doesn't know if he can do it with Beatrice anymore with the ghost of Albert hovering over him. Chair is assigned the responsibility of telling the children that their fathers are dead. And Victor and Albert themselves, in what should be the bliss of their cabin hideout alone together, can't seem to behave like a loving couple without the presence of their wives. Meanwhile, Peepers receives a visit from his older "brother", who has to get Peepers to attend another funeral, that is if Dodo will allow him an afternoon off.

4Season 1

S1.E4 ∙ Pageant

Tue, Jul 14, 2015

While Lillian and Beatrice prepare for the Newport's Most Beautiful Pageant, Hortense assembles her team of N.A.G.S. to sabotage the event. Downstairs, Peepers instructs Chair in the art of servitude.

5Season 1

S1.E5 ∙ Senate

Tue, Jul 21, 2015

The Commodore returns to Bellacourt Manor with a handsome chef in tow who catches Hortense's eye, and Frederick undergoes psychological evaluation to see if he's fit for a Senate seat. Down in the servant's quarters, Hamish finds a way to blackmail Chair.

6Season 1

S1.E6 ∙ Lillian's Birthday

Tue, Jul 28, 2015

Bellacourt Manor's residents brace themselves for Lillian's annual birthday meltdown, and a surprise visit from Charles Ponzi brings a new business opportunity. Meanwhile, Hortense believes she's expecting, and Peepers falls ill.

7Season 1

S1.E7 ∙ Switcheroo Day

Tue, Aug 4, 2015

Lillian arranges her own kidnapping in order to achieve fame as an abductee. Dodo orders Peepers to impersonate the Commodore and accompany her to a luncheon. Beatrice mistakes Blanche for a fellow aristocrat.

8Season 1

S1.E8 ∙ Dog Dinner Party

Tue, Aug 11, 2015

Beatrice copes with Fredrick's engagement by reverting to babyhood, and Lillian tries to impress his fiancee, Celery Savoy. Dodo struggles with morphine addiction, and Chair manipulates Garfield into breaking the rules.

9Season 1

S1.E9 ∙ Reject's Beach

Tue, Aug 18, 2015

Lillian's new friends invite her to a beach party, and Beatrice is brought to Thomas Edison for a forbidden experiment. Blanche receives a mysterious letter from the Triangle Shirtwaist Factory, and Garfield tries to keep the family from falling apart.

10Season 1

S1.E10 ∙ Modern Pigs

Tue, Aug 25, 2015

Lillian and Beatrice race across Newport to try and stop Fredrick's wedding, and Peepers must save the Bellacourts from destruction after he realizes Chair's true intentions.

1Season 2

S2.E1 ∙ Tubman

Mon, Jul 4, 2016

Lillian and Beatrice meet Harriet Tubman, who gives them advice on how to create a "brand" for themselves and become famous. Meanwhile, Peepers hires a new servant, and Chair gives birth to baby Kermit.

2Season 2

S2.E2 ∙ Annulment

Mon, Jul 11, 2016

Lillian and Beatrice's marriages are annulled, and Lillian and Victor argue over their prized "Butternut room." Beatrice helps Albert get over his hatchetphobia, and Garfield butts heads with a duplicitous new servant.

3Season 2

S2.E3 ∙ The Prince and the Pauper

Mon, Jul 18, 2016

The Commodore invites a prince to Bellacourt Manor, sparking an intense romantic rivalry between Lillian and Beatrice. Peepers clashes with the prince's servant over proper butler techniques, and Hamish's cellmate attempts to teach him how to read.

4Season 2

S2.E4 ∙ Trial of the Century

Mon, Jul 25, 2016

Hamish goes on trial for the murder of Scoops LaPue.

5Season 2

S2.E5 ∙ Roosevelt

Mon, Aug 1, 2016

The Roosevelts are invited to Bellacourt Manor by the Commodore, who hopes to convince Teddy to tap Frederick as his vice-president, while Lillian sets out to woo Frankiln, and Beatrice bonds with Eleanor. Also: The servants go on strike, much to Peepers' dismay.

6Season 2

S2.E6 ∙ Servants' Disease

Mon, Aug 8, 2016

A contagious disease spreads downstairs, and Lillian ends up quarantined with the sick servants. Beatrice and Frederick go on a double date, and Victor and Albert get into a quarrel over their barbershop quartet.

7Season 2

S2.E7 ∙ Harvard

Mon, Aug 15, 2016

Albert Einstein visits Bellacourt Manor, and Beatrice helps him solve a complex equation. Lillian attempts to procure a condom so that she can have sex for pleasure, and Peepers tracks down Blanche's "boyfriend" from the asylum.

8Season 2

S2.E8 ∙ Joplin

Mon, Aug 22, 2016

Lillian and Beatrice try to write a hit song with help from a Kanye-esque songwriter named Joplin. Peepers struggles with newly discovered carnal desires.

9Season 2

S2.E9 ∙ Lillian's Wedding

Mon, Aug 22, 2016

Lillian plans to marry an extremely old and wealthy man name Laverne. Hortense and Laverne's handsome grandson, Bertram, flirt. Incriminating photos threaten Frederick's position as vice president. (Compliments of DirecTV info)

10Season 2

S2.E10 ∙ The Duel

Mon, Aug 29, 2016

Upon being served with divorce papers, Dodo returns to Bellacourt to settle her assets and challenges Chair to a duel. After Laverne's death, Lillian drinks away her sorrows, much to a newly baptized Beatrice's dismay.

11Season 2

S2.E11 ∙ Lillian Is Dead

Mon, Aug 29, 2016

Hortense and Bertram's happiness turns out to be short-lived, as does Commodore and Chair's; Beatrice turns to religion when her bar fight with Lillian has deadly consequences; Blanche gives birth downstairs.

1Season 3

S3.E1 ∙ Congress

Tue, Jan 23, 2018

Lillian and Beatrice take up Hortense's mantle to begin fighting for women's rights, and Peepers bristles at Father Black Donahue's new role at the manor.

2Season 3

S3.E2 ∙ Séance

Tue, Jan 30, 2018

Everyone at Bellacourt Manor catches ghost fever when Harry Houdini visits to investigate some supernatural occurrences.

3Season 3

S3.E3 ∙ Olympics

Tue, Feb 6, 2018

When the Olympics allow women athletes, Victor and Lillian square off. Frederick and Beatrice question their relationship.

4Season 3

S3.E4 ∙ The Love Boat

Tue, Feb 13, 2018

Abandoned by Cornetta and Abortion Deb, Hortense reluctantly asks Lillian and Beatrice to assist her in a meteorological experiment which she hopes and suspects will garner her some scientific fame. It's not the possibility of fame that make both Lillian and Beatrice agree to help Hortense, but something associated with the experiment that would fulfill the one matching item on both their bucket lists. That one item has the potential to tear all three sisters apart. Something with the experiment doesn't go quite according to plan, that unexpected turn which requires the sisters to ask for further help in the form of Hamish, whose assistance has the further potential to make matters even more complicated. Meanwhile, Dodo searches for something to replace morphine in her life, it which she is no longer injecting. That replacement, the association to which is the replacement "high", is to take a one day inner harbor voyage on the "high" sea, she taking Peepers along to attend to any menial tasks. Much like the meteorological experiment, the voyage doesn't go quite according to plan. Dodo ends up making a request in the face of death which has the potential to change the face of Bellacourt Manor forever.

5Season 3

S3.E5 ∙ Masquerade

Tue, Feb 20, 2018

Celery is hosting her annual masquerade ball. She has a very specific agenda for this party, namely to get Colonel Beauregard Trimbald, the toilet king of Tallahassee, to fund Frederick's presidential bid. Not only are Lillian and Beatrice not invited to the ball, but they receive official non-invitations explicitly stating that they are not invited. Regardless, they are determined to crash the ball. They each take a different path to entry, separating themselves from each other once in. They both make a connection at the ball, Lillian's which has the potential to derail Celery's goal, and Beatrice's which looks to replace the love she no longer feels for Frederick. Meanwhile, Garfield is finding that he is ill-equipped to replace Peepers as head butler at Bellacourt Manor. Regardless, he feels it's his duty and right. In doing his job, as badly as he is, he is unaware that someone else is trying to steal the job right in front of him.

6Season 3

S3.E6 ∙ Shady Acres

Tue, Feb 27, 2018

A new piece of technology is causing problems for those at Bellacourt Manor. A carriage accident leads to the talk of death and dying and the afterlife. While Beatrice never thought she would die and thus is in a sense of crisis, Lillian aims to be buried at Chevrolet Cemetery where the rich and famous of Newport are buried, and not at Shady Acres where all the past Bellacourts are buried. Lillian's wants become a problem for her as Chevrolet is already all booked up. She takes decisive steps to be among the exception to the rule to make it into Chevrolet. Meanwhile, Albert tries to talk a reluctant Victor into procreating with a woman so that they can have a baby to save their crumbling relationship. Their measures to test the waters to see if they would be the parents they want to be may lead to Blanche having a nervous breakdown. And Celery makes arrangements for a reluctant Frederick to take the next step into becoming President. Celery's plan doesn't quite come off the way she wants, however the end result may surprise her.

7Season 3

S3.E7 ∙ Sex Nickelodeon

Tue, Mar 6, 2018

Beatrice is gaining some notoriety, but not the kind she wants: Edison's house was burglarized, the burglars who stole and have made for public viewing Beatrice's sex film. Beatrice doesn't know why she should be vilified, especially as she was kidnapped and tricked into making the film, she taking what she believes is decisive action to get rid of the cause of her problems. But when she and Dodo learn that others are making money off the film, they figure they should be able to cash in as well. Lillian, on the other hand, is jealous of Beatrice's new found fame, Lillian who wants that fame even if for the reason Beatrice has attracted the attention. Lillian has to figure out a way to usurp her sister. Meanwhile, the police investigating the cause of the burglary, and Victor and Albert abhorring the types of their new neighbors lead to new careers for the pair.

8Season 3

S3.E8 ∙ Lucky Chang's

Tue, Mar 13, 2018

Now that Beatrice has achieved some fame, Dodo comes up with the next idea which will make Beatrice become even more famous. That idea requires Beatrice to look as beautiful as possible. In Beatrice's makeover, which causes her some physical discomfort, is there a point of going overboard? Beatrice's fame has led to thoughts with Lillian of suicide. She receives what she believes is a sign to make her reconsider that decision. That sign takes her to Lucky Chang's, an illegal Chinese gambling parlor. Her activities at Chang's will make her look at life and money in a whole new light. And Frederick is happily receiving bribes in turn for political favors in his bid to become President. Aside from the bribes, he still has time, or at least thoughts, of self-pleasure to what most red-blooded Newport heterosexual men are using.

9Season 3

S3.E9 ∙ Little Orphan Garfield

Tue, Mar 13, 2018

Lillian, inside Newport Sanatarium, runs into someone she knows there, the balance of power having shifted from what it was on the outside. But when Lillian discovers what the inmate in charge is up to, Lillian figures there is a better way to do things on the inside. Meanwhile, Beatrice and Frederick are both determined to find their mystery love from the ball before the other, to gain the upper hand in forgetting about the other first and more fully. Hortense, who knows full well who each mystery person is, decides to have some fun of her own to help her twin siblings find their true love. And it's Family Day among the servants. Being an orphan, Garfield feels left out. So he decides that he will try and discover his biological parents' identity. He will have to decide how far he will go to to find out what he wants, while others possibly in the know have to decide what they want to divulge to Garfield what they know.

10Season 3

S3.E10 ∙ Commodore Returns

Tue, Mar 20, 2018

The Commodore has returned to Bellacourt Manor purportedly on his last legs, the manor where he wants to die. Dodo grants him his request. However, the Commodore, alive and well, has really come back to win Dodo and regain his place in the manor. However he realizes that after forty years of marriage to her, he knows nothing about her in order to win her back. He secretly tries to pry such intimate information from the person who arguably knows her the best, namely Peepers. But Peepers, still in love with the matron of the manor, may have his own thoughts about what the Commodore is trying to do. Meanwhile, Lillian, still in the sanitarium, believes that she can prey on Blanche's seemingly ambitious nature to operate a drug ring, smuggling the drugs out of the institution onto the black market. In the process, Lillian will discover just how ambitious Blanche really is. And Hortense just can't wait for the climax of her plan, when Beatrice and Frederick discover that they are each other's beloved. Hortense's plan takes a twist she didn't envision, even though what happens is typical of Beatrice and Frederick.

11Season 3

S3.E11 ∙ President Bellacourt

Tue, Mar 20, 2018

Celery continues to lay the groundwork for Frederick's run to president in '08. At a rally at which Celery has dictated to Frederick what he is to do, Frederick does something accidentally "off script" which leads to Celery and Frederick reevaluating the run in '08. Frederick's run for president has divided the nation as demonstrated by those downstairs at Bellacourt Manor. Now that Frederick is focusing on his career, Beatrice, who wants to tell him that she is his beloved and he is hers, has to figure out what to do with her life instead of being with Frederick, it a life where no one loves her. She turns to the one person no one loves for advice. And Officer O'Kelly continues to convince an amnesiac Lillian that she is his wife, Garbagella, however much she feels that doing wifely chores is not in her DNA. Because of Lillian's feelings, O'Kelly just has to keep her away from any triggers that may inform her that she is truly heiress Lillian Bellacourt.