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I got turned on to “Downton Abbey” by a friend several years ago and quickly became a fanatic. I was already a “Masterpiece Theater” fan, and this made it worse. The television series, created by Julian Fellowes, began in the fall of 2010 and I remember hearing that it was a popular thing among college students. I had no idea.

The series, set in the fictional Yorkshire country estate of...