London - UPI
PBS's Masterpiece has unveiled the first photo from Downton Abbey's Season 5 cast as well as a few stills from the series' upcoming season.
In typical Downton fashion, the cast image features the servants standing on the left and the aristocrats on the right. This time, the family is joined by Robert Crawley's dog and Lady Mary and the late Lady Sibil's children.
Among the most notable of the released stills are one of Mary Crawly standing with suitor Gillingham and Cranson and one of Mr. Carson and Mrs. Hughes together in the kitchen -- the pair stunned viewers by holding hands at the beach in the show's fourth season finale.
Donwton's fifth season will begin airing in the U.K. in September. The show will run from January 4 to March 5, 2015 in the United States.
News of the series' cast photo comes on the same day the first episode for the season was unveiled during a press junket. You can read a spoiler-filled synopsis of the episode here.