Final episode of Downton Abbey featured during KNPB fundraiser

For the past six years, fans of Downton Abbey have enjoyed following the lives of the Crawley family and their cadre of servants in the Earl of Grantham's Edwardian country house.

Sunday night, the popular show comes to an end, and KNPB in Reno, the area's public television station, celebrated with a fundraiser inside the National Automobile Museum. Attendees, many of whom were dressed in period costumes, were treated to an advanced viewing of the final episode, gourmet British cuisine and prizes.

From the first season when viewers were introduced to the family in 1912, through a war, marriages, deaths, fortunes rise and fall, to the New Year's Eve 1925, fans have fallen in love with the characters and their lives.

A group of women from the Lake Tahoe Historical Society attended the Reno event Sunday, dressing up in their gloves, hats and jewelry reminiscent of an era long gone.