6. Michael Gregson Comes Back
It's not just Anna and Mr. Bates who we're praying will have a happy ending, poor old Lady Edith hasn't exactly been lucky in love either. At the end of series 4 we saw Edith pregnant, with the father of her baby nowhere to be seen, planning to run off to Switzerland with her aunt where she'd put the baby up for adoption and come back to Downton with nobody being any the wiser. But we say Edith has had quite enough trauma, she was jilted at the altar and then had to watch her daughter Lady Sybil die, we don't want things to take a nosedive for her just as it looked like she might have had her happy ending. For this year's Christmas special we'd like to see the return of Michael Gregson, preferably with an engagement ring for Edith. Of course this might be the cheesiest and most convenient storyline to happen on Downton Abbey yet, but it'd be a welcome change from the doom and gloom approach we had to suffer through last Christmas.