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Keeping Up Appearances is a British sitcom starring Patricia Routledge as social-climbing snob Hyacinth Bucket. It aired on BBC1 from 1990 to 1995. Keeping Up Appearances was written by Roy Clarke, who also wrote Last of the Summer Wine and Open All Hours. In 2004, it came 12th in Britain's Best Sitcom. Keeping Up Appearances title card. ...
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Roy Clarke (born January 28, 1930 in Goole, Yorkshire) is a British comedy writer, best known for creating Last of the Summer Wine starring Bill Owen, Peter Sallis, Brian Wilde, Kathy Staff and Dame Thora Hird amongst others (he also wrote the prequel First of the Summer Wine); and Keeping...
Katherine Patricia Routledge CBE (born 17 February 1929) is a Tony Award-winning English actress who is best known to television audiences for her role of Hyacinth Bucket in the television comedy series Keeping Up Appearances. ...
Clive Swift in his role as Richard Bucket in Keeping Up Appearances. ...
David Griffin (born 19 July 1943) is an English actor best known for appearing in Hi-de-Hi! and Keeping Up Appearances. ...
Josephine Tewson (born February 26, 1939) is a British actress, best known for her role as Elizabeth Warden in Keeping Up Appearances (1990â1995). ...
Geoffrey Hughes as his character Onslow in Keeping Up Appearances. ...
Judy Cornwell (born 20 February 1940 in Hammersmith, London, England) is a British actress best known for her role of Daisy in Keeping Up Appearances. ...
Shirley Stelfox (born 11 April 1941) is a British actress, currently best known as busybody Edna Birch in the ITV soap Emmerdale. ...
Mary Millar (July 26, 1936âNovember 10, 1998) was a British actress born in Doncaster, Yorkshire. ...
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The following is a list of episodes for the British sitcom Keeping Up Appearances. ...
Harold Snoad (born August 28, 1935) is the creator of the British sitcom, Keeping Up Appearances. ...
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A British sitcom is a situation comedy (sitcom) produced in the United Kingdom. ...
Katherine Patricia Routledge CBE (born 17 February 1929) is a Tony Award-winning English actress who is best known to television audiences for her role of Hyacinth Bucket in the television comedy series Keeping Up Appearances. ...
Hyacinth Bucket (pronounced, the character claims, as Bouquet) is the main character in the BBC sitcom Keeping Up Appearances (1990 to 1995), played by Patricia Routledge. ...
For the BBC radio station, see BBC Radio 1. ...
Roy Clarke (born January 28, 1930 in Goole, Yorkshire) is a British comedy writer, best known for creating Last of the Summer Wine starring Bill Owen, Peter Sallis, Brian Wilde, Kathy Staff and Dame Thora Hird amongst others (he also wrote the prequel First of the Summer Wine); and Keeping...
Last of the Summer Wine (Originally The Last of the Summer Wine in the pilot episode), is a BBC sitcom written by Roy Clarke. ...
Open All Hours was a BBC sitcom written by Roy Clarke which ran for four series (26 episodes in all) between 1976 and 1985, with a pilot episode from the Seven of One series in 1973. ...
Britains Best Sitcom was a poll conducted in 2003 and 2004 by the BBC to identify the United Kingdoms best situation comedy. ...
Cast Katherine Patricia Routledge CBE (born 17 February 1929) is a Tony Award-winning English actress who is best known to television audiences for her role of Hyacinth Bucket in the television comedy series Keeping Up Appearances. ...
Hyacinth Bucket (pronounced, the character claims, as Bouquet) is the main character in the BBC sitcom Keeping Up Appearances (1990 to 1995), played by Patricia Routledge. ...
Clive Swift in his role as Richard Bucket in Keeping Up Appearances. ...
Richard Bucket, played by Clive Swift. ...
Judy Cornwell (born 20 February 1940 in Hammersmith, London, England) is a British actress best known for her role of Daisy in Keeping Up Appearances. ...
Daisy is a comical fictional character in the British comedy television series Keeping Up Appearances portrayed by actress Judy Cornwell. ...
Geoffrey Hughes as his character Onslow in Keeping Up Appearances. ...
Onslow played by actor Geoffrey Hughes Onslow is a comical fictional character in the British comedy television series Keeping Up Appearances portrayed by actor Geoffrey Hughes. ...
Shirley Stelfox (born 11 April 1941) is a British actress, currently best known as busybody Edna Birch in the ITV soap Emmerdale. ...
Rose is a fictional character in the British comedy television series Keeping Up Appearances. She was portrayed by two actresses, Shirley Stelfox (in the first series) and the late Mary Millar. ...
Mary Millar (July 26, 1936âNovember 10, 1998) was a British actress born in Doncaster, Yorkshire. ...
Josephine Tewson (born February 26, 1939) is a British actress, best known for her role as Elizabeth Warden in Keeping Up Appearances (1990â1995). ...
Elizabeth Warden (nee Hawksworth) is a fictional character on the British situation comedy series Keeping Up Appearances. ...
David Griffin (born 19 July 1943) is an English actor best known for appearing in Hi-de-Hi! and Keeping Up Appearances. ...
Emmet Hawksworth is a fictional character in the British comedy television series Keeping Up Appearances portrayed by actor David Griffin. ...
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Daddy is a fictional character from the British comedy television series Keeping Up Appearances. He is the father of the central character Hyacinth Bucket and is portrayed by actor George Webb. ...
Anna Dawson (born 27 July 1937 in Bolton, Lancashire, England) is an actress who featured in many episodes of the Benny Hill Show during the seventies. ...
Violet is a fictional character on the British situation comedy series Keeping Up Appearances. ...
Jeremy Gittins (born January 30, 1956 in Manchester, England) is an English actor who is known for his semi-regular role as the Vicar on the British sitcom Keeping Up Appearances. ...
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Peter Cellier (born 1928) is an English actor who has appeared in film, stage and television. ...
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Plot Hyacinth Bucket is a social-climbing snob who insists her last name is pronounced "bouquet". She spends most of her time trying to impress her neighbours and friends by boasting about her wealthy sister Violet and pretending to be of a more “aristocratic” class. Simultaneously, Hyacinth tries desperately to avoid her lower-class relatives who frequently turn up, either on the woman's doorstep (a suburban bungalow situated on Blossom Avenue), or in public places, embarrassing Hyacinth and thus sabotaging her hopes of climbing the social ladder. Hyacinth is a middle-aged housewife who is very house-proud. She will answer the phone with "The Bouquet residence, the lady of the house speaking", and from her well-polished brass to the shining wood-block, her home is a paragon of perfection and polish. She is constantly warning her visitors not to brush up against the walls and telling them to remove their shoes on arrival. Hyacinth's long-suffering and hen-pecked husband is Richard, who works for the local council. Later in the series he reluctantly takes early retirement. Richard often tries in vain to stop Hyacinth in her snobbish endeavours, but she never listens to anyone, including her husband. Richard regularly gets dragged into assisting Hyacinth in her numerous attempts at climbing the social ladder, despite a reluctance to do so. The couple have an unseen son Sheridan, who makes frequent phone calls from his polytechnic (one which Hyacinth claims is "of university standard") asking for money. Although Hyacinth seems unaware, there are strong suggestions that Sheridan is homosexual. Television shows and stage plays sometimes include continuing characters â characters who are currently in frequent interaction with the other characters and who influence current story events â who are never seen or heard by the audience and only described by other characters. ...
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Saving face, Hyacinth and Richard hiding from their lower-class relatives on the grounds of an expensive stately home Hyacinth has three sisters: Daisy, Rose and Violet. The lust-crackling Daisy is married to the unromantic slob, Onslow, and the pair have a daughter called Stephanie. Neither Daisy or Onslow work, and they spend their time lounging about in the sitting room, with Onslow drinking beer, eating crisps and watching television, and Daisy reading romantic novels, these being her last hope of romance. The pair live with the promiscuous Rose and their senile father (who's referred to as "Daddy"). Rose has a brief job in series four, selling custom made jewellery door-to-door. She spends most of her time chasing married men and Hyacinth’s neighbour, Emmet, along with the local Vicar; not favoured by his envious wife. Meanwhile “Daddy” chases elderly women and frequently believes he is back in World War II. Daisy, Rose, Onslow and their father together live in squalor; their home is a three-bedroom house on a rundown council estate. An abandoned car occupies the front garden, lived in by Onslow’s dog. Inevitably, the four fail to fall in line with Hyacinth’s standards; hence she does her very best to avoid them when in public, to save face. However, despite the leading lady’s desire for a more "upper-crust" family, loves her relatives (especially Daddy) and never fails to rush to their assistance when in need of her help. Often, it's Daddy that has got into an embarrasing endeavour, a problem Hyacinth has to always solve. Hyacinth’s other sister is the wealthy Violet, who, although rarely seen, she is always boasted about by Hyacinth to the neighbours, referred to as "the one with the Mercedes, swimming pool and room for a pony". Violet is unhappily married to the cross-dressing bookmaker Bruce. File history Legend: (cur) = this is the current file, (del) = delete this old version, (rev) = revert to this old version. ...
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Hyacinth's next door neighbour is Elizabeth Warden,a twenty-four-hour witness to her snobbery. Frequently invited round to the Bucket residence for coffee, her nerves always cause her to spill it. Meanwhile, her husband is away working in Saudi Arabia. Elizabeth’s brother Emmett arrives at series two to live with his sister after a messy divorce. Emmett runs a local amateur operatic society, Hyacinth therefore frequently drops hints through singing, that he should include her in his performances. Emmett quickly develops a fear of Hyacinth as a result of her excessive vocal exercises to such an extent that he barely leaves the house. Hyacinth, however, is under the delusion that this is because Emmett is attracted to her. The only character who is attracted to Hyacinth however, is the excitable Major, who features in the first two series.
Filming locations Exterior shots around Hyacinth's house were filmed in Binley Woods village near Coventry. Exterior shots around Daisy and Onslow's council house were filmed in Stoke Aldermoor in Coventry. Other exterior street and town shots were filmed in Leamington Spa and in various towns throughout Warwickshire, along with many scenes from the large town of Northampton. Some scenes have also been shot in Swindon and Oxford. Image File history File links Metadata Size of this preview: 800 Ã 600 pixelsFull resolution (2592 Ã 1944 pixels, file size: 2. ...
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Keeping Up Appearances aired for five series, four Christmas specials and one short Children in Need special from 29 October 1990 to 25 December 1995. The series ended after the episode "The Pageant" because Patricia Routledge wanted to focus on other work. Each episode opens with the same theme music, of which a variation of the theme tune is used on two occasions in series one and once in series five. The opening titles show Hyacinth using a book entitled Modern Etiquette to write an invitation for one of her candlelight suppers, and then putting a note for the milkman into a clean milk bottle. The closing titles feature Hyacinth's dining table set for a candlelight supper, with her putting a name card in view at the end which reads "Harold Snoad", to match with the final credit of producer and director. The following is a list of episodes for the British sitcom Keeping Up Appearances. ...
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Harold Snoad (born August 28, 1935) is the creator of the British sitcom, Keeping Up Appearances. ...
After Keeping Up Appearances
DVD cover of the Region 2 release, containing Series 1 & 2. In March 1997, Geoffrey Hughes and Judy Cornwell reprised their roles as Onslow and Daisy for a special compilation episode filmed for broadcast in the United States. The Memoirs of Hyacinth Bucket saw the pair introduce classic clips from the series. Image File history File links Download high resolution version (828x1114, 248 KB) Summary Scanned DVD cover of the Region 2 release of series 1 and 2 or Keeping Up Appearances. ...
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In 1998, the BBC released three episodes of the show: "A Job For Richard", "Country Retreat" and "Sea Fever" on audio cassette, and Clive Swift reprised his role as Richard, recording a narrative to compensate for the lack of images. And in 2004, the documentary series Comedy Connections featured an episode dedicated to Keeping Up Appearances. Stars Clive Swift, Josephine Tewson, Judy Cornwell and David Griffin, writer Roy Clarke and producer/director Harold Snoad all discussed the series. Clips from an interview with Patricia Routledge from 2002 were also included. This show revealed that there were serious artistic differences between Clarke and Snoad. Comedy Connections is a BBC One documentary series produced by BBC Scotland that aired from 2003 to 2007. ...
Two cast members died within two months of each other in 1998, Mary Millar, who played Rose from 1991-95, on 10 November 1998 of ovarian cancer and George Webb, who played Daddy throughout the show's run, on 30 December 1998 of natural causes. Charmian May who appeared as Mrs. Councillor Nugent recurringly earlier in the series died on 24 October 2002. Year 1998 (MCMXCVIII) was a common year starting on Thursday (link will display full 1998 Gregorian calendar). ...
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Region 1 NTSC In Region 1, the complete series 1 to 5 and the specials were released in a boxed set in 2004 titled The Full Bouquet. They have also been released as individual box sets combining series 1 and 2 and series 3, 4 and 5.
Region 2 PAL Series 1 and 2 was released by Universal Playback on 7 March 2003, followed by Series 3 and 4 and the 1991 Christmas Special on 16 February 2004. The fifth series and 1993, 1994 and 1995 specials were released on 26 December 2006. In Region 2, The Essential Collection was released on 8 October 2007.[1] Universal Playback is a subsidiary of Universal Studios which specialises in releasing DVDs of old and cult television programmes. ...
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Region 4 PAL The entire series was also released in Region 4 in 2005 under the title The Complete Collection'. It is also available as Series One & Two, Series Three & Four and Five. Also available is a "Christmas Specials" DVD.
VHS releases Episodes from the series were also released on video tape in the 1990s by 2 Entertain Video, these included; - "Rural Retreat" - Released on 12 June 1995 and comprises three episodes, "Rural Retreat", "Let there be Light" and "Please Mind Your Head".
- "How to enhance your husband’s retirement" - Released on 3 June 1996 and comprises three episodes, "How to Enhance Your Husband's Retirement", "What to Wear When Yachting" and "How to go on Holiday without really trying".
- "Sea Fever" - Released on 2 April 1997 comprises "Sea Fever" and "Hyacinth Tees Off".
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Books Two books related to the series were released in the UK. One is entitled Hyacinth Bucket's Book of Etiquette for the Socially less Fortunate, which is a rather light hearted guide to manners as seen through Hycacinth Bucket's eyes. It is based on the TV series' scripts, contains many black and white photos of scenes from the series and first published in 1993. The other is entitled Hyacinth Bucket's Hectic Social Calendar which is presented in a diary format chronicling a year in her life, with typical comments about her relations and neighbours. This was published in 1995. Both were written by Jonathan Rice and published by BBC Books.
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