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The Full Bouquet - Keeping Up Appearances - Specials
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Title: Keeping Up Appearances

Overview: Hyacinth Bucket (whose name, she insists, is pronounced "Bouquet") is a suburban housewife in the West Midlands. She would be the first to tell you that she is a gracious hostess, a respected citizen, and a well-connected member of high society. If you don't believe that, just ask her best friend Elizabeth, held captive in Hyacinth's kitchen; or the postmen and neighbours who bristle at the sound of her voice; or Richard, her weary and compliant husband. In fact, Hyacinth's reputation could be as perfect as her new lounge set, if not for her senile father's love of running wild in the nip. Oh, and she would prefer it if her brother-in-law was a sharper dresser. And that her husband was more ambitious. And that her sisters were more presentable. And do take your shoes off before you come in the house, dear. Mind that you don't brush against the wallpaper.

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Average Vote: 7.6 (145 votes)

Cast

  • Hyacinth Bucket: Patricia Routledge
  • Richard Bucket: Clive Swift
  • Daisy: Judy Cornwell
  • Onslow: Geoffrey Hughes
  • Elizabeth 'Liz' Warden: Josephine Tewson
  • Emmet: David Griffin
  • Rose: Mary Millar
  • Keeping Up Appearances - The Father Christmas Suit (Specials - Episode 1)

    Hyacinth has bought Richard a Father Christmas outfit for him to wear when distributing gifts to the old people at the Church Hall. Against his will, Richard puts on the outfit, but after having one too many sherries with Emmett, he is unable to fulfil the deed, hence Elizabeth puts on the outfit and pretends to be Richard.

    Keeping Up Appearances - Sea Fever (Specials - Episode 2)

    Hyacinth and Richard prepare for their luxury stay on the QE2. Yet traffic, a muddy field and too much luggage result in a disastrous start to a holiday that only gets much worse for Hyacinth when she has reason to believe Onslow and Daisy have stowed-away and are also onboard the luxury cruise.

    Keeping Up Appearances - Angel Gabriel Blue (Specials - Episode 3)

    Hyacinth is in search for her dream kitchen while Richard has developed a fungus infection, not to his wife's approval. As a result, Hyacinth claims it is gout, a disease supposedly caught by "good living". Meanwhile Daddy has gone missing again and there is a stranger in his place

    Keeping Up Appearances - Children In Need Special (Specials - Episode 4)

    Daddy has died, just when Hyacinth is expecting people for a candlelight supper, finger buffet and a first showing of her holiday slides.

    Keeping Up Appearances - Historical Pageant (Specials - Episode 5)

    Hyacinth and Richard arrive at the Church hall as Hyacinth organises a Pageant based on the English Civil War, with herself as Queen Henrietta Maria and Richard as Charles I. However all of the volunteers supposedly taking part are unable to make it. At a last minute attempt to get the show off the ground, Hyacinth invites Onslow, Daisy and Rose along with Bruce and Violet to participate. Later in rehearsals however, Hyacinth falls foul of a stage accident.

    Keeping Up Appearances - Mr. Blobby meets Hyacinth Bucket (Specials - Episode 6)

    A clip from Noel's House Party where Mr. Blobby pays Hyacinth and Richard a visit.

    Keeping Up Appearances - The Memoirs of Hyacinth Bucket (Specials - Episode 7)

    Daisy and Onslow find the secret diary of Hyacinth and start reading in it. The rest of this TV-special are clips from prevous episodes

    Keeping Up Appearances - Comedy Connections - Keeping Up Appearances (Specials - Episode 8)

    The documentary series Comedy Connections featured an episode dedicated to Keeping Up Appearances. Stars Clive Swift, Josephine Tewson, Judy Cornwell and David Griffin, along with writer Roy Clarke and producer/director Harold Snoad, all discussed the series. Clips from an interview with Patricia Routledge from 2002 were also included. The episode revealed that there were serious artistic differences between Clarke and Snoad.

    Keeping Up Appearances - Life Lessons from Onslow (Specials - Episode 9)

    You'll laugh too hard to take notes when Hyacinth's beer-drinking and philosophizing brother-in-law, Onslow, gives a lecture on successful human relationships, using examples from Keeping Up Appearances.

    Keeping Up Appearances - Interview with Judy Cornwell (Specials - Episode 10)

    An interview with Judy Cornwell

    Keeping Up Appearances - Interview with Patricia Routledge (Specials - Episode 11)

    An interview with Patricia Routledge

    Keeping Up Appearances - Pebble Mill Interview (Specials - Episode 12)

    Pebble Mill interviews Patricia Routledge and Clive Swift.

    Keeping Up Appearances - The Kitty Monologues (Specials - Episode 13)

    From the character Kitty that Patricia Routledge played on Victoria Wood: As Seen on TV.

    Keeping Up Appearances - Second Chance Shorts (Specials - Episode 14)

    Keeping Up Appearances - Funny Women (Specials - Episode 15)

    Keeping Up Appearances - Outtakes 1 (Specials - Episode 16)

    Keeping Up Appearances - Outtakes 2 (Specials - Episode 17)

    Keeping Up Appearances - Outtakes 3 (Specials - Episode 18)

    Keeping Up Appearances - Outtakes 4 (Specials - Episode 19)

    Keeping Up Appearances - Outtakes 5 (Specials - Episode 20)

    Keeping Up Appearances - Outtakes 6 (Specials - Episode 21)

    Keeping Up Appearances - Outtakes 7 (Specials - Episode 22)

    Keeping Up Appearances - The History Of (Specials - Episode 23)

    Keeping Up Appearances - Hyacinth Revealed - Newly Recorded Interviews (Specials - Episode 24)

    Keeping Up Appearances - Young Hyacinth (Specials - Episode 25)

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