Keeping Up Appearances

Name: Keeping Up Appearances
Genre: Comedy
Released: 1990-10-29
Cast: Patricia Routledge, Clive Swift, Judy Cornwell, Geoffrey Hughes, Josephine Tewson

First aired

October 29, 1990

Ended

Avg. episode: 30m

EnglishComedy

A snobbish housewife is determined to climb the social ladder, in spite of her family's working class connections and the constant chagrin of her long suffering husband.

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Cast

Patricia Routledge
Hyacinth Bucket
Clive Swift
Richard Bucket
Judy Cornwell
Daisy
Geoffrey Hughes
Onslow
Josephine Tewson
Elizabeth 'Liz' Warden
DG
David Griffin
Emmet
Mary Millar
Rose

Media

Seasons 6

Specials

199125 Episodes

Christmas may come but once a year, but for arch-snob Hyacinth Bucket (pronounced Bouquet, if you please), disaster, drama and humiliation – all obstacles on the ladder to social-climbing success – are far more frequent. In these Christmas Specials we see a delightful cruise on the QE2 start in a less-than-delightful muddy field. We see a glorious English Civil War pageant, with Hyacinth as Queen Henrietta Maria, go royally wrong when the cast fails to turn up and her unsavoury relatives step into the breach. And we see that even The Season of Good Will isn’t immune from woe, as a sherry-fuelled Richard, dressed as Santa, brings Hyacinth tidings devoid of any comfort and joy.