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During the course of the programme, 44 episodes of Keeping Up Appearances aired over five series, between 29 October 1990 and 25 December 1995.
The central character is an eccentric and snobbish middle class social climber, Hyacinth Bucket (Patricia Routledge), who insists that her surname is pronounced "Bouquet". [1] The show consisted of five series and 44 episodes, four of which were Christmas specials.
Provided is basic information on each episode, along with a brief description on the episode. Alternate episode names are shown in the second line of each title field. This page indicates a summary for each series and episode in the popular sitcom Keeping Up Appearances.
Series 4. View episodes. Patricia Routledge stars again as Hyacinth Bucket, the irrepressible social climber.
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There were 44 episodes made between 1990 and 1995. This includes 42 episodes of thirty minutes each, one hour-long episode and one fifty-minute episode. There was also a short special shown as part of a Children in Need charity telethon.
KUA was written by the phenomenally prolific Roy Clarke, who at the same time was writing the classic Last of the Summer Wine. Clarke also wrote the successful Ronnie Barker sitcom Open All Hours and many other classics such as Last of the Summer Wine.
In the theater. Indeed, it may come as a shock to know that Ms. Routledge is actually from the gritty north of England. She was born in Birkenhead (near Liverpool), the much-loved daughter of a haberdasher named Issac and his wife, Catherine, who died when Patricia was just 20. She became a bit of a disruptive show-off at the local high school, but...
Her list of appearances is too long and varied to mention all of them here, but they include extensive work in theater, films and televison. One of her first starring role in a sitcom, however, was as Marjorie Belton in the 1985 series Marjorie and Men. Marjorie is a divorcee who returns home to live with her mother, who is determined to find her d...
She certainly can. Her performance in the Jules Styne muscial Darling of the Day earned her a Tony Award in 1968 for Best Actress in a Musical. She has appeared in numerous other musicals, sang Leonard Bernstein’s Candide in 1998 with the London Symphony Orchestra and even recorded an album of her favorite songs called Presenting Patricia Routledge...
He appeared in a satirical series during 1963 and 1964 called (and I am not making this up) Dig This Rhubarb. DTR was a satirical program also featuring the great John Fortune and the performers would debate a current topic by way of historical writings. Swift also played Ernie Nesbitt, the father of a roving band of crooks, in the 1980 ITVcomedy T...
Yes, indeed. Clive is the younger brother of David, who showed off his own comedic chops as pompous newsreader Henry Davenport on Drop the Dead Donkey. Swift was also married to famed British author Margaret Drabble, and the couple had three children.
Hyacinth’s sisters Rose and Daisy are played by Mary Millar (who replaced the original Rose, Shirley Stelfox, after the first series) and Judy Cornwell respectively. Rose is a man-hungry vixen who goes through a string of boyfriends during the series. Hyacinth often gets her hopes up that Rose’s men will be men of proper social connections and stat...
Sheridan, who is Hyacinth and Richard’s son. The only way his character is established is through telephone calls and one brief glimpse of the back of his head. The fact that we get such a strong impression of him despite his absence is a tribute to Clarke’s talent as a writer and Routledge’s delivery of the lines. In short, Sheridan (named after f...
Hyacinth’s next door neighbor is Elizabeth (Josephine Tewson) who turns into a shaking, nervous, cup- breaking wreck when invited chez Bucket. She is too weak and polite to stand up to the domineering Hyacinth, but at the start of the second series she gets a sympathetic ear in the form of her brother Emmet. Emmett moves in after his divorce and be...
Hyacinth Bucket (née Walton) who insists her last name is pronounced as "Bouquet", is the main character in the BBC sitcom Keeping Up Appearances, played by Patricia Routledge, and by Kerry Howard in the one-off episode Young Hyacinth which aired in September 2016.
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