Alternative title: Schone Schijn
State: Ended
Genre: Comedy
Origin:
United Kingdom
Developed by: Roy Clarke
Stars: Patricia Routledge, Josephine Tewson and Mary Millar
IMDb score:
7,9 (18.834)
Releasedate: Monday 29 October 1990
Keeping Up Appearances plot
Hyacinth Bucket (Bouquet to others) is the original ambassador of household affairs. Though Hyacinth spends her days terrorizing the neighbors, keeping her unruly family short, and satisfying every whim of her dearest Daddy, she still finds ample time to showcase her singing talents, stage sophisticated candlelight soirees and to pass on her refined hostess skills to others.
Actors and actresses
Hyacinth Bucket
Richard Bucket
Daisy
Onslow
Elizabeth 'Liz' Warden
Emmet
Emmet
Rose
Rose
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Opinions about Keeping Up Appearances
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TragieStar.*
- 64 comments
- 146 votes
I have seen episodes as a child/teenager and that has always stayed with me! Not always incredibly funny to see, but nice and fun to watch. Hyacinth is great. Insufferable, but wonderful how she wants to pretend to be an upper class trien, when she really isn't. The contrast with her Tokkie family is fun to follow. Often a repetition in terms of moves, but that looks nice. Nice and simple. Curious about the other seasons and if I've seen more than I can remember.
Best episode season 1: that Hyacinth climbs over the fence/wall of a random house so as not to show her neighbor that her family lives in a run-down neighborhood.
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Ebenezer Scrooge
- 36 comments
- 19 votes
The first season (1990) of Keeping Up Appearances is a bit out of tune compared to the rest of the series, it is still a bit of tuning in to what would eventually become the right successful formula, although much is of course already the same. But for example there is a scene in which Hyacinth openly criticizes her neighbor Elizabeth's private life, while Elizabeth herself is there, in the kitchen. That was even for Hyacinth a bit too bitchy, too negative, and you don't see it again in the following seasons. Although she does continue to make blunt remarks towards her neighbor, but that is more appearance/clumsiness oriented.
Rose was played by Shirley Stelfox in the first season, but she had other commitments and was replaced by Mary Millar in the second: "Where's that dishy vicar?"
Neighbor Emmet was also not yet present and was only introduced in the second season: "She'll sing at me!"
The unforgettable, recurring scene of Daisy and Onslow lying in their bed also came later.
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