
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.
StatusEnded
TypeScripted
Original LanguageEnglish
Network

Specials of Keeping Up Appearances premiered on December 25, 1991
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.

Series 1 of Keeping Up Appearances premiered on October 28, 1990

Series 2 of Keeping Up Appearances premiered on August 31, 1991

Series 3 of Keeping Up Appearances premiered on September 5, 1992

Series 4 of Keeping Up Appearances premiered on September 4, 1993

Series 5 of Keeping Up Appearances premiered on September 2, 1995

Patricia Routledge
Hyacinth Bucket

Clive Swift
Richard Bucket

Judy Cornwell
Daisy

Geoffrey Hughes
Onslow

Josephine Tewson
Elizabeth 'Liz' Warden
David Griffin
Emmet

Mary Millar
Rose