Keeping Up Appearances (1990)★ 7.9/10
- Comedy
Directed by: Harold Snoad
Written by: Roy Clarke
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.
- Original title
- Keeping Up Appearances
- Storyline
- Hyacinth Bucket (whose name she insists is pronounced "bouquet") continually looks for opportunities to climb the social ladder, though she's wedged on a rung just below her sister Violet (whose house has a swimming pool, sauna, and room for a pony) and just above her working class sisters Daisy and Rose. Hyacinth's passion for flawless entertaining unnerves her neighbor Elizabeth, who is often invited to the Bucket home for coffee. Elizabeth's divorced brother Emmet, who also lives next door to the Buckets, tries to avoid Hyacinth because she breaks into song in his presence in the hope he'll cast her in one of his "little theater" musical productions.
- Rating
- 7.9 / 10 · 20,248
- Companies
- British Broadcasting Corporation (BBC), Pan Vision Oy, BBC Video, Public Broadcasting Service (PBS), Televisie Radio Omroep Stichting (TROS), Telewizja Polska - II Program
- Release dates
- GB October 29, 1990
- AU May 18, 1992
- BE May 23, 1992
- NL February 12, 1993
- BR January 1, 1994
- DE June 14, 1996
- CA March 18, 2003
- US March 18, 2003
- PL January 23, 2013
- PH September 23, 2013
- SE October 19, 2021