Keeping Up Appearances

Keeping Up Appearances is a British sitcom by Roy Clarke. It was shown on BBC One from 1990 to 1995 and is set in the West Midlands. It stars Patricia Routledge as middle-aged, middle-class, English housewife Hyacinth Bucket, who has narcissistic and obsessive-compulsive personality disorders and lives in a suburban house with her civil servant husband Richard. She insists that her surname is pronounced Bouquet. She is the eldest of four sisters. She has a gay son who lives away from home and is studying needlework at a polytechnic college. She is proud of her sister Violet, who is married to a rich but eccentric man. Hyacinth is embarrassed by her lazy sister Daisy, her lazy husband Onslow, her histrionic sister Rose and demented father, who are underclass and live in a nearby council house. The sitcom is about Hyacinth's attempts to prove her superiority and high social status (and that of her husband and unseen son), her attempts of being accepted by the upper class and people of high position, and her trying to hide her underclass family.

Keeping Up Appearances
Genre	Sitcom
Created by	Roy Clarke
Written by	Roy Clarke
Directed by	Harold Snoad
Starring	Patricia Routledge Clive Swift Josephine Tewson Geoffrey Hughes Judy Cornwell Shirley Stelfox Mary Millar David Griffin
Country of origin	United Kingdom
No. of series	5
No. of episodes	44 + 2 shorts (list of episodes)
Production
Producer	Harold Snoad
Production locations	Binley Woods, Warwickshire, England; (Hyacinth's Bungalow) Stoke Aldermoor, Coventry, West Midlands, England; (Daisy and Onslow's council house) Leamington Spa, England (Towns and various locations) Northampton, England; (Church, Church Hall and Vicarage) Swindon, Wiltshire, England; Oxford, England; Bristol, England; Great Yarmouth Norfolk, England; Copenhagen, Denmark; (location scenes)
Camera setup	Single-camera
Running time	30 minutes 50 minutes (1994 Christmas special) 60 minutes (1993 Christmas special)
Production company	BBC
Original release
Network	BBC One
Release	29 October 1990 (1990-10-29) – 25 December 1995 (1995-12-25)
Related
Young Hyacinth

Other websites

• Keeping Up Appearances on IMDb