Keeping Up Appearances. Image shows from L to R: Hyacinth Bucket (Patricia Routledge), Richard Bucket (Clive Swift). Copyright: BBC
Keeping Up Appearances

Keeping Up Appearances

  • TV sitcom
  • BBC One
  • 1990 - 1995
  • 44 episodes (5 series)

Suburban snob Hyacinth Bucket devotes her time to monitoring standards and attempting to impress influential people. Stars Patricia Routledge, Clive Swift, Geoffrey Hughes, Judy Cornwell, Josephine Tewson and more.

Keeping Up Appearances - Series 1

Meet social-climbing Hyacinth Bucket, a middle-class suburban lady with delusions of grandeur. She has no patience for people who pretend to be superior, because that makes it "so much harder for those of us who really are". If only her extended family didn't keep showing her up and letting her down.

First released: Wednesday 22nd March 2017

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