Keeping Up Appearances
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| Genre | Sitcom |
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| 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 episodes | 44 + 2 shorts (list of episodes) |
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| Producer(s) | Harold Snoad |
| Production location(s) | 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) |
| Distributor | BBC Worldwide 2entertain Universal Pictures ABC (Australia, home video) Warner Home Video (US, home video) Iowa Public Television (US, television)[1] |
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| Picture format | 576i (4:3 SDTV) |
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| Original release | 29 October 1990 – 25 December 1995 |
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| Related shows | Young Hyacinth |
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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 Media
The council terrace in Stoke Aldermoor occupied by Daisy and Onslow
