Keeping Up Appearances

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(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)
Production company(s)	BBC
Distributor	BBC Worldwide 2entertain Universal Pictures ABC (Australia, home video) Warner Home Video (US, home video) Iowa Public Television (US, television)
Release
Original network	BBC One
Picture format	576i (4:3 SDTV)
Audio format	Monaural (series 1) Stereo (series 2–5)
Original release	29 October 1990 (1990-10-29) – 25 December 1995 (1995-12-25)
Chronology
Related shows	Young Hyacinth
Other websites
Website

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, eccentric man. Hyacinth is embarrassed by her lazy sister Daisy, her husband Onslow, her histrionic sister Rose and demented father, who are underclass and live in a nearby council house.

Other websites

• Keeping Up Appearances on IMDb