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)[1] |
| Release | |
| Original network | BBC One |
| Picture format | 576i (4:3 SDTV) |
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| Original release | 29 October 1990 – 25 December 1995 |
| Chronology | |
| Related shows | Young Hyacinth |
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| Website | |
Keeping Up Appearances is a British sitcom by Roy Clarke. It was shown on BBC One from 1990-1995 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.
