Keeping Up Appearances

Keeping Up Appearances is a British sitcom which ran on BBC1 from 1990 to 1995. It has developed a rather devoted cult following in North America as well, airing regularly on PBS stations. It revolves around the constant struggles of the protagonist Hyacinth Bucket—who pronounces her surname as Bouquet, although her husband always pronounced it "Bucket" before he married. Hyacinth gets very aggravated whenever someone "mispronounces" it. She always seeks to appear to be of a higher social class than she is. Episodes often feature her latest scheme to move up in life from her middle-class existence—for example her sophisticated "candlelight suppers"—getting foiled. She frequently attempts to outdo her neighbours as well.

Cast

• Patricia Routledge (Hyacinth Bucket)
• Clive Swift (Richard Bucket)
• Judy Cornwell (Daisy)
• Geoffrey Hughes (Onslow)
• Shirley Stelfox (Rose (1))
• Mary Millar (Rose (2))
• Josephine Tewson (Elizabeth Hawksworth Warden)
• David Griffin (Emmet Hawksworth)
• George Webb (Daddy)
• Anna Dawson (Violet)
• Jeremy Gittins (Michael, the Vicar)
• Marion Barron (Vicar's Wife)
• Peter Cellier (The Major)