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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.

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Keeping Up Appearances play hits Broadway

A stage adaptation of the BBC 1990s sitcom Keeping Up Appearances, by series creator Roy Clarke, will receive its U.S. premiere next month in the Fifth Avenue Presbyterian Church's Jones Auditorium in New York.

Andrew Gans, Playbill, 27th February 2015

Patricia Routledge talks Hyacinth, KUA and comedy 101

As the great Patricia Routledge inches closer to her 83rd birthday on Friday, 17 February, I'm reminded of a point in time in the late 1990's that we had the once-in-a-lifetime opportunity to interview Ms. Routledge for a salute to British comedy program for broadcast on public television in the States.

Bill Young, Tellyspotting, 9th February 2012

Patricia Routledge: 'There's a fashion to speak badly'

What has tempted Patricia Routledge back on to the stage?

Laura Barnett, The Guardian, 1st November 2011

Geoffrey Hughes gravely ill battling cancer

Telly legend Geoffrey Hughes, Onslow from Keeping Up Appearances, is gravely ill battling cancer.

Colin Robertson, The Sun, 4th August 2010

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