February 2007: KEEPING UP APPEARENCES

Roy Clarke’s KEEPING UP APPEARENCES (1990) - Hyacinth Bucket (pronounced "bouquet") continually looks for opportunities to climb the social ladder, though she's wedged on a rung just below her sister Violet (whose house has a swimming pool, sauna, and room for a pony) and just above her working class sisters Daisy and Rose. Hyacinth's passion for flawless entertaining unnerves her neighbour Elizabeth, who is often invited to the Bucket home for coffee. Elizabeth's divorced brother Emmet, who also lives next door to the Buckets, tries to avoid Hyacinth because she breaks into song in his presence in the hope he'll cast her in one of his "little theatre"

Cast:
Patricia Routledge as Hyacinth
Clive Swift as Richard
Judy Cornwell as Daisy
Geoffrey Hughes as Onslow
Josephine Tewson as Elizabeth
Mary Millar as Rose
David Griffin as Emmet

43 Episodes produced by BBC: Amusement guarantee