Keeping Up Appearances

Keeping Up Appearances1990

Director: Harold Snoad
Genre: Comedy
Keeping Up Appearances is a British sitcom created and written by Roy Clarke. It aired on BBC One from 1990 to 1995. The central character is eccentric and snobbish middle class social climber, Hyacinth Bucket (Patricia Routledge), who insists that … more »



Hyacinth Bucket:
[First lines] So Kind of you to come at short notice, Vicar!

Michael the Vicar:
Not at all, Mrs. Buck... [Catches himself about to say Bucket instead of Bouquet]... Buckfast Abbey is a place I've never been to, you know.

Hyacinth Bucket:
Buckfast Abbey? Oh yes! Oh, we must visit. I'll organize a little outing.

Michael the Vicar:
[Panicked] I can't...

Hyacinth Bucket:
Can't?

Michael the Vicar:
[resigned]... tell you what that would mean to me, Mrs. Bouquet.

Hyacinth Bucket:
That's what friends are for, Vicar! Oh, incidentally, I'm sorry I had to ask you to remove your shoes. I usually only insist upon tradesmen doing that, but as you've probably noticed, we've just had our herringbone re-lacquered.

Michael the Vicar:
[Confused] I'm sorry?

Hyacinth Bucket:
Oh, please don't be. Although it's very expensive process, it only needs to be done occasionally.

Michael the Vicar:
[understands] Oh, the FLOOR! The woodblock.

Hyacinth Bucket:
That's right. It has a tendency to lose its gloss. I often wonder whether Her Majesty has the same problem.

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