Keeping Up Appearances: The Full Bouquet - Special Edition
Outtakes "Four Women" profile of Patricia Routledge The Kitty Monologues Second Chance Shorts: Exclusive UK commercial featuring Hyacinth and Elizabeth Pebble Mill interview with Patricia Routledge and Clive Swift The Memoirs of Hyacinth Bucket "Extra Footage" interviews from the cast Comedy Connection Children in Need Cast Biographies
Series: Keeping Up Appearances
1340 mins on 9 DVDs
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The Definitive Collection of the Perennial Hit
Hyacinth Bucket (pronounced "bouquet") goes to incredible lengths in her quest for perfection. Hers is a spick-and-span house. Her downtrodden husband, Richard, acts as chauffer in their immaculately kept car. Their permanently absent son has a superior name, Sheridan. Even the empty milk bottles sparkle on the doorstep after their obligatory rinse in the dishwasher. In marked contrast to Hyacinth's meticulously ordered life, however, the rest of her family are as common as much. They live together in a rundown house that looks like a junkyard. Sister Daisy and her husband, Onslow, are out-and-out slobs. Her other sister, Rose, is an aging tart. Whatever Hyacinth does, her family can always be guaranteed to show her up.
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Keeping Up Awards British Comedy Awards 1991-Top Television Comedy Actress- Patricia Routledge
"A tour de force of slapstick humor and weirdness ... Ms Routledge squeezes every bit of humor out of this juicy role. Her voice is an imperious Thatcherlike bark, her face is a rubbery wonder and she is a panic scrambling up a neighbor's hedges or falling off a pier, all in a fruitless attempt to keep up appearances. But Ms Routledge is more than a gifted clown; she is a superb monologuist as well. Part of each episode consists of Hyacinth fielding phone calls ... [and] part of Ms Routledge's gift - and that of the show's writer and creator, Roy Clarke - is to make them as real as Onslow, Richard and the rest."- Wall Street Journal
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