Keeping Up Appearances

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Social-climbing snob Hyacinth Bucket is determined to lord it over her neighbours.

Social-climbing snob Hyacinth Bucket (sorry, 'Bouquet') is determined to lord it over her neighbours. If only her long-suffering husband and family wouldn't keep dragging her down.

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Patricia Routledge

Clive Swift

Josephine Tewson

David Griffin

Geoffrey Hughes

Judy Cornwell

Mary Millar

Nick Burnell

Dorothy Keller

Harold Snoad

Keeping Up Appearances: Series 2: Episode 9: The Three Piece Suite

The Three Piece Suite

Episode 9

Episode 9: The Three Piece Suite

Series 2

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Hyacinth is anxious that her neighbours view the arrival of her new suite.

Comedy of social manners. Hyacinth wants her neighbours to see the arrival of her new suite, boasting that it's an exact replica of one at Sandringham House.

Hyacinth is anxious that her neighbours view the arrival of her new suite, proudly boasting that it's an exact replica of one at Sandringham House. But the rest of the family conduct themselves less than regally.

Keeping Up Appearances: Series 2

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Patricia Routledge stars again as Hyacinth, still trying to impress the upper classes.

Patricia Routledge stars again as Hyacinth Bucket, whose continued attempts at impressing the upper echelons of society hit more social disasters.

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