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 »



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[Hyacinth has been looking out of the window using binoculars]

Hyacinth:
He's gone to Thirty-Five.

Richard:
Uh, who has?

Hyacinth:
The postman! That's every day this week he's been to Thirty-Five. He's bound to have something for us this morning.

Richard:
Well, if he has, he'll deliver it; if not, he'll go past again.

Hyacinth:
I won't have him walking past again. Not when he's been every day to number Thirty-Five.

Richard:
I like him walking past; another day without a bill. Huh. I feel quite festive every time he walks past.

Hyacinth:
*I* have to hold my head up in this community. I'm looked up to. What are they going to think if I go three days without mail?

Richard:
It's probably only junk mail going to Thirty-Five.

Hyacinth:
Richard, that is neither here nor there. I will not have my junk mail going to other people's houses.

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