Keeping Up Appearances

The Bucket Household

Keeping Up Appearances starred Patricia Routledge as eccentric, social-climbing snob Hyacinth Bucket. It aired on BBC1 from 1990 to 1995. The series was written by Roy Clarke, who also wrote Last of the Summer Wine and Open All Hours. In 2004, it came 12th in the Britain's Best Sitcom poll.

Hyacinth Bucket, who insists her last name is pronounced "bouquet", spends most of her time trying to impress her neighbours and friends by boasting about her wealthy sister Violet, and pretending to be of a more "aristocratic" class than she actually is. Simultaneously, Hyacinth tries desperately to avoid her lower-class relatives who frequently turn up, either on her doorstep (a suburban bungalow situated on Blossom Avenue) or in public places embarrassing her, and thus sabotaging her hopes of climbing the social ladder.

* Patricia Routledge - Hyacinth Bucket
* Clive Swift - Richard Bucket
* Judy Cornwell - Daisy
* Geoffrey Hughes - Onslow
* Shirley Stelfox - Rose (series 1)
* Mary Millar - Rose (from series 2)
* Josephine Tewson - Elizabeth Warden
* David Griffin - Emmet Hawksworth (from series 2)
* George Webb - "Daddy"
* Anna Dawson - Violet (from series 3)
* John Evitts - Bruce (from series 3)
* Jeremy Gittins - Michael, the Vicar
* Marion Barron - Vicar's wife
* Peter Cellier - The Major (series 1 and 2)
* David Janson - Michael, the Postman
* Robert Rawles - The Milkman