4.1 The Memoirs of Hyacinth Bucket (1997).The show has been syndicated on Gold and Drama in the UK, on PBS member stations in the United States and on 7TWO and 9Gem in Australia. In a 2001 Channel 4 poll, Hyacinth was ranked 52nd on their list of the 100 Greatest TV Characters. In a 2004 BBC poll it placed 12th in Britain's Best Sitcom. By February 2016, it had been sold nearly a thousand times to overseas broadcasters, making it BBC Worldwide's most exported television programme. Keeping Up Appearances was a great success in the UK, and also captured large audiences in the US, Canada, Australia, Denmark, Finland, Sweden, Ireland, Belgium, and the Netherlands. In each episode, she lands in a farcical situation as she battles to protect her social credibility. Much of the humour comes from the conflict between Hyacinth's vision of herself and the reality of her underclass background. Her attempts are constantly hampered by her lower class extended family, whom she is desperate to hide. The sitcom follows Hyacinth in her attempts to prove her social superiority, and to gain standing with those she considers upper class. All episodes and the specials have since been released on DVD. Production ended in 1995 after Routledge decided to move on to other projects.
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The show comprised five series and 44 episodes, four of which are Christmas specials. The central character is an eccentric and snobbish lower middle class social climber, Hyacinth Bucket ( Patricia Routledge), who insists that her surname is pronounced "Bouquet". It originally aired on BBC1 from 1990 to 1995 with two specials airing in 19 on PBS.
Keeping Up Appearances is a British sitcom created and written by Roy Clarke. Stoke Aldermoor, Coventry, West Midlands, England 44 + 2 shorts and 2 specials ( list of episodes)