Keeping up Appearances

[AriesTheRam]

Aibu to say that Richard should have been with Elizabeth in the end?
I'm starting all the series from the beginning and they are much more suited.

I may be slightly over invested!

@WeirdlyOdd

*Sheridan is gay, right?

And everyone except Hyacinth is aware of it.*

Hyacinth... and my own mother.

And has anyone else every spotted that Onslow's bedtime reading material is often something really highbrow, like "The fundamentals of particle physics"!!!

Yes regarding Onslow's books and magazines - he always makes me think of Grommit in that respect ("Quantum Physics and Wave Theory For Dogs")

Meanwhile poor Daisy gets her romantic fix from Mills and Boon! I'll bet their sales went through the roof when she started reading their dross novels.

@AndNoneForGretchenWieners

Aww I used to watch this with DH. Onslow and Daisy's house (where it was filmed) was next door to his childhood family home. I used to tease him that he was really like Onslow, but he was one of the best characters. He was funny and unapologetically himself.

I grew up where they filmed Hyacinth's house - although I had moved away by the time it was filmed. Dad's front garden appeared a couple of times and a schoolfriend's house was opposite Hyacinth's so is in most episodes.

But it's weird watching. They drive along their street, turn onto another road and auddenly are somewhere miles away!

RIP Clive Swift and Geoffrey Hughes. Very well written as most Roy Clarke's work is, and fortunately not flogged to death with too many series.

At the time I knew Geoffrey Hughes's brother (you could see the resemblance) and he was very proud of Geoffrey's work.

I loved Geoffrey Hughes Character in Corrie and in Royle Family, too - a greatly under-rated actor.

And Clive Swift was the ultimate Bishop Proudie for me. He also played a television detective in a programme in the 70's. I can't remember what it was called - I'll have to see if I can find out because it will niggle away at me now.

Where was it filmed?

I want to watch it again now, I love it. My friend used to watch it before work then come home and watch the repeat

I just didn’t like daddy keep escaping with his gun, it irritated me, sorry.

@SchadenfreudePersonified

I loved Geoffrey Hughes Character in Corrie and in Royle Family, too - a greatly under-rated actor.

And Clive Swift was the ultimate Bishop Proudie for me. He also played a television detective in a programme in the 70's. I can't remember what it was called - I'll have to see if I can find out because it will niggle away at me now.

IMDb says he played Inspector Waugh in 6 episodes of Thirty-Minute Theatre in 1968-71; www.imdb.com/title/tt0212699/?ref_=nm_flmg_act_95

but do we ever see Violet?

Agreed, always thought Elizabeth and Richard would have been a lovely match. Would love a Christmas special with that had that happen!

Obv not possible now!

@starfishmummy that is a bit disorientating, when they are in the Aldermoor then next thing you know it's Leamington! I often wonder why they picked the locations, did they know someone who lived locally?

@LemonDrizzles

but do we ever see Violet?

Didn't she once put in an appearance at a christening or something? One of my colleagues used to consider Hyacinth to be her role modle!

@Aposterhasnoname

Found it. ]]

Thanks for that. I may just take the Britbox 7 day free trial just to watch that on my iPad. I only have Freeview TV for everyday watching & don’t have any intention of paying for any other TV or films subscriptions, don’t watch enough anyway.🙂

I adore this show. I love how, watching it again as an adult, I pick up on little touches I didn’t as a child/teen. For example, Hyacinth seems that bit more protective over Rose, and gets quite excited when she looks set to be marrying ‘upwards’; as if she can see hope for her in the future. There’s one episode where Rose decides she’s becoming a nun and wants to see the vicar. Obviously Hyacinth shoos her off, but before she does she gives her a kiss on the forehead - it’s very sweet.

I did always wonder if Elizabeth’s husband ‘Working in Saudi Arabia’ was a polite fiction to cover up that he’d run off with some trollop. I notice he’s never mentioned after Series 2...

I wonder if, lurking somewhere in the archives and never screened, there’s a late night special where Richard finally lets rip at Hyacinth and she’s actually turned on by it. ‘Richard! Damn the Royal Doulton with the hand painted periwinkles - take me roughly up against the Queen Anne cabinet and let Elizabeth go thirsty!’

@StillCoughingandLaughing

I say, steady on old girl

@Aahotep

I laugh so much when the dog in the scrap car barks at Hyacinth. Every time.

Me too! And poor Richard with the gate 'leave it, leave it'...

IMDb says he played Inspector Waugh in 6 episodes of Thirty-Minute Theatre in 1968-71; www.imdb.com/title/tt0212699/?ref_=nm_flmg_act_95

Thank you so much, sueelleker

I looked and couldn't find anything and thought I had imagined it! I never thought of IMDb. I have a feeling that the series he was in was called "Waugh on Crime" or something similar.

Brilliant detection work on your part.

@LemonDrizzles

but do we ever see Violet?

I think she's been in one episode (as has Bruce - in a Maid Marion outfit, probably) but no others.

I don't like "Daddy" - I don't mind his escapades, but I think he should be the "invisible" character, like Elizabeth Mainwaring in "Dad's Army"

I wonder if, lurking somewhere in the archives and never screened, there’s a late night special where Richard finally lets rip at Hyacinth and she’s actually turned on by it. ‘Richard! Damn the Royal Doulton with the hand painted periwinkles - take me roughly up against the Queen Anne cabinet and let Elizabeth go thirsty!

Sadly, I suspect that Richard hasn't seen any action since their wedding night.

I mean - have you seen the state it leaves the sheets?

Well - either that or Hyacinth is a covert nympho and Richard hasn't had an uninterrupted night's sleep for 40 years . . .

I like the one where Hyacinth is getting Richard to climb a tree, can't remember why, and he deliberately keeps quiet when someone is there, they think Hyacinth is talking to the tree and afterwards she said "fancy that man thinking I was talking to a tree, Richard, why didn't you answer"? Or something like that

Looking for Iron Age barrows ups trees
My favourite is the riparian entertainments, especially when they both end up in the river. Every time is see it is like the first time

Violet was played by Anna Dawson.

Violet is in a few but only a handful. One of them I saw the other day but even in that episode you hardly saw her

@StillCoughingandLaughing

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