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Keeping Up Appearances - Hyacinth in Full Bloom Set (Vol. 1-4) | 
 enlarge | Actors: Patricia Routledge, Clive Swift, Geoffrey Hughes, Judy Cornwell, Josephine Tewson
Studio: BBC Video
Category: DVD
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Rating:  35 reviews
Sales Rank: 10904
Format: Box Set, Closed-captioned, Color, Dvd-video, Ntsc
Language: English (Original Language)
Region: 1
Discs: 1
Aspect Ratio: 1.33:1
Number Of Discs: 1
Running Time: 30 Minutes
Shipping Weight (lbs): 1
Dimensions (in): 7.7 x 5.5 x 2.5
MPN: WARDE1714D
ISBN: 0790773406
UPC: 794051171429
EAN: 9780790773407
ASIN: B000079DND
Theatrical Release Date: 1994
Release Date: March 18, 2003
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Product Description
Studio: Warner Home Video Release Date: 02/22/2005 Run time: 635 minutes Rating: Nr
Amazon.com
Fans of the relentless social climber and unapologetically prying neighbor get the full Hyacinth treatment in this boxed set of four DVDs with 20 episodes--including a double episode set aboard the QE2. Everyone is here: nervous coffee-spilling neighbor Elizabeth with her musician brother Emmet, who's tormented by Hyacinth's spontaneous tryouts; her ever-patient husband, Richard; and the unaccountably amorous Major. And no episode would be complete without the antics of her family, including the romance-addled Daisy and jobless husband Onslow, who favors the vest-without-a-shirt look. Packed into their grubby apartment is aging tart of a sister Daisy, who specializes in married men, and their befuddled elderly Daddy, who frequently escapes to elope or bicycle naked or both. Even the well-married sister Violet got a hysterical, cross-dressing husband along with the Mercedes. The marvelous Patricia Routledge pulls it all together with her amazing combination of matronly indignation and outrageous physical comedy. Extras include outtakes and Routledge's Kitty monologues. --Kimberly Heinrichs
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 bloody brilliant September 15, 2008
M. Francisco (Oakland, CA)
1 out of 1 found this review helpful
Bought this set a while back. A little pricey, but it's worth it. I like the crazy broad in the hat (Hyacinth). She kinda reminds me of my mother. For a while, I was only watching PBS and they showed this all the time. That was when I wasn't working, so now I watch the DVDs when I get home from the Valero station. Anyway, this show is top humor. You've got the social climber Hyacinth and then her low-class family constantly butting heads. There's nothing better than opposing classes when it comes to comedy. Some of the jokes are the same, like Hyacinth telling everyone to say her last name "Bouquet" instead of "Bucket." But the repeated gags are what make you feel at home when you watch this show. It's like always having turkey at Thanksgiving, or something. I still enjoy it, every episode.
 No Closed Captioning April 11, 2007
Valerie Salley (Minneapolis, MN)
0 out of 1 found this review helpful
My mom (who is hearing impaired) and I love this show but alas this DVD set did not have closed captioning or any subtitles available for viewing.
 Keeping up Appearances Vol 1-4 January 10, 2007
S. Contevita (Tucson AZ)
I actually bought this set for my parents. We have had so much fun watching all of the episodes. This is one of their favorite shows, and to be able to watch them one after the other with no commercials is really a treat. Hyacinth is our favorite character. She definitely tries to seperate herself from the "low-life" characters in her family. Her comments and facial expressions keep us cracking up! I would recommend this to anyone who enjoys British humor. This is a classic!
This is the bouqet residents, lady of the house speaking! Oh, its you...... March 4, 2006
2 out of 2 found this review helpful
I grew up with this show. It shows how comedy does not have to be vulgar to be brilliant. With its ongoing gags, its familiar charactres, and its sheer comidec brilliance makes you crave more seasons of the show. I'm an anglophile because of this show, but this show makes me darn proud of that
Carves out its own unique niche November 26, 2005
rsub8a (Philadelphia area)
1 out of 1 found this review helpful
One of the more popular, relatively recent Britcoms, we are treated to the cartoonish antics of dizzily optimistic central character Hyacinth Bucket (pronounced Boo-Kay!), played very effectively by Patricia Routledge. Her liberally dispensed, over-the-top brand of caste snobbery, which forms the focal point of her "problem," dependably boomerangs every single time. This is accentuated by the grating nasality of her voice: think Dan Ackroyd's Saturday Night Live parody of Julia Child, amplified to the same general effect that fluorescent hues have on a bad hangover. Her calm, patient but unfortunate husband, Richard ("Rich-errrd!"), usually must bear the brunt of the ensuing misery. Part of the fun is seeing just how far he can be pushed - but he somehow manages to keep from exploding.
On top of it, her cockney, trashy but warm-hearted and good-natured relatives are the only ones seemingly sane enough to savor the amusement of it all. And one enduring mystery remains: her invisible sister is never revealed, but one can imagine her warts (assuming that she really does exist), given the context of being raised in Hyacinth's bombastic shadow. And Hyacinth never ever learns; her overbearing nature completely blinds her to the discomfort that she induces in others, which makes everything all the more fun.
For what it is, Keeping Up Appearances carves out its own niche. Sadly, minus one star because the edge sharpening apparently added in producing the video for the DVD rankles, and so I sometimes find myself switching from the DVD to softer VHS tapes of PBS broadcasts of the same episodes when I need to soothe my eyes.
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