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Keeping Up Appearances - The Complete Collection
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Hilarious!
Review date: 2008-06-04 Rating: 10 out of 10
I can still watch any of the episodes and still find them hilarious even 15 or more years since i first saw them on BBC1, i often think that since other BBC comedies have returned for a one off such as "To the Manor Born", it would be great to see a new episode of Keeping Up appearences. But it wouldn't be the same as sadly Mary Millar who played Rose tragically passed away. Buy this set for a box of laughs it has all the christmas specials, one of which i had totally forgot about so was a real treat to watch. Plus even though the series' are often shown on UKGold you won't have to put up with the annoyingly and ridiculousy long advert breaks!
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Reviews
Very funny british comedy
Review date: 2008-01-25 Rating: 10 out of 10
Great comedy about a woman that tries to appear as an upper-class lady, although the people directly around her are not. So she is constantly trying to "keep up appearences"
One of my favourite sit coms
Review date: 2008-01-06 Rating: 10 out of 10
I could not resist this box set as it contains every episode plus the Christmas specials.
Very very funny and for me 2nd only to Only Fools and worth every penny..
Against the Odds
Review date: 2007-12-11 Rating: 10 out of 10
Script writer Roy Clarke uses a very productive formula for this hilarious BBC situation comedy. In opposition to a middle-class housewife obsessed with maintaining what she deems to be the highest levels of good taste and genteel behaviour are her relatives: scruffy, deviant, senile, unambitious, bone lazy, and flirtatious. Of course, she cannot prevail against such heavy odds, but she is never deterred from keeping up appearances. Never, for example, will she admit that her surname, Bucket, should not be pronounced "Bouquet". Thus there is not only enormous comic potential in the individual characters exemplifying this formula, there is also the fun of seeing Hyacinth Bucket's efforts bringing her to one disaster after another.
Patricia Routledge, already in her early 60s, plays the zealous Hyacinth Bucket with enormous energy. Although Hyacinth is a monster and although her relatives are walking inadequacies, they all endear themselves to the viewers. Most episodes are closely packed with entertaining material. My favourite is one from the third series, by which time other script writers had taken over from Roy Clarke. In it, almost all the characters relocate to the country cottage of Hyacinth's sister Violet, and join at the end in a hilarious Indian file dance around the garden.
Product Details/Specifications
Artist(s):
Keeping Up Appearances
Recording label: Universal Pictures UK
Manufacturer: Universal Pictures UK
EAN: 5050582517132
Binding: DVD
Number of items: 8
Format: Box set, PAL,
Release date: 2007-10-08
Aspect ratio: 1.33:1
Audience rating: Parental Guidance
Region code: 2
Language: English (Original Language)