Specials
Overview
Christmas may come but once a year, but for arch-snob Hyacinth Bucket (pronounced Bouquet, if you please), disaster, drama and humiliation – all obstacles on the ladder to social-climbing success – are far more frequent. In these Christmas Specials we see a delightful cruise on the QE2 start in a less-than-delightful muddy field. We see a glorious English Civil War pageant, with Hyacinth as Queen Henrietta Maria, go royally wrong when the cast fails to turn up and her unsavoury relatives step into the breach. And we see that even The Season of Good Will isn’t immune from woe, as a sherry-fuelled Richard, dressed as Santa, brings Hyacinth tidings devoid of any comfort and joy.
Episodes
1. The Father Christmas Suit
1991-12-25
Hyacinth has bought Richard a Father Christmas outfit for him to wear when distributing gifts to the old people at the Church Hall. Against his will, Richard puts on the outfit, but after having one too many sherries with Emmett, he is unable to fulfil the deed, hence Elizabeth puts on the outfit and pretends to be Richard.
2. Sea Fever
1993-12-26
Hyacinth and Richard prepare for their luxury stay on the QE2. Yet traffic, a muddy field and too much luggage result in a disastrous start to a holiday that only gets much worse for Hyacinth when she has reason to believe Onslow and Daisy have stowed-away and are also onboard the luxury cruise.
3. Angel Gabriel Blue
1994-12-25
Hyacinth is in search for her dream kitchen while Richard has developed a fungus infection, not to his wife's approval. As a result, Hyacinth claims it is gout, a disease supposedly caught by "good living". Meanwhile Daddy has gone missing again and there is a stranger in his place
4. Children In Need Special
1995-12-24
Daddy has died, just when Hyacinth is expecting people for a candlelight supper, finger buffet and a first showing of her holiday slides.
5. Historical Pageant
1995-12-25
Hyacinth and Richard arrive at the Church hall as Hyacinth organises a Pageant based on the English Civil War, with herself as Queen Henrietta Maria and Richard as Charles I. However all of the volunteers supposedly taking part are unable to make it. At a last minute attempt to get the show off the ground, Hyacinth invites Onslow, Daisy and Rose along with Bruce and Violet to participate. Later in rehearsals however, Hyacinth falls foul of a stage accident.
6. Mr. Blobby meets Hyacinth Bucket
Unknown air date
A clip from Noel's House Party where Mr. Blobby pays Hyacinth and Richard a visit.
7. The Memoirs of Hyacinth Bucket
1997-03-01
Daisy and Onslow find the secret diary of Hyacinth and start reading in it. The rest of this TV-special are clips from prevous episodes
8. Comedy Connections - Keeping Up Appearances
2004-07-26
The documentary series Comedy Connections featured an episode dedicated to Keeping Up Appearances. Stars Clive Swift, Josephine Tewson, Judy Cornwell and David Griffin, along with writer Roy Clarke and producer/director Harold Snoad, all discussed the series. Clips from an interview with Patricia Routledge from 2002 were also included. The episode revealed that there were serious artistic differences between Clarke and Snoad.
9. Life Lessons from Onslow
2007-11-30
You'll laugh too hard to take notes when Hyacinth's beer-drinking and philosophizing brother-in-law, Onslow, gives a lecture on successful human relationships, using examples from Keeping Up Appearances.
10. Interview with Judy Cornwell
2007-11-30
An interview with Judy Cornwell
11. Interview with Patricia Routledge
2007-11-30
An interview with Patricia Routledge
12. Pebble Mill Interview
2007-11-30
Pebble Mill interviews Patricia Routledge and Clive Swift.
13. The Kitty Monologues
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From the character Kitty that Patricia Routledge played on Victoria Wood: As Seen on TV.
14. Second Chance Shorts
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15. Funny Women
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16. Outtakes 1
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17. Outtakes 2
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18. Outtakes 3
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19. Outtakes 4
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20. Outtakes 5
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21. Outtakes 6
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22. Outtakes 7
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23. The History Of
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24. Hyacinth Revealed - Newly Recorded Interviews
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25. Young Hyacinth
2016-09-02
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