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"Keeping Up Appearances" (1990) More at IMDbPro »

• Sheridan, son of Hyacinth and Richard, is never seen on the show. Normally he is either mentioned in passing or he calls on the phone. He has a reputation for being very dependent on his parents, evidenced by Richard's comment of "No more money this month" whenever their son calls.
  
  
• The never-seen son Sheridan was gay. Hyacinth never realized this, even though everyone else, including Richard, seemed to.
  
  
• Hyacinth and Richard live on Blossom Avenue.
  
  
• Hyacinth believes Richard's favorite hobby is gardening.
  
  
• One episode has slobbish Onslow and Daisy in bed reading - they have a conversation about DIY and Onslow describes himself as being more intellectually than manually gifted. During this time, he is glancing at a hardbacked book, the title of which is quite difficult to make out. It is actually a newish copy of "Principles Of Condensed Matter Physics".
  
  
• A total of 44 episodes were made, including 4 Christmas Specials.
  
  
• The postman (Michael) only has his name mentioned one time in the series.
  
  
• Violet's husband, Bruce, is a turf accountant.
  
  
• Daisy and Onslow's daughter is named Stephanie and their grandaughter is called Kylie.
  
  
• Richard's job title before retirement was Deputy Manager of Finance and General Services.
  
  
• Hyacinth's Royal Doulton cups and saucers were once valued at 20 pounds by Maxwell, Nixon and Kray.
  
  
• The FH on Onslow's hat stands for Fulton Hogan Ltd., a New Zealand asphalt and road-building company. When Geoffrey Hughes was there promoting a show, he was given that hat by one of the company's lorry drivers.
  
  
• Michael is the vicar's first name.
  
  
• Hyacinth usually gets people calling her, trying to get the Chinese take-away, the Green Lotus.
  
  
• Richard sometimes eats, at Hyacinth's insistence, an exclusive high-fibre breakfast cereal which the Dutch royal family also eats.
  
  
• Elizabeth's daughter, Gail, has a boyfriend called Harold. He is described as having a "first-class brain" by Elizabeth.
  
  
• Hyacinth has eight photo albums of Sheridan.
  
  
• Hyacinths invitations measure 6"x4".
  
  
• Sheridan is studying to be a Quantity Surveyor at the polytechnic. Later he switches to Needlework.
  
  
• Richard and Hyacinth honeymooned in Weston-super-Mare.
  
  
• Unusually for a Brit TV series, there seems no regularity in the number of episodes in each series. It looks like they kept the writing quality up by just making as many shows as they had good ideas for, rather than a set number of episodes per series. This may explain the oft-rumored "missing last episode" supposedly known as "The Bishop Affair".
  
  
• Two cars played the role of Hyacinth's and Richard's. They were both the same type of car - a Rover 216 in the same shade of blue. Early episodes used a car with the registration plate D541 EXL. Later ones used a car with the registration plate D541 EFL.
  
  
• The episodes have no official title; instead, they were known by their season and episode number. Hence, different online sources refer to them by different names.
  
  
• Elizabeth has a husband in Saudi Arabia.
  
  
• Hyacinth's china pattern, described as "Royal Doulton with the hand-painted periwinkles", is actually a pattern called "Braganza" and was manufactured by The Colclough China Company. The Colclough China Company was founded in 1890 and was taken over by Royal Doulton in the early 1970s (so Hyacinth is only stretching the truth a bit). The Braganza pattern was discontinued in 1992, and production under the Colclough name was discontinued in 1996.
  
  
• Elizabeth's surname is Warden; her brother Emmet's surname - presumably her maiden name, is Hawkesworth.
  
  
• The series was filmed in Coventry, West Midlands. The Buckets house was filmed in the Binley Woods area of Coventry. However they do often film around the Warwickshire area also. In one show the Buckets visit a hotel in Kenilworth, Chesford Grange.
  
  

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