Keeping Up Appearances - Children In Need Special 1995

First broadcast in 1995 as part of Children In Need
Mentioned recently in Keeping Up Appearances: The Luxury Podcast, hosted by Jonathan Vernon-Smith and William Hanson

[@mikefitzpatrick1213]

There will never be another program like this.

[@Patrick3183]

England has changed irrevocably.

[@StephenLyons-tl8ie]

Thank Heavens!!

[@starlucanyaart]

@@StephenLyons-tl8ie Why? this show is amazing, it's rare to find this quality and humor. Vintage english series are the best, but you may be brainwashed by the popular modern crap made-to-please. It's not modernity that defined quality, it's even the contrary. Thanks heavens, you're not part of people with i would share this serie, because you don't deserve to see something of this quality :D

[@Made1984.]

​@@starlucanyaartwell said, anyone who thinks the sitcoms from the past fifteen years are funny must be easily pleased.

[@Jeremy-f3s]

@@mikefitzpatrick1213 I hope one day there will be but unless they go back to traditional studio sitcoms it's unlikely, especially with streaming services now destroying standard free to air television and everyone wanting to copy The Office post 2000, this sitcom format became rarer cos they started shooting sitcoms without audiences and mainly on location. Also there's an elitism towards studio audiences now. They're considered passe. I think they contribute to the comedy when you hear the audience response to the characters but I seem to be in the minority now.

[@rp7326]

I'm an American who absolutely loves this show!

[@Thinker669]

Same here.

[@trishphillips-johnson2500]

Same!

[@wywy74]

wow! really! no shit!

[@cesarbugarini499]

Thankyiu PBS

[@LMays-cu2hp]

I agree with you. This was on our PBS here in Chicago for so many shows!!😅😅😅❤❤❤

[@bblake5116]

Need shows like this back again.

[@josh2Sides2]

A lot of shows like this definitely wouldn't be made nor green lit in the first place. Especially if it doesn't fit with current time period or watching for an audience. And if it were made the people around who made it what it was aren't working or even living today.

[@geometria3]

Nowadays it’s all criminal stuff

[@Pete-ou4cq]

If only, there is no decent comedy anymore. The world has gone too serious.

[@matthewprince9705]

@@geometria3 Too much true crime and fictional crime. The British were kings of subtle and gentle humour. Unfortunately, this new generation of middle-class producers and executives at the BBC and ITV think they know best by pushing cooking, home decorating, "talent" shows and crime dramas and documentaries.

[@breebw]

It might get approved if the characters were of color, trans, and disabled, and the script gave the "proper" perspective of British society. IE always was indigenous coloreds.

[@Moosina]

Patricia and the whole cast are an unappreciated work of genius

[@fluffin4bean]

Not one of these actors are unappreciated. They are celebrated and loved. This is one of the most classic shows to come out of the last century.

[@neiljosephbennett9119]

Wrong - they are, and were, VERY much appreciated.

[@tibouzankor1997]

They WERE and still ARE appreciated not just in the UK. Believe me.

[@GEricG]

I do think that they were appreciated.

[@SparkyTheHappyGiraffeReads4Fun]

There's a documentary called "30 years of laughter. Keeping up Appearances." Not unappreciated at all.

[@KennethMaese]

Richard was the very definition of saintly patience 😂

[@Myfreetherapy]

LITERALLY!

[@zalanahara270]

So True

[@madamx7422]

Saint? Angel? Either way 😄

[@Dean-Bites]

Yes he was gifted to take Torture

[@aveuch]

Richard and Elizabeth

[@Mary-mr4jr]

Unbelievable that so many comments miss the humour of this Special and the fact it was merely a dream. It is pure Hyacinth.

[@nigeyboi8981]

Hear na...I bawl out...Hyacinth is a wreck yes 🤣

[@beckyclawson2245]

Yeah I’ve never seen this episode and I’m a diehard fan! But I’m in the US and watched it on our public broadcast channel.

[@monicanath4859]

Right!

[@madamx7422]

If you're familiar with how Daddy was in the series it's really not difficult to figure this one out

[@robnyer8427]

Simply put, I wish they would have made more episodes of this show. It was hysterical from the first word to the last word.

[@ryanohara476]

Harold Snoad the producer and director of Keeping Up Appearances said in the 2009 book "It's Bouquet Not Bucket!" Unfortunately Patricia Routledge was "hedging her bets" when the filming external location scenes were completed in early August 1995. Harold Snoad asked if she was interested in producing a sixth series. Patricia Routledge replied she wouldn't be available in 1996 (expect for a Christmas special for 1996) as she was touring the theatre. But she would be available in 1997 and she would think about it. In the end of May 1995 Routledge had just completed the post production on the BBC's television series "Hetty Winthorpe Investiages" in October 1995 the BBC informed Snoad and Roy Clarke (at short noticed) that they wanted a Christmas special of KUP for 1995. In November 1995 after the fifth series of Keeping Up Appearances was broadcast during rehearsals for the 1995 special The Padgent' Snoad again then approached Routledge on the matter of if she had thought more about if she wanted to produce a sixth series of KUP. She replied "she hadn't". For a long while then the cast and crew were 99.9% that this was the last episode of Keeping Up Appearances. Unfortunately it was. The cast and were then for a long while waiting to see what would happen regarding the future of Keeping Up Appearances. But Patricia Routledge knew then when in November 1995 when the BBC commissioned a second series of "Hetty Winthorpe Investigates", that she was done with Hyacinth. With Routledge wanting to focusing on the theatre and other television acting roles.

[@Mary-mr4jr]

It’s Hetty Wainthropp, actually.

[@ryanohara476]

@@Mary-mr4jr I know unfortunately fast typing can cause inevitable typos!

[@RainbowSunshineRain]

@@ryanohara476I wish they would have still made the series, with another actress.

[@ryanohara476]

@@RainbowSunshineRain I would have liked that actually! Julie Walters was originally considered for the role of Hyacinth and if it was Walters or if another actress had originally got the part. I believe Keeping Up Appearances would have continued well into the 2000s surpassing over the 80 episodes and ten series mark!

[@kimberlyselby4918]

Patricia was just amazing in the role of our beloved snob. Thank you for posting this gem

[@anastassiosperakis2869]

she was not a snob. She wanted to improve her middling social status.

[@madeleinedonaldson4422]

These comedies of yesteryear were so beautifully typecast Nothing today compares

[@clairebenoit7867]

I love it when she describes her rooms as attractively compact I think I'll have to start using that one

[@comfeefort]

Patricia was actually an accomplished singer, so much, that Her ability to sing off key for the protrayal of Hyacinth, was superb acting.

[@JamesBrown-i2e]

What a wonderful treat! I've seen every episode of Keeping up Appearances several times, but I have never seen this short. It was fantastic to see this "new" short episode. Thank you!

[@ckanowitz]

Me neither! I was so surprised seeing this. It was like finding a letter from a dear friend who's passed on. Made me happier than I could have imagined

[@SeanEvans2]

Same here!

[@SusanA-yh2vk]

Same! I thought I had seen every episode, clip and special.

[@judithmorganjudyteen]

​@@SusanA-yh2vk1:22 it's a children in need special

[@sethstronguncut]

“I must ring the prime minster” - Gets me every time

[@Padappa]

I am addicted to this show...I am watching it in India.

[@JeffMignon-c2h]

Me in Belgium

[@chrispnw2547]

This just goes to show there was still plenty of life in the writers for these characters. Forever missed and much loved.

[@Jeremy-f3s]

Well Pat decided to quit cos she felt the scripts were repeating themselves which admittedly they were, Roy Clarke tended to just repeat the same gags and themes and she didn't want to become one of those programs that outstays it's welcome so as sad as it was she finished she made the right choice.

[@vincentnichols402]

RIP⚰ONSLOW 😟

[@andrewmwells9606]

There was also only one writer for the scripts who hardly, if ever went to the set. He wrote and allowed the director, actor, whoever, do their own stuff

[@Jeremy-f3s]

@@andrewmwells9606 You mean Harold Snoad, yeh he seemed a little disinterested in his creation frankly. Like he just wanted to spit them out and then go do something else.

[@andrewmwells9606]

@@Jeremy-f3s Actually, I meant Roy Clarke, he was the writer on the show. Harold Snoad was only the director but your point is still valid

[@mikecorda4585]

Patricia is a global treasure

[@laurenbrook348]

The bugle coming from coffin had me. 😂😂😂

[@jamesheggie1854]

I know right, I completely lost my shit 😂😂😂😂

[@renferal5290]

LMAO!!! That was brilliant!!

[@here_we_go_again2571]

Yes! 😂😂😂😂😂😂

[@jamesheggie1854]

This is pure comedic entertainment! Incredibly funny and only a near 7 min clip, I wish this had been made into a full episode as a bonus.

[@EthanLomas]

This show and Vicar of Dibley are classics of the era

[@kennixox262]

And a bit earlier, Are You Being Served; Fawlty Towers; and a few others that don't come to mind at the moment.

[@JamesA4]

I always used to watch 'the Bucket woman' at my grandma's on VHS tapes. Classic British comedy which just isn't made anymore. Like many others I've never seen this sketch before, what a treat! 😊

[@JohnJones-f6l]

Never missed an episode. Saw many several times. Thanks to all the actors, writers and producers. So many laughs.

[@tanyaandelvis2698]

Top writing, superb acting, great timing..brilliant.

[@RoseAnneM-o9r]

I used to watch these when I was nursing in Ft. Worth, TX. I stayed over in my RV, worked two sixteen hours on the weekends and often stayed over for a Monday meeting or to work extra shifts. Loved nursing for thirty years. Miss those times but retired now. These shows kept me laughing to relieve stress!

[@johnferguson4089]

Love it, love it, love it! Dame Patricia Routledge completely nailed the character of Hyacinth.

[@reconstructingleslie4597]

I miss this coming on PBS on Saturday nights. My mama and I used to watch this and As Time Goes By every Saturday night.

[@reconstructingleslie4597]

@TravisWeatherAndLifestyle Awe! Wonderful memories ❤️❤️❤️❤️

[@tracycarter8731]

This was one of the funniest shows ever on TV. So well acted and the cast was perfect...Long Live Hyacinth Bucket...pronounced Bouquet😊

[@Snoopy_2607]

Wow...that was brilliant. I've never seen it before. Great writing, phenomenal acting....and SO funny. Thank you for posting it.

[@tenebrousnova636]

I've never seen this episode and I've rewatched the entire show many times. What a treat!

[@darraghgregory1269]

Only seeing this now , aww poor Daddy passing away 😢 always loved this program ❤ at least it was a dream 😊

[@luuckdroste8745]

So glad this special finally turned up. Never understood why it wasn't on the series 5 dvd set.

[@jochandler1180]

“He wanted to be buried with his bugle” “Good job he didn’t play the piano” 😂😂😂😂😂😂

[@SeanEvans2]

What a treat to see this. I didn't know this ever happened. I can't help but smile right now. 😊

[@mmcleod8148]

Thank you so much. I thought I had seen all of the shows, but I had never seen that one. Wonderful.

[@petergerritgroen3157]

Stimmt, ich dacht ich sah sie alle.

[@vsyovomrakenochi8960]

I never knew this existed before today. Thank you SO much!

[@lesleymoven4776]

Sheer writing and acting genius…… pure joy🌟👏👌💐

[@dudley5533]

This is one of the BEST of the episodes........great to be able to see this one!

[@richardpodnar5039]

"Richard, none of my rooms are small; they are attractively compact." ---- I must remember this when describing my own flat!😀😇🤩😝

[@Jehoshua.J.A.K.]

Such genious....and Patricia's timing is off the charts. I absolutely love Keeping up Apperances. Good clean ginuine comedy. ❤❤❤❤❤❤❤

[@imbookedandverybusyhoney]

"You have to fetch him and bring him here!" 😳 Poor Richard 😂

[@DoctorVision]

I've been wanting to see this for years and nobody seemed to have it so thank you very much for uploading it!

[@calarch78]

“My love to Onslow…” Wow, she was traumatized by that dream! 🤣

[@redmi9834]

Onlow who Daisy said had turned idleness into an art.

[@charliedrosario999]

I think that was ought to be in capitals.😊😊

[@tomweakley7404]

Thanks for sharing this, I adore Keeping Up Appearances and never knew this existed

[@АнджейДубиковский]

Gdy to oglądam, chce się Żyć. 1000 lat dla wybitnej aktorki. Serial nie podlega dyskusji. ❤❤❤

[@andregadellaa]

We have a certain podcast to thank (Keeping Up Appearances- The Luxury Podcast) for this episode appearing outside of the private Facebook group.

[@thetasigmagallifreyan]

I’m a fellow listener of said podcast, so I visited the KUA Facebook page and recorded it😊

[@eduardo_corrochio]

Hard to express how good it was to see this scene, which almost felt like a "lost episode" in a way. My partner and I discovered KUA here in The States on PBS (when I was 25) while living in our first apartment together, and fell in love with Hyacinth and the gang instantly. I'm so appreciative that this footage is available to enjoy. I laughed so much at this today that tears started pooling up in my eyes! 😂

[@craig6460]

Wow ❤️ Seen all the episodes and specials, never knew this existed! Thanks for sharing 👍

[@robiny.4395]

My Mother in her early 70's loved the show, Absolutely Fabulous

[@anissavespasiano5768]

MY LIFE NEEDED THIS THANK YOU 😊 🙏 🙌

[@seanm6215]

We all need a little hyacinth in our lives.

[@KNPrince]

What an unexpected treat..! As someone that subscribes to Britbox for the sole reason of being able to watch this wonderful show.. I had no idea that this short had been made.. To the person that posted it.. Thank you so very much! Was wonderful to see the entire cast of KUA back in action!

[@princedan-vessel1315]

I grew up watching this show in Ghana, West Africa. I love it...

[@patriciaadams-rl4iz]

This was always a special program for my spouse and I. It didn't matter how bad your day was. You always got a chuckle with it.

[@LMays-cu2hp]

Thank you for sharing this show. I have always laughed and have fallen off my sofa a few times!😅😅😅 She is such a great actress in her role here!!! Just a great actress and her poor husband beong with her!!😅😅😅😅 Priceless!!!😅😅😅❤❤

[@mkervelegan]

One of my fondest memories was partaking of luncheon with Josephine Tewson and the Lord Mayor of Chichester at Chartres in September 2013…

[@cattuslavandula]

I love this show! I found it on PBS in the mid 2000s and quickly became addicted. The entire cast is amazing and the writing is so sharp.

[@chemyarts]

Same here!

[@johnking5174]

I can see now why my mum refused to allow me to see this on Children in Need night 1995. I was 10 years old and my dad died from cancer on 14th Nov 1995. This sketch aired 10 days later, and mum knew the story so she switched over for 10 mins so I wouldn't be upset. Now I know why she switched over. I have not seen this until now.

[@daniellebrown8995]

OMG!! I wish this was still on!!😅😅😅

[@tipitii7388]

Amazing! Hadn’t seen this before.

[@emward6858]

Never seen this before, was only 12 then though. Used to watch the series with my nan ☺️

[@trishwicks3590]

This was such a masterful series with Hyacinth leading such a great cast! Thank You UK for some many laughs out loud ❣️❣️🥰🇺🇸

[@dianalee8967]

This is probably the only one that I missed this was a good one too the others I'm watching over and over through the years since the 90s thank you for this new one to me anyway.🤩🤩

[@cindyzins6628]

I thought I'd seen every episode and clip of this show. Loved watching it with my dad. This one was new to me, though, and just as funny as ever!!

[@justsobored31]

I read about this short existing but never found any information about it, thank you so much for sharing. Just when you think you've seen every episode...what a treat!

[@waynesilva3129]

I never saw this episode and I have the entire collection.

[@petergerritgroen3157]

Here the same.

[@Blaze23557]

It was for children in need …

[@nicobsm111saintmichel7]

@@Blaze23557 if you could please tell me, was it just a short video (time wise as played here)? Cheers. :)

[@Blaze23557]

@@nicobsm111saintmichel7 I don’t know ,probably the length that it’s played on here…

[@soniadrummond2169]

I can't stop watching this...

[@sheismymom]

I remember when I was a kid I'd see this show on YTV here in Canada and I didn't watch it, during Covid I binged the whole series I love it

[@cherylsmith3390]

I'm an American also and I too LOVE this show!!!! It's hilarious!!!! 😂

[@Sally-lg1vn]

My guilty pleasure 😂😅😊

[@angusross6609]

Absolutely brilliant

[@k.m.h7480]

I love this character. Grew up watching this with my mom and dad . She’s just so extra lol

[@androsthemighty2269]

I've been looking for this clip for years!!!! Thank you for uploading!

[@barbarastraughn5693]

Classic .... loved it then and love it now!!!!!

[@Changojoni]

I wish that they included this in the dvd collection of the series!!! GREAT BIT!!

[@Anna8262]

This show, Fawlty Towers and Absolutely fabulous is great! 😅 👏🏽

[@pmdk1953]

I thought I had seen all the episodes, hut have never seen this before!? Thanks for posting it.

[@maggiep3263]

What a treat! I loved this show.

[@DeniseWaghorn-ok2gj]

I loved these shows keeping up appearances, are you being served, love thy neighbour as time goes by .All good ❤

[@clivestuarteardley6049]

Never seen this before. Absolutely 💯 brilliant

[@awbinn3377]

Never seen ot before. Thanks so much for sharing the video

[@charlesb7019]

I have never seen this before!! Brilliant.

[@AGNETHAFALTSK0G]

Excellent version! Today Dionne Warwick believes in being true to her elderly ladies voice by not pushing it as it's in very rusty shape today. Let's offer her praise that she can still sing and attract interest at 85! Beautiful effort ❤

[@roberthanisko9749]

Uh, what?

[@eliranpinhasov5940]

Thanks!!! Never saw this one!

[@ryanohara476]

Omg I've been looking for this for years thank you so much!!!!!

[@AndrewGreen-qg1ln]

This English comedy was very popular over here in Barbados back then...I love how Onslow slaps the TV 😂😂😂

[@KathyCowling-mj4ki]

😂😂😂can t have daddy in a draft...😅Anslow s expressions are priceless

[@ericmoore571]

Thank you for sharing this! It was totally new for me!

[@CJWJR]

This is the first time that I've ever seen this particular episode, and I thought I had seen them all.

[@stevenhurst8051]

Absolutely fantastic, always loved the show

[@mickyalexandru6894]

Greatest of great ! A Hyacinth in fool bloom in a pouring rain night with “full moon” 🌕!!! I have the whole five series on DVD, but this episode doesn’t appear. Perhaps the “dead” hero ran away and took the episode with him !!! ❤😂❤

[@darlaherring2410]

I miss this show so much!!!😢

[@lynettebodiford3525]

Wonderful 🎉🎉🎉I love Hyacinth and the entire cast ...my favorite boxset!!!

[@gailmorgan2556]

This is a hidden.treasure. so happy to find it. 😊

[@MakeMakeShift]

Like a lot of other people I have seen all the episodes several times but have never seen this. Or don’t remember seeing it at least, I was 11 when it aired. This show will always be fantastic and remind me of a simpler time. I remember watching the Christmas episodes at my Auntie’s house and feeling safe. Like a lot of the cast, she is no longer here. I think of her always x

[@EdRushing-te3sc]

Hyacinth is just too funny! Richard was a saint lol

[@redmi9834]

And their long suffering neibours Elizabeth an Emmet. "Coffee in ten minutes Elizabeth and bring Emmet with you."

[@Sweetone.5]

People who watch Keeping up appearances and enjoy the show Are fun people to be around

[@ryanohara476]

Harold Snoad the producer and director of Keeping Up Appearances said in the 2009 book "It's Bouquet Not Bucket!" Unfortunately Patricia Routledge was "hedging her bets" when the filming external location scenes were completed in early August 1995. Harold Snoad asked if she was interested in producing a sixth series. Patricia Routledge replied she wouldn't be available in 1996 (expect for a Christmas special for 1996) as she was touring the theatre. But that she would be available in 1997 and she would think about it. In the end of May 1995 Routledge had just completed the post production on the BBC's television series "Hetty Wainthorpe Investiages" in October 1995 the BBC informed Snoad and Roy Clarke (at short noticed) that they wanted a Christmas special of KUP for 1995. In November 1995 after the fifth series of Keeping Up Appearances was broadcast during rehearsals for the 1995 special The Padgent' Snoad again then approached Routledge on the matter of if she had thought more about if she wanted to produce a sixth series of KUP. She replied "she hadn't". For a long while then the cast and crew were 99.9% that this was the last episode of Keeping Up Appearances. Unfortunately it was. The cast and were then for a long while waiting to see what would happen regarding the future of Keeping Up Appearances. But Patricia Routledge knew then when in November 1995 when the BBC commissioned a second series of "Hetty Wainthorpe Investigates", that she was done with Hyacinth. (Dispite that the BBC, the cast and crew, and viewers wanting the show to continue in production and do more series, specials etc) With Routledge wanting to focusing on the theatre and other television acting roles.

[@BoadiceanRevenge]

First time I've seen this! Hilarious! Especially when the bugle played! I forgot just how funny the sitcom was! 😂

[@no288]

Wow i've never seen this before...that was great!! Thanks for sharing ; )

[@valansley]

Brilliant = I can watch this again and again ❤

[@howze2ID]

She ended the show on a high note. Loved that. 🎉

[@marliesyanke4580]

Watched this funny show years ago on PBS. It's great.