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2013

Format:	DVD, Videorecording, Projected Medium, Visual Materials
Uniform Title:	Keeping up appearances (Television program)
Title:	Keeping up appearances / written by Roy Clark ; produced & directed by Harold Snoad ; BBC.
Edition:	Collector's edition.
Publisher, Date:	[United States] : BBC Worldwide Americas, Inc., [2013] Burbank, CA : Distributed by Warner Home Video Inc. ©2013
Description:	8 videodiscs (approximately 1370 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in. + 2 bonus discs DVD video 4 3/4 in. digital optical laser optical NTSC video file DVD video region 1
Summary:	When it comes to snobbery, Hyacinth Bucket (pronounced 'bouquet') is in a class of her own. Desperate to impress the neighbors and elbow her way into the local aristocracy, every moment of Hyacinth's day is spent going to manic lengths in her quest for perfection.
Target Audience Note:	Rating: TVPG.
Subjects:	Snobs and snobbishness -- Great Britain -- Drama. Married people -- Great Britain -- Drama. Sisters -- Great Britain -- Drama. Social classes -- Great Britain -- Drama. Class consciousness -- Great Britain -- Drama.
Genre:	Television comedies. Fiction television programs. Television series. Video recordings for the hearing impaired.
Other Author:	Snoad, Harold, television director, television producer. Clarke, Roy, 1930- screenwriter. Routledge, Patricia, actor. Tewson, Josephine, 1939- actor. Cornwell, Judy, 1940- actor. Hughes, Geoffrey, 1944-2012, actor. Stelfox, Shirley, 1941-2015, actor. Swift, Clive, actor. Millar, Mary, actor. Griffin, David, 1943- actor. Dolan, Leo, 1943-2003, actor. Cellier, Peter, actor. Gittins, Jeremy, 1956- actor. Barron, Marion, 1958- actor. Burford, Ian, actor. Janson, David, 1950- actor. Webb, George, 1912-1998, actor. Ingman, Nicholas, composer (expression) British Broadcasting Corporation, production company, broadcaster. BBC Worldwide Americas, Inc., production company. Warner Home Video (Firm), film distributor.
Other Title:	Roy Clarke's Keeping up appearances. Funny Women Comedy Connections Comedy Connections (Television program) Funny Women (Television program)
Notes:	Title from container. Originally broadcast in the UK as a television series from 1990-1995. Special features: Disc 1-8: Outtakes. Disc 9: Life lessons from Onslow (58 min. featurette); The memoirs of Hyacinth Bucket (61 min. featurette). Disc 10: Hyacinth revealed - newly recorded interviews (37 min.); Comedy Connections (29 min. episode of Comedy Connections featuring Keeping Up Appearances); Interview with Judy Cornwall (12 min.); Interview with Patricia Routledge (15 min.); Funny women: Patricia Routledge (29 min. episode of Funny Women featuring Patricia Routledge); Second chance short (UK commercial featuring Hyacinth and Elizabeth); Pebble Mill interview with Patricia Routledge and Clive Swift (9 min.); "Kitty" monologues (19 min. featurette). Signature tune, Nick Ingman ; costume designer, Rita Reekie, Laura Ergis ; videotape editor, David Hambelton, Andy Quested ; designer, Geoff Powell, Tim Gleeson, John Collins, Derek Evans, Stephen Wright, Anna Higginson, Sara Hawdin. Patricia Routledge, Josephine Tewson, Judy Cornwell, Geoffrey Hughes, Shirley Stelfox, Clive Swift, Mary Millar, David Griffin ; with Leo Dolan, Peter Cellier, Jeremy Gittins, Marion Barron, Eric Carte, Chairman May, Denis Bond, Robert Rawles, Ian Burford, Linda James, Pamela Abbott, Leonard Lowe, Simon Merrick, Robert McBain, John Pennington, Ivor Danvers, David Janson, George Webb, Anna Dawson, John Evitts. DVD; NTSC, region 1; full screen (4:3) presentation; Dolby Digital stereo sound. English dialogue; English subtitles for the deaf and hard of hearing.
Contents:	The name is Bouquet: B-U-C-K-E-T -- Welcoming the dishy vicar -- Visiting an acquaintance's stately home -- A fate worse than senility -- Our Daisy and her toy boy -- How to manage a family christening. A strange man -- Driving Mrs. Fortescue -- Candlelight supper -- Golfing with the Major -- The googley-eyed registrar -- Cocktails with a Greek shipping millionaire -- The unfortunate prospect of early retirement -- Playthings for Daddy -- Three piece suite -- Picnic for Daddy. Half a camel -- How to retire early if you're not careful -- A portrait of the artist as a hen-pecked man -- The French Lieutenant's daughters -- How to go on holiday without really trying -- What to wear when you're yachting -- Violet's country cottage. Hyacinth tees off! -- The nautical speaker -- Indoor/outdoor luxury barbeque & finger buffet -- Rural retreat -- Beacon for the best in hospitality -- Please mind you head -- Let there be light. Seaside fun -- The fancy dress ball -- Hyacinth is alarmed -- Riparian entertainments -- Sister, sister -- Country estate sale -- General Bucket -- A bon vivant buffet -- A crafts-woman scorned -- Scintillating, socializing. A very merry Hyacinth -- Sea fever -- Angel Gabriel Blue -- Historical pageant.
Publisher Number:	3000053793 2000093117 2000093118 2000093119 2000093120 2000093121 2000093122 2000093123 2000093124 2000093125 2000093126
Other Number:	888431674
System Availability:	1
Current Holds:	0
# Local items:	1
Control Number:	813645
# Local items in:	1
# System items in:	1
Call Number:	DVD TV Keeping

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