A snobbish housewife is determined to climb the social ladder, in spite of her family's working class connections and the constant chagrin o f her long suffering husband.
Hyacinth is in the full Christmas spirit with 112 Christmas cards, and counting. She's also forced Richard to dress up as Father Christmas to distribute presents to the old folk. But the journey to the church hall to hand out the gifts is filled with many surprises including a drunk Richard, a disguised Elizabeth and of course a mishap with Daddy.
A snobbish housewife is determined to climb the social ladder, in spite of her family's working class connections and the constant chagrin o f her long suffering husband.
After a 14 year dry spell, novelist, Barbara Pym (Patricia Routledge) is nominated for a Booker Award in 1977 for her novel "Quartet in Autumn". This short biography follows her the day of the prize presentation, as she observes people and reminisces about life and love. The prize is awarded to someone else that year, and in 1980 Pym dies of cancer. Written by kwedgwood@hotmail...
In order to make ends meet and to stop a local, homeless teenager from becoming a juvenile delinquent, Hetty Wainthropp, a sprightly, intelligent pensioner looking for a new challenge, decides to become a private investigator much to the disgust and disbelief of her lazy husband. Once she has made up her mind she becomes an unstoppable force and, led by Hetty, the three set for...
A snobbish housewife is determined to climb the social ladder, in spite of her family's working class connections and the constant chagrin o f her long suffering husband.
A snobbish housewife is determined to climb the social ladder, in spite of her family's working class connections and the constant chagrin of her long suffering husband.
Keeping Up Appearances is a British sitcom starring Patricia Routledge as eccentric, social-climbing snob Hyacinth Bucket (bou-quet). Created and written by Roy Clarke, it aired on BBC1 from 1990 to 1995 — spanning five seasons and 44 episodes — four of which are Christmas specials.
In 2004 the show came 12th in the Britain's Best Sitcom poll that aired on BBC 2. It is regularl...
Irritated by a dismissive use of the phrase "talking heads" to describe the most boring parts of the schedule, Alan Bennett set out to restore the monologue – which had become associated with music hall or stand-up comedy – to the heart of TV drama. Patricia Routledge as a dying office busybody in A Woman of No Importance (1982) was effectively a pilot for two later series of s...
Celebrating the 150th anniversary of the birth of Beatrix Potter, this documentary sees Patricia Routledge following in the footsteps of the Edwardian publishing sensation. She discovers what fired the author's imagination and where her love and understanding of animals was born. As an actress, Patricia played Beatrix on stage in the 1990s. In her present role as patron of the ...
黑人影帝西德尼·波埃特脍炙人口的名作之一，他饰演一名中学教师，应聘到伦敦的公学任教，学生都是喜欢惹事生非的顽劣青年，甚至有人向他下面挑战。他施展浑身解数感化这群坏学生，终于赢得了应有的尊敬。
