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DVD : Keeping Up Appearances - Hyacinth in Full Bloom Set (Vol. 1-4)In association with Amazon.com List Price: $79.98 Amazon.com's Price: $45.49 You Save: $34.49 (43%)Prices subject to change. Availability: unknown
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Aspect Ratio: 1.33:1Binding: DVD Brand: Warner Brothers EAN: 9780790773407 Format: Box set, Closed-captioned, Color, DVD-Video, NTSC ISBN: 0790773406 Label: BBC Video Manufacturer: BBC Video Number Of Discs: 1 Number Of Items: 1 Publisher: BBC Video Region Code: 1 Release Date: March 18, 2003 Running Time: 30 minutes Studio: BBC Video Theatrical Release Date: 1994 Sales Rank: 4222 MPN: WARDE1714D Related Items:
Editorial Review: Description: Tireless social climber Hyacinth Bucket (pronounced "Bouquet," of course) returns with more hilarious high-class hi-jinks. The set, 'Hyacinth in Full Bloom', includes 4 discs sold individually: 'My Way or the Hyacinth Way', 'Hints from Hyacinth', 'Home Is Where the Hyacinth Is', and the Holiday disc, 'Deck the Halls with Hyacinth'. Amazon.com: Fans of the relentless social climber and unapologetically prying neighbor get the full Hyacinth treatment in this boxed set of four DVDs with 20 episodes--including a double episode set aboard the QE2. Everyone is here: nervous coffee-spilling neighbor Margaret with her musician brother Emmet, who's tormented by Hyacinth's spontaneous tryouts; her ever-patient husband, Richard; and the unaccountably amorous Major. And no episode would be complete without the antics of her family, including the romance-addled Daisy and jobless husband Onslow, who favors the vest-without-a-shirt look. Packed into their grubby apartment is aging tart of a sister Daisy, who specializes in married men, and their befuddled elderly Daddy, who frequently escapes to elope or bicycle naked or both. Even the well-married (never-seen) sister Violet got a hysterical, cross-dressing husband along with the Mercedes. The marvelous Patricia Routledge pulls it all together with her amazing combination of matronly indignation and outrageous physical comedy. Extras include outtakes and Routledge's Kitty monologues. --Kimberly Heinrichs Average Rating:
 Rating:  - bloody brilliantBought this set a while back. A little pricey, but it's worth it. I like the crazy broad in the hat (Hyacinth). She kinda reminds me of my mother. For a while, I was only watching PBS and they showed this all the time. That was when I wasn't working, so now I watch the DVDs when I get home from the Valero station. Anyway, this show is top humor. You've got the social climber Hyacinth and then her low-class family constantly butting heads. There's nothing better than opposing classes when it comes ... Read More Rating:  - No Closed Captioning My mom (who is hearing impaired) and I love this show but alas this DVD set did not have closed captioning or any subtitles available for viewing. Rating:  - Keeping up Appearances Vol 1-4I actually bought this set for my parents. We have had so much fun watching all of the episodes. This is one of their favorite shows, and to be able to watch them one after the other with no commercials is really a treat. Hyacinth is our favorite character. She definitely tries to seperate herself from the "low-life" characters in her family. Her comments and facial expressions keep us cracking up! I would recommend this to anyone who enjoys British humor. This is a classic! Rating: - This is the bouqet residents, lady of the house speaking! Oh, its you......I grew up with this show. It shows how comedy does not have to be vulgar to be brilliant. With its ongoing gags, its familiar charactres, and its sheer comidec brilliance makes you crave more seasons of the show. I'm an anglophile because of this show, but this show makes me darn proud of that Rating: - Carves out its own unique nicheOne of the more popular, relatively recent Britcoms, we are treated to the cartoonish antics of dizzily optimistic central character Hyacinth Bucket (pronounced Boo-Kay!), played very effectively by Patricia Routledge. Her liberally dispensed, over-the-top brand of caste snobbery, which forms the focal point of her "problem," dependably boomerangs every single time. This is accentuated by the grating nasality of her voice: think Dan Ackroyd's Saturday Night Live parody of Julia Child, amplified to ... Read More Browse for similar items by category:
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