"Keeping Up Appearances" The Hostess (1995)

Director:

Harold Snoad

Writer:

Roy Clarke (written by)

TV Series:

"Keeping Up Appearances" (1990)

Original Air Date:

5 November 1995 (Season 5, Episode 10)

Genre:

Comedy

Plot:

Hyacinth may yet become the Barbara Cortland of the West Midland social circuit scene. With a new advert in the local paper offering her services as a guide to social etiquette, she cannot wait to hear from her first client. |

Plot Keywords:

Neighbor | Henpecked Husband | Sitcom | Vicar | Snob

Cast

Patricia Routledge	...	Hyacinth Bucket
Judy Cornwell	...	Daisy
Josephine Tewson	...	Elizabeth Warden
Geoffrey Hughes	...	Onslow
Mary Millar	...	Rose
David Griffin	...	Emmet Hawksworth
Clive Swift	...	Richard Bucket
Robert Rawles	...	The Milkman
John Waterhouse	...	The Milkman's Assistant
Ian Burford	...	Richard's Friend

Trivia:

Richard tells a passing friend he meets in town that he and Hyacinth have been married for 32 years.

Quotes:

[first lines]
Hyacinth: Was that the papers? Are you asleep, Richard? I'm surprised you can sleep. You know it's an important day for me. Mm?
[she pokes him]
Hyacinth: I'll be surprised if you can sleep much longer. Did you bolt the door?
Richard: Door?
Hyacinth: It's that thing that stops there being a hole in the wall.
Richard: It's the early hours of the morning.
Hyacinth: A particularly dangerous time for intruders.
Richard: Why? What happens to them?

Titled "Scintillating Socializing" on the DVD

*** This comment may contain spoilers ***

Hyacinth wanting to attract people to educate in the ways of elegant socializing runs an add in the paper for "experienced hostess offers her services for your special occasion". Obvious misunderstandings over the add lead her into an awkward situations with phone calls and later with her father. The Milk Man has a small side part in coming very early to the Bucket home with a younger man to teach him the ins and outs of not actually running into Hyacinth. Hyacinth comments that she doesn't understand why he comes so early these days and how she misses their little chats. Hyacinth, impatient for the paper to come bearing her add, repeatedly pops in and out of her house, making an escape for Emmet difficult. Emmet quips that she is "like a demented coo-coo clock". The paper boy avoids the Bucket house and we find out that Hyacinth made him clean his ears. Hyacinth ends up chasing him down the street after he spots her waiting on him. favorite quote Daisy: "what was it you liked about my pink one?"