Keeping Up Appearances on PBS

Hyacinth Bucket (pronounced 'bouquet') goes to incredible lengths in her quest for perfection. Hers is a spick-and-span house. Her downtrodden husband, Richard, acts as chauffeur in their immaculately kept car. Their permanently absent son has a superior name, Sheridan. Even the empty milk bottles sparkle on the doorstep after their obligatory rinse in the dishwasher. In marked contrast to Hyacinth's meticulously ordered life, however, the rest of her family live together in a rundown house that looks like a junkyard. Sister Daisy and her husband, Onslow, are slobs. Her other sister, Rose, is an aging tart. And her elderly father is a lecherous drunk, who cycles stark-naked down by the canal, chasing the milkwoman. Will Hyacinth ever live down the disgrace of her family?

Hyacinth Bucket (pronounced 'bouquet') goes to incredible lengths in her quest for perfection. Hers is a spick-and-span house. Her downtrodden husband, Richard, acts as chauffeur in their immaculately kept car. Their permanently absent son has a superior name, Sheridan. Even the empty milk bottles sparkle on the doorstep after their obligatory rinse in the dishwasher. In marked contrast to Hyacinth's meticulously ordered life, however, the rest of her family live together in a rundown house that looks like a junkyard. Sister Daisy and her husband, Onslow, are slobs. Her other sister, Rose, is an aging tart. And her elderly father is a lecherous drunk, who cycles stark-naked down by the canal, chasing the milkwoman. Will Hyacinth ever live down the disgrace of her family?

Hyacinth Bucket (pronounced 'bouquet') goes to incredible lengths in her quest for perfection. Hers is a spick-and-span house. Her downtrodden husband, Richard, acts as chauffeur in their immaculately kept car. Their permanently absent son has a superior name, Sheridan. Even the empty milk bottles sparkle on the doorstep after their obligatory rinse in the dishwasher. In marked contrast to Hyacinth's meticulously ordered life, however, the rest of her family live together in a rundown house that looks like a junkyard. Sister Daisy and her husband, Onslow, are slobs. Her other sister, Rose, is an aging tart. And her elderly father is a lecherous drunk, who cycles stark-naked down by the canal, chasing the milkwoman. Will Hyacinth ever live down the disgrace of her family?

Hyacinth Bucket (pronounced 'bouquet') goes to incredible lengths in her quest for perfection. Hers is a spick-and-span house. Her downtrodden husband, Richard, acts as chauffeur in their immaculately kept car. Their permanently absent son has a superior name, Sheridan. Even the empty milk bottles sparkle on the doorstep after their obligatory rinse in the dishwasher. In marked contrast to Hyacinth's meticulously ordered life, however, the rest of her family live together in a rundown house that looks like a junkyard. Sister Daisy and her husband, Onslow, are slobs. Her other sister, Rose, is an aging tart. And her elderly father is a lecherous drunk, who cycles stark-naked down by the canal, chasing the milkwoman. Will Hyacinth ever live down the disgrace of her family?