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Keeping Up Appearances Season 1 Episodes
Season 1 Episode Guide
6 Episodes 1990 - 1990
Episode 1
Daddy's Accident
30 mins
Hyacinth Bucket (pronounced Bouquet), an overbearing hostess, is stunned when her less-than-well-off sisters Daisy and Rose inform her that their father has been taken to the hospital. Hyacinth is even more stunned however when she finds out why he was taken there.
Episode 2
The New Vicar
29 mins
Hyacinth's plans to have the vicar and his wife over for a formal afternoon tea are squashed when her sister Daisy and Onslow come to her house informing her that Daddy had been kidnapped by a gypsy. Then, to make matters worse, Rose arrives, on her way to her own funeral.
Episode 3
Stately Home
30 mins
Hyacinth drags Richard off for a day out in the country - On the way, she decides to visit her father. She doesn't get to see him because he has 'escaped' from Daisy and Onslow's house by climbing down a drainpipe dressed as "Captain Midnight". Apparently, he's gone to save the woman at the Post Office from a "fate worse than death"(Hyacinth?!). Hyacinth and Richard then visit a stately home. Hyacinth insists on hanging around the "family area", hoping to meet the nobility; To her dismay, Onslow, Daisy and Rose turn up, forcing them to make a hasty exit.
Episode 4
The Charity Shop
30 mins
Hyacinth's ambition for Richard includes grooming him in such crucial matters as wearing a bow-tie, while she networks by volunteering herself and Elizabeth to work a day in nastily-haughty Councillor Nugent's charity shop, but when Daisy calls and announces that their daddy has a woman, Hyacinth goes to great lengths--literally, actually most conspicuously--to avoid even Liz discovering how that family branch lives. Alas, the woman claims that she was the one taken advantage of, and her son is unwilling to come and get her even when tracked down, until he's exposed to man-eater Rose .
Episode 5
Daisy's Toyboy
29 mins
Hyacinth's detailed instructions make most people avoid her, even if that means ducking to the floor with a flimsy excuse. Patient neighbour Elizabeth, who claims one gets used to it, gets through another coffee--through the back door, after gardening--but is terrified to help Richard carry the precious china to the church hall for a guest speaker, where every room clears at Hyacinth's arrival. Meanwhile, Daisy 'borrows' Rose's sweet, cute, 17-year-old biker ex, hoping to make Onslow jealous, but he only notices an additional source of free cigarettes, so the sisters hope Richard can get the message through.
Episode 6
The Christening
30 mins
It's the day of Daisy's granddaughter's christening and Hyacinth is most displeased that Stephanie, Daisy's daughter, is not married. But with some encouragement from Richard, Hyacinth agrees to go to the christening with an open mind, until of course the mother and child go missing.
