The BEST episodes directed by Harold Snoad
#1 - The New Vicar
Keeping Up Appearances - Season 1 - Episode 2
Hyacinth is determined to create the perfect impression when inviting the new Vicar for “tea and light refreshments”. However her hopes come crashing down on her when Onslow and Daisy turn up with the news Daddy has been kidnapped by a gypsy. The day gets even worse for the polish-perfecting protagonist when Rose turns up, on her way to her own funeral.
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#2 - The Hostess
Keeping Up Appearances - Season 5 - Episode 10
Hyacinth has put an advert in the local newspaper to teach people social etiquette, however an excited Hyacinth does not quite get what she expected.
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#3 - What to Wear When Yachting
Keeping Up Appearances - Season 3 - Episode 7
Hyacinth and Richard spend the weekend on a yacht.
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#4 - The Christening
Keeping Up Appearances - Season 1 - Episode 6
Daisy and Onslow’s granddaughter Kylie is getting christened, but Hyacinth is unimpressed because there has not been a wedding first. The day does not get any better for Hyacinth when she and Richard are forced to come to the rescue of the baby's mother Stephanie, whose transport has broken down. The leading lady then learns the baby's mother is a hippie, who is unaware of the baby’s father.
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#5 - Driving Mrs. Fortescue
Keeping Up Appearances - Season 2 - Episode 2
Hyacinth and Richard drive a wealthy Mrs Fortescue into town, however Hyacinth's plans to impress are crushed by her family when Daisy and Rose flag down the Buckets for a lift. Eventually to Hyacinth's dismay, this leads to Mrs Fortescue playing darts with Onslow in a public house.
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#6 - A Barbecue at Violet's
Keeping Up Appearances - Season 5 - Episode 8
A ""luxury barbecue"" at Violet's house looks like being a disaster because Bruce and Violet keep having violent arguments. Hyacinth organises a sing song in an attempt to take everyone's mind off their hosts' battle. Later, Hyacinth goes along to a rehearsal of ""The Boy Friend"" to offer her services to Emmet.
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#7 - Hyacinth Is Alarmed
Keeping Up Appearances - Season 5 - Episode 3
Richard is terrified to wake up to see Hyacinth smiling at him; he later realises he has forgotten his and Hyacinth's wedding anniversary. Richard then decides to have an alarm system installed, claiming it is Hyacinth's "surprise" anniversary present.
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#8 - A Strange Man
Keeping Up Appearances - Season 2 - Episode 1
Hyacinth is shocked to see a strange man wearing only a towel emerge from Elizabeth's house, thus she tells Richard they will have to move house. However her opinions change when discovering who the man really is. Meanwhile Daddy has gone missing.
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#9 - Daddy's Accident
Keeping Up Appearances - Season 1 - Episode 1
Hyacinth's "Daddy" is put into an ambulance and taken to hospital, after getting injured chasing after the milk woman naked on his bike. After visiting him, Hyacinth returns home and is visited by the gas man, whose life she makes difficult.
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#10 - How to Go on Holiday Without Really Trying
Keeping Up Appearances - Season 3 - Episode 4
Hyacinth takes a trip to the travel agents for some ""quality"" holiday brochures. Afterwards, Onslow decides to take Richard in hand and show him how to 'enjoy' life.
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#11 - The Toy Store
Keeping Up Appearances - Season 2 - Episode 8
Daddy has ended up at the toy store and is "improving" a few toys with the help of a screw driver. This results in Hyacinth and Richard having to go into town to solve the problem, where Hyacinth fears for her status when meeting Mrs. Counsellor Nugent.
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#12 - The Three-Piece Suite
Keeping Up Appearances - Season 2 - Episode 9
Hyacinth is very excited at the prospect of having her new three piece suite, an exact replica of the one at Sandringham House, delivered. She will also give Daisy and Onslow her old suite, provided they pick it up themselves. But of course these two events are likely to collide at some point, creating an insurmountable disaster.
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#13 - A Riverside Picnic
Keeping Up Appearances - Season 5 - Episode 4
Hyacinth organises a riverside picnic, much to the despair of those invited. Despite Emett's and the Vicar's best efforts to tell Hyacinth they are unable to attend, they find getting out of Hyacinth's function impossible. As always, Hyacinth's plans of perfection are shattered when a digger dumps dirt in her chosen location for the picnic.
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#14 - The Boy Friend
Keeping Up Appearances - Season 5 - Episode 7
Hyacinth sings to her hearts content when discovering Emmett's latest musical The Boyfriend is in production. Meanwhile Daddy is once again back in the war and guarding Onslow’s house with a sharp object.
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#15 - The Senior Citizen's Outing
Keeping Up Appearances - Season 5 - Episode 1
Hyacinth volunteers to look after the old people in an outing to the funfair, however a certain old man proves to be quite a handful. As the day progresses, Hyacinth ends up in a mirror house, on some dodgems and on a ghost train.
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#16 - Looking at Properties
Keeping Up Appearances - Season 4 - Episode 5
Richard panics when leaving Hyacinth to browse country property without him, fearing she will purchase something they cannot afford, as he collects "Daddy" from a police station. Finally Hyacinth decides on a country property.
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#17 - Iron Age Remains
Keeping Up Appearances - Season 3 - Episode 2
Hyacinth drags Richard off into the countryside in search of the remains of an Iron Age settlement.
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#18 - A Job for Richard
Keeping Up Appearances - Season 4 - Episode 1
Hyacinth’s attempts to keep Richard occupied in his years of retirement continue. Now she has found him an executive job in frozen foods, and to impress the manager of the company she has contrived a plot involving Onslow and golf.
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#19 - Please Mind Your Head
Keeping Up Appearances - Season 4 - Episode 6
Hyacinth and Richard are settling into their new country apartment, but Richard is less than enthused with its diminutive size. It's already cramped enough as it is for two, but when Hyacinth invites friends over, it becomes unbearably tiny!
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#20 - Stately Home
Keeping Up Appearances - Season 1 - Episode 3
Hyacinth and Richard visit a stately home where the leading lady hopes to meet a member of the aristocratic family. However she fears her social status will be sabotaged by Onslow, Daisy and Rose, who turn up unexpectedly. Thus Hyacinth drags Richard through the ground's private gardens to hide from the lower-class clan.
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#21 - New Car
Keeping Up Appearances - Season 5 - Episode 9
Hyacinth is completely insulted when she is awarded second prize at the local craft fair, and over Lydia Hawksworth. Scandalized even further when she and Richard are overtaken by Lydia's new car, it isn't long before Richard's worst fears are realized and Hyacinth sets her sights on a newer, more expensive Rolls Royce.
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#22 - Daisy's Toyboy
Keeping Up Appearances - Season 1 - Episode 5
In an attempt to make Onslow jealous, Daisy finds herself a toyboy. However the plan fails and Daisy sends Onslow to the Church hall to meet Richard, in a final ploy to get him to notice her antics.
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#23 - Country Retreat
Keeping Up Appearances - Season 4 - Episode 2
Hyacinth wants “a little place in the country”, however her heart is not set on little. An old farmer with a speech impediment causes much difficulty for Hyacinth when out looking at property, and seems to take a liking to her.
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#24 - Onslow's Birthday
Keeping Up Appearances - Season 2 - Episode 6
Hyacinth is dreading an invite to Onslow's birthday party, but changes her mind when finding out she and Richard will be picked up by Rose's wealthy Greek boyfriend. Thus Hyacinth holds a gathering at her house to impress the neighbours as she departs in the luxury vehicle. However her hopes die when a hearse arrives instead.
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#25 - Problems with Relatives
Keeping Up Appearances - Season 2 - Episode 5
Hyacinth's brother-in-law Bruce is stuck up a tree, Daddy goes to the register office to be married and Emmett meets Daisy, Onslow and Rose, throwing Hyacinth into dismay. Liz offers to drive Daddy back to Daisy's, but to avoid herself and Emmett seeing how Daisy and Onslow live, Hyacinth insists they stop off at Violet's.
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#26 - Violet's Country Cottage
Keeping Up Appearances - Season 3 - Episode 3
Hyacinth gets a chance to try some social climbing while borrowing her sister Violet's cottage for the weekend.
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#27 - The Charity Shop
Keeping Up Appearances - Season 1 - Episode 4
It is Liz and Hyacinth's day to help Mrs Nugent at the charity shop, and on their way there, Hyacinth has to make a visit to Onslow and Daisy's to remove a woman (played by Gretchen Franklin) from Daddy's room, refusing to leave. Meanwhile Rose intends to give up men, and arrives at the charity shop to donate her raunchy underwear.
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#28 - A Picnic for Daddy
Keeping Up Appearances - Season 2 - Episode 10
Hyacinth arranges a picnic for Daddy, but things go awry when the senile old man decides to test-drive the Buckets' car. Thus Hyacinth has to ride in Onslow's, as a car chase gets underway.
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#29 - Let There Be Light
Keeping Up Appearances - Season 4 - Episode 7
It is the "bring and buy" sale at the Church hall and the Church goers are in for a shock because Hyacinth has volunteered Richard to fix the Church hall electrics, despite his lack of electrical capabilities. Meanwhile Onslow, Daisy, and Rose turn up with a Daddy believing he is back in the war.
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#30 - A Celebrity for the Barbecue
Keeping Up Appearances - Season 4 - Episode 3
For her summer entertaining, Hyacinth Bucket has decided to host an elaborate indoors barbecue. In an attempt to compete with the Barker-Finchess, she is determined to get a celebrity to attend. Meanwhile Rose gives Daisy a make-over.
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#31 - Richard's New Hobby
Keeping Up Appearances - Season 3 - Episode 5
Hyacinth decides that Richard should get a new hobby... and so insists he uses the camera that his boss presented to him when he retired!
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#32 - The Art Exhibition
Keeping Up Appearances - Season 3 - Episode 6
Daddy runs off to join the Foreign Legion. Hyacinth and Richard manage to find him, but he escapes again and runs riot at an art gallery - The same art gallery that Hyacinth and Richard have been invited to!
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#33 - The Candlelight Supper
Keeping Up Appearances - Season 2 - Episode 3
Hyacinth wants to impress Emmet with her musical talents at an elaborate musical supper. However her plans backfire when a short-skirted Rose turns up, followed by two aggressive men who begin fighting on Hyacinth's doorstep.
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#34 - The Mayor's Fancy Dress Ball
Keeping Up Appearances - Season 5 - Episode 2
Hyacinth prepares for the Mayor's fancy dress ball and is also on a mission to impress the new neighbours, a few streets away.
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#35 - Hyacinth Tees Off
Keeping Up Appearances - Season 2 - Episode 4
The Major invites the Buckets for a golfing weekend at a luxury hotel. All is well until Onslow and Daisy turn up unexpectedly to collect Rose after she has spent a raunchy weekend away with a Mr Smith. Inevitably, when Hyacinth realises her family are there, she fears for her social standing. Adding to her dilemma is the amorous intentions of the Major.
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#36 - Singing for Emmet
Keeping Up Appearances - Season 2 - Episode 7
Richard is offered early retirement and so ponders over the possibility of having to spend all day everyday with Hyacinth. Emmett is enraged when Hyacinth ends up rehearsing a performance for the old people at the Church Hall with him, and a tranquilised Rose arrives at the scene wanting to become a nun.
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#37 - The Commodore
Keeping Up Appearances - Season 4 - Episode 4
Hyacinth switches on her sailing persona when volunteering to collect a guest speaking Commodore from a train station, however Richard gets clamped and they cannot find the man. When Hyacinth does finally meet the Commodore, she is unprepared for his attempts at seduction.
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#38 - Skis
Keeping Up Appearances - Season 5 - Episode 5
For Richard’s birthday Hyacinth buys some skis as she believes they "will look good on the car". However needing Violet and Bruce’s roof rack the Buckets head off to Violet's luxury home, picking two neighbours up along the way. Hyacinth is thrown into a panic when arriving as Violet and Bruce are arguing.
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#39 - Country Estate Sale
Keeping Up Appearances - Season 5 - Episode 6
Richard is not looking forward to going to a country house sale with Hyacinth as he believes she will spend beyond their limit. Liz and brother Emmett are also going to the sale, and are devastated when they realise Hyacinth is there. Meanwhile, a Mrs Braddock has commandeered Onslow’s car and is impersonating his dog, which has gone missing.
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#40 - Early Retirement
Keeping Up Appearances - Season 3 - Episode 1
Richard has had to take early retirement. Sadly for him, Hyacinth has many plans for his future.
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