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Keeping Up Appearances - Deck the Halls with Hyacinth
(more) »rank: 1508starring: Patricia Routledge, Clive Swift, Geoffrey Hughes
:Description:Tireless social climber Hyacinth Bucket (pronounced 'Bouquet,' of course) puts her best foot forward in the second season of this wildly popular high-class comedy. This disc includes four holiday specials: A Holiday from Hyacinth, Sea Fever, Angel Gabriel Blue, and Historical Pageant, as well as cast bios, a 'Funny Women' documentary featuring Patricia Routledge and 5 bonus comedy sketches starring Patricia Routledge .DVD Features:BiographiesTV Special:Funny Women: Profile of Patricia Routledge :This holiday-themed set begins with Hyacinth dressing poor Richard up as Father Christmas and ends with Hyacinth in the same outfit kissing Onslow under the mistletoe. How one gets from the first to ...
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Gilbert & Sullivan - The Pirates of Penzance / Kline, Ronstadt, Smith, Routledge, Delacorte Theater (Broadway Theatre Archive)
(more) »rank: 7725starring: Kevin Kline, George Rose, Linda Ronstadt, Rex Smith, Patricia Routledge
directed by: Joshua White (II), Wilford Leach
:Description:Gilbert and Sullivan's raucous operatic tale is captured in all its fun and glory in this production, recorded live at Central Park's Delacorte Theater. Kevin Kline sparkles as the swashbuckling and libidinous Pirate King while Linda Ronstadt makes her theatrical debut as the lovely and virginal Mabel. When Mabel and Frederic, a young pirate bound to serve the Pirate King, fall in love, complications arise and high spirited antics ensue. The incomparable cast offers the best in this boisterous romp. END :This Pirates of Penzance is primarily a historical document, part of the Broadway Theater Archive television series. It presents, with some inevitable, ...
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Keeping Up Appearances - Hyacinth in Full Bloom Set (Vol. 1-4)
(more) »rank: 3827starring: Patricia Routledge, Clive Swift, Geoffrey Hughes, Judy Cornwell, Josephine Tewson
: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'. :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, ...
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Keeping Up Appearances - Hyacinth Springs Eternal Set (Vol. 5-8)
(more) »rank: 7686starring: Patricia Routledge, Clive Swift, Geoffrey Hughes, Judy Cornwell, Josephine Tewson
:Description:Tireless social climber Hyacinth Bucket (pronounced 'Bouquet,' of course) returns for the final 3 seasons of this hilariously classy comedy of manners. This 4-disc set includes the complete third, fourth and fifth seasons (including 9 episodes never before released) as well as 'The Memoirs of Hyacinth Bucket', outtakes and interviews with the cast. :American sitcoms usually have a bland, likable central character who has to cope with obnoxious acquaintances--who usually provide most of the actual comedy. The British smartly put the comic personalities front and center, and Keeping Up Appearances has one of the best: The petty, pretentious, tyrannical Hyacinth Bucket (played by ...
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Hetty Wainthropp Investigates - Complete Collection
(more) »rank: 6387starring: Patricia Routledge
:Description:The late-blooming sleuth who brings a lifetime of wisdom to the job Acclaimed actress Patricia Routledge (Keeping Up Appearances) captivated American and British audiences alike as the 60-something housewife-turned-detective, Hetty Wainthropp. This collection captures Hetty’s entire sleuthing career in one complete set -- including some episodes not seen on the PBS Mystery! broadcast. Armed with little more than a no-nonsense attitude, a whip-smart mind, and plenty of moxie, Hetty takes on cases involving Mafiosi, missing persons, and murder, assisted by her eager apprentice Geoffrey (Dominic Monaghan, Lost) and doting husband Robert (Derek Benfield, Rumpole of the Bailey). Her old-fashioned common sense and unfailing ...
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Keeping Up Appearances:My Way Or the Hyacinth Way
(more) »rank: 13234starring: Patricia Routledge, Clive Swift, Geoffrey Hughes
:Description:Tireless social climber Hyacinth Bucket (pronounced 'Bouquet,' of course) puts her best foot forward in the premiere season of this wildly popular high-class comedy. Includes the complete first season of Keeping Up Appearances. Episodes are: The Name is Bouquet: B-U-C-K-E-T; Welcoming the Dishy Vicar; Visiting an Acquaintance's Stately Home; A Fate Worse Than Senility; Daisy and Her Toy Boy; and How to Manage a Family Christening... as well as outtakes and cast bios. :Hyacinth Bucket (pronounced 'Bouquet,' if you please) begins her career as nosey neighbor and aspiring social climber in these six premier episodes of the popular British comedy. 'The Name is ...
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To Sir, With Love
(more) »rank: 24349starring: Sidney Poitier, Christian Roberts, Judy Geeson, Suzy Kendall, Lulu
directed by: James Clavell
: essential video:Novelist James Clavell wrote, produced, and directed this 1967 British film (based on a novel by E.R. Braithwaite) about a rookie teacher who throws out stock lesson plans and really takes command of his unruly, adolescent students in a London school. Poitier is very good as a man struggling with the extent of his commitment to the job, and even more as a teacher whose commitment is to proffering life lessons instead of academics. The spirit of this movie can be found in such recent films as Dangerous Minds and Mr. Holland's Opus, but none is as moving as this one. ...
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Keeping Up Appearances - Living the Hyacinth Life
(more) »rank: 18940starring: Patricia Routledge, Clive Swift, Geoffrey Hughes, Judy Cornwell, Josephine Tewson
:Description:Tireless social climber Hyacinth Bucket (pronounced 'Bouquet,' of course) returns in the fifth and final season of this hilariously classy comedy of manners. This disc includes the first half of season five, including two never-before-released episodes, as well as the classic Pebble Mill interview with Patricia Routledge and Clive Swift. :Living the Hyacinth Life contains the first half of the last series of British sitcom Keeping Up Appearances, chronicling the shamelessly pretentious middle-class Hyacinth Bucket (comic powerhouse Patricia Routledge), who answers every phone call with her shrieking cry of 'Bouquet residence, the lady of the house speaking.' Her relentless efforts to be held ...
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Keeping Up Appearances:Home Is Where the Hyacinth Is
(more) »rank: 23323starring: Patricia Routledge, Clive Swift, Geoffrey Hughes
:Description:Tireless social climber Hyacinth Bucket (pronounced 'Bouquet,' of course) puts her best foot forward in the second season of this wildly popular high-class comedy. This disc includes 5 episodes from season 2 of Keeping Up Appearances (Cocktails with a Greek Shipping Millionaire, The Unfortunate Prospect of Early Retirement, Play-Things for Daddy, Three Piece Suite, Picnic for Daddy), as well as outtakes and cast bios. :When Hyacinth finds out that she and Richard will be transported to a party in Rose's new swain's limo, she quickly assembles a cocktail party to mutually impress him and her neighbors in 'Cocktails with a Greek Shipping Millionaire.' ...
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Hetty Wainthropp Investigates - The Complete First Season
(more) »rank: 45051starring: Patricia Routledge
:Description:Life as a private detective begins at 60 for sprightly Lancashire housewife Hetty Wainthropp (Patricia Routledge, Keeping Up Appearances). Her newly retired husband, Robert (Derek Benfield, Rumpole of the Bailey), thinks she ought to be winding down with him, but Hetty takes a job to make ends meet and accidentally discovers her natural gift for sleuthing. Finding an eager sidekick in destitute teenager Geoffrey Shawcross (Dominic Monaghan, The Lord of the Rings trilogy), Hetty sets up her own detective agency, puts her sensible pumps to the pavement, and proves she has what it takes to be a gumshoe of distinction. Includes two episodes ...
