Keeping Up Appearances third season

Keeping Up Appearances season 3

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The third season episode guide

Early Retirement / season 3 - episode 1
Hyacinth's husband, Richard (Clive Swift), has no hiding place from her now that early retirement has been thrust upon him. While she is delighted at the prospect of all that free time together, the stoical Richard is daunted at the thought. Hyacinth (Patricia Routledge), as oblivious as ever of Richard's feelings, is full of plans for Richard's future, plans that are sure to go awry. Neighbors Elizabeth and Emmet try to maintain a low profile where Hyacinth is concerned, while in Hyacinth's viewpoint, her sisters, Rose and Daisy (Judy Cornwell), as well as Daisy's layabout husband, Onlsow, never seem to engage in suitable pursuits.

Iron Age Remains / season 3 - episode 2
Now that Richard (Clive Swift) has officially started his early retirement, Hyacinth (Patricia Routledge) ecstatically proceeds with her plans for their time together. First on her agenda is an ill-fated foray into the countryside to search for Iron Age remains, but further cultural expeditions are curtailed when sister Daisy (Judy Cornwell) and her husband Onslow (Geoffrey Hughes) inform Hyacinth that her sister Rose is behaving in an outrageous manner. As the eldest sister, unflappable Hyacinth must rise to occasion to sort things out, preferably before the "dishy" vicar arrives!

Violet's Country Cottage / season 3 - episode 3
When the opportunity arises for Hyacinth (Patricia Routledge) to borrow her well-to-do sister Violet's holiday cottage for the weekend, she packs a carload of fine crystal and beloved bibelots, gives a royal wave of farewell to her relieved (of Hyacinth) neighbors, and sets to planning a barbecue with the intricacy worthy of a Normandy beach landing. A gunshot, a missing dog and a chance for social climbing combine to offer the redoubtable Mrs. Bucket (translation, bouquet) some surprising moments and the chance for a contemporary congaline!

How to Go on Holiday without Really Trying / season 3 - episode 4
"If there's one thing I can't stand it's snobbery and one-up-manship. People who try to pretend they're superior," philosophizes Hyacinth, "make it so much harder for those of us who really are." If Delia Wheelright can spend a month in the Caribbean, then Hyacinth (Patricia Routledge) is determined to best her - even if it is only in the unwrinklable quality of her holiday brochures and with a trip to the travel agent! Beleaguered Richard (Clive Swift) finds a real diversion, however, when sympathetic brother-in-law Onslow (Geoffrey Hughes), pitying the monotony of Richard's life, leads him off the straight and narrow.

Richard's New Hobby / season 3 - episode 5
Hyacinth (Patricia Routledge) decides (in her usual imperious manner) that husband Richard (Clive Swift) needs a suitably patrician hobby. Ignoring his dreams of sailing around the world, hurricane Hyacinth deposits a video camera into Richard's hands and tells him to "be artistic," an instruction she will live to regret.

The Art Exhibition / season 3 - episode 6
Hyacinth (Patricia Routledge) and Richard (Clive Swift) have been invited to an art exhibition just as Daddy runs off leaving word that he has gone to join the French Foreign Legion. A concerned Hyacinth dragoons the ever-faithful Richard into a search for the straying parent, finds Daddy, puts him into the car and asks Richard to drop her off at eh art show before taking Daddy home. The unpredictable Daddy sneaks off, presumably into the art gallery. An embarrassed Hyacinth asks Richard to pretend that it is his Daddy lest some of the other true art lovers regard Hyacinth's standing somewhat diminished by any possible idiosyncratic behavior on the part of Daddy.

What to Wear When Yachting / season 3 - episode 7
Thrilled by the opportunity of spending the weekend on a borrowed "yacht," Hyacinth (Patricia Routledge) sets about the complicated preparations with her usual inspired zeal: she can occupy herself with purchasing the correct yachting gear for Richard (Clive Swift) and herself and in preparing a "nautical light buffet" for her family and friends on board.

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