Line #2 Trivia/KeepingUpAppearances


1	* ActorInspiredElement: Onslow wears a hat with the initials FH - which stands for a New Zealand asphalt and road-building company called Fulton Hogan Ltd. His actor Creator/GeoffreyHughes had been in New Zealand promoting a show, and one of the company's drivers gave him the hat.
2	* CreativeDifferences: There were disagreements between writer Roy Clarke and producer-director Harold Snoad, mostly that Roy Clarke rarely watched his own shows, and although he wrote witty dialogue, the practicalities of the scripts were often hopelessly implausible, or left to the discretion of Snoad. Creator/PatriciaRoutledge refused to act some of the scenes as they were first written, because she thought they were too unbelievable. Harold Snoad ended up rewriting many of the episodes.
3	* CreatorBacklash: Creator/PatriciaRoutledge does not approve of the ''Young Hyacinth'' prequel special, as she felt the BBC was running out of ideas by revisiting old programmes. Kerry Howard, who played Hyacinth in the special, defended it by saying that it's not a remake or reboot of the show, but a side story that rounds out the character.
4	* DawsonCasting: Mary Millar plays the youngest sister but was the second-oldest of the actresses.
5	* IAmNotSpock:
6	** Creator/CliveSwift was very much a straight example. In one interview to ''Magazine/DoctorWhoMagazine'' during his appearance in the 2007 ''Series/DoctorWho'' Christmas special, he is quoted as telling fans of the show to fuck off if they ask him so much as a question regarding his time as Richard.
7	** Creator/PatriciaRoutledge ended the series because she didn't want to be typecast as Hyacinth, as she had an impressive body of stage work beforehand. She also had to deal with lots of people assuming she was just like Hyacinth in real life.
8	** Averted with Creator/GeoffreyHughes (Onslow) and Creator/JudyCornwell (Daisy) who reprised their characters from the show over the years in specials produced by the BBC's US syndication arm for PBS member station fundraising drives in the US, where it remains shown weekly and quite popular.
9	* IronyAsSheIsCast:
10	** Creator/PatriciaRoutledge is a musical veteran and can sing. Hyacinth cannot.
11	** Despite Richard being shown attending church with Hyacinth, Creator/CliveSwift was actually Jewish.
12	** By his own admission, Swift was nothing like Richard and was known to tell fans to fuck off if they approached him.
13	** Richard drives a 1987 Rover 216S saloon, of which Hyacinth is (naturally) immensely proud, frequently disdaining the age of neighbour Elizabeth's car by comparison. Said car is a 1989 Austin Metro city hatchback, and is thus ''newer'' than Richard's car.
14	** A building example, if that's even possible. Hyacinth frequently brags to Elizabeth that her sister Violet has a swimming pool at her house. The one used to stand in for Elizabeth's actually had a pool in its garden, that of course couldn't be shown on screen.
15	* TheOtherDarrin: Rose was played by Creator/ShirleyStelfox in the first series and then by Mary Millar in all later series - due to the former being committed to ''Making Out''.
16	* RecycledScript:
17	** Writer Roy Clarke also did ''Series/LastOfTheSummerWine'', and Edie in that show comes across as similar to Hyacinth--except that her attempt at an upper-class facade cracks far more easily.
18	** Also Creator/PatriciaRoutledge felt this was also happening near the end of the series run thus she requested the show's end.
19	* TechnologyMarchesOn: Series 5 Episode 8 has Hyacinth having to use a public phonebox - something that certainly a woman of her superior social standing would not do nowadays, as chances are she'd have a mobile and actual working public phones are few and far between.
20	* UrbanLegendOfZelda: There's legend of a MissingEpisode known as "The Bishop Affair" that would have been the finale of the series. This seems to stem from the lack of set episodes per season (the first had just six, the second had ten), as the writers merely making as many episodes as they had ideas for.
21	* WhatCouldHaveBeen: When Creator/PatriciaRoutledge decided to step down from the role of Hyacinth, there was serious discussion of a SpinOff (''Mind Your Manors'') which would have featured Onslow, Daisy, and Rose moving onto the grounds of a country manor, where Onslow had been hired as groundskeeper, before the death of the Lord who had hired him forces them all to move into the manor home itself to look after it while the estate is in dispute. According to some reports, location footage for a pilot was shot and actors were approached to play various roles (most notably Creator/SuPollard as Dotty Henshaw, the Lord's cook/housekeeper), and the BBC referred to the planned series in their 1997-98 in-house literature. It is unclear why the show was not commissioned, but it probably would have required the casting of a ''third'' Rose (or the character would have to be dropped altogether), as Mary Millar retired from acting in early 1998 due to cancer, which would take her life later that year.
22	* WordOfSaintPaul:
23	** Creator/PatriciaRoutledge has stated that she thinks Hyacinth and Richard really are HappilyMarried in spite of his frequent annoyance with her antics, and that he does appreciate her keeping a nice house and putting dinner on the table every evening.
24	** In a Channel 5 Documentary, Routledge revealed that she and Creator/CliveSwift came up with the concept that Richard might be an orphan. If you watch the series, you never heard about his family which also helps Routledge's theory.
25	* WrittenInInfirmity: Creator/DavidGriffin is a cancer survivor, and he was undergoing treatment during the series, and it shows near the end, with Emmet showing visible signs of what's described in-series as "prison pallor".

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