Keeping Up Appearances The Complete Collection [DVD]

I used to watch this series with my nan back in the 90s , so I have fond memories of it. It always cheers me up and makes me laugh. Great comedy. Highly recommended

Absolutely brilliant worth every penny loads of laughs cheers you up well presented boxset

Fantastic British sitcom, looks a bit dated now but still full of laughs.

I purchased this set as backup as I already have the complete series when released by BBC/Universal. This seems to be a re-release except discs 1-6 have a very basic menu system, which was disappointing at first but it works OK, discs (7 & 8) have the same comprehensive menu system as the original release. The Christmas Specials (1993-95) are on disc 8. This is a very enjoyable series, picture quality is also very good

I used to watch this on Sunday afternoons with my gran, we used to sit and laugh out loud at Hyacinth and her permanently stunned and bewildered circle of friends and family. Dear Emmet, he's very fond of her you know. The writing and acting is so good, every character is loveable regardless of their flaws. The 'keeping up appearances' seems to work on two levels. On the one hand, Hyacinth struggles to maintain social standing, and on the other, those around her don't seem to have the heart to burst her bubble. Hyacinth may be a snob, but she's no monster. She's kind-hearted and, despite the veneer of social status, there's a genuiness about her; she might like to pretend to Lydia Hawksworth that she owns a Rolls-Royce, but she'd never deliberately or maliciously tell a lie. Long-suffering Richard is her perfect foil and you really feel for him. Early retirement? Poor devil. Layabout Onslow, sex-starved Daisy and maneating Rose are equally loveable and believable. Poor Elizabeth lives in terror of coffee at eleven, and Emmet of being sung at. What makes it funny is that it finds its seam of humour in that peculiarly British trait of being too polite to say anything in the myriad awkward situations that arise. It looks at human flaws and frailties with warmth and compassion, never judging or criticising, just gently nudging and acknowledging them. Hard to believe it's almost thirty years since this show began. I still laugh out loud at it, decades later.

Good value and fun

This is a classic British TV show. I do find it very funny and amusing. Although, some scenes can be seen as repeating themselves, it is the humor that makes the scenes different. The entire concept is about a social climber Mrs Bucket who found her way from up from low to middle class. She can be described as obnoxious and annoying, but in my point of view, there is no malicious bone in her body.Back to the set - as English is not my mother tongue, and the language the characters speak is rather "old-fashioned", sometime it was difficult for me to understand. Although, there are subtitles available, those are US ones, which means they don't match with dialogues.Also, it seems to me that these DVDs are not remastered. The quality of video is not as clear as I would have expected. Nevertheless, I do recommend this, if you are into sort of comedy.

The DVDs work fine and the episodes play without any problems. It's a good series, who doesn't enjoy a little bit of Hyacinth "Bouquet"? And captions are provided for the hard of hearing.All the episodes are compressed unto three sets of discs, so initially I gave a mixed review to this series because I thought it did not have the christmas specials, but apparently it does have the specials but they are on the last discs, lumped together with series 5 rather than the series they originally belong to.

Mrs. Bucket or should I say Bouquet is so pretentious with her candle light suppers. Everything usually goes wrong and is so funny. If you like British comedy, I recommend this very highly.

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Serie stupenda per chi vuole conoscere l'Inghilterra degli anni 90 in chiave ironica.

Nothing better than older British comedy for a good laugh

Ich habe diese Serie bisher immer bei YT gesehen, da sie im deutschen TV wohl nie lief. Kannte sie bereits aus dem Niederländischen und aus dem Dänischen TV. Es ist echt Schade dass diese Serie nie im Deutschen TV Fuß fassen konnte. Sicher hätte sie eine Kult-Gemeinde bekommen können. Die Figuren sind einfach nur köstlich. Immer wieder süß ist es wenn Mrs. Bucket (Bouquet) ans Telefon geht:-)))))) und es immer wieder zu Missverständnissen kommt. Aber mehr will ich nicht verraten. Diese Serie ist einfach nur liebenswert und unterhaltsam, auch für die Leute, die die Englische Sprache nicht perfekt beherrschen, ist diese Sitcom zu empfehlen.