Comedy Classic: Keeping Up Appearances TrailerJoe Orton Laid Bare TrailerBeatrix Potter with Patricia Routledge Trailer
Dame Katherine Patricia Routledge, DBE is a British actress, comedian and singer. She is best known for her role as Hyacinth Bucket in the BBC sitcom Keeping Up Appearances, for which she was nominated for the BAFTA TV Award for Best Light Entertainment Performance in 1992 and 1993.
Total trailers found: 41
19 April 1988
Six monologues tell the stories of six different repressed souls: a man dominated by his mother, a vicar's wife, an inveterate letter writer, a hopeful actress, a recently widowed woman, and an elderly shut-in.
04 March 1968
A 29-year old aspiring composer—still single and without any romantic prospects—vows to both marry and write a hit musical before he turns 30.
24 April 1980
Second World War drama - A young woman decides against working in a munitions factory, and lands a post with the signals corps attempting to crack the Enigma code.
20 May 1997
Daisy and Onslow find the secret diary of Hyacinth and start reading in it. The rest of this TV-special are clips from prevous episodes.
03 January 1994
An abbess, visionary, naturalist, playwright and composer, Hildegard of Bingen (played by Patricia Routledge) was a remarkable woman of the Middle Ages, her legacy comprising some of the most radiant accounts of religious experience ever.
16 December 1978
A series of pink forms has Doris and Doreen fearing for their cushy jobs.
14 June 1967
A British Guianese engineer starts a job as a high school teacher in London’s East End, where his uninterested and delinquent pupils are in desperate need of attention and care.
11 January 1978
Arthur Dodsworth has recently retired. He lives alone except for his budgie and memories of his late wife Winnie.
28 September 2001
Based on the true story of Shelia Bowler, accused of murdering her elderly aunt.
24 April 1969
A group of travelers from the United States race through seven European countries in 18 days.
08 May 1980
Egyptologist Robin Ellis and American reporter Eva Marie Saint uncover King Tut's burial site but wealthy profiteer Raymond Burr tries to make sure that the valuable artifacts in its chambers never leave the country.
15 November 1967
The story of Androcles, the simple-hearted Christian tailor whose friendship with a lion saves himself and his friends from martyrdom in the Roman Colosseum.
12 July 1968
George Lester is a man who is chasing rainbows, looking for the pot of gold at the end. When his wife, Pamela grows tired of being dragged all over the world, she leaves him.
07 June 1970
A couple rebel against being forced out of their home (in the name of progress) and into a high rise publicly owned apartment.
26 September 1983
A BAFTA award nominated drama about a park keeper who arrives to open up his park. Waiting at the gate is the bane of his life: a bag lady with three dogs.
12 August 1971
When a young man brings an unexpected new partner home for dinner, the underlying prejudices of his straitlaced, middle-class parents are brought to the fore.
25 September 1962
Maggie Hobson (Patricia Routledge) decides to marry Willie Mossop (Michael Caine), the gifted but underpaid bootmaker in her father's shop.
19 February 1992
In 1977, after a fourteen year dry spell, the novelist Barbara Pym was nominated for a Booker Award for her novel, Quartet in Autumn.
19 October 1967
Miss Polly decides to spend a few months with her wealthy spinster aunt as a traveling companion. While in Singapore her aunt's demise leaves her alone to pursue her freedom and explore an arm's length romance with a local boy.
01 January 1983
A historical adaptation of John Gay's 18th Century ballad opera, exuberantly performed for BBC television.
14 January 2023
Keeping Up Appearances remains one of Britain's best loved series. Running for 5 years throughout the 90s, millions of viewers tuned in to watch the delightfully monstrous Hyacinth Bucket (pronounced Bouquet) as she attempted to climb the social ladder, only to be endlessly let down by her family.
11 September 1968
Harriet Blossom is married to Robert Blossom, a businessman who'd rather spend the night at his bra factory than at home with her.
01 January 1970
'Egghead' Wentworth adapts his father's robot paratrooper to perform his chores, but forgets to programme it to keep him out of trouble.
25 November 2017
Exploring the wit, work and world of Joe Orton through his own words, and the testimony of those who knew him and worked with him.
01 June 1980
As a young child, Frederic had been apprenticed to a pirate by mistake when he should have been apprenticed to a pilot.
03 March 2005
Movie with some of the greatest brittish comedians such as Rowan Atkinson, John Cleese.
09 April 1993
"The World of Peter Rabbit and Friends", episode 2. Tom Kitten and his sisters spoil the tea party of their mother Tabitha, while Jemina Puddle-Duck meets the most peculiar foxy gentleman.
29 March 1969
Three sailors on leave turn a British town upside down.
19 November 1982
Award-winning one-woman drama starring Patricia Routledge. What do Miss Schofield and the gang find to talk about at their table in the canteen? Yesterday they were discussing the rash Pauline Lucas's mother keeps getting on her elbows.
30 May 1990
During a visit to childhood friend Edith, retired housewife Hetty Wainthropp discovers that Edith's husband, Frank, has a son by a previous marriage.
12 December 1989
The story of a retired man who decides to fulfil his life-long ambition of walking from one end of Britain to the other.
26 December 1987
Three married couples discover that, through a legal technicality, they are, in fact, not actually married in the eyes of the law.
01 January 2006
Classic tales of Peter Rabbit."Once upon a time there were four little rabbits, and their names were Flopsy, Mopsy, Cotton-tail and Peter.
26 January 2016
Patricia Routledge, as patron of the Beatrix Potter Society, presents a documentary on the author's life and work.
29 August 1993
"The World of Peter Rabbit and Friends", episode 3. While hiding from his mother Tabitha, Tom Kitten got caught by two rats who wants to turn him into a nice pudding.
10 November 1975
Emphasises the importance of professional knowledge of an organisation’s stocks or services in dealing with difficult customers.
27 March 1966
Half-fae-half-mortal shepherd Strephon wants to wed shepherdress Phyllis, but, although she reciprocates his feelings, she has a dilemma — she is so beautiful that all of the House of Lords, as well as her guardian, the Lord Chancellor, are also desirous of marriage.
14 June 1977
A well-to-do family moves from the city to a country farmhouse, determined to make a go of things on their own, but the existence of an already present third generation housekeeper rather changes things somewhat.
01 January 1988
Barry Humphries performance at The Hilton Hotel London for The Variety Club of Great Britain.
