Keeping Up Appearances (Seasons 1–5)

Keeping Up Appearances (1990–1995) is a BBC sitcom you can watch online on iFILM. At its center is Hyacinth Bucket, who insists — loudly, and often — that her surname is pronounced "Bouquet."

Hyacinth (Patricia Routledge) is a suburban housewife obsessed with passing as upper class. She throws candlelit suppers, name-drops connections she does not have and marches her meek husband Richard through one social campaign after another. The trouble is her family: scruffy sisters Daisy and Rose, their layabout husbands, and a runaway father forever losing his trousers. Her terrified neighbor Elizabeth trembles over every teacup in Hyacinth's kitchen.

Writer Roy Clarke built the show on one reliable engine — snobbery colliding with reality, episode after episode. Five series and more than forty episodes (1990–1995) made Routledge's Hyacinth a household name. It is gentle, very English comedy about class anxiety that ages remarkably well. Stream every season of Keeping Up Appearances online on iFILM.