Keeping Up Appearances (TV Series) Hyacinth Is Alarmed (1995) User Reviews

Just like The QE2!

[Sleepin_Dragon · 9/10 · 20 August 2022]

It's the morning of Hyacinth and Richard's anniversary, and he's forgotten it, but a chance phone call produced an opportunity for him to get out of his problem.

I am a huge fan of this one, it's such a funny episode, we get to see a very different side of Hyacinth's character, and we learn a little of their past. The show never really explored how they met, their wedding, or indeed their youth, but here we get just a glimpse.

Hyacinth is almost childlike here, excited for her present, we've not seen her like this before, Routledge, class as always.

Funny throughout, it's an episode where Daddy, compared to previous episodes virtually has verbal diarrhoea, he speaks so much more, and he's funny, love the horrible thing in his room. Plenty of the usual funny scenes, such as coffee with Elizabeth and the Postman, but vest of all, the sounding of the alarm, it's a scream.

LOVE THE EPISODE!! But there are NO GOOFS IN THIS EPISODE!!

[juneaudreyjones · 10/10 · 24 January 2019]

It states that there is a GOOF in this episode. That is incorrect. The GOOF you state does not occur. You state that Hyacinth wants an outside alarm box in the shade of ' dusky pink', but the serviceman says it only comes in blue...then you state that when the box arrives it is white. The INSIDE BOX IS WHITE, but the OUTSIDE BOX IS DUSKY PINK. In the scene where the two young alarm installers are sitting on the stoop to put their shoes back on, to the upper right of the screen on the outside wall is a 'dusky pink' box. And Hyacinth even asks the men if they know the number for the stately home that she originally spotted an alarm box this color so she could ring them and let them know that she has one just the same color as their box.