‘HYACINTH IS ALARMED’

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This is one of my favourite episodes from ‘Keeping Up Appearances’. In the episode, it’s Hyacinth and Richard’s wedding anniversary. But Richard has forgotten and Hyacinth is expecting a surprise from him. Richard has to come up with a way of making up to her for forgetting their wedding anniversary.

I like this episode a lot because Hyacinth is actually thinking about Richard in a romantic sense for a change, even though it’s for selfish reasons. Richard also gets some character development in this episode, as he tries his utmost to please Hyacinth when he realises he’s forgotten the anniversary. 😀

Richard soon comes up with the answer. Thanks to Emmet’s phone call to Hyacinth about house No. 23 being burgled, Richard decides to have security installed in their house. Hyacinth is overjoyed about having a new burglar alarm system. It gets Richard out of a tricky scrape and he’s very relieved.

In this episode, Ian Lavender (Pike from ‘Dad’s Army’) guest stars as the security representative who visits Hyacinth’s house to install the burglar alarm. I’m pleased to see Ian Lavender in this episode, having seen him in ‘Dad’s Army’. He has a hard time getting around Hyacinth in inspecting the house.

Graham Root and Ben de Winter guest star as the engineers who install the burglar alarm for Hyacinth. Hyacinth insists upon having a dusky pink-looking alarm instead of a blue alarm. What’s wrong with blue? I like blue! David Janson also makes another guest appearance as the postman. 😀

Once the security alarm is installed, Hyacinth chooses a romantic number as a security code. It happens to be the date of Richard and Hyacinth’s wedding. After a drinking night with Emmet, Richard comes back home and forgets the date of their wedding, to which Hyacinth gets very upset.

Also in this episode, Onslow and Daisy wake up to find Daddy in their bedroom. Daddy is terrified after seeing a phantom image of a woman in his bedroom. Daddy gets more dialogue to say in this episode than any other. Jeremy Gittins also guest stars as the Vicar to remove the odd apparition. 😀

When I say ‘odd’ of course, I mean it happens to be Margaret Towner as the elderly lady whom Daddy met up with last night. How come Daddy forgot about her when he brought her home? He must be getting really forgetful these days. A pity the Onslow/Daisy/Rose story wasn’t long enough.

‘Hyacinth Is Alarmed’ rating – 9/10