Keeping Up Appearances

Angel Gabriel Blue

Season 4, Episode 9, Aired 12/25/94

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Hyacinth has ordered new kitchen worktops, which must be of a "very high standard" and seen by everybody. Richard has athlete's foot, but Hyacinth insists on calling it "gout" because it's more 'socially acceptable'! Daisy and Onslow find a strange man in Daddy's bed.

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Jeremy Gittins

The Vicar (Michael)
Patricia Routledge

Hyacinth Bucket (pronounced "Bouquet")
Josephine Tewson

Elizabeth Hawksworth Warden

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In this third special episode, Hyacinth wants her kitchen worktops to be redone and they of course have to be of the highest quality. With help from the vicar, she chooses 'Angel Gabriel Blue' but runs into a few problems along the way.moreless

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By Lady_Lancaster, Jun 03, 2010 Report Abuse

The title of this episode really doesn't accentuate how funny it actually is, an it's VERY funny! Hyacinth wants to have her kitchen worktops redone but she can't decide between 'Lucifer Grey' or 'Angel Gabriel Blue' so she needs the advice of the vicar on a matter with obvious religious significance. Once the vicar has confirmed that her choice is indeed 'Angel Gabriel Blue', she feels much more relaxed about making the choice.

Kitchen worktops aren't Hyacinth's only problem though because Richard comes home from the doctor having been diagnosed with Athlete's Foot. Hyacinth will simply not tolerate Richard having a fungus infection so she tells him that he in fact has gout, which comes from 'an excess of good living' and makes him wear a ridiculously huge bandage over his entire foot and pretend to be in great pain.

Meanwhile, when Hyacinth goes to place an order for her worktop, she finds that the salesman is less than helpful and not impressed when she starts putting little mounds of food all over a display worktop to see 'how it copes will spillages'. Apparently, Sheridan's fairy cake mixture causes particular difficulty!

When it becomes necessary to visit Onslow and Daisy's house, Hyacinth is appalled to find that Daisy has a slab of the 'Angel Gabriel Blue' worktop sitting in her kitchen. Onslow found it on the tip and it going to install it - sometime. Needless to say, Hyacinth changes her mind very quickly about what kind of worktop will be installed in HER kitchen!moreless

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- This is a 50-minute long special. Edit
- This was the last episode to be filmed before the show stopped production in 1993. According to a "Pebble Mill" interview with Patricia Routlege and Clive Swift, this episode was filmed in December 1993 (following the "Sea Fever" QEII special), but did not air until Christmas of 1994. Edit
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- Onslow: Some good telly on tonight. Do you watch Neighbours, Hyacinth? Hyacinth: Only when they're in danger of letting the area down. Edit
- Hyacinth: (Looking at Onslow and Daisy's house) And they tell us the third world's overseas. Edit
- Hyacinth: (On the phone) It's my sister Daisy. You remember Daisy. She's not the one with the Mercedes, the swimming pool, and room for a pony. Edit
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- When Onslow asks Hyacinth if she watches the Neighbours, he is making a reference to the popular Australian soapdrama (aired on BBC). Edit