Keeping Up Appearances, Country Retreat

Poor Richard is the victim again in the comedy of manners as Hyacinth concocts an elaborate plan to turn him into an executive - the mind positively boggles!

Petty snobbery and comic misunderstandings galore as Hyacinth's plans to buy a small weekend retreat in the country take an unexpected turn.

Hyacinth plans a special event in a desperate bid to keep up with the Barker-Finches. Naturally, it all goes wrong.

Hyacinth volunteers to meet the Ladies Luncheon special guest - a retired commodore - at the railway station.

Arch-snob Hyacinth has another attempt at finding a small weekend home in the country, but she and Richard have separate views on the word 'small'.

Patricia Routledge gives another masterclass as the queen of social climbing. Hyacinth and Richard spend a day in their new, rather small, weekend residence.

Hyacinth volunteers Richard's services when there is a problem with the Church Hall lights, and he reluctantly agrees. But DIY is not really his forte!