Keeping Up Appearances:Home Is Where the Hyacinth Is
When Hyacinth finds out that she and Richard will be transported to a party in Rose's new swain's limo, she quickly assembles a cocktail party to mutually impress him and her neighbors in "Cocktails with a Greek Shipping Millionaire." But the limo's in the shop and the gentleman friend shows up in his hearse instead. Richard mulls over the frightening possibilities of whole days spent with Hyacinth in "The Unfortunate Prospect of Early Retirement," and poor Daddy runs up a humungous tab in a toy store in "Playthings for Daddy." But nothing could disappoint Hyacinth more than when the truck with the fancy logo set to deliver her new "Three Piece Suite" breaks down and it's humiliatingly delivered by a helpful Onslow in his ramshackle truck instead. A "Picnic for Daddy" that ends up as a high speed car chase finishes the collection.--Kimberly Heinrichs