Editing Keeping Up Appearances (section)

==Episodes==
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''Keeping Up Appearances'' aired for five series, four Christmas specials, and one short ''[[Children in Need]]'' special from 29 October 1990 to 25 December 1995. The series officially ended after the episode "The Pageant", because Patricia Routledge wanted to focus on other TV and theatre work, including ''[[Hetty Wainthropp Investigates]]'', which began airing in 1996. Clive Swift, who portrayed Richard, stated in a BBC interview that Routledge "didn't want to be remembered as simply 'Mrs. Bucket'".<ref name="ComedyConn">{{cite episode |title=Comedy Connections – Keeping Up Appearances| series=Comedy Connections| series-link=Comedy Connections#Series Two (2004) |network=[[BBC]]| station=[[BBC One]]| airdate=26 July 2004}}</ref> Despite the series' ongoing popularity, she wished to pursue other roles as an actress. In a 2017 interview, Routledge said: "I always thought of the great, great [[Ronnie Barker]]. He always left something when he was on a high, and it's much better to have people say now 'Oh, why didn't you do some more?' than having them say 'Oh, is that still on?'"<ref name="Studio10Interview">{{cite AV media |author=Studio 10 | date = 25 October 2017 | title = Dame Patricia Routledge | url = https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FEvp1Ajmtus | publisher = YouTube | access-date=30 August 2024}}</ref> Another reason she wished to leave the role was that she felt that the writer [[Roy Clarke]] was "recycling some old ideas that we'd already dealt with".<ref name="Studio10Interview"/>

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