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This is one of my favorite episodes of KUA, but I feel it illustrates a common thread throughout the series, that often the events at Daisy & Onslows have no bearing to the story line. In this episode Rose has a new boyfriend who is single to the surprise of everyone! She calls Hyacinth to ask to borrow a prayer book to impress her new man, and Hyacinth invites her to collect it and visit her on her boating trip. This seems like it's cuing up a potentially funny scene later in the episode, yet it goes nowhere and they're not seen or heard from again along with Daisy & Onslow.

There are umpteen other scenes at Onslows which don't seem connected to the plot of the episode. Do you think they were contractually obliged to include them in each episode or could it be that the story line was cut short? And if it the episode scenes were cut for time, why leave them in when they don't link to the script?

I'm confused which doesn't take much!!!!!???
 
I think that reflects real life, you have a bit of drama going on in your house but two doors down have different drama going on. Sometimes the two dramas converge but generally it's just confined to your own house. Having so many characters that people get invested in you have to show what's going on in their house. I think it's good to break the story up now and then.
 
I agree Pearl, and there are often sub plots unconnected to the main story line in KUA which are really funny. But here it seems as though the plot is going to link to the antics of Hyacinth but it just doesn't. It seems like a loose end that isn't concluded.
 
As a brief aside I quite like some of the nostalgia that BBC4 is pumping out early hours they were showing an Episode of the Good Old Days with the wonderfully eloquant Leonard Sachs , the guests were Barbara Windsor, Norman Collier and Kieth Harris and Orville such is variety .


Programmes were clearly running late because the end of Hettie Wainwright was still on and Patricia Routledge having collared the villain as Hetty was shown dressed up in black tie and tails with Top Hat singing and tap dancing on a stage , clearly she has had some training on the stage and it shows how versatile she can be , equally I could have imagined it was something Hyacinth would do but where clearly it would have gone wrong.
 
captain clutterbuck said:
As a brief aside I quite like some of the nostalgia that BBC4 is pumping out early hours they were showing an Episode of the Good Old Days with the wonderfully eloquant Leonard Sachs , the guests were Barbara Windsor, Norman Collier and Kieth Harris and Orville such is variety .


Programmes were clearly running late because the end of Hettie Wainwright was still on and Patricia Routledge having collared the villain as Hetty was shown dressed up in black tie and tails with Top Hat singing and tap dancing on a stage , clearly she has had some training on the stage and it shows how versatile she can be , equally I could have imagined it was something Hyacinth would do but where clearly it would have gone wrong.
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Norman Collier, now you're talking! Did he do his microphone routine?
 
Actually he didn't, he did the pretending to be a chicken routine and then sang a song as a supposed man/woman partnership with him playing both parts distinguished by swapping men's and women's hats from his carpet bag, the tag being he end up with the wrong hat for the voice . I thought he'd take over from Sachs at some point to do the microphone act and announce the next act but he didn't.
 
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