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S05 E11: The Pageant
Season 5, Ep. 11
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Brush up on your royal protocol and prepare to curtsy as William Hanson and Jonathan Vernon-Smith discuss the final ever episode of Keeping Up Appearances, 'The Pageant'. Hyacinth takes the lead for the church’s annual pageant ‘Our Town In The Civil War.’ Disaster strikes when Hyacinth realises all the volunteers have made wild excuses and not turned up, so she is forced to recruit the less desirable members of the family.
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