Editing Keeping Up Appearances (section)

===''Mind Your Manors''===
When ''Keeping Up Appearances'' did not return, after Patricia Routledge announced that she no longer wished to play Hyacinth, Roy Clarke proposed a spin-off series called ''Mind Your Manors''. The series was referenced in BBC in-house literature during 1997 and 1998 and later described by both Clarke and Geoffrey Hughes as part of a discussion of the character of Onslow in [[BBC Radio 4|Radio 4]]'s ''[[Archive on 4]]: On Northern Men'',<ref>{{cite web |url=https://genome.ch.bbc.co.uk/93947ca7a09e480f947bf6f9834be8fa |title=BBC Radio 4 FM, 25 July 2009 |date=25 July 2009 |publisher=www.genome.ch.bbc.co.uk |access-date=14 June 2019 |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20190721120327/https://genome.ch.bbc.co.uk/93947ca7a09e480f947bf6f9834be8fa |archive-date=21 July 2019 }}</ref> broadcast in 2009.

The spin-off would have seen Onslow forced to take a supposedly "easy" job tending the gardens of a large manor house estate owned by a doddery and rather forgetful old Lord. When the Lord dies suddenly, Onslow, Daisy and Rose (who it is implied was having a fling with the Lord, causing the heart attack which led to his death) end up "temporarily" moving into the manor house to mind it, due to a legal dispute with the deceased Lord's estranged brother (who Rose immediately starts lusting after), who wants the land.

A mislaid deeds paper left by the forgetful old Lord would supposedly clarify who has rights to the estate, buried somewhere in the gardens that Onslow is left to ineptly try and keep in shape. Most of the conflict would have come from the Lord's brother and the manor's snooty neighbours, the wealthy Hyde-Whytes, who are not happy about the "commoners" who have taken up residence next door (although it later transpires that Mr. Hyde-Whyte used to know Onslow in their youth and is indebted to him after Onslow once took the fall for him to stop him being arrested). [[Su Pollard]] was approached to play the role of Miss Dorothy "Dotty" Henshaw, the Lord's eccentric and easily flustered cook/housekeeper who remains with the estate, and some preliminary location shooting was reportedly undertaken. This proposed spin-off series was ultimately not commissioned.