Here comes Christmas, lets get chilled out and some time off with repeats on the telly !
oh,,If I p...
Here comes Christmas, lets get chilled out and some time off with repeats on the telly !
oh,,If I promise to come back with an 'E', THEN REMIND ME !!, I will not be offended.Greg
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Father Ted series 1 ===============
INTRODUCTION TO LOCATION: ========================= Craggy Island is located off the west coast of Ireland and is the most barren, desolated spit of land in the middle of nowhere. On Craggy island there are 3 priests.
They are there for 3 reasons, One had some church funds "resting" in his account, resting there for a very long time! One is thick as feck and caused a ruckus with some nuns. Discreetly know as' The Blackrock Incident'. And the last one for his drinking and womanising! Together with their housekeeper they form the most barmy and insane household in Ireland if not the world.
INTRODUCTION TO CAST: =====================
Father Ted Crilly - Dermot John Morgan ============================== (Born 3 March 1952 - 28 February 1998) Ted is a devious schemer and a fantastic liar but is always being dropped in it by Dougal. ## Sadly, Dermot had a heart attack and died just 3 days before his 46th Birthday, it was also just 24 hours after recording the last episode of Father Ted
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Father Dougal McGuire - Ardal O'Hanlon ============================== (Born 8 October 1965) Father Dougal is the innocent fool of the group with the mental age of a radish. In his world the sky is always blue and the clouds are made of cotton candy. A bit like his brains. His only other big hit was 'My Hero', where he played George Sunday a dopey Super hero.
Father Jack Hackett - Frank Kelly =========================== (Born 28 December 1938) Father Jack is a foul mouthed drunkard who takes every opportunity to drink anything that is wet, oh except water to which he is allergic,....HE CLAIMS! Frank has not really starred in much else of note. Catchphrases include: "Drink", "Feck", "Arse" and "Girls".
Mrs Doyle - Pauline McLynn ======================== (Mrs Doyles first name, though never mentioned, was actually JOAN) (Born 11 July 1962) Mrs Doyle is their slightly psychotic housekeeper with obsessions about making sandwiches and tea. She also starred in Bremner, Bird and Fortune. Catchphrases include: "Ahh, go on" and "Tea father?"
~Synopsis~ ========== We follow the exploits of the 3 priests as they live their barmy, insane and extremely funny lives on the desolate Island. Everything the try, everything the do is doomed to either failure, embarrassment or destruction. Usually all three.
Their parochial house is ruled over and kept running by the equally insane Mrs Doyle who has had, possibly in the words of the song, her "19th nervous breakdown". But the thing they fear the most is a visit by Bishop Len Brennan who is solely responsible for placing them on the Island in the first place. He hates them with a passion that is only matched by how passionately they fear him.
The Program lasted for three series and what follows is a small recap of each series and each episode within, Enjoy.
Series one - 1994 ========
Episode 1 ------------ Good Luck, Father Ted Fun land comes to Craggy Island and Dougal can hardly contain himself. Meanwhile Ted gets a chance to appear on TV, Things do not go according to plan.
Episode 2 --------------- Entertaining Father Stone Ted and Dougal have to accommodate Father Stone the most boring man in the world. Luckily he gets struck by lightening whilst out playing crazy golf.
Episode 3 ------------- The Passion of St Tibulus Bishop Leonard Brennan instructs Ted and Dougal to protest against a blasphemous film showing at the islands only cinema. But they protest so much everyone wants to see it.
Episode 4 -------------- Competition Time It's that time of year for the 'Look-a-Likie' competition and Ted, Dougal and Jack go as the 3 ages of Elvis.
Episode 5 -------------- And God Created Woman Ted meets and falls in love with a local author but Dougal ruins things as expected.
Episode 6 --------------- Grant unto Him Eternal Rest Father Jack has drunk the floor polish and even for him it might be too much to stomach, has he finally shuffled of this mortal coil?
It was surely the introduction of the word "FECK" that made all the difference to the series. To hear a priest saying 'Feck off' is firstly startling and then hilarious.
The characters where all well thought through, even the visiting guests and visiting priests where all well written and even had their own funny lines and odd peculiarities superbly written.
The casting was also a contributing factor to the shows success, again not just the main characters but the odd bod and extras where well thought through.
The show, I believe, had run its course by the end of the third series and really could not have gone much further or gotten much funnier. All in all a great show that will last the test of time.
~DVD Features~ ****************** Language English Available Audio Tracks: Dolby Digital 2.0 Stereo Hearing Impaired: English Writers Commentary Region: Region 2 Number of discs: 1 Classification: 15 Run Time: 147 minutes ASIN: B00005LOKA Amazon price: £6.98
Footnote: Mrs Doyle, "Ah now Father Jack, what would you say to a cup of tea"? Father Jack, "FECK OFF TEA" !!!
Greg.
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