Father Ted is an Irish situation comedy produced by Hat Trick Productions for the UK’s 
Channel 4 and written by Arthur Mathews and Graham Linehan. It aired over three series from 21 April 1995 until 1 May 1998, including a Christmas special, for a total of 25 episodes. Set on the remote fictional Craggy Island off Ireland’s west coast, the show starred Dermot Morgan as the titular Father Ted Crilly, alongside fellow priests Father Dougal McGuire (Ardal O’Hanlon) and Father Jack Hackett (Frank Kelly). Exiled on the island for various past incidents, the priests live together in the parochial house with their housekeeper Mrs. Doyle (Pauline McLynn).
The show follows the misadventures of three Roman Catholic priests who live in a parish on the fictional Craggy Island, located off the west coast of Ireland. Father Ted Crilly, Father Dougal McGuire and Father Jack Hackett live together in Craggy Island’s parochial house, along with their housekeeper Mrs Doyle, who often wants to serve them tea. The three priests answer to Bishop Len Brennan, who assigned them the Craggy Island parish due to different incidents in their past: Ted for alleged financial impropriety (apparently involving some money ‘resting’ in his account and a child being deprived a visit to Lourdes) , Dougal for something only referred to as the “Blackrock Incident” (resulting in many “lives irreparably damaged”), and Jack for his alcoholism and womanising. The show revolves around the priests’ lives on Craggy Island, sometimes dealing with matters of the church but more often dealing with Father Ted’s schemes to either resolve a situation with the parish or other Craggy Island residents, or to win games of one-upmanship against his arch-nemesis, Father Dick Byrne of the nearby Rugged Island parish.
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One of the funniest comedys ive ever seen. And the scene in the supermarket where they are stuck in the underwear department has to be one the greatest comedy moments ever. Its raising a smile even as i write this.
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One of the best comedies ever made.
Father Ted: It’s not as if everyone’s going to go off and join some mad religious cult just because we go off for a picnic for a couple of hours.
Father Dougal: God, Ted, I heard about those cults. Everyone dressing in black and saying our Lord’s gonna come back and judge us all!
Father Ted: No… No, Dougal, that’s us. That’s Catholicism.
Brilliant
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Fav comedy ever
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Quality show and will continue to be one to be revisited as the years pass.
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Has to be in the top 5 of my fav comedy shows. Far too many great moments to mention.
Fantastic show
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Yea i think its certainly top 10 in my favorite comedy shows. Consistantly funny throughout the 3 seasons.
Ted kicking Bishop Brennan up the arse. Dougal in the milkfloat trying to avoid the cardboard boxes. And my all time favorite, the priests finding themselves stuck in the underwear department in the superstore.
Great stuff.
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Top 5 greatest comedy show ever in my opinion. I still watch it regularly and it makes me everytime.
Fav moments :
Father Stone over staying his welcome.
Ted constantly phoning the mobile phone of the other priest who upon answering has a terrible accident.
Dougal trying to understand the difference between small toy cows and far away ones.
There are a hundred more which i loved. Too many to write down. Fantastic show.
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Couldnt agree more.
Fantastic show. The ‘Speed’ episode on the milk float is the stuff of comedy legend.
RIP Dermot Morgan
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Never jumped; Father Ted got progressively funnier and funnier, from the competent series 1 to the hilarity of series 2, to the inspired genius and genuine feel-good ending of series 3, made especially poignant by the death of Dermot Morgan just before the series aired.
Particular favourites? The “Lovely Girls” competition; Father Ted accused of fascism by Craggy Island’s Chinese community; the sheep contest and the attempt to scupper it with news of the beast; the plane about to crash – well, I could go on and on, but I’m glad the programme didn’t and ended on a high.
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