Father Ted

Father Ted is a sitcom, produced by Hat Trick Productions for Channel 4, England. The series is written by Arthur Mathews and Graham Linehan and lasted three seasons with a total of 25 episodes including a special Christmas episode.

Father Ted is set on the fictional Craggy Island on the west coast of Ireland. Dermot Morgan played the title character priest Ted Crilly, fellow priests Dougal McGuire and Jack Hackett were played by Ardal O'Hanlon and Frank Kelly. Because of former priests were exiled to the island of incidents where they live together in a rectory with their housekeeper Mrs. Doyle (Pauline McLynn).

The series got rave reviews and won several BAFTA Awards. Various Irish actors and comedians played a role in the series, such as Graham Norton, Tommy Tiernan,Patrick McDonnell, Don Wycherley, Joe Rooney, Jason Byrne, Jim Norton, Pat Shortt, Jon Kenny, Ed Byrne, Brendan Grace and Gerard McSorley.



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[hide] *1 Synopsis  ==Synopsis[ Edit] == The series follows the adventures of three Roman Catholic priests that a parish on Craggy Island, on the west coast of Ireland. Priests Ted Crilly, Dougal McGuire and Jack Hackett live in the rectory along with their housekeeper Mrs. Doyle, who like tea with cookies. The three priests are under Bishop Len Brennan, who sent them to the fictional Craggy Island because of incidents in their past: Ted for alleged financial impropriety, Dougal for the "BlackRock incident" and Jack for his alcoholism and women hunt. The show revolves around the life of the priests, sometimes over church matters but more often about Teds attempts to solve problems, or to win games by his arch-nemesis Dick Byrne priest of the nearby Rugged Island. ==Prices[ Edit] == In 1995 and 1998 won the BAFTA Award for Best Comedy the show. Morgan also won the BAFTA Award for best Comic Role in 1998[1]. During the British Comedy Awards in 1996 won McLynn the price for Comic Actress[2] . ==Characters<span class="mw-editsection-bracket" len="1" style="color:rgb(85,85,85);">[ Edit<span class="mw-editsection-bracket" len="1" style="color:rgb(85,85,85);">] == ===Main Characters<span class="mw-editsection" len="331" style="-webkit-user-select:none;font-size:small;margin-left:1em;line-height:1em;display:inline-block;white-space:nowrap;unicode-bidi:-webkit-isolate;"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket" len="1" style="color:rgb(85,85,85);">[ Edit<span class="mw-editsection-bracket" len="1" style="color:rgb(85,85,85);">] === ===Returning characters<span class="mw-editsection" len="339" style="-webkit-user-select:none;font-size:small;margin-left:1em;line-height:1em;display:inline-block;white-space:nowrap;unicode-bidi:-webkit-isolate;"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket" len="1" style="color:rgb(85,85,85);">[ Edit<span class="mw-editsection-bracket" len="1" style="color:rgb(85,85,85);">] === ===Small roles<span class="mw-editsection" len="330" style="-webkit-user-select:none;font-size:small;margin-left:1em;line-height:1em;display:inline-block;white-space:nowrap;unicode-bidi:-webkit-isolate;"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket" len="1" style="color:rgb(85,85,85);">[ Edit<span class="mw-editsection-bracket" len="1" style="color:rgb(85,85,85);">] === ==Episodes<span class="mw-editsection" len="329" style="-webkit-user-select:none;font-size:small;margin-left:1em;line-height:1em;display:inline-block;white-space:nowrap;unicode-bidi:-webkit-isolate;font-family:sans-serif;"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket" len="1" style="color:rgb(85,85,85);">[ Edit<span class="mw-editsection-bracket" len="1" style="color:rgb(85,85,85);">] == ===Season 1 (1995)<span class="mw-editsection" len="333" style="-webkit-user-select:none;font-size:small;margin-left:1em;line-height:1em;display:inline-block;white-space:nowrap;unicode-bidi:-webkit-isolate;"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket" len="1" style="color:rgb(85,85,85);">[ Edit<span class="mw-editsection-bracket" len="1" style="color:rgb(85,85,85);">] === ===Season 2 (1996)<span class="mw-editsection" len="333" style="-webkit-user-select:none;font-size:small;margin-left:1em;line-height:1em;display:inline-block;white-space:nowrap;unicode-bidi:-webkit-isolate;"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket" len="1" style="color:rgb(85,85,85);">[ Edit<span class="mw-editsection-bracket" len="1" style="color:rgb(85,85,85);">] === ===Season 3 (1998)<span class="mw-editsection" len="334" style="-webkit-user-select:none;font-size:small;margin-left:1em;line-height:1em;display:inline-block;white-space:nowrap;unicode-bidi:-webkit-isolate;"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket" len="1" style="color:rgb(85,85,85);">[ Edit<span class="mw-editsection-bracket" len="1" style="color:rgb(85,85,85);">] === <p style="margin-top:0.5em;line-height:22.3999996185303px;color:rgb(37,37,37);font-family:sans-serif;">*The episodes "Escape from Victory" and "Kicking Bishop Brennan up the Arse" follow each other if only directly on.
 * 2 Prices
 * 3 Characters
 * 3.1 main characters
 * 3.2 returning characters
 * 3.3 small roles
 * 4 Episodes
 * 4.1 season 1 (1995)
 * 4.2 season 2 (1996)
 * 4.3 season 3 (1998)
 * Arise 5
 * 6 Production
 * 6.1 Music
 * 6.2 Location
 * Legacy 7
 * 7.1 Father Ted Night
 * 8 external links
 * Priest Ted Crilly
 * Priest Dougal McGuire
 * Priest Jack Hackett
 * Mrs. Doyle
 * Bishop Brennan
 * Priest Dick Byrne
 * Priest Noel Furlong
 * Priest Larry Duff
 * Priest Paul Stone
 * Priest Fintan Stack
 * Priest Austin Purcell
 * Priest Todd Unctious
 * John and Mary O'Leary
 * Tom
 * 1) Good Luck, Father Ted
 * 2) Entertaining Father Stone
 * 3) The Passion of St Tibulus
 * 4) Competition Time
 * 5) And God Created Woman
 * 6) Grant Unto Him Eternal Rest
 * 1) Hell
 * 2) Think Fast, Father Ted
 * 3) Tentacles of Doom
 * 4) Old Grey Whistle Theft
 * 5) A Song for Europe
 * 6) The Plague
 * 7) Rock-a-Hula Ted
 * 8) Cigarettes and Alcohol and Rollerblading
 * 9) New Jack City
 * 10) Flight into Terror
 * 11) A Christmassy Ted (special Christmas episode)
 * 1) Are You Right There, Father Ted?
 * 2) Chirpy Burpy Cheap Sheep
 * 3) Speed 3
 * 4) The Mainland
 * 5) Escape from Victory (*)
 * 6) Kicking Bishop Brennan up the Arse (*)
 * 7) Night of the Nearly Dead
 * 8) Going to America

<p style="margin-top:0.5em;line-height:22.3999996185303px;color:rgb(37,37,37);font-family:sans-serif;">The complete series is released on dvd (region 2) in Europe, both as individual seasons as a box set. ==Genesis<span class="mw-editsection" len="326" style="-webkit-user-select:none;font-size:small;margin-left:1em;line-height:1em;display:inline-block;white-space:nowrap;unicode-bidi:-webkit-isolate;font-family:sans-serif;"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket" len="1" style="color:rgb(85,85,85);">[ Edit<span class="mw-editsection-bracket" len="1" style="color:rgb(85,85,85);">] == <p style="margin-top:0.5em;line-height:22.3999996185303px;color:rgb(37,37,37);font-family:sans-serif;">According to Linehan is the character created by Priest Paul WoodfullMathews for Ted, when the three were together as The Joshua Trio in the comedy circuit in Ireland. Dermot Morgan was chosen for the role because he had previously played a priest<sup class="reference" id="cite_ref-3" len="162" style="line-height:1;unicode-bidi:-webkit-isolate;">[3]. Mathews said that had a profound influence Seinfeld on Father Ted. Linehan and he are big fans of the series<sup class="reference" id="cite_ref-4" len="162" style="line-height:1;unicode-bidi:-webkit-isolate;">[4] . ==Production<span class="mw-editsection" len="327" style="-webkit-user-select:none;font-size:small;margin-left:1em;line-height:1em;display:inline-block;white-space:nowrap;unicode-bidi:-webkit-isolate;font-family:sans-serif;"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket" len="1" style="color:rgb(85,85,85);">[ Edit<span class="mw-editsection-bracket" len="1" style="color:rgb(85,85,85);">] == <p style="margin-top:0.5em;line-height:22.3999996185303px;color:rgb(37,37,37);font-family:sans-serif;">In addition to the three seasons have Morgan and O'Hanlon also presented an hour Comic Relief as the two priests. Kelly and McLynn also acted briefly on. shortly after the completion of season three to a cardiac infarct Dermot Morgan died at the age of 45. The third season was broadcast a week later than originally planned.
 * DVDs

<p style="margin-top:0.5em;margin-bottom:0.5em;line-height:22.3999996185303px;color:rgb(37,37,37);font-family:sans-serif;">A few weeks before his death Father Ted Morgan said that he no longer wanted to play for fear of typecasting: "I don't want to be just like playing the same character for years Clive Dunn "<sup class="reference" id="cite_ref-5" len="162" style="line-height:1;unicode-bidi:-webkit-isolate;">[5] . ===Music<span class="mw-editsection" len="324" style="-webkit-user-select:none;font-size:small;margin-left:1em;line-height:1em;display:inline-block;white-space:nowrap;unicode-bidi:-webkit-isolate;"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket" len="1" style="color:rgb(85,85,85);">[ Edit<span class="mw-editsection-bracket" len="1" style="color:rgb(85,85,85);">] === <p style="margin-top:0.5em;line-height:22.3999996185303px;color:rgb(37,37,37);font-family:sans-serif;">The theme song for the series is written and performed by The Divine Comedy and appeared later as "Songs of Love" on the album Casanova. (The song "Woman of the World" from the same album was a possible theme song, but was rejected.<sup class="reference" id="cite_ref-6" len="162" style="line-height:1;unicode-bidi:-webkit-isolate;"> [6]  )

<p lang="en" len="165" style="margin-top:0.5em;margin-bottom:0.5em;line-height:22.3999996185303px;color:rgb(37,37,37);font-family:sans-serif;">The band also played most music in the series, such as "My Lovely Horse" in the episode "Song For Europe" and "My Lovely Mayo Mammy" in "Night of the Nearly Dead". ===Location<span class="mw-editsection" len="325" style="-webkit-user-select:none;font-size:small;margin-left:1em;line-height:1em;display:inline-block;white-space:nowrap;unicode-bidi:-webkit-isolate;"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket" len="1" style="color:rgb(85,85,85);">[ Edit<span class="mw-editsection-bracket" len="1" style="color:rgb(85,85,85);">] === <p style="margin-top:0.5em;line-height:22.3999996185303px;color:rgb(37,37,37);font-family:sans-serif;">Most locations in Father Ted are in County Clare, including Ennis, Kilfenora, Ennistymon and Kilnaboy. The parochial house is McCormack's in Kilnaboy Glenquin, on the road to<sup class="reference" id="cite_ref-7" len="162" style="line-height:1;unicode-bidi:-webkit-isolate;">[7] <sup class="reference" id="cite_ref-8" len="162" style="line-height:1;unicode-bidi:-webkit-isolate;">[8]. The cinema that showed up in "The Passion of St Tibulus" was the Ormonde Cinema, Greystones, County Wicklow<sup class="reference" id="cite_ref-9" len="162" style="line-height:1;unicode-bidi:-webkit-isolate;">[9]  and "the field", the location of Funland in "Good Luck, Father Ted", is in Portrane, North County Dublin. The "very dark caves" in "The Mainland" is the Aillwee Cave in the Burren, County Clare. Some scenes for "And God Created Woman are filmed in Dún Laoghaire, South County Dublin. The opening scene was filmed at Inis Oírr -the smallest of theAran Islands. Its filmed in The London Studios. ==Legacy<span class="mw-editsection" len="330" style="-webkit-user-select:none;font-size:small;margin-left:1em;line-height:1em;display:inline-block;white-space:nowrap;unicode-bidi:-webkit-isolate;font-family:sans-serif;"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket" len="1" style="color:rgb(85,85,85);">[ Edit<span class="mw-editsection-bracket" len="1" style="color:rgb(85,85,85);">] == <p style="margin-top:0.5em;line-height:22.3999996185303px;color:rgb(37,37,37);font-family:sans-serif;">Fanbijeenkomst held annually since 2007, called Ted Fest.

<p style="margin-top:0.5em;margin-bottom:0.5em;line-height:22.3999996185303px;color:rgb(37,37,37);font-family:sans-serif;">Inis Oírr got In January 2007 (250 inhabitants) and Inis Mór (1200 inhabitants) arguing about which island the fictional Craggy Island can organize the festival should be called and therefore<sup class="reference" id="cite_ref-10" len="164" style="line-height:1;unicode-bidi:-webkit-isolate;">[10] <sup class="reference" id="cite_ref-drink_11-0" len="170" style="line-height:1;unicode-bidi:-webkit-isolate;">[11]. It was decided to organize a football match to settle the dispute<sup class="reference" id="cite_ref-12" len="164" style="line-height:1;unicode-bidi:-webkit-isolate;">[12]. Inis Mór won 2-0<sup class="reference" id="cite_ref-drink_11-1" len="170" style="line-height:1;unicode-bidi:-webkit-isolate;">[11]  which they named "the fictional Craggy Island" a year were allowed to wear the name Inis Oírr while Rugged Island got. ===Father Ted Night<span class="mw-editsection" len="334" style="-webkit-user-select:none;font-size:small;margin-left:1em;line-height:1em;display:inline-block;white-space:nowrap;unicode-bidi:-webkit-isolate;"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket" len="1" style="color:rgb(85,85,85);">[ Edit<span class="mw-editsection-bracket" len="1" style="color:rgb(85,85,85);">] === <p style="margin-top:0.5em;line-height:22.3999996185303px;color:rgb(37,37,37);font-family:sans-serif;">On 1 January 2011 organized an evening dedicated to Father Ted Channel 4 for its fifteenth anniversary<sup class="reference" id="cite_ref-13" len="164" style="line-height:1;unicode-bidi:-webkit-isolate;">[13] <sup class="reference" id="cite_ref-14" len="164" style="line-height:1;unicode-bidi:-webkit-isolate;">[14]. It was among other things a documentary broadcast in which the players and writers visited the ancient sites. Pauline McLynn did not enter the documentary<sup class="reference" id="cite_ref-15" len="164" style="line-height:1;unicode-bidi:-webkit-isolate;">[15]. The show was dedicated to Dermot Morgan<sup class="reference" id="cite_ref-16" len="164" style="line-height:1;unicode-bidi:-webkit-isolate;">[16] .