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"Father Ted" A Christmassy Ted (1996)
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"Father Ted" (1995)Original Air Date:
24 December 1996 (Season 2, Episode 11)Plot:
Father Ted wins the "Golden Cleric", for saving a fellow group of priests from an embarrassing situation. full summary | add synopsisUser Comments:
Outstanding! moreCast
(Episode Cast overview, first billed only)| Dermot Morgan | ... | Father Ted Crilly | |
| Ardal O'Hanlon | ... | Father Dougal McGuire | |
| Frank Kelly | ... | Father Jack Hackett | |
| Pauline McLynn | ... | Mrs. Doyle | |
| Gerard McSorley | ... | Father Todd Unctious | |
| Dervla Kirwan | ... | Assumpta Fitzgerald | |
| Stephen Tompkinson | ... | Father Peter Clifford | |
| Tony Guilfoyle | ... | Father Larry Duff | |
| Anne Gildea | ... | Woman with Baby | |
| Caoilinn McCormack | ... | Baby | |
| Barry Murphy | ... | Salesman | |
| Sean Barrett | ... | Father Fitzgerald | |
| Donncha Crowley | ... | Father Billy | |
| Colum Gallivan | ... | Father Reilly | |
| Neil McCaul | ... | Father Terry |
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This episode marks the final appearance of Father Larry Duff (Tony Guilfoyle) on the series. moreGoofs:
Errors in geography: There is a visit to a department store which boasts (we're told) the largest lingerie department in Ireland. However, the establishing shot of the store is of Oxford Street in London. It even features a bus stop with the easily recognisable London Transport logo. moreFAQ
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*** This comment may contain spoilers ***
Christmas specials of comedy series, usually being longer, can be a curate's egg - good in parts etc... This episode, however, despite being double the length of a typical Ted, maintains the series' stratospherically high standards throughout! Right from the introductory absurdity of the Ted household's visit to The Mainland for Christmas shopping, to the (un)dynamic duo's incarceration in Ireland's Largest Lingerie Department, through Ted's elevation to Priest of the Year and Mrs Doyle's adventures with the Teamatic, this is a total gem of a show.
The Vietnamesque escape from said Lingerie Department, Father Jack's being parked in a creche (spelling 'Arse, Feck, Girls' with the ABC wooden spelling blocks and corrupting the other infants into crying those very words later), the sleazy flashback of the old priest talking about Ted to Father Unctious, every scene is perfect.
Watch out for a young Kevin McKidd, of 'Rome' fame, as a callow priest losing it in the Lingerie Department, and the lovely Ed Byrne as a scoffing youth on a gay-chatline spoof...
Sheer perfection.
P.S. Dermot Morgan is so painfully missed...