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Father Ted : Complete Box Set [1995] [Region 2]

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*eck, A*se, Drink, Girl!
VERY funny - I keep having to buy it - if you lend it out you'll never see it again!

Father Ted : Complete Box Set [1995] [Region 2]
Director: Andy DeEmmony , and Declan Lowney
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Binding: DVD

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ASIN: B00006LSFW

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*eck, A*se, Drink, Girl!.......2007-01-26

It is probably cheaper and better to buy the box set as there are 5 episodes per disc and 4 discs in total. Father Ted ran for three seasons for a total of 25 episodes. The sound is Dolby 2.0 Stereo. The frame is 1.33:1. Season one episode one introduces us to Craggy Island in "Good Luck, Father Ted". Instantly within the first minute you are hit with several outragous gags involving either Ted refusing tea from a very hyperactive Mrs. Doyle, Dougle's dream about the Spider-baby which he thinks is real or Father Jack attacking the television in his drunken senility. The star of this show though is Tom, the guy with the I SHOT J.R. t-shirt and the shotgun who blows away the friendly crow. "Entertaining Father Stone" is more of the same but here additional priests are introduced, a constant theme that would continue through to the end. Fr. Paul Stone has the reputation of being the most boring man on Earth and nearly drives Ted & co insane. "The Passion of St Tibulus" is a classic episode that involves the hysterical Dougle one-liner about the son that wins all hands down. It also features a real life take on a Irish Bishop who got his cousin in America pregnant. This is the make or break episode that put Father Ted on the map. Repeat viewing is mandatory. "Competition Time" sees Ted, Dougle and Jack compete in a pop idol contest on Craggy Island that is exclusive for priests. From the drunken judge who smashes up the priest's home to the three stages of Elvis competition finale, this is a classic howl-a-second episode. "And God Created Women" sees Ted up to more priestly things when romantic novelist Polly Clarke seems to be coming onto him. "Grant Unto Him Eternal Rest" is a funny episode about cocaine cakes and a close call with death. Unfortunately Season one is very short with only 5 episodes. The budget is somewhat limited as it was a UK based Channel 4 funded show of an Irish production. It would not air in Ireland until after Season one was over. It was Ireland that responded in a way that caused Father Ted to become a sensational event where pubs would all go quiet to watch it. Catholic Ireland loved it so much that Father Ted was given a budget boost injection to double the episodes for an 11 episode Season two.. **As a note the discs where not in the best condition as Disc 1 had some playback errors in Episodes Two and Three.**

Season two gets a bigger budget. Instead of ploughing costs into vamping up the sets and characters, the producers have rightly chosen to keep the original low budget feel and just double the amount of episodes for the year which is why Season two is broken up into Part 1 and Part 2 packages of 5 episodes + 5 episodes. Region 1 of Season two has both parts in one package on two discs. Region 2 sells the parts separately. "Hell" is about a cavern holiday that goes terribly wrong. The scene with the toy cows is a classic. Father Noel and other reoccurring characters turn up here and throughout the season. "Think Fast, Father Ted" has Ted and Dougle rigging a raffle to try and repair a car they trashed which had been donated to the parish. "Tentacles of Doom" is about the Holy Stone of Clonrichert which manages to find its way up a Bishop's behind no thanks to Jack. "The Old Grey Whistle Theft" sees Dougle implicated in the theft of a whistle when he meets up with young bad-boy priest "Damo" who gets up to all sorts of tricks. "A Christmassy Ted" is about group of priests who get lost in Ireland's largest lingerie store and only Father Ted can get them out... Vietnam style. Hysterical stuff.

Part 2 has the "The Plague" with Bishop Brennan back to the problem of Father Jack sleepwalking in the nude and Dougle's pet rabbit overpopulation. "Rock-a-Hula Ted (aka Lovely Girls)" leaves Dougal in charge of the house when he gets a visit from a feminist type Sinead O` Conner who takes over the home. "Cigarettes and Alcohol and Rollerblading" is one big withdrawel from drugs because of Lent where things go crazy for everyone. New Jack City is about Jack's retirement to the old folks home and is replaced by Father Fintan Stack, who is even worse. Ted and Dougle work out a plan to break Jack out so he can defeat Father Stack. "Flight into Terror" has Ted back in hero form trying to save a plane of priests from crashing. Season two is all cracking good stuff.

It is unknown if Season three was supposed to be another Season one with a shorter run of 6 episodes or 10 episodes as Season two did. In the end we get 8 episodes of Season three. "Are You Right There, Father Ted?" has Ted accidentally appearing looking like Hitler after he is mistaken by a local Chinese community as a fascist. "Chirpy Burpy Cheap Sheep" is the King of the Sheep 98' competition. If you like sheep you will like this one. "Speed 3" may be one of the funniest television episodes ever when Dougal's milk float is rigged to explode if he drops below 4 mph. This episode is widely considered one of the best, if the not the best comedy TV instalments ever aired. "The Mainland" sees Ted & co. leaving Craggy Island for a trip when all hell breaks loose. Jack goes to an AA meeting! If you want to see a 5 a side - over 75 - football match then look no further than "Escape from Victory". Will Ted's fake rubber arms fool the referee? "Kicking Bishop Brennan up the A*se" is exactly what it means. Here Ted in a forfeit to Dick Burn must kick Bishop Brennan while Dougal takes the photograph. It is a gem in the series. "Night of the Nearly Dead" is a pull on the Irish singer Daniel O' Donnel who is loved by all women over the age of 50. Here he visits Craggy Island to see Mrs. Doyle only for Ted to find that the house is under siege by the elderly-zombies who are dying to see their favorite singer. "Going to America" is the final episode of the series. Her Ted is offered his own parish in California which he thinks he can cash in on. The only catch is that he can't take Dougle, Jack or Mrs. Doyle with him. It ends with a lovely montage of all the episodes. It appears that this episode may have been the last one on the schedule to be shot and that there was talk that Father Ted would end with this season. After shooting Dermot Morgan (Father Ted) announced that "I don't want to be the next Clive Dunn and end up playing the same character for years." This was taken to mean that effectively the Father Ted series had finished. He said that he was working on a new comedy television series. It is believed that this would be about two retired football players living together, but just weeks before the first episode of Season three was to air, during a dinner party in his home, Dermot Morgan had a sudden massive heart attack and died. He was only 45. It seems that the ending of last episode of Season three is still cut short as if something has been removed and the montage put in instead. It actually ends on a sort of a sad note, happy, but sad and a tribute to this great character, man and series. There was nothing like Father Ted and there will never be again.

VERY funny - I keep having to buy it - if you lend it out you'll never see it again!.......2006-12-27

Am buying this for perhaps the fifth time. Great series from the UK and Ireland. Three priests (not very good ones!) are exiled to Craggy Island for their misdemeanors and live together in a parish house. This series is about their lives and times. Catholic friends from Ireland, Austria, Germany, and New York all have loved this show. I bet you will, too!

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