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Hell's Bells

  • TV sitcom
  • BBC One
  • 1986
  • 6 episodes (1 series)

With the appointment of an outspoken new bishop who has socialist views on the Church, Selwyn Makepeace's quiet life as Dean of Norchester Cathedral will never be the same again. Stars Derek Nimmo, Robert Stephens, Penelope Horner, Susan Jameson, Phyllida Law and Milton Johns

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Press clippings

Always excluding Monty Python's parrot, I have never seen anything so comprehensively defunct. Picking up one joke gingerly, there are probably three dozen tolerably funny answers to: "There are three million unemployed out there," but "That's not my fault," isn't one of them.

Nancy Banks-Smith, The Guardian, 10th June 1986

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