The Vicar Of Dibley - BBC1 Sitcom - British Comedy Guide

TV sitcom
BBC One
1994 - 2020
20 episodes (3 series)

Comedy about a small, backward rural village and its female vicar, Geraldine Grainger. Stars Dawn French, Emma Chambers, Gary Waldhorn, James Fleet, John Bluthal and more.

2004/2005 Specials, Christmas Special repeated at 7:45pm on U&Gold
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The Vicar Of Dibley. Geraldine Grainger (Dawn French). Copyright: Tiger Aspect Productions

Genre

Sitcom

Broadcast

1994 - 2020

Channel

BBC 1

Episodes

20 (3 series), plus 11 extra episodes

Stars

Dawn French, Emma Chambers, Gary Waldhorn, James Fleet, John Bluthal, Trevor Peacock, Roger Lloyd Pack and Liz Smith

Writers

Richard Curtis and Paul Mayhew-Archer

Directors

Dewi Humphreys and Gareth Carrivick

Producers

Jon Plowman, Sue Vertue, Margot Gavan Duffy, Richard Curtis and Peter Bennett-Jones

Company

Tiger Aspect Productions

Life in the miniscule, sleepy Oxfordshire village of Dibley is thrown upside-down when ancient Vicar Pottle dies - and the diocese send a new-fangled female vicar, Geraldine Grainger, as his replacement.

Her arrival is met with a mixture of wonder and horror from the assorted collection of rural yokels who call Dibley home: "You were expecting a bloke with a beard, a Bible and bad breath. Instead, you got a babe with a bob cut and a magnificent bosom," she observes.

Autocratic head of the Parish Council and local landowner David Horton is particularly appalled; when it becomes clear that Geraldine does not intend to play second fiddle, he resolves to call in any favour possible to have her removed.

However, David's plans fail and the new female vicar steps - perhaps naïvely - undaunted into their quaint and utterly batty country world. Geri and her flock soon find common ground and, although the journey is bumpy, join forces to revitalise life in the small community.

It's not long before even David must admit that Geraldine's the best thing to have ever happened to Dibley - and she that Dibley is the best thing to ever happen to her.

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