The Vicar of Dibley
The Vicar of Dibley Opening titles
Format	Sitcom
Created by	Richard Curtis Paul Mayhew-Archer
Starring	Dawn French Gary Waldhorn James Fleet John Bluthal Liz Smith Trevor Peacock Roger Lloyd Pack Emma Chambers
Country of origin	United Kingdom
No. of episodes	20 + 4 comic relief shorts (List of episodes)
Production
Running time	9x30 minutes 7x40 minutes 1x45minutes 1x55minutes 2x60 minutes
Broadcast
Original channel	BBC
Original run	10 November 1994 – 16 March 2007
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The Vicar of Dibley is a British sitcom created by Richard Curtis and written for its lead actress, Dawn French, by Curtis and Paul Mayhew-Archer, with contributions from Kit Hesketh-Harvey. The Vicar of Dibley aired from 1994 to 2007. In 2004, it came third in Britain's Best Sitcom. Image File history File links The_Vicar_of_Dibley_intro. ... This article is about a genre of comedy. ... Richard Curtis in London, 1999 Richard Curtis CBE, (born 8 November 1956), is a New Zealand-born British screenwriter, best known for the TV programmes Blackadder and The Vicar of Dibley as well as movies such as Four Weddings and a Funeral, Notting Hill, and Love Actually. ... Paul Mayhew-Archer is a writer and script editor for the BBC. His most notable works have been The Vicar of Dibley and My Hero though he also wrote for Spitting Image and Two Pints of Lager and a Packet of Crisps. ... Dawn Roma French[1] (born 11 October 1957) is a BAFTA Award-nominated British comedian and actress best known for starring in her comedy sketch show French & Saunders along with her comedy partner Jennifer Saunders, and for playing the lead role in The Vicar of Dibley as Geraldine Granger. ... Gary Waldhorn (born 3 July 1943 in London) is an English actor best known for his role as David Horton in the sitcom The Vicar of Dibley. ... James Fleet is a British actor, most famous for his role as the bumbling and well-meaning Tom in the 1994 film Four Weddings and a Funeral, a 1994 British romantic comedy film directed by Mike Newell. ... John Bluthal (born 1929) is a film and television actor, mostly in comedy. ... Elizabeth Liz Smith (born 11 December 1921) is a BAFTA-Award winning English actress best known for her roles in the sitcoms The Vicar of Dibley and The Royle Family, and who also appeared in the 2005 film Charlie and the Chocolate Factory. ... Trevor Peacock is a British character actor who has breathed life into such famous roles as Jim Trott in The Vicar of Dibley, Rouault in Madame Bovary (opposite Keith Barron) and Old Bailey in Neverwhere. ... Roger Lloyd Pack (born February 8, 1944) is a British actor. ... Emma Chambers (born March 11, 1964) is an English actress. ... Image File history File links Flag_of_the_United_Kingdom. ... The following is a list of episodes for the British sitcom The Vicar of Dibley. ... For other uses, see BBC (disambiguation). ... is the 314th day of the year (315th in leap years) in the Gregorian calendar. ... Year 1994 (MCMXCIV) The year 1994 was designated as the International Year of the Family and the International Year of the Sport and the Olympic Ideal by the United Nations. ... is the 75th day of the year (76th in leap years) in the Gregorian calendar. ... Year 2007 (MMVII) is the current year, a common year starting on Monday of the Gregorian calendar and the AD/CE era in the 21st century. ... A British sitcom is a situation comedy (sitcom) produced in the United Kingdom. ... Richard Curtis in London, 1999 Richard Curtis CBE, (born 8 November 1956), is a New Zealand-born British screenwriter, best known for the TV programmes Blackadder and The Vicar of Dibley as well as movies such as Four Weddings and a Funeral, Notting Hill, and Love Actually. ... Dawn Roma French[1] (born 11 October 1957) is a BAFTA Award-nominated British comedian and actress best known for starring in her comedy sketch show French & Saunders along with her comedy partner Jennifer Saunders, and for playing the lead role in The Vicar of Dibley as Geraldine Granger. ... Paul Mayhew-Archer is a writer and script editor for the BBC. His most notable works have been The Vicar of Dibley and My Hero though he also wrote for Spitting Image and Two Pints of Lager and a Packet of Crisps. ... Kit Hesketh-Harvey is a British comic performer and scriptwriter (born Nyasaland, now Malawi, 1957). ... Britains Best Sitcom was a poll conducted in 2003 and 2004 by the BBC to identify the United Kingdoms best situation comedy. ...

In May 2007, Richard Curtis received a BAFTA 'Academy Fellowship' award for his humanitarian pursuits as well as his creative work including "The Vicar of Dibley". ^[1] Richard Curtis in London, 1999 Richard Curtis CBE, (born 8 November 1956), is a New Zealand-born British screenwriter, best known for the TV programmes Blackadder and The Vicar of Dibley as well as movies such as Four Weddings and a Funeral, Notting Hill, and Love Actually. ... The British Academy of Film and Television Arts (BAFTA), is a British organization that hosts annual awards shows for film, television, childrens film and television, and interactive media. ...

The Vicar of Dibley is set in a fictional small Oxfordshire village called Dibley, which is assigned a female vicar following the 1994 changes in the Church of England that permitted the ordination of women. The main character was inspired by Joy Carroll, one of the first female vicars^[2]. Oxfordshire (abbreviated Oxon, from the Latinised form Oxonia) is a county in the South East of England, bordering on Northamptonshire, Buckinghamshire, Berkshire, Wiltshire, Gloucestershire, and Warwickshire. ... Masouleh village, Gilan Province, Iran. ... Vicariate redirects here. ... The Church of England logo since 1998 The Church of England is the officially established Christian church[1] in England, and acts as the mother and senior branch of the worldwide Anglican Communion, as well as a founding member of the Porvoo Communion. ... In general religious use, ordination is the process by which one is consecrated (set apart for the undivided administration of various religious rites). ...

Cast

• Dawn French - The Rev. Boadicea Geraldine Kennedy (née Granger)
• Gary Waldhorn - Councillor David Horton
• James Fleet - Hugo Horton
• Emma Chambers - Alice Horton (née Tinker)
• Roger Lloyd Pack - Owen Newitt
• John Bluthal - Frank Pickle
• Trevor Peacock - Jim Trott
• Liz Smith - Letitia Cropley (series 1 to Easter 1996 special)
• Simon McBurney - Cecil (series 1 to 2004 Christmas special)
• Patricia Kane - Doris Trott (series 1)
• Richard Armitage - Harry Kennedy (2006/07 Christmas specials)

Dawn Roma French[1] (born 11 October 1957) is a BAFTA Award-nominated British comedian and actress best known for starring in her comedy sketch show French & Saunders along with her comedy partner Jennifer Saunders, and for playing the lead role in The Vicar of Dibley as Geraldine Granger. ... Gary Waldhorn (born 3 July 1943 in London) is an English actor best known for his role as David Horton in the sitcom The Vicar of Dibley. ... James Fleet is a British actor, most famous for his role as the bumbling and well-meaning Tom in the 1994 film Four Weddings and a Funeral, a 1994 British romantic comedy film directed by Mike Newell. ... Emma Chambers (born March 11, 1964) is an English actress. ... Roger Lloyd Pack (born February 8, 1944) is a British actor. ... John Bluthal (born 1929) is a film and television actor, mostly in comedy. ... Trevor Peacock is a British character actor who has breathed life into such famous roles as Jim Trott in The Vicar of Dibley, Rouault in Madame Bovary (opposite Keith Barron) and Old Bailey in Neverwhere. ... Elizabeth Liz Smith (born 11 December 1921) is a BAFTA-Award winning English actress best known for her roles in the sitcoms The Vicar of Dibley and The Royle Family, and who also appeared in the 2005 film Charlie and the Chocolate Factory. ... Simon Montagu McBurney (born August 25, 1957 in Cambridge) is a British actor and director. ... Patricia Kane is a British actress. ... Richard Armitage (born August 22, 1971) is an English actor. ...

Characters

Geraldine Granger

Geraldine Granger (born 14 November 1964) is the female vicar, self-described as a "babe with a bob cut and a magnificent bosom." She is a bonne vivante and a large, liberal woman who enjoys nothing more than a good laugh, much to the consternation of one David Horton. Her full name was once given as Boadicea Geraldine Granger and later as Geraldine Julie Andrews Dick Van Dyke Supercalifragilisticexpialidocious Chim Chiminey Chim Chiminey Chim Chim Cher-ee Granger, the latter due to her mother's favourite book being Mary Poppins and the fact that the film was released the year of Geraldine's birth. But despite her fun-loving and sometimes outrageous behaviour, she is deeply caring and does her best to help those in her parish in any way she can. She is well aware of being overweight but seems to take a relatively laid-back attitude towards it. A self-confessed chocoholic, she often will go on a diet only to break it within a few minutes by eating one of the innumerable chocolate bars that she has hidden throughout her house (even in hollowed-out Bibles). On one occasion, she gives up chocolate for Lent and nearly goes mad. is the 318th day of the year (319th in leap years) in the Gregorian calendar. ... Also Nintendo emulator: 1964 (emulator). ... Dame Julie Elizabeth Andrews, DBE (born Julia Elizabeth Wells[1] on 1 October 1935[2]) is an award-winning English actress, singer, author and cultural icon. ... Richard Wayne Dick Van Dyke (born December 13, 1925) is an Emmy-Award winning American actor of film, stage, and screen, comedian and dancer. ... Supercalifragilisticexpialidocious (IPA pronunciation: ) is an English word in the song with the same title in the musical film Mary Poppins. ... Chim Chim Cher-ee is the Oscar winning song from Mary Poppins, the 1964 musical motion picture. ... This article is about the Mary Poppins series of childrens books. ... For the 2004 stage musical, see Mary Poppins (musical). ... This Gutenberg Bible is displayed by the United States Library. ... It has been suggested that Cuaresma be merged into this article or section. ...

Her unusual first name is revealed late in the series, much to David Horton's amusement, though this seems to be contradicted in the final episode, which may be an example of a retcon. In 2006, she received a proposal from accountant Harry Jasper Kennedy and accepted by running around the village, screaming. In the final episode she marries him in a rather bizarre wedding, dressed in her pyjamas since her wedding dress has been accidentally ruined by Owen Newitt. This article or section does not cite its references or sources. ... Accountant, or Qualified Accountant, or Professional Accountant, is a certified accountancy and financial expert in the jurisdiction of many countries. ...

David Horton

Councillor David Francis Matthew Horton MBE, chairman of the Parish Council, gentleman farmer, pillar of the community and Councillor for Dibley and Whitworth, and main opponent of the female vicar. He is rigid, old-fashioned, efficient, callous and punctual and has never missed a council meeting, In fact, in one episode Jim and Owen reminisce about when David's wife went into labour with Hugo, and David held the meeting in the maternity ward. In later episodes of the series, Horton comes to fall for the Vicar and even proposes to her (she accepts his proposal but later decides to back out of it). He is initially a Conservative, but defects to the Labour Party in 2000 as part of his attempt to persuade Geraldine to marry him. Whether he switches his party allegiance back after she refuses him is unknown. He later supported the Make Poverty History campaign. He is a multi-millionaire. The Most Excellent Order of the British Empire is a British order of chivalry established on 4 June 1917 by King George V. The Order includes five classes in civil and military divisions; in decreasing order of seniority, these are Knight Grand Cross or Dame Grand Cross (GBE) Knight Commander... The Conservative Party (officially the Conservative and Unionist Party) is currently the second largest political party in the United Kingdom in terms of sitting Members of Parliament (MPs), the largest in terms of public membership, and the oldest political party in the United Kingdom. ... The Labour Party is a political party in the United Kingdom. ... Year 2000 (MM) was a leap year starting on Saturday (link will display full 2000 Gregorian calendar). ... // The Make Poverty History campaign (which is written as MAKEPOVERTYHISTORY) was a British and Irish coalition of charities, religious groups, trade unions, campaigning groups and celebrities who mobilized around the UKs prominence in world politics in 2005 to increase awareness and pressure governments into taking actions towards relieving absolute...

Alice Horton

Alice Springs Horton (nee Tinker) is verger at the church, blonde and dippy. Alice is the only main character who does not sit on the Parish Council. She is the product of a one-night stand between her mad mother (who in the last two episodes was said to be in a mental home), and the cousin of David Horton's father. She and Hugo are fond of each other and the vicar plays Cupid successfully in one episode. They eventually marry and have 10 children - the eldest, daughter Geraldine LaLa (middle name taken from the Teletubbies), was born on December 24, 1999, in the middle of the village Nativity play (in which her parents were playing Mary and Joseph). Accompanying the closing credits for each episode, Geraldine and Alice have a cup of tea while Geraldine tries to tell Alice a joke (frequently the joke is slightly off-colour). Alice never understands the jokes that Geraldine tells her and usually manages to over-analyze the humour completely out of the joke — this continues until the final episode when Harry Kennedy explains the grammar involved and she understands it. Alice believes in the Easter Bunny, Father Christmas and the tooth fairy. After reading The Da Vinci Code she believes herself to be descended from Jesus. This is a traditional verger gown. ... One of the worlds most famous blondes Marilyn Monroe, who was in fact a natural brunette Blond (feminine, blonde) is a hair colour found in certain mammals characterised by low levels of the dark pigment eumelanin and higher levels of the pale pigment phæomelanin, in common with red... ‹ The template below (Expand) is being considered for deletion. ... This article is about the Roman god. ... Teletubbies is a BBC childrens television series, particularly aimed at young children, produced from 1997 to 2001 by Ragdoll Productions. ... is the 358th day of the year (359th in leap years) in the Gregorian calendar. ... This article is about the year. ... This article is about the holiday figure. ... Excerpt from Josiah Kings The Examination and Tryal of Father Christmas (1686), published shortly after Christmas was reinstated as a holy day in England Father Christmas is the name used in the United Kingdom, Australia, New Zealand, and several other Commonwealth countries, for the gift-bringing figure of Christmas... Look up Tooth fairy in Wiktionary, the free dictionary. ... The Da Vinci Code is a mystery/detective novel by American author Dan Brown, published in 2003 by Doubleday. ... This article is about Jesus of Nazareth. ...

Hugo Horton

Hugo Horton is David's somewhat dim-witted son. He served as his father's campaign manager at the October 1994 district council election, but inadvertently wound up going door to door with David's Labour opponent, delivering adverts and making introductions for him. Hugo and Alice Tinker are always shown to have feelings for each other, but they do not get together as a couple until Geraldine plays Cupid in "Engagement". David was never a loving nor affectionate father to Hugo, repressing him and putting down all his life's dreams and ambitions. In one episode, Geraldine mentions that God is a father much like his own father, and Hugo recalls what his father did to him as a child: shouting, insulting him and caning him. When Geraldine corrects him and says she was referring to a loving, caring father, Hugo believed he had another father. Despite this, Hugo still loves his father dearly but stands up to him when it comes to marrying Alice, whom David despises.

Frank Pickle

Frank Pickle is the likeable, but boring and pedantic secretary to the Parish Council. He is so boring that nobody wants to listen to him — even when he wants to discuss something exciting (to his own mind) such as the time he went down to the pub "and they'd completely run out of crisps" or "the time when the milkman was 47 minutes late". Due to his long boring speech five people, including his parents, have died while he was talking. He decided to declare his homosexuality in a radio broadcast to the village (after over 40 years of being in the closet), but apart from Geraldine, who was with Frank at the time, none of the villagers listened to his broadcast. The next day, he decides to assert his sexuality more openly by wearing a hot pink blazer to work rather than a brown one. Frank also once admitted to fancying Margaret Beckett as well as fellow councilor Owen Newitt, implying that he's bisexual as he is as affected by the naked model in the Dibley Parish Life Art Class as the others and painted the same model in the Landscape class. He defines his ideal man as a 25-year-old South American with an interest in, inter alia, Oxfordshire council procedures. Homosexuality refers to sexual interaction and / or romantic attraction between individuals of the same sex. ... This article is about the color pink. ... Margaret Mary Beckett (née Jackson; born 15 January 1943) is a British Labour politician and Member of Parliament (MP) for Derby South. ... In human sexuality, bisexuality describes a man or woman having a sexual orientation to persons of either or both sexes (a man or woman who sexually likes both sexes; people who are sexually and/or romantically attracted to both males and females). ...

Jim Trott

Jim Trott is a Parish Council member, who has an idiosyncratic way of saying "no no no no no..." before almost everything he says, most of all "yes". This stuttering once led him to lose on Deal or No Deal. His wife Doris does the opposite, saying "yes yes yes yes yes ...". Jim was a good dancer, though a long-winded singer. Despite his marriage, he still has no qualms about joining Owen in flirting with the Vicar, frequently commenting on her "lovely arse". He is also openly promiscuous with a penchant for Asian women. In the final episode, he proposed to the vicar, suggesting that he has either divorced his wife or that she has died prior to this episode. This article is about the United Kingdom version of the game show. ...

Owen Newitt

Owen Newitt is the local farmer and a Parish Council member, with a very earthy manner of speaking. He is famous for displaying extremely poor personal hygiene and suffers from chronic problems with his stomach and bowels. He was the first to support the new Vicar's appointment as a lone dissenter, saying that a woman wouldn't be a bad thing since the previous vicar was "a regular old woman anyway", just as David looked set to persuade the other members of the parish council to oppose Geraldine's appointment. His signature running gag was that he was chronically late for the Parish Council meetings, and had humorously legitimate, if graphic, reasons for his delays (often involving gruesome tales of amputating animals' appendages or otherwise mangling them). He proposed to the vicar in "Engagement". She rejected him, but he was not upset, having found she was a drinker. Despite this, he frequently makes several crude attempts to flirt with her, though they are all comically misguided. Owen spent every Christmas alone from his uncle's death in 1971 until Geraldine joined him for Christmas dinner in 1996 (one of many such invitations she accepted that year). For other uses, see Christmas (disambiguation). ... Year 1971 (MCMLXXI) was a common year starting on Friday (link will display full calendar) of the 1971 Gregorian calendar, known as the year of cyclohexanol. ... Year 1996 (MCMXCVI) was a leap year starting on Monday (link will display full 1996 Gregorian calendar). ...

Letitia Cropley

Letitia "Letty" Cropley was a Parish Council member. Geraldine once referred to her as "The Queen of Cordon Bleugh" and David Horton called her "The Dibley Poisoner". She was the creator of such revolting "delicacies" as; "Bread and butter pudding surprise" (a recipe for which she was breeding snails), Marmite cakes (which she served for Frank's birthday), chocolate mixed with cod roe, parsnip brownies and chocolate spread sandwiches (with a hint of taramosalata). Letitia only appeared in the first series and the special "The Easter Bunny", in which the character died. Her dying request to Geraldine was that she take over from her as the Easter Bunny, taking chocolate eggs around the village each Easter. Alas it was subsequently discovered that Letitia had made the same request of every member of the parish council. For other uses, see Snail (disambiguation). ... A jar of the British version of Marmite Marmite is a British and New Zealand savoury spread made from yeast extract, a by-product of beer brewing. ... Taramosalata(Greek) or Tarama(Turkish) is a Greek and Turkish meze. ...

Episodes

Main article: List of The Vicar of Dibley episodes

The Vicar of Dibley first aired on 10 November 1994. After 18 episodes and 3 short specials, two 60-minute episodes were filmed in September 2006, and introduced a new character, Harry Kennedy, whom Geraldine marries. The first episode aired on Christmas Day 2006, the second was on New Year's Day 2007. The Christmas Day episode was watched by 11.4 million, more than any other programme on that day ^[3] while the New Year's Day episode was watched by 12.3 million people ^[4]. However, days later it was announced that a short special would be shown for Comic Relief and this, the last ever episode, was aired on 16 March 2007. ^[5] The following is a list of episodes for the British sitcom The Vicar of Dibley. ... is the 314th day of the year (315th in leap years) in the Gregorian calendar. ... Year 1994 (MCMXCIV) The year 1994 was designated as the International Year of the Family and the International Year of the Sport and the Olympic Ideal by the United Nations. ... For the origin of the term, see comic relief. ... is the 75th day of the year (76th in leap years) in the Gregorian calendar. ... Year 2007 (MMVII) is the current year, a common year starting on Monday of the Gregorian calendar and the AD/CE era in the 21st century. ...

Following the opening credits of each episode, there is usually a humorous depiction, eg. a woman knitting straight off the sheep. At the end of each episode, following the closing credits, Geraldine tells a joke to Alice — most of the time, the joke is rather off-colour. Alice usually doesn't get the joke, but instead tries to interpret it literally and then explains to Geraldine why the premise is implausible. In the very first episode, Alice actually does get the joke and bursts into hysterical laughter which lasts long after the joke has outstayed its welcome. In the episode Love and Marriage, David is told the joke and understands it straight away. In the 2005 episode Happy New Year, this joke was told at the beginning as the end of the episode focused on the Make Poverty History campaign. In the final episode, the joke is explained to Alice by Harry, in an ironically complicated manner which the character's intelligence would suggest an inability to understand, allowing her to get the punchline for the first time. // The Make Poverty History campaign (which is written as MAKEPOVERTYHISTORY) was a British and Irish coalition of charities, religious groups, trade unions, campaigning groups and celebrities who mobilized around the UKs prominence in world politics in 2005 to increase awareness and pressure governments into taking actions towards relieving absolute...

Location

While The Vicar of Dibley is set in Oxfordshire, the village scenes are filmed in Turville in Buckinghamshire, where Midsomer Murders, Goodnight Mister Tom, Chitty Chitty Bang Bang and Marple have also been filmed. The opening titles were filmed in and around South Buckinghamshire, although the aerial tracking shot shows M40 traffic approaching Oxfordshire through the Chilterns cutting at Stokenchurch Gap. Oxfordshire (abbreviated Oxon, from the Latinised form Oxonia) is a county in the South East of England, bordering on Northamptonshire, Buckinghamshire, Berkshire, Wiltshire, Gloucestershire, and Warwickshire. ... Turville is a village in Buckinghamshire, England. ... Buckinghamshire (abbreviated Bucks) is one of the home counties in South East England. ... Midsomer Murders is a popular British television drama series about murders that take place in the fictional English county of Midsomer. ... Goodnight Mister Tom (also Good Night, Mr. ... For other uses, see Chitty Chitty Bang Bang (disambiguation). ... Geraldine McEwan as Miss Marple Marple is a British television series based on the Miss Marple murder mystery novels by Agatha Christie. ... South Bucks is one of four local government districts in Buckinghamshire, in south central England. ... The M40 motorway is a motorway in the English transport network that connects London to Birmingham. ... The Chiltern Hills are a chalk escarpment in south east England. ... The Stokenchurch Gap, also known as the Aston Hill cutting ([1]) or Chiltern Gap, is a steep chalk cutting, constructed through the Chiltern Hills in Buckinghamshire, England during the early 1970s for the M40 motorway. ...

Theme music

The theme music was composed by Howard Goodall to Psalm 23, and was performed by The Choir of Christ Church Cathedral, Oxford with George Humphries singing the solo. The conductor was Stephen Darlington. It has been released as a charity single with proceeds to Comic Relief. It also appears on Goodall's CD Choral Works, which also includes his theme for another popular sitcom, Mr. Bean. Howard Goodall Howard Goodall (born 1958 in Bromley, South London) is a British composer of musicals, choral music and music for television. ... The theme of the 23rd Psalm in the Bible casts God in the role of protector and provider. ... and of the Christ Church College name Christ Church Latin name Ædes Christi Named after Jesus Christ Established 1546 Sister college Trinity College, Cambridge Dean The Very Revd Christopher Andrew Lewis JCR president Laura Ellis Undergraduates 426 GCR president Tim Benjamin Graduates 154 Location of Christ Church within central Oxford... Stephen Darlington is a British choral director and conductor, and president of the Royal College of Organists from 1999-2001. ... A charity record (also known as a charity single) is a release of a song for a specific charitable cause. ... For the origin of the term, see comic relief. ... For the animated television series of the same name, see Mr. ...

Critical reaction

The show has been both commended and criticised for raising the issue of woman priests. It has also been criticised for taking to extremes the worst stereotypes of rural communities and for showing people living in rural communities as being less intelligent.^{[citation needed]}. An example of its inaccurate portrayal of people living in rural communities was the fact that several characters spoke in West Country Accents, which is exceedingly unlikely for an inward-looking village in Oxfordshire (Swindon is the eastern limit of where West Country Accents are spoken). Initially, some viewers found Geraldine's light-hearted approach to her vocation to be bordering on blasphemous.^{[citation needed]} But while certainly bawdy, her theology is quite orthodox, shown by her literal interpretation of the biblical depiction of miracles. For other uses, see Stereotype (disambiguation). ... The West Country accent is a generic term applied to any of several English accents used by the indigenous population of the south west of England, popularly known as the West Country. ... , For other places with the same name, see Swindon (disambiguation). ... The West Country accent is a generic term applied to any of several English accents used by the indigenous population of the south west of England, popularly known as the West Country. ...

The inoffensive nature of the show and its highlighting of the more benign and comforting aspects of religion was memorably parodied on Alexei Sayle's Merry-Go-Round in a regular series of sketches entitled "The Ayatollah Of Dibley". Mr. Sayle has since stated in several interviews that he does not think that after 9/11 the sketches would have been permitted. Alexei Sayles Merry-Go-Round was a comedy sketch show which ran on BBC2 for a total of 6 episodes over one series in 1998. ...

DVD releases

The Complete Collection (R2 DVD)

The Vicar of Dibley was released in DVD in Region 2 (UK) from 2001. In 2002, a DVD entitled The Best of The Vicar of Dibley was released featuring a 90 minute film of Dawn French talking to the producer Jon Plowman with clips from the series. A 2002 documentary narrated by Jo Brand entitled The Real Vicars of Dibley was also on the DVD. In 2005, a boxset of the "complete collection" was released. This included all the then aired episodes and shorts except the 1997 BallyKissDibley Comic Relief short. The final two episodes and 6-disc "ultimate" box set are due to be released on 26 November 2007. Image File history File links Vicar_of_Dibley_DVD.jpg‎ Summary This is a DVD cover of the Vicar of Dibley. ... Image File history File links Vicar_of_Dibley_DVD.jpg‎ Summary This is a DVD cover of the Vicar of Dibley. ... Jon Plowman has been executive producer responsible for sitcoms at the BBC since 1994. ... Jo Brand (born Josephine Grace Brand 3 May 1957, Hastings, East Sussex) is an English comedienne. ... is the 330th day of the year (331st in leap years) in the Gregorian calendar. ... Year 2007 (MMVII) is the current year, a common year starting on Monday of the Gregorian calendar and the AD/CE era in the 21st century. ...

In Australia (Region 4), "The Vicar of Dibley: Divine Collection" was released in 2005. It included Series One, Two, Three; the 1996 Easter Special; the 1996 & 1997 Christmas Specials; the 1997 & 1999 Comic Relief Specials (BallyKissDibley & Celebrity Party); and the Documentary "The Real Vicars Of Dibley". The three series have also been released individually. The Series 2 DVD includes the Easter Special and the BallyKissDibley short as part of the special features on the DVD. "The Vicar of Dibley: The Specials" was also released in 2005 and contained the 2004 and 2005 Christmas Specials, and the 2005 Comic Relief Sketch "Antiques Roadshow."

In US/Canada (Region 1), all episodes have been released on DVD as of 26 August 2007, except for the two 2006/07 Christmas specials and the 2007 Comic Relief short episode. However, there are plans to release a DVD on 9 October 2007 that will feature the two specials. It is unknown at this time if the Comic Relief special will appear on this DVD. is the 238th day of the year (239th in leap years) in the Gregorian calendar. ... Year 2007 (MMVII) is the current year, a common year starting on Monday of the Gregorian calendar and the AD/CE era in the 21st century. ... is the 282nd day of the year (283rd in leap years) in the Gregorian calendar. ... Year 2007 (MMVII) is the current year, a common year starting on Monday of the Gregorian calendar and the AD/CE era in the 21st century. ...

US version

The idea came about when two co-stars of the extremely successful US sitcom Frasier, Jane Leeves and Peri Gilpin set up their production company Bristol Cities with a US version of The Vicar of Dibley as their first project. On 6 February 2007, FOX announced plans to adapt The Vicar of Dibley into an American sitcom, titled The Minister Of Divine. The series starred Kirstie Alley as a former "Wild Child" who returned to her hometown as its first female minister. The series was not picked up by FOX for its 2007-2008 schedule ^[6]. Frasier is an American sitcom starring Kelsey Grammer as psychiatrist Dr. Frasier Crane. ... Jane Leeves (born April 18, 1961) is an English actress best known for her work as Daphne Moon on Frasier. ... Peri Gilpin (born Periwinkle Kay OBrien on May 27, 1961, in Waco, Texas) is an American actress best known for the role of Roz Doyle on the successful U.S. television series Frasier, for which she won a Screen Actors Guild Award for Best Ensemble in a Comedy Series. ... is the 37th day of the year in the Gregorian calendar. ... Year 2007 (MMVII) is the current year, a common year starting on Monday of the Gregorian calendar and the AD/CE era in the 21st century. ... FOX redirects here. ... The Minister Of Divine is a planned American version of The Vicar of Dibley by US network, Fox. ... Kirstie Louise Alley (born January 12, 1951 in Wichita, Kansas) is an American actress best known for her role in the TV show Cheers. ...

References

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