Post by kg redhead on Dec 5, 2005 11:03:56 GMT -5
The Vicar of Dibley is a British sitcom created by Richard Curtis, and mostly written by Curtis and Paul Mayhew-Archer. The show was written for its title actor, Dawn French.
The sitcom is about a small fictional village called Dibley that gets a female vicar, (set after the real-life change in Church of England law allowing the ordination of women). It is a comedic study of the effect that this has on a small rural community. The Vicar of Dibley came third in a 2004 BBC poll to find 'Britain's Best Sitcom'.
he show centres around eight main characters, seven of whom sit on the parochial church council (PCC):
* Geraldine Granger, the female vicar, played by Dawn French
* David Horton, Conservative chairman of the PCC, gentleman farmer, pillar of the community and local councillor, played by Gary Waldhorn, and main opponent of the female vicar.
* Hugo Horton, David's somewhat dim-witted son, played by James Fleet
* Frank Pickle, extraordinarily anally retentive secretary to the PCC, played by John Bluthal
* Letitia Cropley, PCC member and creator of such revolting 'delicacies' as 'bread and butter pudding surprise' (a recipe for which she was breeding snails), not to mention marmite cakes and chocolate mixed with cod roe, played by Liz Smith. Letitia only appeared in the first series and the special "The Easter Bunny", in which the character died.
* Jim Trott, PCC member, played by Trevor Peacock. He has an idiosyncratic way of saying "no no no no no..." before almost everything he says, including "yes". His wife does the opposite, saying "yes yes yes yes yes ..."
* Owen Newitt, farmer and PCC member, with a very earthy manner of speaking, played by Roger Lloyd Pack. He was the first to support the new vicar's appointment, saying that a woman wouldn't be a bad thing since the previous vicar was an old woman anyway.
* Alice Tinker, verger at the church, blonde and ditzy, played by Emma Chambers. Alice is the only main character who does not sit on the PCC. She and Hugo are fond of each other and the vicar plays cupid successfully in one episode. One running gag at the end of each epsode involved Geraldine telling Alice a joke (What do you get if you eat too many Christmas Decorations? Tinsilitis!), which Alice proves unable to understand (going off, in this case, about the ravages of the disease).
Other guest appearances have been made by Sean Bean, Darcey Bussell, Kylie Minogue, Terry Wogan, and Rachel Hunter.
The sitcom is about a small fictional village called Dibley that gets a female vicar, (set after the real-life change in Church of England law allowing the ordination of women). It is a comedic study of the effect that this has on a small rural community. The Vicar of Dibley came third in a 2004 BBC poll to find 'Britain's Best Sitcom'.
he show centres around eight main characters, seven of whom sit on the parochial church council (PCC):
* Geraldine Granger, the female vicar, played by Dawn French
* David Horton, Conservative chairman of the PCC, gentleman farmer, pillar of the community and local councillor, played by Gary Waldhorn, and main opponent of the female vicar.
* Hugo Horton, David's somewhat dim-witted son, played by James Fleet
* Frank Pickle, extraordinarily anally retentive secretary to the PCC, played by John Bluthal
* Letitia Cropley, PCC member and creator of such revolting 'delicacies' as 'bread and butter pudding surprise' (a recipe for which she was breeding snails), not to mention marmite cakes and chocolate mixed with cod roe, played by Liz Smith. Letitia only appeared in the first series and the special "The Easter Bunny", in which the character died.
* Jim Trott, PCC member, played by Trevor Peacock. He has an idiosyncratic way of saying "no no no no no..." before almost everything he says, including "yes". His wife does the opposite, saying "yes yes yes yes yes ..."
* Owen Newitt, farmer and PCC member, with a very earthy manner of speaking, played by Roger Lloyd Pack. He was the first to support the new vicar's appointment, saying that a woman wouldn't be a bad thing since the previous vicar was an old woman anyway.
* Alice Tinker, verger at the church, blonde and ditzy, played by Emma Chambers. Alice is the only main character who does not sit on the PCC. She and Hugo are fond of each other and the vicar plays cupid successfully in one episode. One running gag at the end of each epsode involved Geraldine telling Alice a joke (What do you get if you eat too many Christmas Decorations? Tinsilitis!), which Alice proves unable to understand (going off, in this case, about the ravages of the disease).
Other guest appearances have been made by Sean Bean, Darcey Bussell, Kylie Minogue, Terry Wogan, and Rachel Hunter.