DVD : Father Ted - Complete Series 1
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Aspect Ratio: 1.33:1
Audience Rating: NR (Not Rated)
Binding: DVD
Brand: Warner Brothers
EAN: 9780790760285
Format: Closed-captioned, Color, DVD-Video, NTSC
ISBN: 0790760282
Label: BBC Warner
Manufacturer: BBC Warner
Number Of Items: 1
Publisher: BBC Warner
Region Code: 1
Release Date: June 05, 2001
Running Time: 148 minutes
Sales Rank: 15118
Studio: BBC Warner
Theatrical Release Date: 1995
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Join Fathers Ted, Dougal and Jack, three Irish priests exiled by the Church to their own private Purgatory, a twisted lump of rock called Craggy Island, as penance for indulging in their daft vices. Features all episodes from series one.
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Father Ted is one of those rare sitcoms that defies categorization--it owes as much to Flann O'Brien and Samuel Beckett as it does to Monty Python--and its blend of satire, character comedy, and anarchic surrealism has made it a cult favorite around the world.
Exiled to remote Craggy Island, Father Ted Crilley shares a house with the breathtakingly stupid Father Dougal and the constantly inebriated Father Jack, who has a small vocabulary and a taste for furniture polish. Their housekeeper, Mrs. Doyle, takes care of them with a never-ending supply of tea and sandwiches: "Go on now, Father, won't you try one? They're diagonal." Together they fight boredom by dressing up as Elvis, startling ducks at the fair, and provoking nuns.
This DVD contains the entire first season of Father Ted--six episodes of inspired lunacy including a visit from the excruciatingly dull Father Stone, Mrs. Doyle's solemn recitation of all the bad language in Ted's favorite novel, and the death and resurrection of Father Jack. Packed with great lines and hilarious characters, Father Ted gets better with every viewing. --Simon Leake
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Ted is probably the funniest thing ever likely to be produced on television anywhere in my lifetime. Ever. If you want to start a conversation with someone in Ireland, with the potential to lead to insults and/or fisticuffs, you could stick to the more mundane territory of politics or religion, but why not go a different way..start a heated discussion on the best episode of Ted!
The problem with Ted is that, if like me, you have watched each episode of each series (and the Xmas special "they tell me its the biggest lingerie section in Ireland...") dozens of times; your favourite is constantly changing. Its like trying to find the pot of gold at the end of the rainbow, when you think you are there, it feckin well moves again. That's the beauty of Ted; you can watch it time and time again and always see new stuff.
The clever thing about, and also what in my view makes it superior to Fawlty Towers in every way) it also its cultural setting. Ireland really is like that sometimes, especially "The Country". The "setting" for Ted (Craggy Island) is generally accepted to be the Aran Islands off Galway (although the parochial house and many of the scenes are actually in Clare). Two of the Aran Islands, Innismore and Innismaan are perpetually locked in a "battle" to as who can claim to be the real "Craggy Island". Which in itself sounds like a plot from Ted.
Episodes like "The Passion of St Tibullus", the one with the Holy Stone of Clonrichert and ... Read More
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When life is getting you down, don't go "downtown", get out the Father Ted dvds, curl up with a cuppa tea (or have a few snorts) and laugh till you nearly wet your pants over this wonderfully silly and irreverent series. Oh, I might mention... this is NOT for those types who take everything too seriously. It's just glorious, naughty FUN!
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FIRST SIX SHOWS ARE GREAT YOU'LL NEVER STOP LAUGHING AND YOU WILL WATCH THIS MORE THAN ONCE. THE SECOND YEAR DROPS OFF A LITTLE BIT BUT IS STILL VERY FUNNY
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A great introduction to the madness of Craggy Island. DVD was easy to play, with scene selection. Only 6 episodes on this one. Makes you want to buy the whole lot!
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If you love british comedy (Monty Python) THIS IS A MUST! We love Father Ted and I can't wait to get the all the series'!
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