List of Father Ted episodes

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This is a list of Father Ted episodes.

Contents 1 Series 1 (1995) 2 Series 2 (1996) 3 Christmas special (1996) 4 Series 3 (1998)

[edit] Series 1 (1995)

No.	Title	Summary
1	Good Luck, Father Ted	A film crew offers to interview Ted. He goes to extreme lengths to ensure the other members of the clergy on the island cannot be seen
2	Entertaining Father Stone	An unbearably boring, yet inoffensive, priest - Father Stone, pays his annual visit to Craggy Island. The title is a pun on Entertaining Mr Sloane.
3	The Passion Of St Tibulus	Bishop Brennan orders the priests to ensure a blasphemous sexually explicit film being shown on the island is a failure.
4	Competition Time	Ted, Dougal and Jack all plan to appear, as Elvis, in the All-priests Stars in Their Eyes lookalike contest. Ted is particularly keen to beat his arch-enemy, Father Dick Byrne of Rugged Island, and goes to great length to get the former television star Henry Sellers on their side
5	And God Created Woman	Ted finds himself falling for a steamy novelist. The title is taken from the film And God Created Woman.
6	Grant Unto Him Eternal Rest	Father Jack "dies" after consuming a bottle of floor polish. Ted and Dougal fail to inherit his vast wealth, however.

[edit] Series 2 (1996)

No.	Title	Summary
1	Hell	Ted, Dougal and Jack take their annual holiday and encounter Father Noel Furlong (played by Graham Norton).
2	Think Fast, Father Ted	When Ted holds a raffle, he destroys the prize - a new car. The title is a play on the novel "Think Fast, Mr. Moto", by John P. Marquand and the film of the same title starring Peter Lorre. This episode was originally a Series 1 episode, but was scrapped because the beginning (...Father Ted) was becoming repetitive.
3	Tentacles of Doom	Three bishops visit the island. A worried Ted gives Jack elocution lessons beforehand.
4	The Old Grey Whistle Theft	Dougal starts hanging around with a rebellious priest, Father Damo Lennon. Meanwhile a valuable whistle is stolen. The title is a pun on the BBC music show The Old Grey Whistle Test.
5	Song For Europe	Ted is goaded by Father Dick Byrne into attempting to write a song for "Eurosong '96" (spoof of the Eurovision Song Contest). Despite having a song with only one note, Ireland's fear of winning again (and having to fund it) plays into Ted and Dougal's hands. This mirrors the real life believe that Ireland chose the 1994 Eurovision entry, Rock 'n' Roll Kids, which was thought to differ greatly to the typical winning song, so as to ensure they did not have to host the contest again. Arguably the most famous episode. (Ironically, Ireland did indeed win the Eurovision in 1996, for the 4th time in 5 years).
6	The Plague	The parochial house is infested by rabbits, just as the very rabbit-phobic Bishop Brennan plans a visit.
7	Rock-a-Hula Ted	A feminist singer - a parody of Sinead O'Connor - visits the island just when Ted is judging the annual Lovely Girls competition, a parody of Ireland's notoriously tacky Rose of Tralee festival.(However, a contest called "The Lovely Girls" did exist during the 1950's in Butlins Mosney holiday camp which, like in the episode, was held in a tent with the contestants dressing in a similar way)
8	Cigarettes And Alcohol And Rollerblading	In a game of one-upmanship with Dick Byrne, Ted decides the three priests must give something up for Lent. The title is taken from that of an Oasis song, 'Cigarettes and Alcohol'.
9	New Jack City	Jack's hairy hands get him sent to an old priests' home. Unfortunately his replacement, played by Irish comedian Brendan Grace, is much worse. The title is taken from the movie New Jack City.
10	Flight Into Terror	A flight back from a pilgrimage runs out of fuel and there are only two parachutes. Only one man can save the passengers...

[edit] Christmas special (1996)

• A Christmassy Ted - Ted's quick thinking whilst lost in a department store's lingerie department earns him the coveted Golden Cleric award. So why doesn't he feel happy? At the time this hour-long episode was first shown, it attracted the then highest non-film audience viewing figures for Channel 4.

[edit] Series 3 (1998)

No.	Title	Summary
1	Are You Right There, Father Ted?	Ted's "Chinaman" impression goes down badly with Craggy Island's newly-arrived Chinese community and he is branded a racist.
2	Chirpy Burpy Cheap Sheep	Ted makes a large bet on the King of the Sheep competition. Unfortunately, Chris, his chosen sheep, has heard rumours about a sheep-eating beast and isn't feeling at all himself. The title is a parody of the 1970s song "Chirpy Chirpy Cheep Cheep" by Middle of the Road. There is a hidden pun in the show's plot — it's all about sheep worrying.
3	Speed 3	When Ted and Dougal expose a philandering milkman, Pat Mustard, he takes revenge on his replacement, Dougal, by putting a bomb on the milk float. If Dougal's speed drops below 4 mph... This show was dreamed up by the creators when they decided to "see if you could make a worse sequel than Speed 2".
4	The Mainland	Ted wins some money on the horses and must travel to the mainland to claim it. This turns out to be a very bad idea. Richard Wilson guest-stars as himself.
5	Escape From Victory	Ted takes great steps to ensure he wins a bet with Dick Byrne on the outcome of the All-Priests Over-75's Five-a-Side Football Championship. The title is a pun on the football movie Escape to Victory, about a football game played between prisoners of war and their guards in World War II.
6	Kicking Bishop Brennan Up The Arse	The only episode to follow on directly from the previous one. Exposed as a cheat at the end of the previous episode, and with this episodes title as his forfeit, a terrified Ted tries to draw upon his courage to complete the deed.
7	Night Of The Nearly Dead	The visit of a young daytime TV presenter, Eoin McLove, causes excitement for the island's aging females. The title is a pun on the movie Night of the Living Dead. Eoin McLove is a parody of Daniel O'Donnell, an Irish crooner particularly popular among elderly women.
8	Going To America	Ted gets the opportunity of a lifetime, but can't bring himself to break it to the others that they're not invited. The title is a pun on the movie Coming to America. The last scene of this episode was going to show Ted climbing onto a window ledge along with another priest to commit suicide. This was then replaced out of respect at the last minute with a montage containing one clip from every previous episode, in reverse order, as Father Ted actor, Dermot Morgan, died just soon after making this final episode. However, the writers have said that the joke didn't really work and would have been replaced anyway.

Father Ted
Characters
Father Ted Crilly | Father Dougal McGuire | Father Jack Hackett | Mrs. Doyle Bishop Brennan | Minor Characters
Major Cast and Crew
Dermot Morgan Ardal O'Hanlon | Frank Kelly | Pauline McLynn Arthur Mathews | Graham Linehan Pat Shortt | Jim Norton | Graham Norton | Tony Guilfoyle
Other Related Pages
List of Father Ted episodes | Craggy Island | My Lovely Horse | Feck