List of The Vicar of Dibley episodes

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The following is a list of episodes for the British sitcom The Vicar of Dibley. The programme second aired on 10 November 1994, with the final main episode being aired on 1 January 2007. A short Comic Relief episode aired on 16 March 2007. In all 20 episodes and four short Comic Relief specials were made.

Contents

[edit] Series One (1994)

Title Airdate Duration Overview Writer/s
Arrival 10 November 28 mins When Rev. Pottle, the 102-year-old vicar of St. Barnabus's, Dibley dies, the villagers eagerly await his replacement. To their shock, it turns out to be a woman. However, all the villagers grow to love their new vicar, except David Horton. Richard Curtis
Songs of Praise 17 November 29 mins The Songs of Praise team come to Dibley to film in St Barnabus' Church. David is against the idea, and finds a surprise ally in Geraldine. However, she soon falls for the producer Tristan Campbell (played by Peter Capaldi). Guest starring Pam Rhodes as herself. Richard Curtis & Paul Mayhew-Archer
Community Spirit 24 November 29 mins Dibley has a fete, and Geraldine is adamant about making more than the £270 they made the previous year. So when Alice says she has a second cousin called Reg Dwight (played by Philip Whitchurch), Geraldine invites him thinking he's Elton John. Guest starring Kylie Minogue as herself. Richard Curtis & Paul Mayhew-Archer
The Window and the Weather 1 December 29 mins A storm hits Dibley, smashing one of the church's large stained glass windows. While they all have problems remembering what the window showed, David points out it will cost £11,000 to replace. The Vicar then goes to one of David's rich friends, Daniel Frobisher and tries to persuade him to donate the money. Richard Curtis
Election 8 December 29 mins David runs for re-election to the local council, but faces competition when the villagers declare that they want the Vicar to run for election. However, she doesn't want to be a councillor, and agrees not to stand as long as he makes some election promises. Featuring the voice of Alistair McGowan. Richard Curtis & Paul Mayhew-Archer
Animals 15 December 29 mins The Vicar decides to hold a service for animals after realising how much animals mean to the villagers. However, after this makes the front pages of the national press, David asks the Bishop to have her removed. Guest starring Moray Watson. Richard Curtis

[edit] Easter Special (1996)

Title Airdate Duration Overview Writer/s
The Easter Bunny 8 April About 40 mins As Easter comes to Dibley, the council members all give up things for lent; Geraldine gives up chocolate, David tries to be nicer while Hugo has to stop lustful thoughts. Later, sadness comes to Dibley as Letitia Cropley dies and Geraldine has to take over as the Dibley Easter Bunny which involves dressing up in a bunny costume. Richard Curtis & Paul Mayhew-Archer

[edit] Christmas Special (1996)

Title Airdate Duration Overview
The Christmas Lunch Incident 25 December About 45 mins When Geraldine is invited to three separate Christmas dinners, she hasn't the heart to turn them down so she has to go to all three, and on Christmas evening BBC producer Tristram Campbell (played by Peter Capaldi) comes round and asks the Vicar to marry him. Guest starring Orla Brady and Mel Giedroyc.

[edit] Comic Relief Special (1997)

Title Airdate Duration Overview
BallyKissDibley 14 March About 10 mins In a vicar exchange programme, Father Peter Clifford (played by Stephen Tompkinson) from Ballykissangel comes to the village to face Alice's bizarre charity ideas and Owen's swearing. Guest starring Dervla Kirwan.

[edit] Christmas Special (1997)

Title Airdate Duration Overview
Engagement 26 December 41mins Geraldine tries to get Alice and Hugo to kiss, but when they do they can't stop. However, when David finds out they are seeing each other he threatens to disown Hugo. Meanwhile, Owen proposes to Geraldine after she kisses him.

[edit] Series Two (1998)

Title Airdate Duration Overview
Dibley Live 8 January 30 mins To mark the 650th anniversary of St. Barnabus's Church, the villagers set up a radio station at the vicarage for a week and Geraldine holds a competition for the best DJ. On Frank's programme, he admits to being gay, but only Geraldine is listening.
Celebrity Vicar 15 January 30 mins Following her Radio Dibley appearance, Geraldine is invited to appear on Pause for Thought with Terry Wogan. On the way out she meets Darcey Bussell, but the fame soon goes to her head and a national paper prints some stories about the villagers.
Love and Marriage 22 January 34 mins Alice and Hugo get married, with Jim as best man and the bridesmaids dressed as teletubbies. Meanwhile, Geraldine meets David's brother from Liverpool, Simon (played by Clive Mantle), and is instantly attracted to him. Also, Alice surprises Geraldine during her hen night after revealing that her biological father is David Horton. Guest starring Geraldine McNulty.

[edit] Comic Relief Special (1999)

Title Airdate Duration Overview
Celebrity Party 12 March About 10 mins Johnny Depp is shooting a film in the village, and the Vicar invites him over for a party at her house. After the party, David doubts that any of them turned up. Guest starring Sarah, Duchess of York with the voices of Rory McGrath and Mike Yarwood.

[edit] Series Three (1999–2000)

Title Airdate Duration Overview Original Viewing Figure
Autumn 24 December About 40 mins Hugo and Alice return from their honeymoon, Hugo having been imprisoned for carrying cocaine through Customs and Alice is pregnant. Meanwhile, David's brother Simon (played by Clive Mantle) and Geraldine start seeing each other. However, when he says he's got a woman back in Liverpool, she refuses to attend any services and offers her resignation. 13.08 million
Winter 25 December About 40 mins Geraldine wants to organise a Christmas show that no one will forget, and Alice suggests holding it at a real farm. At the event, at Owen's farm, Alice plays Mary and in the middle of the performance gives birth. The child is later named Geraldine after the Vicar. 14.17 million
Spring 27 December About 40 mins David proposes to Geraldine and she says yes. However, after a dream she changes her mind. Meanwhile, baby Geraldine is christened by the Bishop of Mulberry (played by Richard Griffiths), an old school friend of David's and Geraldine wants to open a village crèche. Guest starring Sean Bean as himself and Nina Wadia. 14.37 million
Summer 1 January About 40 mins Dibley is in the middle of a drought, but when the water company decides to solve the problem by turning Dibley into a reservoir, Geraldine chains herself to the Church in protest. Meanwhile, the villagers want to build a millennium statue. Guest starring Martyn Lewis, Jeremy Paxman and Roger Sloman. 12.49 million.

[edit] Christmas Specials (2004–05)

Title Airdate Duration Overview Original Viewing Figure
Merry Christmas 25 December About 55 mins It is Geraldine's 10th Christmas at Dibley, and to celebrate they hold a competition to see who can write the best Christmas carol. Meanwhile, at a party to celebrate her anniversary, David invites the Archbishop of Canterbury Rowan Williams (played by Brian Perkins) round. Also, Alice and the Vicar discuss who they would want to sleep with if they were gay and Alice then informs the Parish Council that Geraldine is gay when she sees a nearly naked Rachel Hunter in the Vicar's house. 12.52 million.
Happy New Year 1 January About 40 mins The villagers want to celebrate Geraldine's 40th birthday, so they buy her a ticket to a speed dating evening. However, when she goes it turns out that most of the dates are the other villagers. When the Vicar goes home without a man, Hugo offers to sleep with her and impregnate her so she can have a baby as well as experience an orgasm of a sexual nature for the first ever time. Meanwhile, Geraldine is trying to get the villagers enthusiastic about the 20th anniversary of Live Aid and encourages them to write to the Prime Minister about the Make Poverty History campaign. However, when they show no interest, she shows them a short video showing two poverty-stricken children. Guest starring Miranda Hart and Cristian Solimeno. 11.57 million.

[edit] Comic Relief Special (2005)

Title Airdate Duration Overview
Antiques Roadshow 11 March 14 mins When the Antiques Roadshow comes to Dibley, the villagers take along items to be valued. David is told that his 'expensive' paintings are all fakes, while Jim thinks he is on Ready Steady Cook. However, when Alice goes to get her prized Papa Smurf model that her father gave her valued, Geraldine is forced to make the valuer, Hilary Kay, lie about its true worth.

[edit] Christmas Specials (2006–07)

Title Airdate Duration Overview Original Viewing Figure
The Handsome Stranger 25 December 53 mins Geraldine is annoyed when she learns that another townie has moved into Dibley, so she goes round to see Harry Kennedy (played by Richard Armitage), who is an accountant, and instantly falls for him and the attraction is mutual. However, she soon sees him with an attractive woman called Rosie (played by Keeley Hawes), but it later turns out she is Harry's sister. He proposes to Geraldine, and she accepts. Meanwhile, Geraldine starts a book club and an art class. Also, after reading The Da Vinci Code, Alice thinks that as her name rhymes with chalice she must be descended from Jesus. 11.4 million[1]
The Vicar in White 1 January 55 mins Geraldine is looking forward to organising her own wedding to Harry (played by Richard Armitage), but the villagers insist on arranging it for her, thinking they are doing her a favour, and she doesn't have the heart to tell them otherwise. Hugo does a This Is Your Life for Geraldine, but this is interrupted by a power cut. The evening before the wedding, Owen, Jim and Jeremy Ogilvy (played by Hugh Bonneville), an old college friend who Geraldine has chosen to conduct her wedding, all propose to her. On her wedding day, her white dress is ruined when Owen drives the car through a puddle and the dress is covered with mud. Geraldine then goes to the church in her pyjamas, and bridesmaid Alice is dressed as the Tenth Doctor with two Daleks, and Geraldine marries Harry. After the ceremony, Geraldine literally flies up into the sky as a sign of happiness. 12.3 million[2]

[edit] Comic Relief Special (2007)

Title Airdate Duration Overview
"Wife Swap" Comic Relief Special 2007 16 March 8 mins Geraldine is asked to take part in Celebrity Non-Entity Wife Swap, as the non-entity, and only agrees when David tells her she would be living with Sting for a week. He then moves into the Vicarage while Harry goes to live with Trudie Styler. All goes well with Geraldine and Sting until the last day where Geraldine ends up squashing two cakes on Sting and Trudies' faces.

[edit] References

  1. ^ "Vicar of Dibley tops Christmas TV", BBC, 26 December 2006. 
  2. ^ "Dibley's farewell is ratings hit", BBC, 2 January 2007.