Good Luck, Father Ted
| "'Good Luck, Father Ted'" | |
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| Father Ted episode | |
Jack and Dougal ride the Whirly-go-round
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Series 1 Episode 1 |
| Directed by | Declan Lowney |
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| Featured music | The Divine Comedy |
| Original air date | 21 April 1995 |
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"'Good Luck, Father Ted'" is the first episode to be aired of the Channel 4 sitcom Father Ted.
Ted Crilly is an Irish priest who resides on the fictional Craggy Island off the west coast of Ireland with two other priests named Dougal Maguire and Jack Hackett and their housekeeper Mrs. Doyle.
A producer from a Tele Éireann television programme, Faith of our Fathers, phones the parochial house asking to interview Ted for an episode about priests who work in remote areas. Ted is very keen to be interviewed, but fearing embarrassment, he doesn't want either of the other priests to also appear, and tells the producer that he is the only priest living on Craggy Island.
Dougal is set on going to 'Fun Land,' a funfair taking place in 'The Field'. Ted discourages this, noting that priests are expected to demonstrate restraint, which is ironic given his keenness to appear on television. Ted arranges with the TV reporter to be interviewed in The Field (which Ted explains isn't actually a field, but merely a place which has fewer rocks than anywhere else on the island), forgetting that 'Fun Land' is also being held there.
Ted has tried to ensure Dougal and Jack won't be seen on television by arranging for Dougal to take a wheelchair-bound Jack for a "walk" to the cliffs, and is annoyed to find them at 'Fun Land'. Dougal initially says the cliffs "were closed", and then that "they were gone" due to erosion. Ted tries his best to usher the pair away, so that he can be interviewed in peace.
'Fun Land' is an extremely tacky affair with highly peculiar attractions, including Spider-Baby, Freak Pointing, Whirly Go Round, The Pond Of Terror, Goad The Fierce Man, Spinning Cat, The Crane Of Death, Duck Startling, and last but not least, The Tunnel Of Goats.
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