The Vicar of Dibley
| The Vicar of Dibley | |
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| Written by |
Richard Curtis Paul Mayhew-Archer |
| Directed by | Dewi Humphreys (Series 1–2) Gareth Carrivick |
| Starring |
Dawn French Trevor Peacock Gary Waldhorn James Fleet John Bluthal Liz Smith Roger Lloyd-Pack Emma Chambers |
| Composer(s) | Howard Goodall |
| Country of origin | United Kingdom |
| Original language(s) | English |
| No. of series | 3 |
| No. of episodes | 20 (inc. 10 specials + 6 charity shorts) (list of episodes) |
| Production | |
| Executive producer(s) | Richard Curtis Peter Bennett-Jones |
| Producer(s) |
Jon Plowman Sue Vertue (Series 2) Margot Gavan Duffy (Series 3) |
| Editor(s) | Mark Sangster (Series 1) Graham Carr (Series 1) Chris Wadsworth (Series 2) Mark Lawrence (Series 3) |
| Running time | 30–40 minutes (regular episodes) 40–60 minutes (specials) |
| Production company(s) | Tiger Aspect Productions |
| Distributor | Endemol UK |
| Release | |
| Original network | BBC One |
| Original release | 10 November 1994 – 1 January 2007 |
The Vicar of Dibley is a BBC television sitcom which originally ran from 10 November 1994 to 22 January 1998 (with three sets of specials in the Winters of 1999/2000, 2004/5 and 2006/7). It is set in a fictional small Oxfordshire village called Dibley, which is assigned a female vicar following the 1992 changes in the Church of England that permitted the ordination of women.
In ratings terms, the programme is among the most successful in the digital era, with the various Christmas and New Year specials in 1999, 2004, 2005, 2006 and 2007 all entering the top 10 programmes of the year.The Vicar of Dibley received multiple British Comedy Awards (including a Best TV Comedy Actress Award for Emma Chambers), two International Emmys, and was a multiple British Academy Television Awards nominee. In 2004, it placed third in a BBC poll of Britain's Best Sitcom.
The series has also done six charity special shorts, for Comic Relief, the most recent in 2015.
Dawn French (Geraldine), Trevor Peacock (Jim) and James Fleet (Hugo) are the only actors to appear in all 20 episodes and all 6 Comic Relief specials.
There have also been numerous special guests, particularly in the charity specials, appearing in cameos including:
Pam Rhodes, Kylie Minogue, Terry Wogan, the Duchess of York, Jeremy Paxman, Darcey Bussell and Sean Bean have each appeared as themselves in one episode.
The series was created by Richard Curtis and written for actress Dawn French by Curtis and Paul Mayhew-Archer, with contributions from Kit Hesketh-Harvey. The main character was an invention of Richard Curtis, but he and Dawn French extensively consulted Joy Carroll, one of the first female priests, and garnered many character traits and much information.
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