Heavens Above!
- 1963 film
1963 film starring Peter Sellers as a socially progressive vicar who is appointed by mistake to a wealthy parish. Also features Ian Carmichael, Cecil Parker, Isabel Jeans, Bernard Miles, Brock Peters and more.
- Repeated Friday at 6:05pm on TPTV
Heavens Above!
The inimitable Peter Sellers stars as John Smallwood, an idealistic Reverend appointed to the parish of an upper-class village by mistake. With a bad habit of telling the truth at all times, Smallwood makes several clerical decisions that shock his wealthy, landed-gentry parishioners.
Inspired by an idea by British satirist Malcolm Muggeridge, the Boulting Brothers' Heavens Above! was considered a bit too sacrilegious for general consumption on its 1963 release. Way ahead of its time, the film, featuring Sellers at his most iconoclastic, has since accrued a loyal and vocal following. A superb supporting cast includes Eric Sykes, Irene Handl, William Hartnell and Joan Hickson.
First released: Monday 4th August 2025
Extra features
- Sellers Takes Off In Heavens Above! - A look at the production of Heavens Above! featuring interviews with Peter Lydon, director of BBC Arena's The Peter Sellers Story and the BFI's Vic Pratt, co-author of The Bodies Beneath: The Flipside Of British Film And Television
- Heavens Above!: A Q&A - Filmed at the LOCO London Comedy Film Festival in 2025, with Daily Mash's Tom Whitley, Eva Griffith and Benedict Morrison
- Heavens Above! The Mask Behind the Mask - Featuring interview footage with Roy Boulting, Ian Carmichael and Sidney Gilliat originally shot for Sellers' Best (1992) a 60-minute documentary on the early film career of Peter Sellers, broadcast on Channel 4
- Audio commentary by authors and comedy historians Gemma Ross and Robert Ross
- Lobby cards gallery
Blu-ray New- Distributor: STUDIOCANAL
- Region: B
- Discs: 1
- Minutes: 118
- Subtitles: English
- Catalogue: OPTBD4648
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