
- Genre
- Sitcom
- Broadcast
- 1994 - 2015
- Channel
- BBC One
- Episodes
- 20 (3 series), plus 6 short specials
- Starring
- Dawn French, Emma Chambers, Gary Waldhorn, James Fleet, John Bluthal, Trevor Peacock, Roger Lloyd-Pack and Liz Smith
- Writers
- Richard Curtis and Paul Mayhew-Archer
- Directors
- Dewi Humphreys and Gareth Carrivick
- Producers
- Jon Plowman, Sue Vertue and Margot Gavan Duffy
Life in the miniscule, sleepy Oxfordshire village of Dibley is thrown upside-down when ancient Vicar Pottle dies - and the diocese send a new-fangled female vicar, Geraldine Grainger, as his replacement.
Her arrival is met with a mixture of wonder and horror from the assorted collection of rural yokels who call Dibley home: "You were expecting a bloke with a beard, a Bible and bad breath. Instead, you got a babe with a bob cut and a magnificent bosom," she observes.
Autocratic head of the Parish Council and local landowner David Horton is particularly appalled; when it becomes clear that Geraldine does not intend to play second fiddle, he resolves to call in any favour possible to have her removed.
However, David's plans fail and the new female vicar steps - perhaps naïvely - undaunted into their quaint and utterly batty country world. Geri and her flock soon find common ground and, although the journey is bumpy, join forces to revitalise life in the small community.
It's not long before even David must admit that Geraldine's the best thing to have ever happened to Dibley - and she that Dibley is the best thing to ever happen to her.
- Production company
- Laugh track
- Live audience
Broadcast details
- First broadcast
- Thursday 10th November 1994 on BBC One at 8:30pm
- Last new broadcast
- Friday 13th March 2015 on BBC One at 8:18pm
- Upcoming repeats
- 2006/2007 Specials Episode 2: Today at 7:40pm on Gold
- 2004/2005 Specials Episode 1: Thursday at 8pm on Gold
- 1996 Specials Episode 2: Monday at 9pm on Gold
- Series 3 Episode 2: Friday 20th December at 9:40pm on Gold
- 2006/2007 Specials Episode 1: Saturday 21st December at 12:20pm on Gold
- 2006/2007 Specials Episode 1: Saturday 21st December at 9:20pm on Gold
- 2006/2007 Specials Episode 2: Sunday 22nd December at 11:55am on Gold
- 2006/2007 Specials Episode 2: Sunday 22nd December at 9:20pm on Gold
- 2006/2007 Specials Episode 2: Monday 23rd December at 9:20pm on Gold
- Series 3 Episode 2: Tuesday 24th December at 10:40pm on BBC1Show all repeats
- 1996 Specials Episode 2: Wednesday 25th December at 1pm on Gold
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