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- Genre
- Sitcom
- Broadcast
- 1994 - 2020
- Channel
- BBC One
- Episodes
- 20 (3 series), plus 11 extra episodes
- 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
- Also known as
- The Vicar Of Dibley In Lockdown (2020 title)
- Laugh track
- Live audience
Broadcast details
- First broadcast
- Thursday 10th November 1994 on BBC One at 8:30pm
- Last new broadcast
- Wednesday 23rd December 2020 on BBC One at 11:50pm
- Upcoming repeats
- Series 1 Episode 1: Saturday at 7:35am on Gold
- Series 1 Episode 2: Saturday at 8:10am on Gold
- Series 1 Episode 3: Saturday at 8:50am on Gold
- Series 1 Episode 4: Saturday at 9:30am on Gold
- Series 1 Episode 5: Saturday at 10:10am on Gold
- Series 1 Episode 6: Saturday at 10:50am on Gold
- Series 2 Episode 1: Saturday at 11:30am on Gold
- Series 2 Episode 2: Saturday at 12:20pm on Gold
- Series 2 Episode 3: Saturday at 1pm on Gold
- Series 2 Episode 4: Saturday at 1:35pm on GoldShow all repeats
- Series 3 Episode 1: Saturday at 2:10pm on Gold
- Series 3 Episode 2: Saturday at 3:05pm on Gold
- Series 3 Episode 3: Saturday at 4pm on Gold
- Series 3 Episode 4: Saturday at 4:55pm on Gold
- Series 1 Episode 1: Saturday at 5:50pm on Gold
- Series 1 Episode 2: Saturday at 6:25pm on Gold
- Series 1 Episode 3: Saturday at 7pm on Gold
- Series 1 Episode 4: Saturday at 7:40pm on Gold
- Series 1 Episode 5: Saturday at 8:20pm on Gold
- Series 2 Episode 1: Saturday at 11pm on Gold
- Series 1 Episode 6: Saturday at 11:55pm on Gold
- Series 2 Episode 2: Sunday at 12:35am on Gold
- Series 2 Episode 3: Sunday at 1:15am on Gold
- Series 2 Episode 4: Sunday at 1:55am on Gold
- Series 3 Episode 1: Sunday at 2:25am on Gold
- Series 3 Episode 2: Sunday at 3:10am on Gold
- Series 3 Episode 1: Sunday at 7am on Gold
- Series 3 Episode 2: Sunday at 7:45am on Gold
- Series 3 Episode 3: Sunday at 8:35am on Gold
- Series 3 Episode 4: Sunday at 9:25am on Gold
- 2004/2005 Specials Episode 1: Sunday at 10:20am on Gold
- 2004/2005 Specials Episode 2: Sunday at 11:30am on Gold
- 2006/2007 Specials Episode 1: Sunday at 12:15pm on Gold
- 2006/2007 Specials Episode 2: Sunday at 1:30pm on Gold
- Series 3 Episode 3: Sunday at 2:40pm on Gold
- Series 3 Episode 4: Sunday at 3:35pm on Gold
- 2004/2005 Specials Episode 1: Sunday at 4:30pm on Gold
- 2004/2005 Specials Episode 2: Sunday at 5:40pm on Gold
- 2006/2007 Specials Episode 1: Sunday at 6:25pm on Gold
- 2006/2007 Specials Episode 2: Sunday at 7:40pm on Gold
- Series 2 Episode 1: Sunday at 8:55pm on Gold
- Series 2 Episode 2: Sunday at 9:50pm on Gold
- Series 2 Episode 3: Sunday at 10:30pm on Gold
- Series 2 Episode 4: Sunday at 11:10pm on Gold
- 2006/2007 Specials Episode 1: Sunday at 11:50pm on Gold
- Series 2 Episode 1: Monday at 1am on Gold
- Series 2 Episode 2: Monday at 1:55am on Gold
- Series 2 Episode 3: Monday at 2:25am on Gold
- Series 2 Episode 4: Monday at 2:55am on Gold
- 2004/2005 Specials Episode 2: Monday at 3:25am on Gold
- Series 2 Episode 1: Monday at 4:50pm on Gold
- Series 2 Episode 2: Monday at 5:40pm on Gold
- Series 2 Episode 3: Monday at 6:20pm on Gold
- Series 2 Episode 4: Monday at 9pm on Gold
- Series 2 Episode 1: Tuesday at 8:10pm on Gold
- Series 2 Episode 1: Tuesday at 11:40pm on Gold
- Series 2 Episode 1: Wednesday at 7:30pm on Gold
- Series 2 Episode 2: Wednesday at 8:25pm on Gold
- Series 2 Episode 2: Wednesday at 11:40pm on Gold
- Series 2 Episode 2: Thursday 11th March at 7:40pm on Gold
- Series 2 Episode 3: Thursday 11th March at 8:20pm on Gold
- Series 2 Episode 3: Thursday 11th March at 11:40pm on Gold
- Series 2 Episode 3: Friday 12th March at 7:40pm on Gold
- Series 2 Episode 4: Friday 12th March at 8:20pm on Gold
- Series 2 Episode 4: Friday 12th March at 11:40pm on Gold
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