An anarchic classic that awakened us all
Father Ted captured a whole series of religious and cultural epiphanies, and remains a comedy landmark two decades on from its debut
‘I’m afraid I thought this one as dire as its title . . . a collection of clichés and stock characters which I cannot see being anything but a disaster.”
So wrote a senior BBC script editor in 1974 to John Cleese when rejecting the pilot script he was offering for a new comedy series slot that the BBC was planning to fill. It ...
