Product Details

• Amazon Sales Rank: #324 in DVD
• Released on: 2007-10-29
• Rating: Suitable for 15 years and over
• Aspect ratio: 1.33:1
• Format: PAL
• Original language: English
• Number of discs: 5
• Running time: 607 minutes

Amazon.co.uk Review
Father Ted is one of those rare sitcoms that defies categorisation--it owes as much to Flann O'Brien and Samuel Beckett as it does to Monty Python--and its blend of satire, character comedy and anarchic surrealism has made it a cult favourite around the world. Exiled to remote Craggy Island, Father Ted shares a house with the breathtakingly stupid Father Dougal Maguire and the constantly inebriated Father Jack, who has a small vocabulary and a taste for furniture polish. Their housekeeper, Mrs Doyle, takes care of them with a never-ending supply of tea and sandwiches: "Go on now, Father, won't you try one? They're diagonal." Together they fight boredom by dressing up as Elvis, startling ducks at the fair and provoking nuns. --Simon Leake

DVD Desription
This is the definitive collection of Father Ted!

Re-packaged and with additional menus, Father Ted: The Definitive Collection Box Set includes all the episodes in the three-year series and lots more fabulous extras.

Additional features:
Father Ted comedy connections
Comic Relief with Ted and Dougal
US interviews with Graham Linehan and Arthur Matthews
Tedfest 2007: A Very Ted Weekend & Two Tribes go to War
Dougal's US pledges

Plus:
Craggy Island memories
Dougal's favourite memories
Dougal's favourite sound effects
Photo gallery.

Synopsis
This FATHER TED collection compiles all three absolutely divine series of the show. FATHER TED follows the continuing comedic exploits of three Irish priests and their feisty housekeeper, who are all exiled to the Parochial House on Craggy Island for general incompetence.

Customer Reviews

The best comedy about Irish priests living on a remote island ever made
A sitcom about four Catholic priests, living in a remote island community off the coast of Ireland? It doesn't sound the most promising of set-ups but Father Ted is pure comedy gold.

Brilliant from the first episode to the last, Father Ted is a laugh riot. Ted himself is a shallow, fame-seeking schemer who thinks he is too clever for his companions to appreciate him. Father Dougal is a naive idiot who simply speaks his mind ("I don't even believe in organised religion!" he says on television) and Father Jack is a degenerate drunk who does little more than sleep, shout, swear and drink. He does them brilliantly, mind. Their houselady, Mrs Doyle, is a tea and sand which obsessed woman who stands up all night in the dark by the living room door, just in case anyone fancies a cuppa.

One afternoon, some bishops visit. In the evening, Dougal wants to watch Aliens: "But it's the director's cut, Ted, with extra Aliens!" They switch on the television, as the announcer introduces an extra-long mass, in Latin. Their faces drop but instantly, to impress the bishops, they feign interest: "Great! Mass!"

Father Ted is simply one of the best sitcoms ever made. Fantastic film parodies that wouldn't seem out of place in a Simpsons episode (the NYPD Blue parody does it for me, for some reason), excellently surreal supporting characters and sheer inventive Pythonesque looniness are combined in a warm-hearted, cynical, sitcom unlike anything else. The cast embody the characters in a way that made them irreplaceable, hence the show finishing after the tragic death of the brilliant Dermot Morgan. The writing is peerless. The finished product: endless enjoyment.

Complete brilliance
Hilarious stuff. The most accurate show ever made about religion and contains some of the funniest things I've ever seen. Watch this or rob yourself of a real treat.

Are you sure you won't watch a wee bit? Ah, go on!
I bought this earlier in the year so that I had something to watch while living in France...and it's easily the funniest comedy I've ever seen! It's difficult to pick my favourite episode, as they're all sheer genius...although the milkman one is definitely up there! The extras are reasonably good, especially the greatest moments of each character (including the video for "My Lovely Horse"), and the Comic Relief part is rather funny as well. Quote of the whole thing has to go to Father Jack..."Don't tell me I'm still on that feckin' island!"...well thank goodness you are, it wouldn't have been the same without him!