Product Details

• Amazon Sales Rank: #223 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

For those curious...
I can review the show itself in five words; it's the best comedy of all time.
This review is for those wondering whether or not to buy this so-called definitive edition, and what sets it apart from previous releases.

Well, for a start, its bigger. It comes in one of those bookish-type DVD boxes, which you turn to access each disc, five in total. Series 1 takes up a disc while 2 and 3 are on two each. The real reason for the reissue of this series is the inclusion of the extra features (as well as a groovy new artwork).

The set includes BBC's Ted episode of Comedy Connections, featuring all the key players apart from of course Dermot Morgan. The half-hour show serves as a great making-of supplement and deals with how the show came about, how it was initially disiliked (!) and the legacy it has left. Very concise and insightful, with no fluff. Also included are Ted and Dougal's in-character appearances for Comic Relief, worth watching to see them creasing up with the giggles once or twice. A two part, 40-minute interview with the creators is also very insightful, and details much of how the show was influenced, and influential, featuring some very rare footage of them performing years before the fame of Father Ted.

The only let-down of the extras is the footage of Ireland's annual "Ted-Fest", which seems to me very much like an event where people go to get drunk and shout catchphrases rather than celebrate how great the show was. All the superfluous features (sound effects, clip segments) from the original DVDs are carried over too.

In summary, I think this is the treatment Father Ted has always deserved, and the show is well worth the price of an upgrade as the extras are fantastically informative (and often hilarious) without being too much. I would strongly recommend buying it, whether you have the older DVDs or not (you don't? Shame).

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!

Go on, go on, go on, go on, go on.......
Well it's about time! One of the funniest, subversive & most missed shows on television finally gets the release it deserves. With a new digital transfer the fearsome bishop Brennan,the disaster that was Larry Duff, Pat Mustards massive tool & the hairy inmates at St.Clabberts will all leap from your goggle box as if it were all only yesterday!
The show's run was tragically short but boy did it shine brightly! With the looney premise of 3 hopeless priests,( Jack the drunk foul mouthed & violent one, Dougal the sweet but irreversably dim one & Ted who was always just a whisker away from escape but would always be held back by the other 2 or his habit of mis-appropriating church funds), all sent out of harms way to the remote Craggy island to be cared for by the insistant & slightly insane Mrs. Doyle.
The acting was 1st class as despite the lunacy of their characters all involved seemed so real. The surreal plots never dried up and the scriptwriting was of such a high calibre that whatever happened it was always delivered with the funniest lines possible,( remember Dougals slow but sure destruction of another priests faith? or the visciously bickering O'Leary's,Father Dick Byrne the antiTed & Brendan Graces superb ghetto blasting,hole drilling madman?),. Perhaps the most outstanding fact is that it actually lasted as long as 3 series considering how much opposition it met for it's subversive tackling of what was then a taboo subject to take the mickey out of!
This show has been waiting for a re-do for far too long & it's great to see it back with extras too.
Dermot Morgan will always be remembered as the hub around which all the other characters and situations madly spun. Desperate to be something more & to leave the others behind he was the shows only, albeit tenuous, link to reality. It was a fine performance & let's hope many more will appreciate it with this new release.
"Ah come on Ted, it's brilliant!"