Category: Father Ted

Father Ted is an Irish sitcom that was produced by Hat Trick Productions for British broadcaster Channel 4.

Set on the remote fictional Craggy Island off Ireland's west coast, the show starred Dermot Morgan as the eponymous Father Ted Crilly, alongside fellow priests Father Dougal McGuire ( Ardal O ' Hanlon ) and Father Jack Hackett ( Frank Kelly ).

According to Linehan, Father Ted was a character created by Mathews for Paul Woodfull, when the three men performed together as The Joshua Trio on the comedy circuit in Ireland.

Just weeks before his death Morgan said that he did not want to continue playing the role of Father Ted for fear of being typecast: " I don't want to be the next Clive Dunn and end up playing the same character for years.

Location work for Father Ted was done mostly in County Clare, including locations at Ennis, Kilfenora, Ennistymon, and Kilnaboy.

The cinema featured in " The Passion of St Tibulus " was the Ormonde Cinema, Greystones, County Wicklow and " The Field ", the location for Funland in " Good Luck, Father Ted ", is in Portrane, North County Dublin.

Arthur Mathews has described Seinfeld as a major influence on the comedy of Father Ted, with himself and Linehan being " big fans " of the show.

Father Ted also contains references to pop culture, and some film parodies, such as the episode " Speed 3 ".

Father Ted was one of the most popular sitcoms in British television history.

It was decided that in appropriate Father Ted fashion the dispute would be settled by a five-a-side football match held on 25 February 2007.

The Friends of Ted Festival, better known as Ted Fest, has been held annually as Father Ted fan convention since 2007 after the show achieved a cult following.

Speaking in Carlow in June 2010, Minister for the Environment, Heritage and Local Government and Green Party leader John Gormley said the Labour Party is coming very close to being the " Father Ted of Irish politics " because, according to Gormley, they have no policies.

This documentary and another ( Father Ted: Unintelligent Design and Small, Far Away – The World Of Father Ted ) followed by the episode Kicking Bishop Brennan Up The Arse were repeated again on Channel 4 late in the evening of 26 December 2011.

* Father Ted – Series 1 – 2 ( 3-disc set, 1995 )

# REDIRECT List of Father Ted characters # Father Ted Crilly

Crilly, Father Ted

Crilly, Father Ted

Dermot John Morgan ( 31 March 1952 – 28 February 1998 ) was an Irish comedian, actor and previously a schoolteacher, who achieved international renown for his role as Father Ted Crilly in the Channel 4 sitcom Father Ted.

Father Ted Crilly, played by Morgan, was living a frustrated life trapped on the island.

The plot of the Father Ted episode " Competition Time " revolves around the three main characters Father Ted Crilly, Father Dougal McGuire and Father Jack Hackett entering the " All Priests Stars in Their Eyes Lookalike Competition ".

Also for one episode when three Bishops come for a visit, Father Ted Crilly teaches him how to say " yes " and " that would be an ecumenical matter " in order to prevent him from insulting them with crude answers.

* Father Ted Crilly, character from the UK television sitcom Father Ted

# REDIRECT List of Father Ted characters # Father Dougal McGuire

This became a joke in the actor's guest appearance as himself in the Father Ted episode " The Mainland ", where Ted and Dougal annoy him by constantly repeating his catchphrase.

Irish TV comedy actor Frank Kelly played the retired Father Jack Hackett, a foul-mouthed and apparently brain-damaged alcoholic, while child-minded Father Dougal McGuire was played by new Irish comedian Ardal O ' Hanlon.

* He is referred to by character Father Dougal McGuire in the Father Ted episode, " Escape From Victory " ( 1998 ), saying: " You remember that fella, who was so good at fashion, they had to shoot him?

# REDIRECT List of Father Ted characters # Father Dougal McGuire

# REDIRECT List of Father Ted characters # Father Dougal McGuire

He is shown as a member of the Council of Legendary Figures ( alongside Santa Claus, Easter Bunny, Cupid, Mother Nature, Father Time, Tooth Fairy, and Jack Frost ) and tends to fall asleep during meetings.

Weldon Leo " Jack " Teagarden ( August 20, 1905 – January 15, 1964 ), known as " Big T " and " The Swingin ' Gate ", was a jazz trombonist, bandleader, composer, and vocalist, regarded as the " Father of Jazz Trombone ".

* Jack Frost ( 1979 ) Voice of Father Winter and Kubla Kraus

: 2 August – Father ( John " Mad Jack " Byron ) died in France never having seen his son.

Jon Voight, David Carradine, Jack Nicholson and Christopher Walken all were considered or offered the part of Father Lamont, who John Boorman initially conceived as a younger priest in awe of Father Merrin's writings.

Jack Frost, narrated by Buddy Hackett, tells the story of the winter sprite's love for a mortal woman menaced by the evil Cossack King, Kubla Kraus ( Paul Frees, in addition to Kubla, voiced Jack Frost's overlord, Father Winter himself ).

# REDIRECT List of Father Ted characters # Father Jack Hackett

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* Bringing Up Father ( 1928 ) Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer ; Silent comedy directed by Jack Conway, written by Frances Marion with titles by Ralph Spence, starring J. Farrell MacDonald as Jiggs, Polly Moran as Maggie, Gertrude Omstead as their daughter ( renamed " Ellen "), and Jules Cowles and Marie Dressler as Mr. and Mrs. Dinty Moore.

* The Channel 4 situation comedy Father Ted helped to export and popularise this use of feck through its characters ' liberal use of the word, especially by the drunk priest Father Jack.

He is best known for his role as Father Jack Hackett in the comedy Father Ted.

Kelly is best known outside Ireland for playing Father Jack Hackett in the comedy series Father Ted, which aired originally in the United Kingdom in April 1995 and ran through until May 1998.

Jack Hackett in Father Ted.

* Father Jack Hackett in the Father Ted comedy series is a classic example.

* Father Jack Hackett, a character in the Irish sitcom Father Ted

* Father Jack Hackett, fictional Father Ted character