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Father Ted - The Definitive Collection Box Set [1995] | ![Father Ted - The Definitive Collection Box Set [1995]](http://ecx.images-amazon.com/images/I/51Fg9K4it0L._SL160_.jpg)
 enlarge | Director: Declan Lowney
Actors: Dermot Morgan, Pauline Mclynn, Ardal O'hanlon, Frank Kelly
Studio: 2 Entertain Video
Category: DVD
List Price: £49.99
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Rating:  7 reviews
Sales Rank: 336
Format: Pal
Language: English (Original Language)
Rating: Suitable for 15 years and over
Region: 2
Aspect Ratio: 1.33:1
Number Of Items: 5
Running Time: 607 Minutes
Shipping Weight (lbs): 0.8
Dimensions (in): 7.4 x 5.5 x 1.3
EAN: 5014138601652
ASIN: B000UZPM76
Theatrical Release Date: 1995
Release Date: October 29, 2007
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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
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Absolutely Brilliant August 28, 2008
Sooty
1 out of 1 found this review helpful
Father Ted - The Definitive Collection Box Set [1995]
This is by far one of the best box sets I've ever bought. Can watch it over and over. Is hilarious, thoroughly enjoyable, and well worth the money.
The best comedy about Irish priests living on a remote island ever made July 6, 2008
Mr. Tristan Martin (Cambridge, UK)
1 out of 1 found this review helpful
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 other priests visit. In the evening, Dougal wants to watch the director's cut of Jurassic Park "with extra dinosaurs!" They switch on the television, as the announcer introduces an extra-long mass, "in Latin." Their faces drop but instantly, to impress the other priests and to maintain a facade of religiosity, they feign enthusiasm: "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.
"NOW LET'S CLEAN THIS MUTHA!"
Complete brilliance May 28, 2008
Chris Wood (UK)
1 out of 2 found this review helpful
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! April 7, 2008
Gareth Franklin (Ugine, France)
7 out of 7 found this review helpful
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!
Top Comedy . March 3, 2008
Egbert Souse (West Midlands)
2 out of 3 found this review helpful
A classic comedy programme with side splitting laughter guaranteed from every episode . The best comedy of the 1990's without a doubt . Add to your collection now ! . Go on , Go on , Go on .
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