
Renewing your faith in comedy!
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This is the Complete Vicar of Dibley - all the series, all the Specials including the final ones, but not the documentary, which does not appear to be available for purchase.
If you don't already know, The Vicar of Dibley, brilliantly played by Dawn French, is a woman and she is certainly not 'holier than thou', but she is kind and generous and very very human and very very funny! The villagers of Dibley, her new parishioners, are almost all certifiable but somehow you get to believe in them and their response when they realise that their new Vicar is a woman is much what many female Vicars faced after ordination. The storylines are excellent and do not make fun of people's beliefs but does show up some of the hypocrasy and the Vicar does much good along the way, (the episode where she raises money for a replacement when one of the church windows is damaged is wonderful), with what comes across as a very human form of religion and an honest faith. The writer is Richard Curtis who wrote 'Four Weddings' so you know how good the standard is and he took the trouble to consult with several female Vicars before writing.
We had watched all the programmes as they were shown on the BBC and we loved them but then the usual BBC problem arose - when they repeated them, they never began at the beginning and worked their way through - it would always be the same series or just a few episodes - now we can watch what we want when we want - and we now have them against the day when the BBC - in their wisdom - just decide never to show them again.
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