A Christmassy Ted

Infobox Television episode
Title = A Christmassy Ted
Series = Father Ted


Caption =
Season = Christmas
Episode = Special
Airdate = 24 December 1996
Production =
Writer = Graham Linehan, Arthur Mathews
Director = Andy DeEmmony, Declan Lowney
Guests = Gerard McSorley (" Fr. Todd Unctious")
Stephen Tompkinson (Father Peter Clifford)
Tony Guilfoyle (Fr. Larry Duff)
Andrew McCulloch (Bishop Tom McCaskell)
Episode list = List of Father Ted episodes
Prev = Flight Into Terror
Next = Are You Right There, Father Ted?

"A Christmassy Ted" is an episode of the Channel 4 sitcom Father Ted. It is the 17th episode overall and was broadcast between the second and third series. This episode is 55 minutes long, as opposed to the usual 21-22 mins of all other "Father Ted" episodes. Graham Linehan stated in the DVD commentary of this episode that he thinks this is far too long and at moments expresses his boredom and towards the end of the commentary track. It was aired on Christmas Eve, seven months after the second series had ended.

ynopsis

Christmas is coming to Craggy Island, and Ted, Dougal and Mrs Doyle go to a department store to do the Christmas shopping. Dougal left Father Jack in the creché thinking it was a place where you can just leave anyone you don't want to take shopping. Ted and Dougal were looking for perfume for Mrs Doyle when they wandered in into the lingerie section. Meanwhile in the creché Jack taught the kids how to swear then the kids started swearing when Jack falls asleep. After helping seven priests who accidentally wandered into "the largest lingerie department in all of Ireland" escape from a possibly scandalous fate, Father Ted receives a top Catholic award known as the Golden Cleric. After receiving the award, a priest, who refers to himself as Todd Unctious, claims to be an old friend of Ted's and pays a visit to the Parochial House. He stays overnight and makes an attempt to steal Ted's prized trophy. He is ultimately foiled by Ted, who wakes up in the middle of the night to gloat over his trophy for an invisible audience, catching Todd in the act.

Miscellanea

* Stephen Tompkinson and Dervla Kirwan have cameos as their "Ballykissangel" characters, Father Peter Clifford and Assumpta Fitzgerald, in Ted's dream.
* Irish comedian Ed Byrne makes an appearance as one of the rude pranksters who interrupt Ted's phone call to the hotline.
* The Lingerie section scenes were filmed in a Dunnes department store, .Internet Movie Database.]
* In one of his earliest TV parts, Kevin McKidd plays a young priest.

External links

* [http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0578500/ "A Christmassy Ted" at the IMDB]