The Vicar of Dibley is a British sitcom created by Richard Curtis and written for its lead actress, Dawn French, by Curtis and Paul Mayhew-Archer, with contributions from Kit Hesketh-Harvey. The Vicar of Dibley aired from 1994 to 2007. In 2004, it came third in Britain's Best Sitcom .
In May 2007, Richard Curtis received a BAFTA 'Academy Fellowship' award for his humanitarian pursuits as well as his creative work including The Vicar of Dibley .
The Vicar of Dibley is set in a fictional small Oxfordshire village called Dibley, which is assigned a female vicar following the 1992 changes in the Church of England that permitted the ordination of women. The main character was an invention of Richard Curtis, but he and Dawn French extensively consulted the Rev. Joy Carroll, one of the first female priests, and garnered many character traits and much information.
In ratings terms, the programme is amongst the most successful in the digital era, with the various Christmas and New Year specials in 1999, 2004, 2005, 2006 and 2007 all entering the top 10 programmes of the year.
Cast
Characters
Geraldine Granger
Geraldine Granger (born 14 November 1964) is the female vicar, self-described as a "babe with a bob cut and a magnificent bosom". She is a bonne vivante and a large, liberal woman who enjoys nothing more than a good laugh, much to the consternation of David Horton. Despite her fun-loving and sometimes outrageous behaviour, she is deeply caring and does her best to help those in her parish in any way she can. She is well aware of her obesity but seems to take a relatively laid-back attitude towards it. A self-confessed chocoholic, she often will go on a diet only to break it within minutes by eating one of the innumerable chocolate bars that she has hidden throughout her house (even in hollowed-out Bibles). On one occasion, she gives up chocolate for Lent and nearly goes mad. Her unusual first name Boadicea is revealed later in the series, much to David Horton's ongoing amusement, although in the final episode her full name is given as (Boudicea) Geraldine Julie Andrews Dick Van Dyke Supercalifragilisticexpialidocious Chim Chiminey Chim Chiminey Chim Chim Cher-ee Granger , the latter due to her mother's favourite book being Mary Poppins and the fact that the film was released the year of Geraldine's birth. In 2006, she received a proposal from accountant Harry Jasper Kennedy and accepted by running around the village, screaming. In the final episode she marries him in a rather bizarre wedding, set up in the theme of her favourite movie, Saving Private Ryan , but also with touches of Doctor Who , including two full size motorised Daleks, and with parts of the church decorated with vegetables; she ends up getting married in her pajamas since her wedding dress was accidentally covered with mud by Owen Newitt.
David Horton
Councillor David Francis Matthew Horton MBE , MA (Cantab), chairman of the Parish Council, gentleman farmer, pillar of the community and Councillor for Dibley and Whitworth, and main opponent of the female vicar. He is rigid, old-fashioned, efficient, callous and punctual, yet as the show progresses, becomes lovable and endearing. He has never missed a council meeting. In fact, in one episode Jim and Owen reminisce about when David's wife went into labour with Hugo, and David held the meeting in the maternity ward. In later episodes of the series, Horton comes to fall for the Vicar and even proposes to her (she accepts his proposal but later decides to back out of it). He is initially a Conservative, but defects to the Labour Party in 2000 as part of his attempt to persuade Geraldine to marry him. Whether he switches his party allegiance back after she refuses him is unknown. His love for the Vicar, however, is steadfast and true. He later supported the Make Poverty History campaign. He is a multi-millionaire.
Alice Springs Horton
Alice Springs Horton (née Tinker ) is verger at the church. Blonde and dippy Alice is the only main character who does not sit on the Parish Council. She is the product of a one-night stand between her mad mother (who in the last two episodes was said to be in a mental home), and the cousin of David Horton's father, also called David Horton. She and Hugo are fond of each other and the vicar plays Cupid successfully in one episode. They eventually marry and have 10 children - the eldest, Geraldine was born on 24 December 1999, in the middle of the village Nativity play in which her parents were playing Mary and Joseph. Accompanying the closing credits for most episodes, Geraldine and Alice have a cup of tea while Geraldine tries to tell Alice a joke (frequently the joke is slightly off-colour). Alice never understands the jokes that Geraldine tells her and usually manages to over-analyze the humour completely out of the joke — this continues until the final episode when Geraldine's new husband Harry Kennedy explains the grammar involved and she understands it. Alice believes in the Easter Bunny, Father Christmas and the tooth fairy. After reading The Da Vinci Code she believes herself to be descended from Jesus. She is very dimwitted and naive ,shown through her many misconceptions such as mistaking Black Sabbath for gospel singers, telling David that Jesus was one of The Carpenters and refering to Albert Einstein as Andrew Einstein.
Hugo Horton
Hugo Horton is David's somewhat dim-witted son. He served as his father's campaign manager at the October 1994 district council election, but inadvertently wound up going door to door with David's Labour opponent, delivering adverts and making introductions for him. Hugo and Alice Tinker are always shown to have feelings for each other, but they do not get together as a couple until Geraldine plays Cupid in "Engagement". David was never a loving nor affectionate father to Hugo, repressing him and putting down all his life's dreams and ambitions. In one episode, Geraldine mentions that God is a father much like his own father, and Hugo recalls what his father did to him as a child: shouting, insulting him and caning him. When Geraldine corrects him and says she was referring to a loving, caring father, Hugo believed he had another father. Despite this, Hugo still loves his father dearly but finally stands up to him with respect to Alice, whom David despises. He calls Geraldine "Mrs. God".
Frank Pickle
Frank Pickle (born 12 August 1929) is the likable, but boring and pedantic secretary to the Parish Council. He is so boring that nobody wants to listen to him — even when he wants to discuss something exciting (to his own mind) such as the time he went down to the pub "and they'd completely run out of crisps" or "the time when the milkman was 47 minutes late". Due to his long boring speech five people, including his parents, have died while he was talking. He decided to declare his homosexuality in a radio broadcast to the village (after over 40 years of being in the closet), but apart from Geraldine, who was with Frank at the time, none of the villagers listened to his broadcast. The next day, he decides to assert his sexuality more openly by wearing a hot pink blazer to Parish Council rather than his usual brown one. Frank also once admitted to fancying Margaret Beckett as well as fellow councilor Owen Newitt and David Horton, implying that he's bisexual as he is as affected by the naked model in the Dibley Parish Life Art Class as the others and painted the same model in the Landscape class. He defines his ideal man as a 25-year-old South American with an interest in Oxfordshire council procedures.
Jim Trott
Jim Trott is a Parish Council member, who has an idiosyncratic way of saying "no no no no no..." before almost everything he says, most of all "yes". This stuttering once led him to lose on Deal or No Deal . His wife Doris does the opposite, saying "yes yes yes yes yes ...". Jim was a good dancer, though a long-winded singer. Despite his marriage, he still has no qualms about joining Owen in flirting with the Vicar, frequently commenting on her "lovely arse". He is also openly promiscuous with a penchant for Asian women. In the final episode, he proposed to the vicar, suggesting that he has either divorced his wife, that she has died prior to this episode or is willing to commit bigamy, although in one episode he says he found out his wife was having an affair with her cousin Brenda.
Owen Newitt
Owen Newitt is the local farmer and a Parish Council member, with a very earthy manner of speaking. He is famous for displaying extremely poor personal hygiene and suffers from chronic problems with his stomach and bowels. He was the first to support the new Vicar's appointment as a lone dissenter, saying that a woman wouldn't be a bad thing since the previous vicar was "a regular old woman anyway", just as David looked set to persuade the other members of the parish council to oppose Geraldine's appointment. His signature running gag was that he was chronically late for the Parish Council meetings, and had humorously legitimate, if graphic, reasons for his delays (often involving gruesome tales of amputating animals' appendages or otherwise mangling them). He proposed to the vicar in "Engagement". She rejected him, but he was not upset, having found out that she was a
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