All Gas & Gaiters - Dean Goes Primitive - Part 01 - BBC Radio Comedy -.wmv

Cast * William Mervyn - Bishop Cuthbert Hever * Robertson Hare - Archdeacon Henry Blunt * Derek Nimmo - The Reverend Mervyn Noote, bishop's chaplain * John Barron - Dean Lionel Pugh-Critchley, (pilot, series 1 and 4) * Ernest Clark - Dean Lionel Pugh-Critchley, (1968 special, series 2 and 3) * Joan Sanderson - Mrs Grace Pugh-Critchley * Ruth Kettlewell - Mrs Grace Pugh-Critchley (early episodes)

[edit] Plot

All Gas and Gaiters, predominantly farcical in nature, was set in the close of the fictional St Ogg's cathedral and concerned various intrigues and rivalries among the clergy. The bishop was easygoing; his friend the archdeacon was elderly, tippling, and still appreciative of attractive women; and the bishop's chaplain was naïve and accident-prone. Their wish to live a quiet bachelor life was continually threatened by the overbearing dean, who tried to bring by-the-book rule to the cathedral.

The series initially aroused some controversy because of its portrayal of senior clergy as bungling incompetents, although some clergy quite enjoyed it. In the opening credits, St. Alban's Cathedral was shown as the fictional St Ogg's, but with the twisted spire of Church of St Mary and All Saints, Chesterfield added to the central tower.

It proved to be the first of a series of comedies starring Derek Nimmo as essentially the same bumbling clerical character (Oh, Brother!, Oh, Father! and Hell's Bells. It is considered by some people to be the best, partly because of a strong supporting cast (particularly Robertson Hare as the archdeacon) and partly because it included some elements of gentle satire.[1]
[edit] Episodes

The pilot and first three series were filmed in black-and-white. The third series was filmed in colour, but originally broadcast in monochrome. The fourth and fifth series were made and shown in colour. Only 11 episodes still exist on film in the archive, apparently because some BBC executive decided to re-use the tapes.
[edit] Pilot: 1966

Christmas Night with the Stars was a programme screened annually on Christmas night, when the top stars of the BBC appeared in short versions of their programmes, typically five to ten minutes long. All Gas and Gaiters appeared once alongside its sitcom spin-off Oh, Brother! in 1968, however this telerecording still exists in the BBC's film and videotape archives alongside other surviving Christmas segments from other sitcoms.
[edit] Christmas Special: 1968

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Love this series thanks for uploading