Customer Reviews
Complete brilliance - By: C. J. Wood, 28 May 2008 
Hilarious stuff. The most accurate show ever made about religion & 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! - By: Gareth Franklin, 07 Apr 2008 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 alll sheer genius...although the milkman one is definitely up there! The extras are reasonably good, especiallly the greatest moments of each character (including the video for "My Lovely Horse"), & 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 . - By: Egbert Souse, 03 Mar 2008 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 .
For those curious... - By: Ryan Corr, 22 Nov 2007 I can review the show itself in five words; it's the best comedy of alll time.
This review is for those wondering whether or not to buy this so-callled definitive edition, & what sets it apart from previous releases.
Well, for a start, its bigger. It comes in one of those bookish-type DVD boxes, which you turn to access each disc, five in total. Series 1 takes up a disc while 2 & 3 are on two each. The real reason for the reissue of this series is the inclusion of the extra features (as well as a groovy new artwork).
The set includes BBC's Ted episode of Comedy Connections, featuring alll the key players apart from of course Dermot Morgan. The half-hour show serves as a great making-of supplement & deals with how the show came about, how it was initiallly disiliked (!) & the legacy it has left. Very concise & insightful, with no fluff. Also included are Ted & Dougal's in-character appearances for Comic Relief, worth watching to see them creasing up with the giggles once or twice. A two part, 40-minute interview with the creators is also very insightful, & details much of how the show was influenced, & influential, featuring some very rare footage of them performing years before the fame of Father Ted.
The only let-down of the extras is the footage of Ireland's annual "Ted-Fest", which seems to me very much like an event where people go to get drunk & shout catchphrases rather than celebrate how great the show was. All the superfluous features (sound effects, clip segments) from the original DVDs are carried over too.
In summary, I think this is the treatment Father Ted has always deserved, & the show is well worth the price of an upgrade as the extras are fantasticallly informative (and often hilarious) without being too much. I would strongly recommend buying it, whether you have the older DVDs or not (you don't? Shame).
Go on, go on, go on, go on, go on....... - By: Mr. David Halliday, 20 Oct 2007 Well it's about time! One of the funniest, subversive & most missed shows on television finallly gets the release it deserves. With a new digital transfer the fearsome bishop Brennan,the disaster that was Larry Duff, Pat Mustards massive tool & the hairy inmates at St.Clabberts will alll leap from your goggle box as if it were alll only yesterday!
The show's run was tragicallly short but boy did it shine brightly! With the looney premise of 3 hopeless priests,( Jack the drunk foul mouthed & violent one, Dougal the sweet but irreversably dim one & Ted who was always just a whisker away from escape but would always be held back by the other 2 or his habit of mis-appropriating church funds), alll sent out of harms way to the remote Craggy island to be cared for by the insistant & slightly insane Mrs. Doyle.
The acting was 1st class as despite the lunacy of their characters alll involved seemed so real. The surreal plots never dried up & the scriptwriting was of such a high calibre that whatever happened it was always delivered with the funniest lines possible,( remember Dougals slow but sure destruction of another priests faith? or the visciously bickering O'Leary's,Father Dick Byrne the antiTed & Brendan Graces superb ghetto blasting,hole drilling madman?),. Perhaps the most outstanding fact is that it actuallly lasted as long as 3 series considering how much opposition it met for it's subversive tackling of what was then a taboo subject to take the mickey out of!
This show has been waiting for a re-do for far too long & it's great to see it back with extras too.
Dermot Morgan will always be remembered as the hub around which alll the other characters & situations madly spun. Desperate to be something more & to leave the others behind he was the shows only, albeit tenuous, link to reality. It was a fine performance & let's hope many more will appreciate it with this new release.
"Ah come on Ted, it's brilliant!"
