Father Ted

About Father Ted

A crazy comedy about three rather strange parish priests exiled to Craggy Island, a remote island off the Irish west coast.

Father Ted is a comedy series made for Channel 4. Dermot Morgan stars as Father Ted Crilly, Ardal O'Hanlon as Father Dougal McGuire, Pauline McLynn as Mrs. Doyle, and Frank Kelly as Father Jack Hackett.

It ran for 3 seasons and 24 episodes between April 1995 and May 1998. That is around 8 episodes a season.

Shelv files it under island, surreal, empathetic, and satirical. It streams on Amazon Prime Video, Amazon Prime Video with Ads, and Britbox Apple TV channel in the United States. It scores 8.2 out of 10 from 361 TMDB voters.

Midnight Mass, Ballykissangel, and South Park make useful companions to Father Ted, all filed under catholicism and priest.