The Vicar of Dibley is a British sitcom which originally ran on BBC One from 10 November 1994 to 1 January 2000, and then intermittently from 25 December 2004 to 23 December 2020. It 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. In ratings terms, it is among the most successful British programmes in the digital era, the Christmas and New Year specials entering the UK top 10 programmes of the year.The Vicar of Dibley received multiple British Comedy Awards, two International Emmys, and was a multiple British Academy Television Awards nominee. In 2004, it placed third in a BBC poll of Britain's Best Sitcoms. In addition to the twenty main episodes between 1994 and 2007, the series includes numerous shorter charity specials, as well as 'lockdown' episodes produced during the COVID-19 pandemic.
| Written by | Richard Curtis, Paul Mayhew-Archer |
| Directed by | Dewi Humphreys (Series 1–2), Gareth Carrivick (Series 3), Barbara Wiltshire (lockdown episodes) |
| Starring | Dawn French, Emma Chambers, Trevor Peacock, Gary Waldhorn, James Fleet, John Bluthal, Liz Smith, Roger Lloyd-Pack |
| Composer(s) | Howard Goodall |
| Country of origin | United Kingdom |
| Original language(s) | English |
| No. of series | 3 |
| No. of episodes | 20 (not including lockdown or charity specials) |
| Executive producer(s) | Richard Curtis, Peter Bennett-Jones, Ben Caudell |
| Producer(s) | Jon Plowman, Sue Vertue (Series 2), Margot Gavan Duffy (Series 3) |
| Editor(s) | Mark Sangster (Series 1), Graham Carr (Series 1), Chris Wadsworth (Series 2), Mark Lawrence (Series 3) |
| Running time | 30–40 minutes (regular episodes), 40–55 minutes (specials), 4–14 minutes (charity and lockdown specials) |
| Production company(s) | Tiger Aspect Productions |
| Distributor | Endemol UK |
| Original network | BBC One |
About The Vicar of Dibley
A woman is assigned to the parish in Dibley after the passing of the congregation's vicar. She becomes popular with the masses but is less so the head of the Parish Council. The BBC series was written by Richard Curtis and Paul Mayhew-Archer.
Achievement of The Vicar of Dibley
The program ran for a total of 31 episodes over the course of its 4 series run. In 2020, a special pandemic series ran with the title "The Vicar of Dibley in Lockdown."
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Latest information about The Vicar of Dibley updated on July 28 2021.
