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#1 - Things Are Not What They Seem
Season 3 Episode 1 - Aired 7/5/1981
Father Neil offers advice to a woman with marital problems and thereby provides a field day for gossips.
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- 8.3/109 votesLoading...
#2 - Father & Mother
Season 1 Episode 5 - Aired 10/22/1978
Father Duddleswell accidentally damages the hideous portrait of the founder of the local convent, uncovering a concealed French masterpiece.
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#3 - The Seal of Confession
Season 1 Episode 7 - Aired 11/5/1978
Father Neil tries to modernize with a P.A. system and soundproof confessionals.
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#5 - Beddings and Weddings
Season 3 Episode 3 - Aired 7/19/1981
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- 7.9/1011 votesLoading...
#6 - Fatal Lady
Season 2 Episode 3 - Aired 11/25/1979
Father Neil receives embarrassing attentions from Miss Davenport, which he must tolerate because she is a generous benefactor of the Parish.
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#7 - Porgy & Bess
Season 3 Episode 6 - Aired 8/9/1981
When Billy Buzzle sets up a pig-sty in his back yard to accommodate Porgy and Bess, two pigs he has received from a defaulting better, the resultant stench proves too much for Father Duddleswell, who desperately resorts to pig-napping, stealing Porgy by dead of night and taking him to a nearby farm. When Porgy subsequently dies, Billy takes Fr. Duddleswell to court, but the judge, while berating Fr. Duddleswell for his transparently dishonest testimony, rules in his favour. Then Bess appears to be succumbing to the same sickness, but Dr. Daley reassures everyone that she is only in labour...
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#8 - A Mixed-Up Marriage
Season 3 Episode 7 - Aired 8/16/1981
Mother Stephen demands an audience with Fr. Duddleswell over a serious problem: Christine Hammond, a war orphan brought up in the convent, has fallen in love with Isaac Rosen, the elder son of the local rabbi. When the priest and the rabbi meet, they immediately agree that the marriage is impossible; so the young couple decides to ask the Anglican vicar to marry them. When Mr. Pinkerton insists that they wait two weeks before making a decision, the couple come to see Fr. Boyd, who suggests a ""naughty"" plan: Christine and Isaac announce that they have already been married in the registry office. Both Fr. Duddleswell and Rabbi Rosen are overcome with joy and wish them happiness -- whereupon they confess they were only testing them to see who would treat them with greater kindness. Fr. Duddleswell invites Rabbi Rosen to dinner (which Mrs. Pring supplies from a local kosher caterer), and we learn that the wedding did indeed take place in the registry office, as Fr. Boyd leads a toast to th
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#9 - Fire & Brimstone
Season 3 Episode 4 - Aired 7/26/1981
A family deals with an irreverent grandfather.
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#10 - The Bells of St. Jude's
Season 1 Episode 2 - Aired 10/1/1978
Father Duddleswell plans to install a new church bell.
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#11 - The Doomsday Chair
Season 1 Episode 4 - Aired 10/15/1978
Father Duddleswell decides to disprove the curse of a doomsday chair.
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#12 - Father Neil's First Miracle
Season 2 Episode 2 - Aired 11/18/1979
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- 7.5/1014 votesLoading...
#13 - The Parish Bazaar
Season 1 Episode 3 - Aired 10/8/1978
Father Duddleswell refuses to make bad-weather plans for the annual bazaar.
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#14 - Blessings from Heaven
Season 2 Episode 1 - Aired 11/11/1979
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#15 - The Heart of a Curate
Season 2 Episode 4 - Aired 12/9/1979
A beautiful nurse helps Neil recover from an appendectomy.
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- 7.4/1011 votesLoading...
#16 - The Tennis Match
Season 1 Episode 6 - Aired 10/29/1978
Father Duddleswell enters a tennis match against the Anglican clergy.
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#17 - All at Sea
Season 2 Episode 5 - Aired 12/16/1979
Father Duddleswell tries to arrange a burial at sea.
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- 7.3/1011 votesLoading...
#18 - A Legend Comes to Stay
Season 3 Episode 5 - Aired 8/2/1981
When he was young, Father Duddleswell was curate to a legendary eccentric. Now, 40 years late, the old man has come to stay just when Father Duddleswell is incapacitated with lumbago, and manages to turn the parish upside down -- including locking Fr. Neil in the church with Mother Stephen.
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#19 - Baptism of Fire
Season 1 Episode 1 - Aired 9/24/1978
Father Duddleswell welcomes his new curate, the recently ordained Father Neil, with a teasing baptism of fire, which opens the young priest's eyes to the complex nature of his parish duties and responsibilities.
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#20 - The Season of Goodwill
Season 2 Episode 6 - Aired 12/23/1979
Even at Christmas, Father Duddleswell can't keep out of trouble.
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#21 - A Back to Front Wedding
Season 2 Episode 7 - Aired 1/6/1980
Exhausted from performing several marriages, Father Duddleswell takes Father Boyd to the pictures as a treat -- where they are paged to return to the parish to perform one more forgotten wedding. After placating the angry families and seeing the young couple off on their honeymoon, Father Duddleswell realizes that he performed the ceremony after 6 pm, and therefore the bridge and groom are not legally married.
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The Best Episodes of Bless Me Father
Every episode of Bless Me Father ranked from best to worst. Let's dive into the Best Episodes of Bless Me Father!
Bless Me Father is a British sitcom starring Arthur Lowe, Daniel Abineri, Gabrielle Daye, Patrick McAlinney, David Ryall, Derek Francis and Sheila Keith. It was...
Genre:Comedy
Network:ITV1
Best Episodes Summary
"Things Are Not What They Seem" is the best rated episode of "Bless Me Father". It scored 8.5/10 based on 8 votes. Directed by N/A and written by N/A, it aired on 7/5/1981. This episode scored 0.2 points higher than the second highest rated, "Father & Mother".