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6 Episodes 1996 - 1996
Episode 1
48 mins
English priest Peter Clifford cheerfully leaves his inner city parish when assigned as Catholic chaplain to Ballykissangel, a desolate part of curate MacAnally's huge Irish country parish. Peter flippantly claimed a mountain-bike is made for such country but gets scolded you can't work here without a car, as an old man living on a lonely peak actually needs last rites. Clifford's atheist landlady Assumpta Fitzgerald asks his 'lay' marriage advice. Her locally dominant rich father, Brian Quigley, insists on installing a state-of-the-art Italian 'modern comforts' confessional chair, complete with fax, and source of various problems.
Episode 2
50 mins
Father Peter Clifford can handle the bruised ribs when he tries out as spare keeper in the local ball game (Celtic football?) but is unsettled when a young woman turns up from his Manchester parish, to 'visit' expecting to continue their 'special relationship', actually the bishop's motive for his transfer to Ireland. Meanwhile he won't stand by idly, except in a critical spot, as Brian Quigley's men poor manure over the site where Edso and his wife and baby parked their caravan, as part of a repair contract, which turns out to be only half of the story. The ball game proves both useful and worrisome in surprising ways.
Episode 3
50 mins
Father Clifford seems unable to convince constable Ambrose that a statue of St. John the Baptist which narrowly missed hitting him by a hair when falling from the church is coincidence. Ambrose calls off his marriage plans and declares that he wants a clerical vocation. Assumpta Fitzgerald tells Brian Quigley she's no longer stocking draft stout for lack of other customers, but the brewery shares his feeling that its a national heritage. Brian insists on having the engagement reception even without the fiancé, but a patron saints mix-up proves a godsend.
Episode 4
50 mins
Assumpta gives father Clifford driving lessons as a birthday present, but flips when her yapping makes him nervously loose control of the steering wheel. Terminal patient Michael Bradley, a lonely atheist and former judge, proves an interesting chess partner. Constable Ambrose Egon looks frantically for the illegal radio station Angel FM, while Quigley advertises his new holiday cottages on it.
Episode 5
49 mins
When the local TP (Irish republican MP) and national figure is buried, father MacAnally convinces devout Brian Quigley to stand against his party's succession-candidate, Sean Dooley, who still meddles with Brian's campaign-timed donation for the people-ignored church restoration fund. Donal Doherty meanwhile dug up some bones on Quigley's building site which may be human.
Episode 6
49 mins
Brian Quigley brings a fair to the town, along with his own bar and grill, putting Asumpta out of business for the weekend. But while Assumpta contemplates the possibility that she might lose her business, Father Clifford must accept his possible departure from BallyK.