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Father Ted

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Father Ted Crilly is a middle-aged Catholic priest banished to remote Craggy Island for financial misconduct. Intelligent but perpetually frustrated, he schemes to escape his exile while managing his dysfunctional housemates: the childlike Father Dougal, the belligerent alcoholic Father Jack, and the tea-obsessed Mrs. Doyle.

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