All Gas and Gaiters (Season 0)

All Gas and Gaiters is a British television ecclesiastical sitcom which aired on BBC1 from 1966 to 1971. It was written by Pauline Devaney and Edwin Apps, a husband-and-wife team who used the pseudonym of "John Wraith" when writing the pilot. At St Oggs Cathedral is a carefree bishop, an old tippling archdeacon, and an accident-prone chaplain, who all wish to live a quiet bachelor life, but this is continually threatened by the dean, who tries to bring by-the-book rule to the cathedral.

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    The Bishop Rides Again (Pilot) (Episode 1)

    Air date: 1966-07-17

    Runtime: 30 min

    Overview: The Bishop needs to secure a substantial bequest, but in order to do so must reenact a medieval custom of dispensing forty pairs of white socks to forty virgins. The pilot episode was originally shown as part of the series "Comedy Playhouse".

All Gas and Gaiters

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