The Vicar of Dibley

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British sitcom starring Dawn French as the Vicar of the rural parish of Dibley

The oddball residents of Dibley welcome a new vicar to their village. To their surprise, she's a woman...

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Dawn French

Gary Waldhorn

James Fleet

Emma Chambers

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The Vicar of Dibley: The Christmas Lunch Incident

20/12/1997

BBC One - The Vicar of Dibley, The Christmas Lunch Incident

To avoid hurting anyone's feelings, Geraldine agrees to attend three Christmas lunches.

The Christmas 1996 episode of the clerical sitcom. Geraldine agrees to attend three Christmas lunches in order not to hurt anyone's feelings.

It is Christmas in Dibley, and vicar Geraldine is about to pay a heavy price for Christian kindness. To avoid hurting anyone's feelings, she agrees to attend not one, not two, but three Christmas lunches. 

What follows is a Christmas nightmare lunch with her verger Alice and her less clever sister, a brussels sprouts-eating competition, and Jim Trott telling the least funny 'knock, knock' joke in the world.

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