All Gas and Gaiters

S1 • E1

The Bishop Gets the Sack

BBC journalist Timothy Post is arriving at the cathedral to film a documentary, someone is required to go in front of the camera. The Bishop is keen to stop the Dean from taken on the role, and fancies doing it himself.

S1 • E2

The Bishop Meets a Bird

S1 • E3

The Bishop Writes a Sermon

S1 • E4

The Bishop Sees a Ghost

The Bishop is fed up of hearing about ghosts, everyone is seeing them, including the Dean's wife. When the Bishop refuses to accept Mrs. Pugh-Critchley's claims to have seen one, she suggests he spends a night in the cloisters.

S1 • E5

The Bishop Turns to Crime

S1 • E6

Only Three Can Play

This famous episode entitled "Only Three Can Play " is the one where Noote (the Chaplain, Reverend Mervyn Noote), the Bishop and The Archdeacon play a board game that Noote has invented. The game famously has each player needing to posess an encyclopaedic knowledge of railway timetables. The three friends look forward to this game every week. It was made specifically for three so that nobody else can ask to play with them. ie: The Dean. But the Dean calls and Noote has to go on an errand. The Dean asks to play the game and starts to change all their rules!. Soon the Dean is changing the rules to suit himself and ruining the three friends' carefully and meticulously legislated game. Where has Noote got to? Well he has gone over the road to let a new neighbour know of a parking bylaw that she has unknowingly transgressed. The pedantic Dean of the cathedral has insisted on it. Noote goes off in the neighbour's car, coming back to the Palace after seeing The Sound of Music with her. The next week, Noote once more goes to see the film, leaving the Bishop and Archdeacon at the mercy of the Dean who comes to play! The Bishop tries to bring Noote back and between them they manage to attract the Archdeacon's attention. All three then go off to the cinema - leaving the Dean alone!