UK / BBC1 / 32x30m-e / 1967-71 Five seasons, seasons 1-2 bw

Writers: Edwin Apps, Pauline Devaney / Producers: Stuart Allen, John Howard Davies 

Fun and games in the cloisters of a cathedral. Gently poking fun at the clergy (one of the first comedies to do so), All Gas and Gaiters centred on the farcical team at St Ogg's Cathedral/ namely its bishop, archdeacon and, particularly, its bumbling, ultra-sincere, plummy chaplain, Revd Mervyn Noote. Their adversary was the rather sober Dean. Nimmo later took his dithery clerical creation on to oh brother and its sequel, Oh Father, playing Brother/Father Dominic. All Gas and Gaiters began life as a COMEDY PLAYHOUSE presentation in 1966, with the subsequent five series scripted by husband and0 wife writers Edwin Apps and Pauline Devaney.

Cast
DEREK NIMMO as Rev Mervyn Noote / WILLIAM MERVYN as Bishop / ROBERTSON HARE as Archdeacon / ERNEST CLARK as Dean(1) / JOHN BARRON as Dean(2) / JOAN SANDERSON as Mrs Pugh Critchley