All Gas and Gaiters - Season 1

The competition becomes intense when a BBC-TV producer decides to make a programme about St. Ogg's and thinks it would be a splendid idea to have a warm, lovable personality to present it and decides to recruit from within. With such talent at hand will St. Ogg's be doomed to sleep on in obscurity?!

The Bishop has been asked to contribute an article on the Cathedral for a local paper, and he sets to his task with enthusiasm. His discovery of an old tradition called "Pedlar's Right", and its subsequent publication, lead him into an embarrassing situation...

With an impending visit to his old school to deliver a sermon for Founder's Day, the Bishop determines not to forget it - as he did the previous year. But in the end he misplaces both his new sermon and the one Noote lends him as a replacement - is he ever to impress his old headmaster?

There have been several sightings of a ghost in the Cathedral and attention turns to the Bishop who is called upon to perform an exorcism. The Bishop, however, decides to hunt out the ghost by performing an all-night vigil in the cloisters.

When the Dean mistakenly entrusts the Bishop to look after his man-eating plant, he little realises the chaos that it causes. If the Bishop had not arranged for a removal of junk from his home, then the key to the Deanery would not be lost and the Archdeacon would not have had to enlist a reformed burglar in order to retrieve it!

The Bishop's normal Thursday night game with Noote and the Archdeacon is thrown into chaos when the Dean arrives. Only three people are allowed to play the game but the Dean wants to play and he sends Noote on an errand. Noote has to persuade a young lady not to park in the close but, instead, he becomes enchanted with her and it looks as though the Dean has a regular place at the game after all...