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"Episodes/Location"
Main article: List of The Vicar of Dibley episodes
The Vicar of Dibley first aired on 10 November 1994. After 18 episodes and 3 short specials, two 60-minute episodes were filmed in September 2006, and introduced a new character, Harry Kennedy, whom Geraldine marries. The first episode aired on Christmas Day 2006, the second was on New Year's Day 2007. The Christmas Day episode was watched by 11.4 million, more than any other programme on that day [3] while the New Year's Day episode was watched by 12.3 million people [4]. However, days later it was announced that a short special would be shown for Comic Relief and this, the last ever episode, was aired on 16 March 2007. [5]
Following the opening credits of each episode, there is usually a humorous depiction, eg. a woman knitting straight off the sheep. At the end of each episode, following the closing credits, Geraldine tells a joke to Alice — most of the time, the joke is rather off-colour. Alice usually doesn't get the joke, but instead tries to interpret it literally and then explains to Geraldine why the premise is implausible. In the very first episode, Alice actually does get the joke and bursts into hysterical laughter which lasts long after the joke has outstayed its welcome. In the episode Love and Marriage, David is told the joke and understands it straight away. In the 2005 episode Happy New Year, this joke was told at the beginning as the end of the episode focused on the Make Poverty History campaign. In the final episode, the joke is explained to Alice by Harry, in an ironically complicated manner which the character's intelligence would suggest an inability to understand, allowing her to get the punchline for the first time.
Location
While The Vicar of Dibley is set in Oxfordshire, the village scenes are filmed in Turville in Buckinghamshire, where Midsomer Murders, Goodnight Mister Tom, Chitty Chitty Bang Bang and Marple have also been filmed. The opening titles were filmed in and around South Buckinghamshire, although the aerial tracking shot shows M40 traffic approaching Oxfordshire through the Chilterns cutting at Stokenchurch Gap.
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