The WORST episodes of Father Ted
Every episode of Father Ted ever, ranked from worst to best by thousands of votes from fans of the show. The worst episodes of Father Ted!
One small island off the west coast of Ireland. Three priests. One housekeeper. A bunch of nuns - and the most consistently awful weather on the planet. Step into the world of Father Ted!
#1 - Old Grey Whistle Theft
Season 2 - Episode 4 - Aired 3/29/1996
The arrival of a rebellious priest coincides with the theft of the picnic area supervisor's whistle. Is law and order breaking down on Craggy Island?
#2 - Good Luck, Father Ted
Season 1 - Episode 1 - Aired 4/21/1995
Fame beckons for Ted when Terry MacNamee phones up to interview him for 'The Television'. Unfortunately, the filming at the local beauty spot coincides with the arrival of Funland on Craggy Island.
#3 - Rock-a-Hula Ted
Season 2 - Episode 7 - Aired 4/19/1996
An aggressive protest singer arrives on the island just as Ted is to judge the Lovely Girls competition. How will Ted deal with this clash of feminism and womanhood?
#4 - Competition Time
Season 1 - Episode 4 - Aired 5/12/1995
It's the All Priests Look-A-Like competition and Ted is determined that this year he will defeat his fellow priests from Rugged Island.
#5 - The Passion of Saint Tibulus
Season 1 - Episode 3 - Aired 5/5/1995
After a night gossiping with Father Hernandez over the longest game of Cluedo in history, Ted and Dougal are bullied into being moral crusaders by Bishop Brennan, with disastrous results.
#6 - And God Created Woman
Season 1 - Episode 5 - Aired 5/19/1995
Novelist Polly Clarke, author of the steamy 'Bejewelled with Kisses', comes to stay on the island, and Ted thinks she's fallen for him.
#7 - Think Fast, Father Ted
Season 2 - Episode 2 - Aired 3/15/1996
There's a leaky roof threatening to collapse on Father Jack, and Ted receives a car from Bishop Brennan for a raffle prize, but as usual, things go horribly wrong.
#8 - Hell
Season 2 - Episode 1 - Aired 3/8/1996
Ted, Dougal and Jack head off on their summer holidays to Father O'Rourke's caravan in Kilkenny. Unfortunately, a run-in with some naked neighbours gets the holy men's holiday off to a sticky start.
#9 - Entertaining Father Stone
Season 1 - Episode 2 - Aired 4/28/1995
Life's always dull on Craggy Island, but it gets even duller when Father Paul Stone visits. Six years he's been coming to holiday with Ted, and the protracted silences have taken their toll...
#10 - Escape from Victory
Season 3 - Episode 5 - Aired 4/10/1998
It's the annual All-Priests Over 75s Five-a-Side Football Challenge Match against Rugged Island and Ted realises that Father Dick Byrne will stop at nothing to win.
#11 - Chirpy Burpy Cheap Sheep
Season 3 - Episode 2 - Aired 3/20/1998
Ted bets the annual heating allowance on Chris the sheep to win the island's annual sheep trials.
#12 - Cigarettes and Alcohol and Rollerblading
Season 2 - Episode 8 - Aired 4/26/1996
Easter is fast approaching, so Ted decides to get on with the important business of sacrificing something for Lent... but what should he choose?
#13 - Night of the Nearly Dead
Season 3 - Episode 7 - Aired 4/24/1998
Singing sensation Eoin McLove, at Number One for 27 weeks with My Lovely Mayo Mammy, secretly visits Mrs Doyle for tea after she wins a poetry competition.
#14 - Flight into Terror
Season 2 - Episode 10 - Aired 5/10/1996
Flying back from a visit to a particularly holy shrine, Ted, Jack and Dougal find themselves in mortal danger when Dougal visits the cockpit and does something really, really stupid.
#15 - A Song for Europe
Season 2 - Episode 5 - Aired 4/5/1996
Ted and Dougal decide to enter the 1996 Eurosong Contest. With inspired lyrics, a jaunty tune and the right attitude, they stand a good chance. Don't they?
#16 - Grant Unto Him Eternal Rest
Season 1 - Episode 6 - Aired 5/26/1995
Sister Mulligan's visit to Craggy Island ends dramatically when Father Jack drinks a bottle of polish and dies. Ted and Dougal's grief's tempered by the fact that he's left them half a million pounds.
#17 - The Mainland
Season 3 - Episode 4 - Aired 4/3/1998
A trip to the mainland always leads to trouble, and Ted is deeply nervous at the prospect. But what will go wrong this time?
#18 - Going to America
Season 3 - Episode 8 - Aired 5/1/1998
Ted accepts a job offer in America, with his very own parish in Beverly Hills. But with his ambition about to be realised, Ted's only problem is how to tell the others.
#19 - Speed 3
Season 3 - Episode 3 - Aired 3/27/1998
When Ted gets Pat Mustard, Craggy Island's randy milkman, sacked, Dougal takes over the round. But Pat plants a bomb on the milk float to get his revenge. Can Ted save Dougal?
#20 - The Plague
Season 2 - Episode 6 - Aired 4/12/1996
Father Dougal is very excited about his new pet rabbit, Sampras. Meanwhile, rabbit-phobic Bishop Brennan is due to arrive to investigate a case of suspected nude sleepwalking by Father Jack.
#21 - Tentacles of Doom
Season 2 - Episode 3 - Aired 3/22/1996
Three bishops are on their way to Craggy Island to upgrade the Holy Stone of Clonrickert to a Class II relic, and Ted is determined that Dougal and Jack be on their best behaviour. As if...
#22 - New Jack City
Season 2 - Episode 9 - Aired 5/3/1996
Jack is rushed to St. Clabbert's Old Priests Home when his hands become worryingly hairy. And his replacement is even more of a nightmare than the great man himself...
#23 - Kicking Bishop Brennan Up the Arse
Season 3 - Episode 6 - Aired 4/17/1998
After losing a bet to Dick Byrne, Ted has to kick Bishop Brennan up the arse, just when the Bishop's about to visit Craggy Island to see an image that miraculously appeared on Ted's skirting board...
#24 - Are You Right There Father Ted?
Season 3 - Episode 1 - Aired 3/13/1998
A perfect square of dirt on the window and an ill-conceived and unfortunately-timed impression lead to rumours that Ted is a bit of a racist.