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"The Vicar of Dibley" (1994) More at IMDbPro »

• Howard Goodall originally wrote the theme, a setting of Psalm 23, as a serious piece of choral music.
  
  
• In the episode where Alice and Hugo get married, it is revealed that the bride's full name is Alice Springs Tinker.
  
  
• Geraldine is the vicar's middle name, she admits in one episode that her first name is actually Boadicea. However in the final episode she gives her name as 'Geraldine Julie Andrews Dick Van Dyke Supercalifragilisticexpialidocious Chim Chiminee Chim Chiminee Chim Chimcharee Granger', during her wedding.
  
  
• Dawn French received hate mail from male vicars when they first aired the program; she said that some were hurtful, but she joked that they used some of the phrases as a source of dialog in the program.
  
  
• Dawn French initially requested to play Alice Tinker, because she felt the vicar wouldn't be funny enough and that she understood Alice's humor. She later requested that the Vicar have some sort of faults - hence her being a bit lonely, a bit vain, and having a massive chocolate obsession.
  
  
• James Fleet was always in mind for the role of Hugo Horton.
  
  

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