Ballykissangel

Ballykissangel is a BBC television drama created by Kieran Prendiville and set in Ireland, produced in-house by BBC Northern Ireland. The original story revolved around a young English Roman Catholic priest as he became part of a rural community. It ran for six series, which were first broadcast on BBC One in the United Kingdom from 11 February 1996 to 15 April 2001. It aired in Ireland on RTÉ One and in Australia on ABC TV from 1996 to 2001. Repeats have been shown on Drama in the United Kingdom and the series also has been shown in the United States on some PBS affiliates.

Main cast

• Tina Kellegher as Niamh Quigley • Niall Tóibín as Fr. Frank MacAnally • Frankie McCafferty as Donal Doherty • Joe Savino as Liam Coughlan • Áine Ní Mhuirí as Kathleen Hendley • Deirdre Donnelly as Siobhan Mehigan • Gary Whelan as Brendan Kearney • Stephen Tompkinson as Fr. Peter Clifford (Series 1–3) • Dervla Kirwan as Assumpta Fitzgerald (Series 1–3) • Tony Doyle as Brian Quigley (Series 1–5) • Birdy Sweeney as Eammon Byrne (Series 1–5) • Peter Hanly as Ambrose Egan (Series 1–5) • Bosco Hogan as Dr. Michael Ryan (Series 1–5) • Peter Caffrey as Padraig O'Kelly (Series 1–4) • Don Wycherley as Aidan O'Connell (Series 4–5) • Lorcan Cranitch as Sean Dillon (Series 4–5) • Colin Farrell as Danny Byrne (Series 4–5) • Kate McEnery as Emma Dillon (Series 4–5) • Victoria Smurfit as Orla O'Connell (Series 4–5) ==Episodes==

Episodes

The programme ran for six series, from 11 February 1996 to 15 April 2001. Almost all episodes were 50 minutes in duration. Series overview Series 1 (1996) Series 2 (1997) Series 3 (1997–98) Series 4 (1998) Series 5 (1999) Series 6 (2001) ==Awards and nominations==

Home media

All six series have been released in Region 1, 2, and 4. In 2010, four years after the release of series 5, series 6 was released on Region 2, along with a box set of series 1–6. The ninth episode of series 3, "The Waiting Game", was omitted from early Region 2 series 3 DVDs and all the Region 4 (Australian) DVD releases. This is not the case with the 2010 box set or any Region 1 (North America) sets, all of which contain this episode. ==International broadcasts==

International broadcasts

Repeats of the show were formerly aired every weekday on Virgin Media Three in Ireland. In the Netherlands and Flanders, ONS started broadcasting Ballykissangel in 2020. ==In other media==

In other media

Father Peter Clifford and Assumpta Fitzgerald make a guest appearance in the 1996 Father Ted Christmas special "A Christmassy Ted", where they appear in a dream Father Ted Crilly has. In 1997, both Father Clifford and Assumpta Fitzgerald made guest appearances in a Comic Relief edition of The Vicar of Dibley entitled "Ballykissdibley", where the lead characters from both shows participated. ==References==

Source: Wikipedia ↗

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