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- Dibley is holding a mask design competition, with awards being made to the brightest and best. But the vicar has to point out fairly early on that the masks are meant to be the sort that are worn to help prevent the spread of Covid-19 rather than the sort that are worn to scare people at Halloween. (en)
- Geraldine participates in a wife-swapping reality television show and gets to live with Sting. While Harry spends the week with Trudie Styler, Geraldine thinks that Sting is flirting with her. When it turns out he is not, she shoves a cake in his face. Alice questions Sting's appearance in his band The Police, comparing him to her uncle who was in the police.
Last appearance of Alice and Harry (en)
- The Dibley village fête is approaching and Geraldine is determined to raise more than the £270 taken the previous year. When Alice says she has a second cousin named Reg Dwight , Geraldine invites him thinking he is Elton John. Guest starring Kylie Minogue as herself. (en)
- The villagers want to celebrate Geraldine's 40th birthday, so they buy her a ticket to a speed dating evening. However, when she goes it turns out that most of the dates are the other villagers. When Geraldine leaves without a date, Hugo offers to sleep with her and impregnate her so she can have a baby, revealing that he and Alice now have ten children. Meanwhile, Geraldine is trying to get the villagers enthusiastic about the 20th anniversary of Live Aid and encourages them to write to the Prime Minister about the Make Poverty History campaign. However, when they show no interest, she shows them a short video depicting two poverty-stricken children, and the episode concludes with all of them wearing armbands in support of the campaign. Guest starring Miranda Hart, Nathalie Cox and Cristian Solimeno as organiser and participants in the speed dating respectively.
This episode did not display full end credits of cast and crew, although the actors were all given an onscreen credit at the beginning of the programme. Geraldine tells a joke to Alice at the start of the episode, instead of at the end. (en)
- In her second set of sermons, Geraldine finally experiences the joy of going outside again. She also learns the dangers of trying to write sermons whilst also enjoying Advocaat, reveals the results of the village quiz, discusses the fiasco over school exams, ponders the Black Lives Matter movement and remembers her wonderful verger Alice. (en)
- Having officiated 100 weddings, Geraldine is excited to finally be the bride. Fiancé Harry sensitively leaves her alone to research dresses, but the parishioners invade, taking over all the organisation as a thank you gift for Geraldine's decade of friendship. Hugo presents a disastrous This Is Your Life, but the evening is saved when a power cut gives the group opportunity to simply chat and show their appreciation for each other.
Before the wedding, Owen, Jim and Rev Jeremy Ogilvy , an old college friend whom Geraldine has chosen to conduct the service, all propose to her. After a number of setbacks, the bride looks beautiful in her white dress until Owen drives the car through a muddy puddle. Geraldine attends the ceremony in her pyjamas - Harry's favourite pair - with Alice dressed as the Tenth Doctor and Daleks bridesmaids. As the newly-married Harry and Geraldine leave the service, she flies up into the sky above Dibley, overcome with joy.
Last appearance of Gonads and Rosie (en)
- To mark the 650th anniversary of St. Barnabus' Church, the villagers set up a radio station for a week, and Geraldine holds a competition for the best DJ. Frank comes out as gay during his turn as DJ, but only Geraldine is listening. Alice competes against David in the village quiz. (en)
- When the Antiques Roadshow comes to Dibley, the villagers take along items to be valued. David is told that his "priceless" paintings are all worthless imitations, until he puts his fist through one in a fit of rage and is told he has just destroyed a valuable Manet. Jim thinks he is on Ready Steady Cook. However, when Alice goes to get her prized Papa Smurf model that her father gave her valued, Geraldine is forced to make the valuer, Hilary Kay, lie about its true worth. When Alice thinks she could sell it for its "value", Geraldine must sell her television and ring for Alice. (en)
- Following the success of Radio Dibley, Geraldine is interviewed in The Times newspaper and invited to appear on Pause for Thought with Terry Wogan, where she meets ballerina Darcey Bussell. As media opportunities keep pouring in, fame goes to her head with unfortunate consequences for the other villagers. After humiliating her village in front of the nation, a humbled Geraldine tries to set things right. (en)
- Following the lockdown caused by COVID-19, Geraldine gives a short service to her parishioners from her home. She describes her efforts to tidy up the mountain of Easter eggs, and issues corrections to the parish newsletter. The latest parish council meeting was also relayed, though attempts to use Zoom backfire as no one else has a computer, so Geraldine is left to make all the decisions herself. The short ends as Geraldine promises that the situation will be resolved.
Joint collaboration between Comic Relief and Children in Need. The only character to appear is Geraldine. (en)
- Geraldine and the parishioners head to London to vote on allowing women to become bishops, but make the mistake of sending Jim to cast the vote. Meanwhile, Geraldine flirts with an attractive vicar and Frank's failing hearing leads him to make some major slip-ups.
Last appearance of Owen, Frank and David. (en)
- One of the church's stained glass windows is destroyed during a storm. While everyone struggles to remember what the window depicted, David points out it will cost £11,000 to replace. The vicar then pursues one of David's wealthy friends, Daniel Frobisher , trying to persuade him to donate the money. (en)
- The Bishop of Mulberry is to officiate at the christening of Alice and Hugo's baby. Geraldine and Owen are to be the godparents, while Frank and Jim act as god-grandparents. As David thinks about how he misjudged Geraldine when she arrived, he decides they are well-matched and asks her to marry him. When David goes to some considerable lengths to demonstrate that he is prepared to change himself for Geraldine, she is swept away by his declaration of love and ends up accepting. However, after Geraldine has a dream of her celebrity crush, she quickly regrets accepting David's proposal and tries to extricate herself from the situation without hurting David's feelings. Guest starring Sean Bean as himself, Richard Griffiths and Nina Wadia. (en)
- After taking part in the Ice Bucket Challenge , Geraldine gets an offer to become Bishop. Confusion on her behalf, however, leaves her last in the running when other, more successful, candidates turn up for the interview process.
Guest starring Richard Ayoade, Annette Crosbie, Maureen Lipman, Emma Watson, Ruth Jones, Jennifer Saunders and Fiona Bruce. The only regular characters to appear are Geraldine, Hugo and Jim.
Last appearance of Jim'' (en)
- The Songs of Praise team come to Dibley to film in St. Barnabas' Church. The townsfolk all want to be involved, while Geraldine falls for the show's producer Tristan Campbell . Guest starring Pam Rhodes as herself.
First appearance of Tristan Campbell, Doris Trott, Gonads and Cecil (en)
- Geraldine wants to organise a Christmas show that no one will forget, and Alice suggests recreating the Nativity at a real farm. At the event, at Owen's farm, Alice plays Mary and gives birth in the middle of the performance. The child is later named Geraldine after the vicar. (en)
- When Geraldine is invited to four separate Christmas dinners, she does not have the heart to refuse any so goes to all four. On Christmas night she is visited by Songs of Praise producer Tristan Campbell, who asks her to marry him. Geraldine is overwhelmed until he introduces his fiancée , and it becomes apparent that he wants her to conduct his wedding. Guest starring Mel Giedroyc as Alice's sister and Carol MacReady as Alice's mother.
Last appearance of Tristan Campbell (en)
- Dibley is in the middle of a drought, and the water company decides to solve the problem by turning Dibley into a reservoir. Geraldine chains herself to the church in protest, but initially finds little support from the rest of the villagers when the water company makes lucrative offers to encourage them to vacate. Meanwhile, the villagers want to build a millennium statue. Guest starring Martyn Lewis, Jeremy Paxman and Roger Sloman. (en)
- Geraldine graciously invites Johnny Depp and the other celebrities in tow to a party at the vicarage as the BBC contact the vicar asking if they can broadcast a documentary about the village. Alice starts preparing for the party but does not realise she has her dress on back to front. The party begins, and so Johnny Depp comes round with a host of celebrity friends, including Madonna; the Duchess of York; and Robin Cook . Because the whole party occurred in the dark, David does not believe that the party actually happened; he says the next day that he thought Johnny Depp brought round a couple of impersonators instead in order to fool Geraldine. He is quickly corrected and leaves absolutely flabbergasted. (en)
- David stands for re-election to the local council, but faces competition when the villagers declare that they want the vicar to run. She agrees not to stand as long as David makes a few election promises. Featuring the voice of Alistair McGowan.
Last appearance of Doris Trott (en)
- As Alice wonders whether I Can't Believe It's Not Butter might actually be butter, Geraldine is visited by a distraught villager whose pet has died. Moved by how much people love their animal friends, Geraldine plans a special service for all the animals of the village, to be held in the church. However when this attracts tabloid interest, David's wrath is incurred and he again attempts to have Geraldine removed. Guest starring Moray Watson. (en)
- Alice and Hugo are married, with Jim as best man and children dressed as Teletubbies. Meanwhile, Geraldine is attracted to David's brother from Liverpool, Simon . During her hen night, Alice also reveals the shocking identity of her biological father. Guest starring Geraldine McNulty.
First appearance of Simon Horton (en)
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