Old Grey Whistle Theft [SEP] series
Old Grey Whistle Theft
"Old Grey Whistle Theft" is the fourth episode of the second series of the Channel 4 sitcom "Father Ted". The title is a pun on the BBC TV music show "The Old Grey Whistle Test".
Synopsis.
Ted prepares for a picnic outing with other priests, but find they have been waylayed, while Dougal makes an excuse not to go so he can spend more time with a rebellious new priest, Father Damien "Damo" Lennon, who behaves like an
Thornton, who for some reason left his handcuffs (but not his keys) at O'Leary's. The sergeant appears in "Competition Time", "The Old Grey Whistle Theft" and in "A Christmassy Ted". His name is uncertain; in "Competition Time" he is Sergeant Deegan (played by John Olohan), in "The Old Grey Whistle Theft" he is Sergeant Hodgins (also played by John Olohan) while in "A Christmassy Ted" John Quinn plays a "Police Sergeant" (even