The Whisky Priest [SEP] series
The Whisky Priest
"The Whisky Priest" is the twentieth episode of the BBC comedy series "Yes Minister" and was first broadcast 16 December 1982. The title refers to the term "whisky priest".
Plot.
Jim Hacker and his wife, Annie, are at their London flat. The Minister receives a visit from an army officer, Major Saunders, who has some information that he wouldn't divulge over the phone. Saunders stresses that what he has to say is highly confidential, and that he
literary and fictional works.
- The character of Father Matthew Doonan in the movie "The Devil at 4 O'clock", who regularly drinks himself into a stupor.
- Friar Tuck, of Robin Hood fame, is sometimes depicted as a whisky priest, although more often his physical weakness for food and drink is not shown as spiritual weakness.
- Father Jack Hackett in the "Father Ted" comedy series is an extreme example, though he doesn't appear to teach any standard at all.
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