1. Arrival

The village church is having a usual evening service with its 5 attendees including the elderly vicar, who dies during the service. The parish council therefore convene in order to discuss the successor to the vicar; it is decided they'd like him to be younger than their recently deceased and rather senile 90+ one.

Geraldine arrives and brings great surprise to everyone she meets, because they're not used to female vicars. Everyone greets her and leaves lasting first impressions of their eccentricity. David is outraged that Dibley is used as a social experiment to see if female vicars "work" as well as male ones.

Geraldine takes some time to get to know Alice and find out some background about the village and its good inhabitants. In the meantime, David is leading a campaign amongst the parish council to have Geraldine sacked before she's even started the job, but the rest of the parish council want to give her a chance. The first Sunday service arrives, and the church is packed full. Geraldine wears her heart on her sleeve as she preaches for the first time there. She's really popular and it looks like her stay will be a long one!

First broadcast: 10th Nov 1994

2. Songs of Praise

The BBC writes to Geraldine to ask permission to film Songs of Praise in Dibley. She and the other villagers, apart from David, are delighted, especially as their reason for filming is because of the new female vicar!

As well as complaining about the BBC's motivation for filming in Dibley church, David mentions that he's bought a new Bible for the church with traditional script. A choir is recruited, the process of which involves listening to lots of talentless auditions. And elsewhere Alice only just manages to rehearse her reading.

When Geraldine meets the Songs of Praise producer Tristan Campbell, she finds him very attractive and flirts badly with him; similarly, David fancies the lighting lady. During the filming, the villagers have problems with remembering when to laugh, causing several out-takes. Once the BBC crew have left Dibley both Geraldine and David follow up the phone numbers they've managed to gain from Tristan and the lighting lady respectively, but find that they share the same number and must therefore be dating. Finally, all gather to watch the TV programme, which is greatly embarrassing for Geraldine who can't sing and is shown with a double-chin; and Alice who can't understand old script and misreads Fs & Ss to her great embarrassment.

First broadcast: 17th Nov 1994

3. Community Spirit

The annual Dibley Autumn Fayre is due to occur and David is angry not to be invited to open it as he usually is. Preparations are quickly under way to arrange things including Alice's very, erm, creative idea of making soft toys from cooked pasta. Although Geraldine can't seem to work out what creature each of the animals is, Alice explains each with perfect ease.

The sexual tension rises yet again as Hugo makes moves on Alice but both are too nervous to do anything about it! When Geraldine ponders who to invite to open the fayre, she notices that Alice's uncle is called Reg Dwight (which is Elton John's "real" name). Naturally she makes the obvious assumption, and invites Reg to open the fayre. The village celebrates this in a party with Elton John songs.

On the day of the fayre, Alice's uncle arrives to open the event - the problem is he really is just Reg Dwight! Panic ensues (and David is smug and chirpy because he thinks that once again he'll be asked to open the fayre), but not for long: Kylie Minogue drops by and agrees to open the fayre! The villagers celebrate; Geraldine is happy; and David is beaten on this occasion!

First broadcast: 24th Nov 1994. Guest starring Kylie Minogue

4. The Window and the Weather

There's a storm in the village, and the Parish Council are all dithering around arguing about what to call it! Alice is petrified by the thunder and lightening and so drops by to Geraldine's for comfort, as does Hugo.

The next day, Geraldine investigates the damage caused by the storm and discovers that a stained-glass window has been destroyed. Another meeting of the Parish Council is called in order for everyone to try to work out what was on the window to get it replaced. Who was in it? Maybe Jesus; maybe Moses; maybe St. Barnabus; maybe a llama! Where is it set? Maybe a library; maybe a hill; maybe a mountain; maybe a cigar! They finally decide it's Noah's ark, so the Parish Council think of ways fund a replacement window.

Owen runs a dubious lottery and Leticia begins to write a book called "100 Exciting Things to do with Root Vegetables". Geraldine asks David for names of his rich friends to possibly invest in the window but, when he refuses, she gets the information from Hugo. The funding is soon secured however Geraldine sees an appeal for financial aid following an earthquake in Colombia and so she donates the money to this instead; the residents are pleased she did.

First broadcast: 1st Dec 1994

5. Election

The local elections are coming up and Geraldine asks who the useless local Councillor is: it's David, and he's rather offended by this! It's discovered that he keeps going on trips away to apparently look at prospects of town-twinning which never actually come to pass. Meanwhile, Geraldine notices the many shortfalls in Dibley's provisions which ought to be dealt with by the local Councillor: there are no bus services to other villages; and the Women's Institute require a minibus for their trips.

Frank celebrates his birthday with a party and David gives an insulting speech; afterwards, Geraldine feels unwell after having suffered Leticia's cooking.

In David's re-running campaign in the local election he uses a picture of himself with Geraldine to seem like good Christian with clergy support: Geraldine is furious! Because all the villagers want Geraldine to run for local Councillor but she doesn't want to, she gets David to visit all the constituents and be nice to them(!), listen to what they need, and provide it. When he's elected, he doesn't fulfil his promises and so Geraldine organises for the residents and Women's Institute to play golf on the golf course. Infuriated, he gives in and fulfils his election promises!

First broadcast: 8th Dec 1994

6. Animals

Alice has a very worrying problem: she worries whether I Can't Believe It's Not Butter might actually be butter! But, far more gravely, as Geraldine becomes quite bemused whilst listening to all this philosophising, a villager drops by who is distraught by the death of her pet. Moved by how much this lady cared for her animal friend, Geraldine decides to hold a special service for all the animals of the village.

Naturally, David is outraged by the idea of having an animal church service and puts it down to Geraldine being a bit whacky; in fact, he's so angry, he contacts the bishop to once again ask that Geraldine be sacked. The bishop replies that Geraldine can go ahead with it, but that it's on her own head.

The pressure mounts even more when the tabloids hear about the event, and make a spectacle of it in a front-page article. The service becomes the talk of the village as residents are curious as to what to expect. When the day of the service actually arrives, everyone (including David, of course) is thoroughly surprised about how many people - and animals - turn up for the service. It's a resounding success!

First broadcast: 15th Dec 1994