The Vicar of Dibley

- Season 3

(1999)

Alice and Hugo return from honeymoon, having been imprisoned for accidentally helping a drug smuggler. Alice is pregnant. Simon Horton has come to see Geraldine and they have great difficulty in spending time alone at the vicarage as different council members keep dropping by. Eventually Simon appears in a dressing gown and the villagers know he is sleeping with the vicar. However he does not commit and finishes with her. She considers resigning but everybody talks her out of it.

For Christmas Geraldine plans to stage a Nativity play in front of the church. David will play Herod,showing his kinder side, and Owen wants to be the King - cue his Elvis Presley impression. Alice and Hugo play Joseph and Mary and, amazingly, learn to speak Hebrew. During the play Alice goes into labour and gives birth, prompting an audience member to declare it is the most realistic Nativity play she ever saw.

It's Spring and time for Alice and Hugo's baby to be christened. As Geraldine is one of the godparents the Bishop arrives to perform the ceremony. Somewhat surprisingly David proposes marriage to Geraldine, who says that she will consider it. However, after Sean Bean has appeared to her in a dream telling her not to go through with it, she turns David down.

During a blisteringly hot summer a drought is declared in Dibley but soon afterwards Water Board officials arrive, announcing that the village is to be evacuated in order to make way for the site of a new reservoir. Geraldine leads the villagers in a mass protest, chaining themselves to the church, but it is Jim who saves the day, thanks to his 'endangered species'.