The Vicar of Dibley

- Season 4

(2005)

Christmas coincides with Geraldine's tenth year as vicar and David suggests that she should apply to be a bishop. A coincidental visit by Rachel Hunter leads Alice to believe that Geraldine is gay, but plans go ahead for her to meet the Archbishop of Canterbury to discuss her promotion. At her party she dives into a chocolate fountain, emerging to meet the Archbishop. Sensing that she has blown her chance of promotion, she gets drunk and delivers a bizarre Midnight Mass, whilst Jim's winning entry in a carol contest is similarly unusual.

It's the vicar's fortieth birthday and the villagers club together to buy her a present - an evening at a speed-dating session. Unfortunately the one handsome young man there, Steve, gets snapped up by a blonde girl. The other male participants are all council members. Geraldine is cheered, however, when the parish council all agree to back her support for the Make Poverty History campaign after watching a moving film about orphans in Africa.

Geraldine forms a book club at which Alice deciphers the Da Vinci Code and works out that she is the last living descendant of Jesus Christ. Geraldine, however, is depressed. She has conducted a hundred weddings but is still single herself. An attractive young couple arrive to take up a weekend cottage - Harry and Rosie Kennedy. Geraldine is smitten by Harry and is relieved to find that Rosie is his sister, not his wife. They begin dating.

Geraldine turns down Owen's final pleas to marry him and the villagers' suggestion that she should have a sky-diving wedding, to get married to Harry. Alice is charged with being the wedding planner and she chooses a Doctor Who theme. After the Reverend Jeremy Ogilvy has conducted the ceremony and a montage of scenes from Geraldine's life has been shown Alice finally understands the vicar's closing joke, thanks to Harry.