This series of comic short stories ran into five books and was
eventually adapted into a TV comedy series, which in very many
ways was the spiritual parent of ''Series/FatherTed''. The
series of books was written by Father Peter de Rosa and the
subsequent TV series, which aired on [[Creator/{{ITV}} London
Weekend Television]] for three series of seven episodes each
between 1978 and 1981, draws upon these autobiographical novels,
written as "[[AuthorAvatar Father Neil Boyd]]".  The series is
an engagingly idiosyncratic situation comedy based on the post-
war experiences of a young priest, Father Neil Boyd (played in
the TV series by singer-actor Daniel Abineri), sent to the
parish of St. Jude's in the London suburb of Fairwater in 1950
as a curate to parish priest Father Charles Duddleswell (a
post-''Series/DadsArmy'' Arthur Lowe). This series gains extra
bite from the relatively embattled situation of the parishioners
as (mainly Irish) Catholics in a firmly Protestant Britain just
recovering from the war, and