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Father Ted Legend Talks Big Change That Happened After Season 1 Of The Show

That’s Mad Ted! It seems like some stuff may have changed half way through Father Ted and we didn't even notice. This morning on Dermot & Dave, the lads were joined by Pauline McLynn who famously played Mrs Doyle in the Channel 4 show. She was on the speak about An Post releasing a set of four fun stamp designs marking 25 years of legendary sit-com, Father Ted.  The stamps feature iconic one- liners now linked to each of the four main characters: “That’s mad, Ted” (Fr Dougal);  “That would be an ecumenical matter” (Fr Jack Retro wallpaper in the background of each stamp matches the different rooms in the Craggy Island Parochial House. The specially designed stamp booklet (€5.70) by Dublin’s Detail Design Studio contains five stamps celebrating the characters, their famed catchphrases and the world created by Father Ted. Four €1 N rate stamps cover postage in Ireland (including Craggy Island), with a €1.70 ‘W’ rate stamp for postage worldwide. But while on Pauline revealed that the design team on the show changed after the first season, so eager eyed viewers will notices that the set actually changed a lot in the second season. She told Dave all about it this morning - hit play on the podcast below. [audio mp3="https://media.radiocms.net/uploads/2020/08/28121232/PaulineMcLynn__2808.mp3"][/audio] see more