Liste des épisodes

The Bishop needs to secure a substantial bequest, but in order to do so must re-enact a medieval custom of dispensing forty pairs of white socks to forty virgins.

This famous episode entitled "Only Three Can Play " is the one where Noote (the Chaplain, Reverend Mervyn Noote), the Bishop and The Archdeacon play a board game that Noote has invented. The game famously has each player needing to posess an encyclopaedic knowledge of railway timetables. The three friends look forward to this game every week. It was made specifically for three so that nobody else can ask to play with them. ie: The Dean. But the Dean calls and Noote has to go on an errand. The Dean asks to play the game and starts to change all their rules!.

Soon the Dean is changing the rules to suit himself and ruining the three friends' carefully and meticulously legislated game. Where has Noote got to? Well he has gone over the road to let a new neighbour know of a parking bylaw that she has unknowingly transgressed. The pedantic Dean of the cathedral has insisted on it.

Noote goes off in the neighbour's car, coming back to the Palace after seeing The Sound of Music with her.

The next week, Noote once more goes to see the film, leaving the Bishop and Archdeacon at the mercy of the Dean who comes to play! The Bishop tries to bring Noote back and between them they manage to attract the Archdeacon's attention. All three then go off to the cinema - leaving the Dean alone!