all gas and gaiters

1 ALL GAS AND GAITERS (1966-71) THIS farce set in the fictional cathedral of St Ogg's, starred Derek Nimmo and sparked controversy for depicting the clergy as inept.

ANSWERS: 1 Medina; 2 All Gas And Gaiters; 3 Zambia; 4 A seat; 5 Rock; 6 Damon Hill; 7 The chain of volcanoes around the edges of the Pacific Ocean; 8 Alaska; 9 As a stage direction: 'They all go out'; 10 Ten.

Quiz of the Day ANSWERS: 1 Medina; 2 All Gas And Gaiters; 3 Zambia; 4 A seat; 5 Rock; 6 Damon Hill; 7 The chain of volcanoes around the edges of the Pacific Ocean; 8 Alaska; 9 As a stage direction: 'They all go out'; 10 Ten.

FRANKLY I don't care if Mr Miliband or Mr Millipede leads the Labour Party - most politicians are all gas and gaiters and feed our heads with false promises.

Ah, how the Church of England, riven by debate, close to despair over women clergy, gay bishops and turbulent priests, must pine for those days when All Gas and Gaiters seemed a fair reflection of life in its Cathedral closes.

He was superb as the thin-lipped dean, watching the antics of the archdeacon (Robertson Hare), the bishop (William Mervyn) and the Reverend Mervyn Noote (playedby the hugely talented, Liverpudlian comedy actor Derek Nimmo, who died in 1999), in All Gas and Gaiters, which ran on BBC in the late 1960s and early '70s.

The star of TV's All Gas And Gaiters did not speak to his 44-year-old impresario son Tim for 18 months after a row in the early 80s, but although they were later reconciled there was no mention of Tim in his 1986 will.

All Gas And Gaiters - with Nimmo as the Rev Noote, William Mervyn as the Bishop, and Robertson Hare as the Archdeacon - wasn't just inoffensive, it was funny.

His most famous TV roles were as stuttering, upper-crust members of the clergy in sit-coms All Gas and Gaiters, Hell's Bells, Oh Brother!

He had a hit as the Reverend Mervyn Noote in the ecclesiastical television series All Gas and Gaiters, and found himself typecast as an English vicar for several years afterwards.

I say Derek Nimmo of All Gas And Gaiters fame was in the Oz soap Neighbours.

ANSWERS: 1 Rain' 2 Maharishi Mahesh Yogi' 3 Black' 4 Senegal' 5 The Mediterranean Sea' 6 They are all US space shuttles' 7 The Tempest' 8 Jehovah's Witnesses' 9 Cricket' 10 All Gas And Gaiters.

But the stutter was real and he exploited it to brilliant effect playing bumbling clerics in All Gas And Gaiters, Oh Brother!

These included All Gas and Gaiters, Oh Brother, Oh Father and Hell's Bells.

Nimmo, who rose to fame playing clerical types in such TV series as All Gas and Gaiters and Oh, Brother!