All in Good Faith is a British

United Kingdom

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 sitcom

Situation comedy

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 that aired on ITV

ITV

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 from 1985 to 1988. Starring Richard Briers

Richard Briers

Richard David Briers, CBE is an English actor whose career has encompassed theatre, television, film and radio.He first came to prominence as George Starling in Marriage Lines in the 1960s, but it was in the following decade when he played Tom Good in the BBC sitcom The Good Life that he became a...

, it was written by John Kane

John Kane (writer)

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. All in Good Faith was made for the ITV

ITV

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 network by Thames Television

Thames Television

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.

Cast

• Richard Briers
  Richard Briers
  Richard David Briers, CBE is an English actor whose career has encompassed theatre, television, film and radio.He first came to prominence as George Starling in Marriage Lines in the 1960s, but it was in the following decade when he played Tom Good in the BBC sitcom The Good Life that he became a...
  
   - The Reverend Philip Lambe
• Barbara Ferris
  Barbara Ferris
  Barbara Gillian Ferris is an English actress and former fashion model.She appeared in a number of films and productions for television and is possibly best remembered as Dinah, the young woman who eloped with Dave Clark in the 1965 film Catch Us If You Can...
  
   - Emma Lambe (series 1 and 2)
• Susan Jameson
  Susan Jameson
  Susan Jameson is an English actress who is best known for her television work.Jameson was born in Barnt Green, Worcestershire, England, UK. She is married to actor James Bolam with whom she has a daughter, Lucy...
  
   - Emma Lambe (series 3)
• Lydia Smith - Miranda Lambe (series 1 and 2)
• James Campbell - Peter Lambe (series 1 and 2)
• James Cossins
  James Cossins
  James Cossins was an English character actor. Born in Beckenham, Kent, he became widely recognised as the abrupt, bewildered Mr. Walt in the Fawlty Towers episode "The Hotel Inspectors"...
  
   - Major Andrews (series 1)
• Robert Bridges - Wilf (series 1)
• Frank Middlemass
  Frank Middlemass
  Francis George Middlemass was an English actor, who even in his early career played older roles. He is best remembered for his television roles as Rocky Hardcastle in As Time Goes By, Algy Herries in To Serve Them All My Days and Dr. Alex Ferrenby in Heartbeat...
  
   - Desmond Frank (series 2 and 3)
• T. P. McKenna
  T. P. McKenna
  Thomas Patrick McKenna , known professionally as T. P. McKenna, was an Irish actor who worked on stage, in film and television in Ireland and the UK from the 1950s.- Film and television :...
  
   - Oscar Randolph (series 2)
• John Woodvine
  John Woodvine
  John Woodvine is an English stage and screen actor who has appeared in more than 70 theatre productions, as well as a similar number of television and film roles.-Early life:...
  
   - Oscar Randolph (series 3)

Plot

All in Good Faith was written especially for its lead star, The Good Life actor Richard Briers. The series was his first ITV sitcom. He played the Reverend Philip Lambe who, in his middle age, decides to move from his wealthy Oxfordshire

Oxfordshire

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 parish to one in Edendale, a fictional urban town in the Midlands

English Midlands

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. He is determined to do things in his new parish and is faced with new problems like homeless people. He is accompanied by his wife Emma, sixteen-year-old daughter Miranda and twelve-year-old son Peter.

Series One (1985–86)

1. "In The Beginning" (30 December 1985)
2. "No Stone Unturned" (6 January 1986)
3. "A Flying Visit" (13 January 1986)
4. "The Crunch" (20 January 1986)
5. "An Eye for an Eye" (27 January 1986)
6. "Exodus" (3 February 1986)

Series Two (1987)

1. "Home from Home" (26 February 1987)
2. "Manna from Heaven" (5 March 1987)
3. "I Dreamt I Dwelt In Parish Halls" (12 March 1987)
4. "Babes and Sucklings" (19 March 1987)
5. "The Patience of Job" (26 March 1987)
6. "Like Father Like Son" (2 April 1987)

Series Three (1988)

1. "Where My Caravan Has Rested" (11 April 1988)
2. "And He Fell Among Thieves" (18 April 1988)
3. "The Prodigal Son" (25 April 1988)
4. "The Spirit Is Willing" (9 May 1988)
5. "Behold a Pale Rider" (16 May 1988)
6. "False Profits" (23 May 1988)