Father Ted was a situation comedy television program produced by the British television company Hat Trick Productions which first ran from 1995 to 1998 on Channel 4 in the United Kingdom. It starred Dermot Morgan in the title role as the Irish Catholic priest Father Ted Crilly, and was set on the remote fictional Craggy Island parish off the west coast of Ireland. The show ran for three series, totalling 25 episodes, from 21 April 1995 until 1 May 1998, and was written by two Irish writers, Arthur Mathews and Graham Linehan.