The Mainland (Father Ted) Mrs. Doyle and Jack off, Ted and Dougal head for the caves. Ted is surprised to see Richard Wilson, from the show "One Foot in the Grave", waiting outside, and goes up to greet him with his catchphrase "I don't believe it!". Wilson, sick of the phrase himself, turns on Ted and starts beating him up before others physically drag him away. Ted and Dougal enter the caves with a tour, and in awe of one of the cave formations, Ted says "I don't believe it", unaware that Wilson was standing in front of him. Before Wilson attacks him again,
Father Ted Crilly Geoffrey Perkins asked Linehan and Mathews to discard the mockumentary format and expand the Father Ted episode to a traditional sitcom. Linehan found the character of Ted easier to write if he imagined Mathews's version delivering the lines. "Every time I wrote Ted in the early days, I'd hear Arthur's voice... Ted was this very bland character who'd never curse except for saying a very quiet 'feck' to himself. That panic and turmoil under the surface defined Ted before we even started writing him. Years later, when we did, it was just like pressing 'play' on a tape recorder." One