Oh, Brother! Oh, Brother! Oh, Brother! is a British situation comedy show on BBC television starring Derek Nimmo, which was broadcast between 1968 and 1970. The series was set in a monastery, with Nimmo cast as the well-meaning but inept novice Brother Dominic. It was basically a successor to "All Gas and Gaiters", where Nimmo had played a very similar role, the main difference being that Brother Dominic was working-class, whereas Nimmo's previous character, Rev. Mervyn Noote, had been upper-class. "Oh, Brother!" was not quite as successful or as affectionately remembered as the earlier programme, although it did last three series containing
Mervyn Haigh Mervyn Haigh Mervyn George Haigh (14 September 1887 – 20 May 1962) was an Anglican clergyman who served as the third bishop of the restored see of Coventry in the modern era and the 97th Bishop of Winchester in a long line stretching back to the 7th century. He was born on 14 September 1887, the son of an Anglican clergyman and was educated at Clifton College, Bristol and New College, Oxford. After university he took Holy Orders and embarked on a clerical career that was to last for over 40 years. London curacies were interrupted by war service as