Which TV comedy series first cast Derek Nimmo as the bumbling cleric, Reverend mervyn Noote?
Derek Nimmo of British films and television series, as aristocrats, including starring roles in the television comedy series "The World of Wooster" (as "Bingo Little"), and in the comedy film "One of Our Dinosaurs Is Missing" (as "Lord Southmere"), as well as appearing in the James Bond spoof film "Casino Royale". Derek Nimmo made his name as the Reverend Mervyn Noote in the British sitcom "All Gas and Gaiters" (1966). At the time it was considered rather controversial because the main characters were senior churchmen (the Bishop, his chaplain Noote and the Archdeacon) who got into various scrapes as a result of
Jonathan Cecil Peter Ustinov's Hercule Poirot) in "Thirteen at Dinner" (1985), "Dead Man's Folly" and "Murder in Three Acts" (both 1986). He has been called "one of the finest upper-class-twits of his era". In 2009 he appeared in an episode of "Midsomer Murders". He also worked in radio, where his credits included "The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy" and "The Brightonomicon". He also appeared in "The Next Programme Follows Almost Immediately", playing characters with very bad foreign accents. Additionally, he stood in for Derek Nimmo in the role of the Bishop's Chaplain, the Reverend Mervyn Noote, in the second series of the