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 their general incompetence. By the time the series finished, Nimmo was identified with the stereotype of a traditional British clergyman and he went on to play a bungling monk in another BBC clerical sitcom, "Oh, Brother!", and a Roman Catholic priest in its sequel series, "Oh, Father!". Another sitcom in which he appeared in a starring role as a clergyman, many years later, was "Hell's Bells" (by now promoted to a dean). He also appeared as the Reverend Jonathan Green in a television production of "Cluedo". He became so well known for his clerical parody that, in the 1975 "The Goodies'" episode "Wacky Wales", a "team of Derek Nimmos" played in a spoof "Ecclesiastical Rugby Sevens" competition.