The Rev Philip Lambe is vicar of All Saints Church in a typical middle England town.
Each episode focusses on his role as mediator in various issues between parishioners or resolving the troubles of an individual.
He played the Reverend Philip Lambe who, in his middle age, decides to move from his wealthy Oxfordshire parish to one in Edendale, a fictional urban town in the Midlands.
He is accompanied by his wife Emma, sixteen-year-old daughter Miranda and twelve-year-old son Peter.
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