Hallelujah! (1981)

6.0 (5 votes)

2 Seasons

June 3, 1981

English

Comedy

Synopsis

Hallelujah! was a British sitcom made by Yorkshire Television for the ITV network and was broadcast from April 1983 to December 1984. The series was set in a Salvation Army citadel in the fictional Yorkshire town of Brigthorpe during series 1. Captain Emily Ridley has been posted there, having been an active member of the Salvation Army for 42 years. Despite the town and residents being seemingly pleasant, Emily is determined to flush out sin from behind the net curtains. Assisting Emily are her niece Alice Meredith. The programme was a repeat collaboration between Hird and the creator Dick Sharples, having worked together on the comedy series In Loving Memory between 1979 and 1986. The show even featured guest appearances from guest stars like Hird's Last of the Summer Wine co-star actor Michael Aldridge and television presenter & Countdown Legend Richard Whiteley Himself.

Network

ITV1

Episodes

Retirement

Jun 3, 1981

30 min

For 42 years, Emily Ridley has fought a tireless battle against the Devil and his works. Now, it seems her uncompromising brand of evangelism has fallen out of favour.

Repentance

Jun 10, 1981

30 min

Emily believes that Brigthorpe is teeming with unrepentant sinners. Persuading them to turn their backs on the Devil is proving more difficult than she imagined.

Counselling

May 13, 1983

30 min

Emily's first counselling session confirms her very worst fears: behind the net curtains of the pleasant little town is a snake pit of original sin!

Poor Box

Jun 24, 1981

30 min

Emily's latest door-to-door collection for the poor yields little more than £1.20, two 'drop dead's and an improper suggestion. Then she opens the poor box...

Luncheon Club

Jul 1, 1981

30 min

Emily's new Senior Citizens' Luncheon Club gets off to a flying start - with an even more interesting finish.

Mobile Canteen

Jul 8, 1981

30 min

Emily takes delivery of a new mobile canteen, but attempts to offer tea, sympathy and a bowl of soup to the poor and needy don't work out quite as she intended, especially when a ham sandwich causes an embarrassing fall at Yorkshire Television that makes the protestor a hero!

Struck Down

Jul 15, 1981

30 min

With Emily in hospital, struck down by a renegade ham sandwich, Sisters Alice Meredith and Dorothy Smith are left to run the Citadel. Their approach is quite unlike Emily's!