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Hallelujah!

All Episodes 1981 - 1984

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  • 1981-06-02T23:00:00Z
  • 30m
  • 7h 30m (15 episodes)
  • United Kingdom
  • English
  • Comedy
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.

15 episodes

Series Premiere

1981-06-02T23:00:00Z

1x01 Retirement

Series Premiere

1x01 Retirement

  • 1981-06-02T23:00:00Z30m

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.

1981-06-09T23:00:00Z

1x02 Repentance

1x02 Repentance

  • 1981-06-09T23:00:00Z30m

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.

1983-05-12T23:00:00Z

1x03 Counselling

1x03 Counselling

  • 1983-05-12T23:00:00Z30m

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!

1981-06-23T23:00:00Z

1x04 Poor Box

1x04 Poor Box

  • 1981-06-23T23:00:00Z30m

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...

1981-06-30T23:00:00Z

1x05 Luncheon Club

1x05 Luncheon Club

  • 1981-06-30T23:00:00Z30m

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

1981-07-07T23:00:00Z

1x06 Mobile Canteen

1x06 Mobile Canteen

  • 1981-07-07T23:00:00Z30m

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!

1981-07-14T23:00:00Z

1x07 Struck Down

1x07 Struck Down

  • 1981-07-14T23:00:00Z30m

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!

Season Premiere

1983-04-28T23:00:00Z

2x01 Marching Orders

Season Premiere

2x01 Marching Orders

  • 1983-04-28T23:00:00Z30m

Captain Emily Ridley receives her marching orders to take up a new posting, but to where? To another northern Sodom or Gomorrah - or to the Salvation Army home for old soldiers?

1983-05-05T23:00:00Z

2x02 Just a Song at Twilight

2x02 Just a Song at Twilight

  • 1983-05-05T23:00:00Z30m

Emily puts the Sally Army's reputation at stake when she agrees to compete in a musical festival - without a band, singers, or even a comb and paper!

1983-05-12T23:00:00Z

2x03 Holy Deadlock

2x03 Holy Deadlock

  • 1983-05-12T23:00:00Z30m

Despite weeks of fighting the good fight, Emily still hasn't saved a single soul. Then she hits the jackpot of original sin.

1984-11-23T00:00:00Z

2x04 The Snake Pit (Part One)

2x04 The Snake Pit (Part One)

  • 1984-11-23T00:00:00Z30m

Emily is convinced she is about to get her longawaited promotion, but what she actually gets is something rather different.

1984-11-30T00:00:00Z

2x05 The Snake Pit (Part Two)

2x05 The Snake Pit (Part Two)

  • 1984-11-30T00:00:00Z30m

Accused of running her citadel like a house of ill repute, Captain Emily Ridley's Sally Army career seems to be almost over...

1983-06-02T23:00:00Z

2x06 Rock Bottom

2x06 Rock Bottom

  • 1983-06-02T23:00:00Z30m

Songster, Alice Meredith tries to save a middle-aged dropout from himself, but is Brother Gibson quite what he appears?

1983-06-09T23:00:00Z

2x07 It Happened One Night

2x07 It Happened One Night

  • 1983-06-09T23:00:00Z30m

The secrets of Captain Emily Ridley's private life are about to be revealed...

Captain Ridley attempts to explain to a group of children what Christmas used to be like, using as illustration the tale of Ebenezer Dickinson - an old miser whose only enjoyment is making other people's lives a misery.

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