Hallelujah!

Season 1

1981 · 7 episodes · 3h 30m in all

Episodes

1. 1

   1. Retirement

   3 Jun 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.

2. 2

   2. Repentance

   10 Jun 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.

3. 3

   3. Counselling

   13 May 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!

4. 4

   4. Poor Box

   24 Jun 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...

5. 5

   5. Luncheon Club

   1 Jul 1981 · 30 min

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

6. 6

   6. Mobile Canteen

   8 Jul 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!

7. 7

   7. Struck Down

   15 Jul 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!