Hallelujah! (1983)

Genre

sitcom

Country

United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland

Length

2 seasons, 15 episodes

Rated

PG

Rating

6.2 of 10 from 6 voters

Elsewhere

IMDb

How it feels

A Salvation Army captain moves to a small Yorkshire town determined to root out local sins. She is joined by her niece as they navigate the town's pleasant but secretly mischievous residents.

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What happens

Hallelujah! is a British television sitcom produced by Yorkshire Television that aired on ITV from 29 April 1983 to 21 December 1984. The series was set in a Salvation Army citadel in the fictional Yorkshire town of Brigthorpe during series 1 (and later in the fictional place of Blackwick in series 2). Captain Emily Ridley (Thora Hird) 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 is her niece Alice Meredith (Patsy Rowlands). The programme was afurther collaboration between Hird and the creator Dick Sharples, who worked together on the comedy series In Loving Memory between 1979 and 1986. The series also featured guest appearances from the likes of Hird's Last of the Summer Wine co-star Michael Aldridge and television presenter Richard Whiteley. (from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA)

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