Hallelujah!

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.

Cast

Patsy Rowlands Sister Alice Meredith Thora Hird Captain Emily Ridley David Daker Brother Benjamin Rosamund Greenwood Sister Dorothy Smith Garfield Morgan Brig. Langton Geoffrey Bayldon Mr. Sedgewick Derek Benfield Arthur Walton Carmel McSharry Mrs. Sedgewick

Tessa Worsley Annie Morley

Tenniel Evans Colonel Aspinall

Danny O'Dea Rodney Marshall (uncredited)

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