Season 1 (1981)
Release date: 1981-06-03
Episodes (7):
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1. Retirement
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.
Release date: 1981-06-03
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2. Repentance
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.
Release date: 1981-06-10
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3. Counselling
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!
Release date: 1983-05-13
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4. Poor Box
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...
Release date: 1981-06-24
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5. Luncheon Club
Emily's new Senior Citizens' Luncheon Club gets off to a flying start - with an even more interesting finish.
Release date: 1981-07-01
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6. Mobile Canteen
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!
Release date: 1981-07-08
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7. Struck Down
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!
Release date: 1981-07-15
Rest of the cast - click here to expand
Patsy Rowlands - Sister Alice Meredith