Season 1

Season 1

1981-06-03
7 Episodes

Episodes

Retirement

1. Retirement

1981-06-03

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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.

Repentance

2. Repentance

1981-06-10

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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.

Counselling

3. Counselling

1983-05-13

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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!

Poor Box

4. Poor Box

1981-06-24

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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...

Luncheon Club

5. Luncheon Club

1981-07-01

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

Mobile Canteen

6. Mobile Canteen

1981-07-08

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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!

Struck Down

7. Struck Down

1981-07-15

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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!