Village Hall is a drama anthology series made by Granada Television between 1974 and 1975.[1] It is entirely set in a village hall, with each episode highlighting a different use to which the space is put by local people. Writers include Jack Rosenthal and the actor Kenneth Cope.
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Genre | Drama anthology |
Starring | Ron Moody Bernard Hepton George Cole Colin Welland Patrick Troughton Richard Griffiths Michael Angelis John Le Mesurier Anton Rodgers Ian Hendry Sue Nicholls Joan Hickson Marjie Lawrence Sydney Tafler |
Country of origin | United Kingdom |
Original language | English |
No. of series | 2 |
No. of episodes | 14 |
Production | |
Running time | 50 minutes |
Production company | Granada Television |
Release | |
Original network | ITV |
Original release | 16 July 1974 (1974-07-16) – 6 July 1975 (1975-07-06) |
Produced by Michael Dunlop.
Ep. no. (overall) | Ep. no. in series | Title | Directed by | Written by | Original air date | |
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1 | 1 | "Mr. Ellis versus the People" | June Howson | Jack Rosenthal | 16 July 1974 (1974-07-16) | |
Cast: Ron Moody, Marjorie Yates, Brian Miller, Veronica Roberts, Bernard Hill, Madge Hindle, Michael Angelis, Richard Griffiths and Elizabeth Dawn. | ||||||
2 | 2 | "There'll Almost Always be an England" | Quentin Lawrence | Jack Rosenthal | 30 July 1974 (1974-07-30) | |
Cast: Bernard Hepton, Liz Smith, Reginald Barratt, Michael Melia, Norman Rossington, Keith Chegwin, Dilys Laye, Peter Pratt, David Swift, Stella Moray and Bruce Bould. | ||||||
3 | 3 | "Friendly Encounter" | Alan Grint | Willis Hall | 6 August 1974 (1974-08-06) | |
Cast: George Cole, Norman Jones, Tom Georgeson, Lewis Collins and Adrian Wright. | ||||||
4 | 4 | "Mark Massy Is Dead" | John Bruce | Peter Ransley | 13 August 1974 (1974-08-13) | |
Cast: Colin Welland, Priscilla Morgan, Thorley Walters and Gwen Taylor. | ||||||
5 | 5 | "Dancing In The Dark" | Alan Gibson | Peter Terson | 20 August 1974 (1974-08-20) | |
Cast: John Fraser, Mary Morris, Michael Latimer, Peter Straker, Dallas Adams and Lesley Manville . | ||||||
6 | 6 | "The Magic Sponge" | Colin Cant | Kenneth Cope | 27 August 1974 (1974-08-27) | |
Cast: Patrick Troughton, Richard Pearson, Sydney Tafler, Nicholas Smith and Marjie Lawrence. | ||||||
7 | 7 | "Distant Islands" | Alan Gibson | Donald Churchill & Julia Jones | 13 September 1974 (1974-09-13) | |
Cast: Pat Heywood, Richard Vernon, Edward Judd and Margery Mason. |
Producer: Michael Dunlop.
Ep. No. (overall) | Ep. No. in series | Title | Directed by | Written by | Original air date | |
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8 | 1 | "Miss Health and Beauty" | Baz Taylor | Tim Aspinall | 11 May 1975 (1975-05-11) | |
Cast: Zoë Wanamaker, Sue Nicholls, Veronica Doran, Elizabeth Spriggs, Elaine Donnelly, Bernard Wrigley and Gerald Flood. | ||||||
9 | 2 | "Pie in the Sky" | Peter Plummer | Donald Churchill | 18 May 1975 (1975-05-18) | |
Cast: John Le Mesurier, Joan Hickson and Anton Rodgers. | ||||||
10 | 3 | "The Rough and the Smooth" | Alan Gibson | Peter Terson | 8 June 1975 (1975-06-08) | |
Cast: Trevor Adams, Christopher Guard, Jane Carr, Barry Stokes, Jan Francis, Kenneth Cranham and Linda Hayden. | ||||||
11 | 4 | "Lot 23" | Carol Wilks | Carey Harrison | 15 June 1975 (1975-06-15) | |
Cast: Paola Dionisotti, Kenneth Watson, Daphne Heard, Priscilla Morgan, Robert Oates, Patsy Smart, Spencer Banks, Jimmy Gardner, Sebastian Shaw and Gabrielle Daye. | ||||||
12 | 5 | "Old Scores" | Colin Cant | Kenneth Cope | 22 June 1975 (1975-06-22) | |
Cast: Roger Hammond, Heather Canning, Frank Mills, Geoffrey Chater, Christopher Benjamin, John Woodnutt and Daphne Slater. | ||||||
13 | 6 | "Silver Threads" | Brian Mills | Peter Whitbread | 29 June 1975 (1975-06-29) | |
Cast: Dinah Sheridan, Derek Francis, Arthur English, Sylvia Coleridge, Gwen Nelson. Denise Coffey, Arthur Hewlett, Leslie French, Erik Chitty, Valerie Lush, Stella Moray and Ben Aris. | ||||||
14 | 7 | "Battleground" | Quentin Lawrence | H. V. Kershaw | 6 July 1975 (1975-07-06) | |
Cast: Ian Hendry, Cyril Luckham, Basil Henson, Rosemarie Dunham, Joe Gladwin, Valerie Phillips, Michael Ripper, Frank Crompton, Richard Leech and John Nettleton. |
The complete first and second series was released on DVD by Network in 2012