Village Hall (TV series)

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.

Village Hall
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
Original release
Network	ITV
Release	16 July 1974 (1974-07-16) – 6 July 1975 (1975-07-06)

Episodes

Series 1

Produced by Michael Dunlop.

Ep. no. (overall)	Ep. no. in series	Title	Directed by	Written by	Original air date
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.

Series 2

Producer: Michael Dunlop.

Ep. No. (overall)	Ep. No. in series	Title	Directed by	Written by	Original air date
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.

DVD release

The complete first and second series was released on DVD by Network in 2012

References

1. BFI.org

External links

• Village Hall at IMDb