Village Hall (TV series)
# Village Hall (TV series)

Village Hall is a drama anthology series made by Granada Television between 1974 and 1975. 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.

## 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

