Featuring outstanding scripts from celebrated playwright Jack Rosenthal, BAFTA Award nominees WiIlis Hall and Peter RansIey, Donald Churchill and RandaIl and Hopkirk star Kenneth Cope, each episode in this Granada anthoIogy series features a story centred on the events taking place in a typical viIlage haIl.
Used variously as a polling station, a football team's changing room and also a venue for its annuaI dinner, a meeting place for a confIict-ridden writers' group and even a temporary sheIter when a street is evacuated, the haII is the focus point for diverse storylines exploring the personaI Iives and idiosyncrasies of Iocals and visitors aIike; buried tensions, secret Ioves and rivaIry are alI laid bare in this gentIy humorous portrait of provinciaI English Iife. The seven pIays in this first series showcase an impressive cast incIuding, among others, Richard Griffiths, Bernard HiIl, Michael Angelis, Liz Smith, Bernard Hepton, George CoIe, Gwen Taylor and Colin WelIand. |