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Emmerdale
Emmerdale title screen
Format	Soap opera
Created by	Kevin Laffan
Starring	Present cast
Country of origin	United Kingdom
No. of episodes	4793 (as of 3 October 2007)
Production
Producer(s)	ITV Productions
Running time	22 minutes (excluding advertisements)
Broadcast
Original channel	ITV
Picture format	4:3 (1972-2001), 16:9 (2002-present)
Original run	16 October 1972 – present
External links
Official website
IMDb profile
TV.com summary

Emmerdale (known as Emmerdale Farm until November 1989) is an award winning and critically acclaimed British soap opera, set in the fictional village of the same name (known as Beckindale until 1994) in West Yorkshire, England. Much of the action takes place within the fictional village pub, The Woolpack. The show was created by Kevin Laffan, with Keith Richardson serving as Executive Producer since 1986, and Kathleen Beedles serving as Series Producer since 2005 (she will be departing at the end of 2007). Image File history File links Broom_icon. ... The Cardigans are a Swedish band formed in the town of Jönköping in 1992. ... Emmerdale is Swedish band The Cardigans debut album from 1994. ... Image File history File links Emmerdale_intro. ... The first TIME cover devoted to soap operas: Dated January 12, 1976, Bill Hayes and Susan Seaforth Hayes of Days of our Lives are featured with the headline Soap Operas: Sex and suffering in the afternoon. A soap opera is an ongoing, episodic work of fiction, usually broadcast on television... Kevin Barry Laffan (24 May 1922 Reading, Berkshire, England, UK - 11 March 2003 London, England, UK) was an English playwright and television writer, best known for creating ITV soap opera Emmerdale Farm. ... This page is a list of the cast and characters of the ITV soap opera Emmerdale. ... Image File history File links Flag_of_the_United_Kingdom. ... is the 276th day of the year (277th in leap years) in the Gregorian calendar. ... Year 2007 (MMVII) is the current year, a common year starting on Monday of the Gregorian calendar and the AD/CE era in the 21st Century. ... Granada Productions is one of Europes leading commercial television production and distribution companies. ... Independent Television (generally known as ITV, but also as ITV Network) is a public service network of British commercial television broadcasters, set up under the Independent Television Authority (ITA) to provide competition to the BBC. ITV is the oldest commercial television network in the UK. Since 1990 and the Broadcasting... 4:3 is a ratio. ... The 16:9 aspect ratio (also known as widescreen) is an aspect ratio that is 16/9 or 1. ... is the 289th day of the year (290th in leap years) in the Gregorian calendar. ... Year 1972 (MCMLXXII) was a leap year starting on Saturday (link will display full calendar) of the Gregorian calendar. ... The first TIME cover devoted to soap operas: Dated January 12, 1976, Bill Hayes and Susan Seaforth Hayes of Days of our Lives are featured with the headline Soap Operas: Sex and suffering in the afternoon. A soap opera is an ongoing, episodic work of fiction, usually broadcast on television... The Yorkshire Dales (also known as the Dales) is the name given to an upland area, mostly in Yorkshire, in Northern England. ... For other uses, see England (disambiguation). ... This article or section is not written in the formal tone expected of an encyclopedia article. ... The Woolpack The Woolpack is a fictional public house on the popular ITV1 soap opera Emmerdale. ... Kevin Barry Laffan (24 May 1922 Reading, Berkshire, England, UK - 11 March 2003 London, England, UK) was an English playwright and television writer, best known for creating ITV soap opera Emmerdale Farm. ... This article or section does not cite its references or sources. ... Kathleen Beedles is the current Series Producer of British television soap opera Emmerdale. ... The primary role of a television producer is to coordinate and control all aspects of production, ranging from show idea development and cast hiring to shoot supervision and fact-checking. ...

Emmerdale is the third highest-rating soap opera on British television, behind Coronation Street and EastEnders. Coronation Street is an award winning British soap opera. ... EastEnders is a popular BBC television soap opera, first broadcast in the United Kingdom on BBC1 on 19 February 1985[4] and continuing to date. ...

The series is produced by Yorkshire Television (now known as ITV Productions) and broadcast on the ITV network, and was first aired on 16 October 1972. It was originally conceived and broadcast as a daytime programme in an afternoon slot, moving to its current position as an early evening programme in 1978. This article or section does not cite any references or sources. ... Independent Television (generally known as ITV, but also as ITV Network) is a public service network of British commercial television broadcasters, set up under the Independent Television Authority (ITA) to provide competition to the BBC. ITV is the oldest commercial television network in the UK. Since 1990 and the Broadcasting... is the 289th day of the year (290th in leap years) in the Gregorian calendar. ... Year 1972 (MCMLXXII) was a leap year starting on Saturday (link will display full calendar) of the Gregorian calendar. ...

Emmerdale is shown from Sunday to Friday at 7pm on ITV. Repeat episodes and the omnibus of the show can be seen on ITV2. In broadcasting an Omnibus (sometimes called an Omnibus edition) is a compliation of daily episodes that is usually broadcast during the following weekend. ... ITV2 is a free-to-air entertainment television channel in the United Kingdom owned by ITV plc. ...

Origins

Emmerdale Farm was originally modelled on the revolutionary soap-opera The Riordans, made by RTÉ, Ireland's broadcaster, from the mid-1960s to the end of the 70s. The Riordans broke new ground for soap operas by being filmed largely out of doors (on a farm owned, in the storyline, by Tom and Mary Riordan), rather than, as was the norm in British and American soap operas, being almost totally shot in studios (even 'outdoor' scenes were traditionally filmed indoors). The Riordans pioneered location shooting, with real farm animals, and actors driving tractors. In the 1960s and 1970s, outdoor filming of television programmes using OBUs (Outdoor Broadcast Units) was in its infancy, due to the far higher costs involved, and the reliance on things like the weather that were out of the control of the programme makers. The Riordans was the second Porkchop pig eater made by Joe Mcburger Master to boost ratings (then called Telifís Éireann). ... Radio Telefís Éireann (RTÉ; Irish for Radio and Television of Ireland) is the national publicly-funded broadcaster of Ireland. ...

The success of The Riordans showed that a soap opera could be filmed out of doors. Yorkshire Television sent people to The Riordans set in County Meath, Ireland to see the making of the programme at first hand. Statistics Province: Leinster County Town: Navan Code: MH Area: 2,342 km² Population (2006) 162,831 Website: www. ...

On the basis of what they saw, the station began preparations for its own rural-based, outdoor-filmed, soap opera, called Emmerdale Farm. As with The Riordans, it was to be focused on one family, the Sugdens, and the name of their farm was also the name of the show.

Series background

The Miffield estate was the biggest employer in the village of Beckindale - situated 39 miles from Bradford and 52 miles from Leeds. Lord Miffield gave the lease of Emmerdale Farm, on the edge of the village, to the Sugden family in the 1850s out of gratitude, after Josh Sugden had sacrificed his life for the Earl's son in the Crimean War. For other uses, see Bradford (disambiguation). ... For other uses, see Leeds (disambiguation). ... Combatants Allies: Second French Empire British Empire Ottoman Empire Kingdom of Sardinia Russian Empire Bulgarian volunteers Casualties 90,000 French 35,000 Turkish 17,500 British 2,194 Sardinian killed, wounded and died of disease ~134,000 killed, wounded and died of disease The Crimean War (1853–1856) was fought...

Josh's grandson Joseph married Margaret and they had a son Jacob. In the 1930s, Jacob Sugden supposedly purchased Emmerdale Farm for his family. In 1945 he married Annie Pearson - daughter of farm labourer Sam Pearson. Jacob Sugden was a fictional character in the popular soap opera Emmerdale. ... Annie Brearly (née Pearson; previously Kempinski and Sugden) was a fictional character in the popular soap opera Emmerdale. ... Wikipedia does not yet have an article with this exact name. ...

Jacob had run the farm into the ground, as he had drunk away most of the profits, leaving it in a sorry state. It was badly maintained, and the future of the farm looked bleak at the time of Jacob's death on the 10 October 1972. is the 283rd day of the year (284th in leap years) in the Gregorian calendar. ...

Jacob left a wife Annie and three grown children, two sons, Jack (the eldest) and Joe (the youngest of the three), and daughter Peggy. These characters would form the basis of the series Emmerdale Farm. John Jacob Jack Sugden is a fictional character in the popular soap opera Emmerdale. ... Joseph Joe Sugden was a fictional character in the popular soap opera Emmerdale, played by Frazer Hines Family Mother: Annie Brearly Father: Jacob Sugden (deceased) Brother: Jack Sugden Sister: Peggy Skilbeck (deceased) Wife: Kate Hughes (deceased) Stepson: Mark Hughes Stepdaughter: Rachel Hughes Nephews: Jackie Merrick (deceased), Robert Sugden Adopted Nephew... Peggy Skillbeck (nee Sugden) was a fictional character in the popular soap opera Emmerdale, played by Jo Kendall Family Mother: Annie Brearly Father: Jacob Sugden (deceased) Brothers: Jack Sugden, Joe Sugden (deceased) Husband: Matt Skillbeck Son: Sam Skillbeck (deceased) Daughter: Sally Skilbeck (deceased) Nephews: Jackie Merrick (deceased), Robert Sugden Niece...

The first episode

The Sugden family in the first episode

The first episode of Emmerdale Farm opened with the funeral of Jacob Sugden on the 16 October 1972. Image File history File links No higher resolution available. ... Image File history File links No higher resolution available. ...

Jacob had upset the family by leaving the farm to his eldest son, Jack, who had not been seen since 1964 when, at the age of 18, he left his family, heritage and Beckindale - for London. This article is about the capital of England and the United Kingdom. ...

Jack Sugden returned to the farm in this opening episode, although he chose to stay away from the funeral - making his presence known only after the service, when the Sugdens returned to their home, Emmerdale Farm - where they found him waiting for them.

The first lines uttered in this first episode were spoken by Peggy Skilbeck:

"Matt, who’s she?"

Peggy was referring to Marian Wilks who was watching the funeral cortege whilst out riding. Marian Wilks was a fictional character in the popular soap opera Emmerdale played by Gail Harrison from 1972-1975 and Debbie Blythe in 1987. ...

The Wilkses proved to be new to the village; Marion's father Henry Wilks was a wealthy businessman. Henry Wilks was a fictional character in the popular soap opera Emmerdale played by Arthur Pentelow. ...

In subsequent months, Jack sold a share of the Farm to Annie, Joe, Peggy and his grandfather Sam Pearson. Emmerdale Farm Ltd was formed after Henry Wilks bought Sam’s share of the estate.

The first episode is available free for UK viewers at ITV.com.

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Evolution

Initially the show focused on the farm, and the Sugden family who lived on and ran it. As time went on, the show's focus moved to the nearby village of Beckindale. To reflect this change, the show's name was changed in November 1989 to Emmerdale, and later the name of the village changed from Beckindale to Emmerdale. Coinciding with the soap's name change was the introduction of the Tates, who would emerge as the soap's leading family in the 1990s, overshadowing the Sugdens. In turn, the Tate family has since been supplanted, with the Dingle and King families taking centre stage in the early 2000s. The Dingle family is a dodgy family in the british soap Emmerdale. ... The King family are a fictional family appearing on the ITV soap opera Emmerdale. ...

Emmerdale Online Channel

On the 21st May 2007 the Emmerdale online channel announced it would be continuing past the Who Killed Tom King? storyline. [1] Tom King upon falling to his death On the 25 December 2006 Emmerdale presented the interactive storyline, featuring the death of Tom King. ...

Village businesses

Despite being a small village, Emmerdale is a bustling place for business. The current businesses are:

• Home Farm Estates (owned by Matthew, Jimmy and Carl King and run by Rodney Blackstock)
• Butler's Farm (owned by Home Farm Estates and leased and run by Andy Sugden)
• Val's Interiors (owned and run by Eric Pollard)
• The Veterinary (owned by Paddy Kirk and Rosemary King and run by Paddy)
• The Grange B&B (owned and run by Louise Appleton and Terry Woods)
• Café Hope (owned and run by Viv and Bob Hope)
• The Post Office (owned and run by Viv Hope)
• King & Sons - who run haulage and bin collection services (owned by Matthew King (35%), Jimmy King (30%), Carl King (25%) and Scarlett Nicholls (10%) and run by Matthew, Jimmy and Carl King and Carrie Nicholls)
• Emmerdale Exclusive Cleaning Services (owned by Nicola De Souza and run by Nicola and David Metcalfe)
• Windsor and Dingle Garage (owned by Scott Windsor and Debbie Dingle and run by Debbie)
• Debbie's Cars (owned and run by Chas and Debbie Dingle)
• The Woolpack (owned and run by sisters Diane Sugden and Val Lambert)

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Major storylines

Main article: Major Storylines of Emmerdale

Until 1993, Emmerdale was largely ignored by press and viewers alike, in the face of much more well-known soaps such as Coronation Street, EastEnders and Brookside. This, however, was changed when Emmerdale's plane crash storyline brought Emmerdale into the public eye, consequently keeping the show as one of the most watched soap operas on British television. As well as the plane crash storyline, there have been several other major storylines, including the famous storm of 2003, the Kings River explosion of 2006, and, more recently, the murder of Tom King on Christmas Day, 2006. Since the soap premired in 1972 on ITV Emmerdale has featured numerous famous storylines. ... For other uses, see Brookside (disambiguation). ... Thomas Tom Albert King was a fictional character on the ITV soap opera Emmerdale. ... For other uses, see Christmas (disambiguation). ...

Key Emmerdale Farm storylines include:

• 1972 - Jack's return to Emmerdale Farm, the revelation that he is a best selling novelist, the setting up of Emmerdale Farm Ltd. Rumours about the parentage of Jackie Merrick.
• 1973 - The murder of Sharon Crossthwaite, the accidental death of local tramp Trash, Jack is horsewhipped by the squire, the birth of Matt and Peggy Skilbeck's twins, Peggy Skilbeck's death
• 1974 - Joe Sugden's marriage to Christine Sharp, a dreamer, and the end of the marriage five weeks later
• 1976 - Matt Skilbeck's twins are killed in a crash on a level crossing
• 1976 - The Woolpack being relocated after suffering from subsidence
• 1977 - Joe Sugden and Kathy Gimbel scandalise Beckindale by setting up home together, though unmarried
• 1978 - Matt Skilbeck marries Dolly, an armed robbery at The Woolpack (available on ITV.com), a rare painting is unearthed at Verney's
• 1979 - Wendy Hotson is raped, Joe is involved in a shooting incident, Dolly is pregnant
• 1980 - Jack returns home, and so does Pat, Sandie and Jackie Merrick. Enoch Tolly uses illegal pesticides. Dolly suffers a miscarriage
• 1981 - Jack and Pat agree to marry, Tom Merrick commits arson to implicate Jack, Tom Merrick steals Christmas trees
• 1982 - Jack and Pat marry, Jack finds out he is Jackie's father, Jackie goes off the rails and burns down a caravan, Dolly has a baby
• 1983 - Sandie Merrick becomes a teenage mother, Joe romances the vicar's married daughter then leaves for France, Annie is rushed to hospital

Disasters

In addition to the sensational plane crash storyline, the woolpack was blown up in the 1990s, and recently Kings River showhome collapsed after several explosions caused by a gas leak. The collapse claimed threes lives: Noreen Bell and estate agent David Brown were killed in the explosion, and Dawn Woods later died in hospital from internal injuries. Since the soap premired in 1972 on ITV Emmerdale has featured numerous famous storylines. ... Since the soap premired in 1972 on ITV Emmerdale has featured numerous famous storylines. ... Noreen Doreen Bell was a character in the British soap opera Emmerdale. ... David Brown was a fictional character on the ITV soap opera Emmerdale. ... Dawn Woods (née Hope) was a fictional character on the ITV soap opera Emmerdale. ...

Other disasters include:

• 1995 - Luke McAllister died after his car crashed into a tree and exploded into flames.
• 1996 - Dave Glover died in a fire after attending Biff and Linda's wedding.
• 2000 - A van and minibus collide in the village. Van driver Pete Collins dies at the scene; minibus passenger Butch Dingle dies in hospital from his injuries the next day.
• 2000 - Long-running character Sarah Sugden died in a barn fire.
• 2001 - Miss Jean Strickland, the headmistress, was struck and killed by a stolen car driven by student Marc Reynolds on his way home from a night out with friends.
• 2002 - The church was burnt down by schizophrenic Zoe Tate.
• 2003 - A large storm hit Emmerdale, leaving parts of the village in ruins, with collapsed power lines and trees, The Woolpack was damaged by its chimney collapsing through the roof into the bar area, and also out the front, crushing Tricia Dingle and resulting in her dying in hospital a few days later; characters such as Ashley Thomas and Louise Appleton became stuck on the road as a result of the terrible weather. The disaster took place on the tenth anniversary of the plane crash.
• 2005 - Shelly Williams fell off a boat in Scotland, and was never found.
• 2005 - Zoe Tate and Callum Rennie destroyed Home Farm in a gas explosion for revenge on the King's before leaving Emmerdale.
• 2005 - Max King died instantly when the Land Rover he was in went off the road and through a brick wall and exploded, although driver Andy Sugden escaped the car unharmed and gave a false story about the accident to avoid being arrested; and the police believed his version of events, as there were no witnesses to contradict his story.
• 2006 - The vicarage burnt down after a stray spark ignited spilt vodka, with Debbie Dingle trapped inside.
• 2006 - Tom King was murdered on Christmas Day when son Carl hit him over the head with a horse statue and pushed him out of a window.
• 2007 - A tampered van driven by Billy Hopwood crashed into a lake and sank with him and Victoria Sugden inside, but they both survived.
• 2007- DCI Grace Barraclough was killed instantly when she was run over by a lorry, while on the way to the police station to report Carl for killing his dad, Tom King.

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Memorable exits

Emmerdale is famous for its extremely dramatic exit storylines. These characters would have made some of the most memorable exits from Emmerdale while still breathing. (For characters who left through death, see below). This is a list of births, marriages and deaths in the popular ITV soap opera Emmerdale. ...

• Kim Tate - Kim and her husband Steve Marchant stole a horse, intent on selling it, as they were experiencing a cash flow problem. As they where driving away from the scene, Steve ran over Kathy Glover. While in hospital, Kim managed to make Kathy believe that Steve had not stopped his vehicle when he had hit her, in order to make her husband seem to be the sole villain of the piece - even though she had helped to plan the thievery of the horse. On the day of trial in January 1999, with the lawyers questioning Kathy's validity as a witness for Steve's hit-and-run crime, Kathy herself came to question how true Kim's words had been. For this, and numerous other crooked tricks, the police were soon on her trail. She confronted Chris Tate to try to get hold of money as a means of escape, and knocked him out savagely with a paperweight when he would not comply. She left with her son James in a helicopter, never to be seen again. The pilot asked her if she was Kim Marchant, and with her final words on the soap she replied, "No, it's Kim Tate".
• Charity Tate - After Sadie King tricked Tom King into believing that Charity was having an affair with Cain Dingle, Tom called off the wedding to Charity. Despite later realising the lie, Tom was unable to convince Charity to reconcile with him, as all Charity wanted was revenge. She managed to get Jimmy King into bed after making him realise what Sadie was all about, and filmed them in bed together, and got him to confess that Sadie set her up. She took this tape to Tom and showed it to him in front of his whole family. Charity gave Sadie a punch and left the soap, despite an emotional plea from Tom King.
• Zoe Tate - Zoe was facing a court case for the attempted murder of Scott Windsor. After being blackmailed into selling Home Farm to Sadie King, she took revenge by blowing up the building; in her final scene, she waited in a car in front of the building waiting for the explosion, then drove off and out of the soap.
• Cain Dingle and Sadie King - The couple kidnapped Tom King, with Sadie pretending to have been double-crossed by Cain. The story took a number of twists and turns, with Cain's car going over into a quarry, although it was later discovered to be empty, and Cain shooting Sadie, although it was later discovered that this was also faked. As they prepared to make their escape by plane, Cain betrayed Sadie, leaving her at the airfield, and he flew off over the village. Both Cain and Sadie left the soap.
• Steph Forsythe - Steph finally did the right thing, even though it could have been in better circumstances when she pleaded guilty to the murder of brother Terence. This was to serve her dues for the death of Shelly Williams. Steph was then sentenced to life imprisonment, although it was in fact her estranged husband Adam who did the deed.

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Filming locations

Location shooting originally occurred in the village of Arncliffe in Littondale, one of the less frequented valleys of the Yorkshire Dales. In exterior shots, the village's hotel, The Falcon, was used to represent the fictional Woolpack Inn. Eventually the location of the shooting location became publicly known, which is perhaps what prompted the move to the village of Esholt in 1976, where it stayed for the next 22 years. This location also became a tourist attraction. Arncliffe is a small village in North Yorkshire, England. ... The Yorkshire Dales (also known as the Dales) is the name given to an upland area, mostly in Yorkshire, in Northern England. ... Esholt, looking along Main Street Esholt is a village in the county of West Yorkshire, England, near Guiseley. ...

The original Emmerdale Farm buildings are near the village of Leathley. Leathley is a village and civil parish in the Harrogate district of North Yorkshire, England. ...

From 1998 a purpose-built set on the Harewood estate is used, building on the Harewood estate started in 1996. The first scenes shot in the purpose-built set on the Harewood Estate were broadcast on 17th February 1998, from the front of the Woolpack (although some scenes were shot there from 1997). Harewood (pronounced Hair-wood) is a village on the outskirts of Leeds, West Yorkshire, England. ...

The houses in the new village at Harewood are timber framed structures covered in stone cladding. The village is built on green belt land so all the buildings are classed as "temporary structures" and must be demolished within ten years unless new planning permission is given. There is no plan to demolish the set and new planning has now been drawn up. Although no church was built on the Harewood set, there is a churchyard full of gravestones, some of them for the characters who have died in the serial.

Location footage of the fictional market town of Hotten is shot in Otley. The Benton Park School in Rawdon and the primary school in Farnley are also used as shooting locations. Indoor scenes are mostly filmed in the Emmerdale production centre in Leeds (located next to the main YTV building). See on Google Earth here. Otley on a market day, looking up Kirkgate with The Chevin in the background Otley is a town in northern England by the River Wharfe. ... Rawdon is a small town in Yorkshire located within the Leeds Metropolitan boundary. ... Farnley is a village in North Yorkshire, near Otley, bordering Leeds. ...

Visit Emmerdale Behind the Scenes for a full guided tour of all the filming locations used since 1972, right up to the present day.

Scheduling and popularity

Emmerdale Farm started as an afternoon soap opera on the ITV Network in 1972. Soon after the start, the majority of ITV regions chose to accommodate the programme in the 7pm Tuesday and Thursday slot. Anglia Television and Thames Television preferred a Monday and Tuesday 5:15pm slot and saw the week's episodes before the rest of the network. This article or section does not adequately cite its references or sources. ... This article does not cite any references or sources. ...

There were varying seasons of Emmerdale Farm and some years only a few episodes were shown:

• 1972 - 20 episodes
• 1973 - 102 episodes
• 1974 - 98 episodes
• 1975 - 61 episodes
• 1976 - 37 episodes
• 1977 - 91 episodes
• 1978 - 74 episodes
• 1979 - 52 episodes
• 1980 - 85 episodes
• 1981 - 73 episodes
• 1982 - 67 episodes
• 1983 - 71 episodes
• 1984 - 75 episodes
• 1985 - 92 episodes
• 1986 - 99 episodes
• 1987 - 99 episodes

From 6 January 1988, all ITV regions networked the show in the Wednesday and Thursday 6.30pm slot. Anglia Television and Central Television chose to move the programme to 7pm on Tuesdays and Thursdays in February 1989, as they were screening the new daily Australian drama Home and Away in the Emmerdale Farm slot. This was the first time Anglia had screened Emmerdale Farm in the 7pm slot. Central were simply returning to the slots they used until December 1987. For a period Anglia and Central saw episodes one week later than other regions. This article or section does not adequately cite its references or sources. ... Central TV logo, 1985_1998 Central Independent Television, or to give it its familiar name, Central Television or Central, is a British Independent Television company that took over from ATV on 1 January 1982. ... Home and Away (commonly abbreviated to H&A) is a soap opera that has been produced in Sydney by the Seven Network since July 1987. ...

During this period, the following episodes were transmitted:

• 1988 - 100 episodes
• 1989 - 102 episodes

From January 1990 all other regions followed the Central and Anglia schedule in the familiar Tuesday and Thursday 7pm slot. Enjoying highs of 11 million viewers. During the mid 1990s Scottish Television used the 7pm slot to show daily regional programmes resulting in Emmerdale moving to 5:10pm. Scottish Television had always given preference to their own countryside soap opera Take the High Road, which was accommodated in a 7pm slot. After only several months in the earlier slot Scottish returned Emmerdale to the 7pm slot. Scottish Television (now legally known as STV Central Ltd and referred to on-air as STV) is Scotlands largest ITV franchisee, and has held the ITV franchise for Central Scotland since August 31, 1957. ... Take the High Road was a soap opera produced by SMG Productions (Scottish Television) and set in the fictional village of Glendarroch (exteriors were filmed in the real-life village of Luss on the banks of Loch Lomond). ...

During this period, the following episodes were transmitted:

• 1990 - 101 episodes
• 1991 - 103 episodes
• 1992 - 104 episodes

Between 1993 and 1995, Emmerdale was shown in a daytime slot with a repeat of the previous evening episode.

During this period, the following new episodes were transmitted:

• 1993 - 103 episodes
• 1994 - 103 episodes
• 1995 - 104 episodes
• 1996 - 106 episodes

By 1 January 1997 ITV had opted to increase their output to three episodes a week with the additional episode being screened on Wednesdays. From 2 October 2000 a further two episodes were added on a Monday and Friday evening. A sixth episode to air on Sundays began in 2004.

During this period, the following new episodes were transmitted:

• 1997 - 157 episodes
• 1998 - 161 episodes
• 1999 - 164 episodes
• 2000 - 187 episodes
• 2001 - 260 episodes

Emmerdale is notable for being the first television soap opera in the UK to regularly produce six episodes a week, shown every night, except Saturday, at 7pm.

The show is now ranked high in the British popularity stakes, being outdone regularly only by the two major mainstream soaps, Coronation Street and EastEnders.

• On Christmas Day 2005 Emmerdale attracted 6.2 million viewers, when the villagers searched for Daz Eden and Belle Dingle who fell down a mine shaft.

• On Monday 24 April 2006 8.5 million viewers watched as Sam Dingle and Alice Wilson got married.

• On Monday 25 December 2006 over 7 million viewers watched as Tom King got pushed out of a window and fell to his death on his wedding day to Rosemary Sinclair.

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• The Kings River house collapse (13 July, 2006): Emmerdale won in the ratings battle here.

• Billy Hopwood, with Victoria Sugden, crashed his truck into a lake (1 February 2007): Emmerdale won here too, surprisingly since EastEnders episode involved an important storyline involving two of its most high profile characters, Martin and Sonia Fowler, leaving. Emmerdale attracted 8 million viewers with EastEnders gaining 6.5 million viewers.

• The Who Killed Tom King? plot came to a close on Thursday 17 May 2007, when the murderer was revealed. Emmerdale gained an average 8.6 million viewers, which peaked to 9.1 million viewers when Tom's son Carl confessed to the murder, between 7pm and 8pm. EastEnders could manage only 4 million between 7.30pm and 8pm.

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Overseas

Ireland

Emmerdale reaches viewers in the Republic of Ireland via both the widely available UTV from Northern Ireland and the TV3 Television Network in the Irish Republic. UTV and TV3 screen Emmerdale simultaneously in Northern Ireland and the Republic of Ireland. For other uses of the UTV acronym see UTV (disambiguation) Ulster Television plc (UTV) is a media company based in Northern Ireland. ... Northern Ireland (Irish: ) is a part of the United Kingdom lying in the northeast of the island of Ireland, covering 5,459 square miles (14,139 km², about a sixth of the islands total area). ... TV3 may mean: TV3 (Catalonia) TV3 (Ireland) TV3 (Malaysia) TV3 (Medford, USA) TV3 (New Zealand) TV3 (South Africa) TV3 (Viasat), Viasats flagship channel, with several European national channels, including: TV3 Denmark TV3 (Estonia) TV3 (Latvia) TV3 Lithuania TV3 (Norway) TV3 Slovenia TV3 (Sweden) TV3 (Marysville) See also: Lists of...

Sweden

Emmerdale has been shown in Sweden since the 1970s – originally on TV2 and since 1994 on commercial channel TV4. Under the title Hem till gården ("Home to the Farm"), the programme is broadcast at 12.25 on Monday to Friday lunchtimes (apart from a regular summer break). The episodes currently being screened (early 2007) date from 2004. Currently TV4 are screening the 17th block of 150 purchased episodes. SVT2 is one of two television channels broadcast by Sveriges Television in Sweden. ... TV4 AB (previously known as Nordisk Television AB) is a Swedish media company that owns the largest commercial television channel in Sweden, TV4. ...

Finland

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New Zealand

TV One and TV 2 in New Zealand shows the programme each weekday lunchtime at 12.30 and early morning 5.05 respectively. TV One (usually referred to as One, sometimes as TV1 or TVNZ One) is New Zealand television channel owned and operated by TVNZ. It is targeted at an older audience, compared to other major television channels in New Zealand. ... TV2 is a television channel in New Zealand, which is owned and operated by TVNZ. It targets a younger audience than its sister network, TV One. ...

Australia

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Romania

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Elsewhere

• Satellite channel Granada UKTV is currently showing the programme in the Middle East, Cyprus, and Malta.
• Members of the British Forces and their families can watch Emmerdale on BFBS TV1, which is also available free-to-air in the Falkland Islands.

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Trivia

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• The programme's title was changed from Emmerdale Farm to Emmerdale in November 1989; in the storyline, the village name was changed from Beckindale to Emmerdale in 1994.

• All of the main characters in Bottom were avid fans of Emmerdale. When Emmerdale Farm changed its name to Emmerdale, the characters mused that this might be because it shortened the time needed for the audience to read its name, providing the writers with more screen time to fill with story arcs.

• In the episode broadcast on 24 July 2006, Val Lambert visits Noreen Bell's house for the first time since Noreen was killed in the blast. She picks up a television magazine turned to the day of the disaster. While most of the schedule is as would normally be expected on a Thursday night, the 7pm slot on ITV shows a programme called Castle Bridge rather than Emmerdale. The magazine also schedules The Bill at 8pm, where it would normally be broadcast, however, for this week only, it was actually replaced with PokerFace.

• Creskeld Hall (Home Farm) is one of the few original filming locations used in the entire run of the series and has been involved in many storylines.

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DVD Releases

• Network DVD has announced three special DVD Releases to be scheduled for release on October 5, 2007 the releases are below.

The first 26 episodes of "Emmerdale Farm Volume 1" from 1972-73 on a four disk set. "The best of Emmerdale" twelve of the best episodes taken from 1993-2006 on a two disk set, starting with two episodes covering the plane crash. "Emmerdale 35th Anniversary Edition" is the other two releases together in a box set. Controversially, for a 35th anniversary set, the years 1974-1993 will be totally omitted. is the 278th day of the year (279th in leap years) in the Gregorian calendar. ... Year 2007 (MMVII) is the current year, a common year starting on Monday of the Gregorian calendar and the AD/CE era in the 21st Century. ...

Series producers

• David Goddard (October 1972 - January 1973)
• Peter Holmans (January 1973 - July 1973)
• Robert D Cardona (July 1973 - 1976)
• Michael Glynn (1976 - June 1979)
• Anne Gibbons (June 1979 - October 1983)
• Richard Handford (October 1983 - 1986)
• Michael Russell (1986 - March 1988)
• Stuart Doughty (March 1988 - December 1991)
• Morag Bain (December 1991 - 1993)
• Nicholas Prosser (1993 - 1994)
• Mervyn Watson (1994 - 1998)
• Kieran Roberts (1998 - April 2001)
• Steve Frost (April 2001 - 2005)
• Kathleen Beedles (2005 - )

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Spin-offs

Several Emmerdale books, fiction and non-fiction, have been produced, a number written by Lance Parkin (who had been a storyliner on the TV show) and Hugh Miller. At least one of these was also translated into Finnish. There are also several videos including The Dingles Down Under, The Woolpackers and Don't Look Now! - The Dingles in Venice. Lance Parkin is a British author, best known for writing fiction and reference books for television series, in particular Doctor Who (and spin-offs including the Virgin New Adventures and Faction Paradox) and Emmerdale. ... Hugh Miller is a television script writer and author. ...

The book titles for the original, popular series of novelisations, are:

• "The Legacy" (1) by Lee Mackenzie - stories from the original 1972 episodes
• "Prodigal's Progress" (2) by Lee Mackenzie - stories from 1973
• "All That A Man Has..." (3) by Lee Mackenzie - stories from 1973
• "Lovers' Meeting" (4) by Lee Mackenzie - stories from 1974
• "A Sad And Happy Summer" (5) by Lee Mackenzie - stories from 1973/1974
• "A Sense Of Responsibility" (6) by Lee Mackenzie - stories from 1975/1976
• "Nothing Stays The Same" (7) by Lee Mackenzie - stories from 1976
• "The Couple At Demdyke Row" (8) by Lee Mackenzie - stories from 1976/1977
• "Whispers Of Scandal" (9) by Lee Mackenzie - stories from 1977
• "Shadows From The Past" (10) by Lee Mackenzie - stories from 1977
• "Lucky For Some" (11) by Lee Mackenzie - stories from 1978
• "Face Value" (12) by Lee Mackenzie - stories from 1978
• "Good Neighbours" (13) by Lee Mackenzie - stories from 1978
• "Innocent Victim" (14) by Lee Mackenzie - stories from 1979
• "False Witness" (15) by Lee Mackenzie - stories from 1979
• "The Homecoming" (16) by Lee Mackenzie - stories from 1980
• "Old Flames" (17) by Lee Mackenzie - stories from 1980/1981
• "Wedding Bells" (18) by Lee Mackenzie - stories from 1981/1982
• "Family Feuds" (19) by Lee Mackenzie - stories from 1982
• "Young Passions" (20) by Lee Mackenzie - stories from 1983
• "Another Door Opens" (21) by Lee Mackenzie - stories from 1983
• "A Friend In Need" (22) by James Ferguson - stories from 1983/1984
• "Divided Loyalties" (23) by James Ferguson - stories from 1984
• Wives And Lovers (24) by James Ferguson - final novel of original series, stories from 1985

There was also

• "Annie Sugden's County Diary" by Lee Mackenzie - Annie's life in the 1920s until 1945
• "Early Days at Emmerdale Farm" by Lee Mackenzie - Annie's life from 1945 until the mid 1950s

Opening and closing credits

The farmhouse in sunset credits lasted the longest and were introduced in 1975 and continued to be used until November 1989 when the programmes title was shortened to Emmerdale.

Lists

• List of Emmerdale characters
• List of recurring and minor Emmerdale characters
• List of births, birthdays, marriages and deaths in Emmerdale
• List of residences in Emmerdale

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External links

• Emmerdale at itv.com
• Emmerdale at the Internet Movie Database
• Classic telly
• Emmerdale behind the scenes - filming locations revealed
• Emmerdale at What's on TV
• Emmerdale Resource & Fan Club News
• Emmerdale Recaps