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'''''Emmerdale''''' (known as '''''Emmerdale Farm''''' until [[1989]]) is a [[British television]] [[soap opera]] set in the fictional [[Yorkshire Dales|West Yorkshire]] village of the same name (known as Beckindale until 1994). Much of the action takes place within the fictional village [[public house|pub]], The Woolpack. The show was created by Kevin Laffan. It is the |
'''''Emmerdale''''' (known as '''''Emmerdale Farm''''' until [[1989]]) is a [[British television]] [[soap opera]] set in the fictional [[Yorkshire Dales|West Yorkshire]] village of the same name (known as Beckindale until 1994). Much of the action takes place within the fictional village [[public house|pub]], The Woolpack. The show was created by Kevin Laffan. It is the third highest-rating soap opera on British television, behind ''[[Coronation Street]]'' and ''[[EastEnders]]''. |
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The series is produced by [[Yorkshire Television]] (YTV) and broadcast on the [[ITV]] network, and was first aired on [[October 16]], [[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 the [[1980s]]. |
The series is produced by [[Yorkshire Television]] (YTV) and broadcast on the [[ITV]] network, and was first aired on [[October 16]], [[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 the [[1980s]]. |
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- For Emmerdale, the 1994 debut album by The Cardigans, see Emmerdale (album).
| Emmerdale | |
|---|---|
| File:Emmerdalecbc.jpg The opening title the show used between 1998 and 2005. | |
| Created by | Kevin Laffan |
| Starring | A sizable list of regulars |
| No. of episodes | 4453 (as of 1 September 2006) |
| Production | |
| Producer | ITV Productions |
| Running time | 30 minutes |
| Original release | |
| Network | ITV1 |
| Release | October 16, 1972 – Present |
| Related | |
| Coronation Street | |
Emmerdale (known as Emmerdale Farm until 1989) is a British television soap opera set in the fictional West Yorkshire village of the same name (known as Beckindale until 1994). Much of the action takes place within the fictional village pub, The Woolpack. The show was created by Kevin Laffan. It is the third highest-rating soap opera on British television, behind Coronation Street and EastEnders.
The series is produced by Yorkshire Television (YTV) and broadcast on the ITV network, and was first aired on October 16, 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 the 1980s.
Emmerdale is shown from Sunday to Friday at 7pm on ITV1. Repeat episodes and omnibuses of the show can be seen on ITV2.
Origins of Emmerdale
Emmerdale Farm was originally modelled on the revolutionary soap-opera The Riordans, made by RTÉ, Ireland's broadcaster, from the 1960s to the mid 1970s. The Riordans broke the mould 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 filmed in studios. (Even 'outdoor' scenes were traditionally filmed indoors.) The Riordans pioneered location shooting, with real farm animals, 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 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 in Ireland to see the making of the programme at first hand.
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 the farm was also the name of the show. 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 1989. Coinciding with the 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 been supplanted, with the Dingle and King families now taking centre stage.
Filming Location
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 town's hotel, The Falcon, was used to represent the fictional Woolpack Hotel. Eventually the location of the shooting location became publicly known, which is perhaps what prompted the move to the village of Esholt. This location also became a tourist attaction. Now a purpose built set in Harewood is used. 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). Follow this link [1] and if you have Google Earth, click on 'Open This Placemark' to go to a high-resolution satellite image of the YTV set on the Harewood estate.
Plane Crash Storyline
Until 1993, the show was largely ignored by press and viewers alike in the face of much more well known soaps such as Coronation Street, EastEnders and Brookside. However, a sensational plotline involving a plane crashing on to the village of Beckindale killing many long standing characters and leading to the onscreen renaming of Beckindale to Emmerdale (the village name change was as a tribute to the Sugden Family whose farm was known as Emmerdale Farm) gained a lot of press and audience attention, rating 18 million viewers for the series of special episodes and cemented the show's place among the top UK soaps. This plot line attracted controversy due to the similarity to the Lockerbie disaster: it was aired near to the time of the fifth anniversary of that disaster.
Kings River Explosion
On Thursday 13 July 2006, The Kings unveiled their brand new showhome which was to house married couple, Marlon Dingle (Mark Charnock) and Donna Windsor-Dingle (Verity Rushworth). But when local resident, Noreen Bell (Jenny Tomasin) opened a cupboard door inside the house it triggered a spark that let rip a huge gas explosion which catapulted her down the stairs. The explosion ripped through the bathroom floor tossing Jimmy King (Nick Miles) and Sadie King (Patsy Kensit) to opposite sides of the bathroom. The estate agent David Brown, who was located near the cupboard, was set alight. While running towards the house Marlon Dingle (Mark Charnock) and Donna Windsor-Dingle (Verity Rushworth) were also thrown back by another explosion. Debris started to fly towards the residents as the house started to explode in various places. Diane Sugden (Elizabeth Estensen) was knocked out by a collapsing ceiling while Danny Daggert (Cleveland Campbell) and Dawn Woods (Julia Mallam), who were running behind her, got caught in another explosion. The bathroom floor gave way and Jimmy King (Nick Miles) fell through, shortly followed by Sadie King (Patsy Kensit). The house then fully collapsed as the residents of Emmerdale stood in shock. Three have been confirmed dead: Noreen Bell (Jenny Tomasin), who was hit by the full force of the initial explosion and died instantly, Dawn Woods (Julia Mallam), who was rescued from the rubble but later died in hospital as a result of internal injuries, and the estate agent David Brown.
Popularity and Scheduling
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. In 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 slot. This was the first time Anglia had screened Emmerdale 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. From January 1990 all other regions followed the Central and Anglia schedule in the familiar Tuesday and Thursday 7pm slot. 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 accommodated a 7pm slot. After only several months in the earlier slot Scottish returned Emmerdale to the 7pm slot. By this time ITV had opted to increase their output to three episodes a week with the additional episode being screened on Wednesdays. In 2000 a further two episodes were added on a Monday and Friday evening. A sixth one to air on Sundays began in 2004.
The show is now ranked high in the British popularity stakes, being outdone regularly only by the two major mainstream British soaps, EastEnders and Coronation Street. However, recent hour-long episodes which have competed with EastEnders have won the battle for viewing figures.
On Christmas Day 2005 Emmerdale attracted 6.2 million viewers where the villagers searched for Daz and Belle who fell down a mine shaft.
On Monday 24th April 2006 8.5 million viewers watched as Sam and Alice get married.
Emmerdale is notable for being the first television soap opera in the UK (and possibly the world) to regularly produce six episodes a week, shown every night, except Saturday, at 7 p.m.
Overseas
Outside the UK, Emmerdale reaches viewers in the Republic of Ireland, where UTV from Northern Ireland is widely available, although TV3 also show the programme.
Although four years behind today's episodes, the programme is also popular in Canada on the CBC, three days a week at 2:00 p.m. EST (Eastern Standard Time). The programme is also aired in Sweden under the title Hem till gården which translates to Home to the Farm, In Sweden it has been shown since the 1970s (originally on TV2, and then on commercial channel TV4 since 1994). TV4 finished the programme for its regular summer break on 30 June 2006. Episodes are shown at 12.30pm with a repeat on their TV4+ channel in the evening around 5.15pm and a third opportunity to watch the following morning around 11am on TV4. Episodes most recently screened were from 2003. It also airs in Finland, where it is currently aired five days a week by MTV3. It is also being shown in New Zealand on TV One at 12.30pm, and is currently shown on Granada UKTV in the Middle East.
Emmerdale was shown in Australia for the first time in July 2006 when UK.TV on cable television provider Foxtel began screening episodes from 2006.
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.
Trivia
- 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.
- The programme's title was changed from Emmerdale Farm to Emmerdale in 1989; in the storyline the village name was changed from Beckindale to Emmerdale in 1994.
- 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 ITV1 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.
Birthdays in Emmerdale
January
19: Kim Tate 19: Zak Dingle 22: Betty Eagleton 28: Andy Sugden
February
6: Bop Hope, 13: Dave Glover 14: Alice Bates 29: Laura Johnstone
March
01: Mandy Dingle 01: Jimmy King 05: Linda Fowler 07: Daz Eden 16: Bill Middleton 23: Marlon Dingle 25: Sarah Sugden 31: Victoria Sugden 31: Geri Cairns 31: Charity Tate
April
10: Sam and Sally Skilbeck 21: Amos Brearly 22: Robert Sugden 27: Zoe Tate 30: Emily Kirk
May
03: Vic Windsor 03: Elizabeth Pollard 10: Tom King 10: Alice Dingle 19: Viv Hope 25: Chloe Atkinson 31: Joe Sugden
June
06: Tricia Dingle 08: Joseph Tate 11: Eric Pollard 20: Roy Glover 21: Diane Sugden 6: Sarah Dingle
July
01: Paddy Kirk 05: Annie Brearly 09: Kirk Daggert 11: Graham Clark 16: Charlie Cairns 20: Scott Windsor 30: Michael Feldmann
August
5: Alan Turner 11: Ollie Reynolds 16: Sam Dingle 23: Butch Dingle 28: Peggy Skilbeck 28: Peter Whiteley
September
03: Nick Bates 04: Ned Glover 15: Will Cairns 16: Rachel Hughes 24: James Tate 29: Kathy Brookman
October
01: Frank Tate 04: Richie Carter 09: Dee Pollard 13: Katie Sugden 26: Debbie Dingle 29: William Bates 31: Bill Whiteley
November
12: Seth Armstrong 12: Archie Brooks 14: Ashley Thomas 19: Mark Hughes 28: Jack Sugden 30: Cain Dingle
December
02: Henry Wilks 05: Pete Collins 05: Kelly Windsor 11: Chris Tate 12: Rodney Blackstock 12: Marc Reynolds 20: Chastity Dingle 23: David Skilbeck 25: Belle Dingle 25: Gabby Thomas 29: Bernice Thomas 31: Donna Windsor-Dingle
Births in Emmerdale
Deaths in Emmerdale
| Date | Character | |
| October 10th 1972 | - | Jacob Sugden |
| January 30th 1973 | - | Sharon Crossthwaite |
| February 20th 1973 | - | Ian McIntyre |
| July 16th 1973 | - | Peggy Skilbeck |
| January 13th 1976 | - | Sam Skilbeck |
| January 13th 1976 | - | Sally Skilbeck |
| January 13th 1976 | - | Beattie Dowton |
| June 21st 1977 | - | Jim Gimbel |
| February 19th 1981 | - | Enoch Tully |
| November 27th 1984 | - | Sam Pearson |
| January 23rd 1986 | - | Harry Mowlem |
| August 26th 1986 | - | Pat Sugden |
| November 24th 1988 | - | Steven Fuller |
| July 6th 1989 | - | Dennis Rigg |
| August 16th 1989 | - | Jackie Merrick |
| August 12th 1990 | - | Pete Whiteley |
| January 1st 1991 | - | Paolo Rossetti |
| July 30th 1991 | - | Bill Whiteley |
| October 3rd 1991 | - | Henry Wilks |
| February 2nd 1993 | - | Meg Armstrong |
| December 30th 1993 | - | Leonard Kempinski |
| December 30th 1993 | - | Mark Hughes |
| December 30th 1993 | - | Elizabeth Pollard |
| December 30th 1993 | - | Archie Brooks (not confirmed) |
| June 7th 1994 | - | Shirley Turner |
| June 7th 1994 | - | Reg Dawson |
| August 9th 1994 | - | Ben Dingle |
| December 13th 1994 | - | Alice Bates Snr. |
| June 6th 1995 | - | Joe Sugden (off-screen) |
| August 1st 1995 | - | Luke McAllister |
| April 11th 1996 | - | Jed Connell |
| August 22nd 1996 | - | Granny Hopwood |
| December 26th 1996 | - | Dave Glover |
| May 8th 1997 | - | Ron Hudson |
| May 27th 1997 | - | Frank Tate |
| July 30th 1997 | - | Kate Sugden |
| October 16th 1997 | - | Linda Glover |
| 1998 | - | Lord Alex Oakwell |
| December 25th 1998 | - | Vic Windsor |
| May 11th 1999 | - | Rachel Hughes |
| November 11th 1999 | - | Liam Hammond |
| February 18th 2000 | - | Graham Clark |
| March 20th 2000 | - | Pete Collins |
| March 24th 2000 | - | Butch Dingle |
| November 16th 2000 | - | Sarah Sugden |
| September 10th 2001 | - | Miss Strickland |
| November 22nd 2002 | - | Angie Reynolds |
| December 25th 2002 | - | Ray Mullan |
| September 17th 2003 | - | Chris Tate |
| January 8th 2004 | - | Tricia Dingle |
| July 6th 2004 | - | Paul Marsden |
| March 17th 2005 | - | Shelley Williams (not confirmed) |
| November 2nd 2005 | - | Max King |
| October 30th 2005 | - | Seth Armstrong (off-screen) |
| February 27th 2006 | - | Brian Addyman (off-screen) |
| April 13th 2006 | - | Terrence Turner |
| July 13th 2006 | - | Noreen Bell |
| July 13th 2006 | - | David Brown |
| July 13th 2006 | - | Dawn Woods |
| July 31st 2006 | - | Alice Dingle |
Weddings in Emmerdale
Disasters in Emmerdale
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.
Other disasters include:
- 1996 - Dave Glover dies in a fire after attending Biff and Linda's wedding.
- 2000 - Pete and Butch are killed in a bus crash.
- 2000 - Long-running character Sarah Sugden dies in a barn fire.
- 2001 - Miss Strickland, the headmistress, is struck and killed by a car driven by some of her students.
- 2002 - The church is burnt down by schitzophrenic Zoe Tate.
- 2004 - The village is hit by a storm, Tricia Dingle is crushed beneath a falling chimney when the Woolpack is struck by lightning, and later dies in hospital.
- 2005 - Zoe Tate and Callum Rennie destroy Home Farm in a gas explosion for revenge on the King's before leaving Emmerdale.
- 2005 - Max King dies instantly when the Land Rover he's in goes off the road and through a brick wall and explodes.
- 2006 - The vicarage burnt down after a stray spark ignited spilt vodka, with Debbie Dingle trapped inside.
- 2006 - The Kings' show home explodes and collapses, leaving several trapped in the rubble, Noreen Bell and estate agent David Brown are killed in the explosion, whilst Dawn Woods later dies of internal injuries in hospital.
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). 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.
Cast List
External Links
- itv.com - Emmerdale
- Emmerdale Message Board inc: Spoilers, Wallpapers, Screensavers.
- Emmerdale at IMDb
- Classic telly
- Emmerdale behind the scenes - filming locations revealed
- Claire King on The Soap Show— Claire King (Kim Tate) and her autobiography profiled on The Soap Show.