Emmerdale Farm

People may complain about Emmerdale having become 'urbane' in recent years and moving away from it's so-called rural charm...

But these clips showing a racist attack in Leeds from December 1992, will show you just how modern and urbane the show had already become as the 90s kicked in...

...and to think that people thought that before the plane crash of 1993, all the show consisted of was Annie making tea and baking bread, and Jack & Joe milking a cow and sheepdipping... definitely not so...! :)

http://www.dailymotion.com/video/x2zfkam

Emmerdale is a great soap i think. It all started in 1972, the gave it a name at first as they called it Emmerdale Farm, then suddenly they changed it to Emmerdale. I give Emmerdale 10 out of 10 because i just think that it is such a great soap.

The storyline involving Alex, him being knocked down by Billie, on a massively clear road but Billie didn't see him Alex stopping in the middle of said road to have a conversation, all following a tussle in the heart of the village with Alex's name being bellowed out but no one, not a single person around!!! I not only find this to be so unrealistic I also feel your taking your viewers to be completely stupid. Constantly have to embellish events to the point of lunacy. Really annoying and extremely frustrating, why can you not just run a straight forward storyline Alex gets caught but gets away, makes his way back to the car and escaped, police chase crash anything other than this rediculous turn of events, nothing ever just goes well for anyone at any time why can't you have just a normal storyline depicting how everyone is coping with the cost of living, yes you've touched on it with the Dingles, but they are a family that have always struggled just for a little while can storylines play out without stupid unrealistic twists, what a breath of fresh air that would be.

Having just seen it after probably over 10 years gap, I can only but echo the comments by another poster sleepin dragon.

It now appears to look like a hollyoaks episode, with a range of overmade up women, many with hilariously swollen lips. Rather than being in emmerdale, it just focuses on the minutiae of people's relationships, with no actual storyline.

The scenes remind me oddly of a low budget version of Acorralada.

Emmerdale is a good old British soap.

Although the stars in this are changing all the while, I still enjoy watching it.

Some of the best stars in this are Betty and Edna. They bring comedy relief, which it needs at times as there have been several tragedies over the years, including a plane crash and minibus crash, where several characters were killed off.

Unfortunately, Stan Richards who played Seth died earlier this year (2005) and Emmerdale won't be the same without him.

Some of the story lines in Emmerdale at present are rather silly, especially the affair between Viv and Paddy. Looks like yet another marriage breaking up (Emily and Paddy). For some reason, scriptwriters seem against people being happily married. There won't be any married couples left in Emmerdale the way things are going. You would not get this many marriage and relationship break ups in such a small community in real life.

Despite all this, Emmerdale is an excellent soap and I still watch it.

Rating: 4 stars out of 5.