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Agreed. This is the best era of Emmerdale Farm and it was shown in the Golden Age of British TV.

@@classicemmerdalefarm I would like to live in this era again

@@barryclarke9815 Me too, my friend. Me too.

I'm guessing this episode was a bit of an 'outlier', though. Which episode would have been the penultimate appearance of Arncliffe if you know, please? I see the gravestone indicates the twins were born in February. The episodes were transmitted in April though some years ago I estimated their birth as having been the previous November! There aren't many fixed dates in the first year of the show (the only absolutes I suppose being the death dates of Jacob (3rd July) and Peggy (12th May) via gravestones again) but I did notice by late 1973 they were starting to allude to anniversaries (e.g. Frank and Janey's first date) which didn't really make sense within the established timeline! Indeed I recently saw (thanks to this channel!) the twins' first birthday, shown on screen in late April about a year after their births were transmitted. Neither this gravestone nor my notes believe they were actually born in April!

@@ColinTM15 I think Jack's return in late March saw a scene filmed in Arncliffe on the bridge. I think they may have been filmed in late 1975 and dropped into March and April 1976 episodes. I think the location filming was about 3 or 4 months in advance. Yes the birth and death of the twins has always been contradicted, the same as Peggy's age. In a 1973 episode it says she was born August 1946, but in a 1982 episode it was said she died in June 1973 aged 29, so born 1943 or 1944. The continuity in the Farm days was not very good. Also Annie was hinted as being born about 1927 or 1928-1929 instead of 1920 in 1988. In 1988 she said she was married by the time she was 18, yet if she wed in 1945 she would be 25 as she had her 70th birthday in July 1990. Annie also said she had 25 years of misery with Jacob. If he died in 1972, that means she wed in about 1947. If she was born 1920 she would have wed Jacob in 1937 not 1947.

@@Uksoapfan As far as varying the ages is concerned, to be fair all the soaps are guilty of this. Ian Beale famously had his 21st birthday two years after his 18th, while the Alahan twins had their 10th birthday a year early. Peter Barlow was aged in the late 70s, but returned to his natural age in 1986. But I do find the 1973 situation a little odd. In episode 104, shown on Emmerdale Farm's first birthday, we get confirmation that events transmitted in July (Peggy's death ('day 87')) were set in May, and indeed in the same episode it is the harvest festival, where a poster for it shows a September date. So as the show turns one we are reminded that we are not watching in real time, as we never have been up to that point. I think there was then a reference to remembrance Sunday IIRC, but towards the end of November rather than the 11th. But suddenly all that is forgotten and we're given the impression that Frank and Janey had began dating just before Christmas 1972. It certainly wasn't the festive season in Beckindale when episode twenty was transmitted (I estimated episodes 20 and 21 ('day 26') to be set around 11th September). Of course, they never really cared about any of this. In episode four (on 'day 5'), Henry's solicitor Peters says he's arranged a meeting with Jack for Monday 22nd. For that to be right we'd have had to have been in either May '72 or January '73. Since we come to know that it must have been July, I can only conclude that he meant to say Saturday 22nd! So trying to date this stuff is a real minefield! However, I consider that all of the first 60 episodes (covering 68 different days ending on 3rd December) take place in 1972. There is then a clearly stated jump forward in time of at least six weeks which accounts for the fact that we never saw any sign of Christmas 1972!

😂disagree it’s best years was after arncliffe I’d say when the left eshoult but even they it’s only been the last ten years since the show got worse and worse the village looks more like a. Tv set now

I'm afraid I disagree with you - the show was at it's best in those first couple of years while filming at Arncliffe. Don't get me wrong, the show remained wonderful after the move and into the early 1980s. However, the show has been dreadful for years and years now - in fact it was starting to go seriously downhill just before it changed it's name in November 1989, after that it slid down into the pits very fast indeed.

@@classicemmerdalefarm disagree The 90s was literally the peak of show with Kim and Dave frank and the 2000s still had some of the shows best bits ( Robert and Katie the kings cain charity) farm was great I agree 👍

@@classicemmerdalefarm 1984 was the start of the decline, more focus on crime, and making Jack cheat, and the increase in robberies and the Harry Mowlam stuff, plus Sam Pearson's death and Dolly cheating on Matt in 1988 and much more. And Annie becoming miserable after her dad died. But yes, 1972-Feb 1976 was the best years due to Arncliffe. I went to Esholt years ago but got access to Arncliffe episodes and it made me think Arncliffe was more authentic. I visited the Harewood set years ago as well. I feel some of the Arncliffe style essence was recaptured when they built the Harewood set.

@@deanscott4956 I disagree. By the 1990s it wasn't even the same show. They even dropped a plane on the village so they could 'Reset' the whole show to how the new producers wanted it. Even the show's main writer/creator and some of the actors walked away due to it's huge decline in the late 80s. I agree with @Uksoapfan, the show was declining before it even hit the first soft Reset button when they changed the name in Nov 1989.

Rosemary Kendall. The great niece of Sam Pearson.

Glad you're enjoying this classic series. Great to have another viewer.

Indeed it is. Personally I prefer the original Arncliffe Emmerdale with the village green, rather than the new Emmerdale village/Woolpack which is 'just round the corner from the green'.

@@classicemmerdalefarm Also the geography of the village was rewritten in the next year or so with many "Arncliffe" buildings moving to "the Esholt end" without explanation despite looking totally different. I went to Esholt once, and the Harewood set years ago. I always preferred Arncliffe days of Emmerdale as well.

You're welcome. Glad you're enjoying this classic series.

You're welcome. I'm glad you're enjoying this classic series.

When TV was great, full stop!

I don't have the VHS tapes, sorry.

You're welcome. Glad you're enjoying watching classic Emmerdale Farm.

It is. But it does appear on a lot more Emmerdale Farm episodes.