User:Charity Tate/List of Emmerdale episodes (article)

thumb|The Emmerdale logo Emmerdale is a British soap opera, chronicling the joys and the heartbreaks of a tightly-knit countryside community in the Yorkshire Dales in the fictional village of Emmerdale. The show was created by Kevin Laffan, and broadcast its first episode on 16 October 1972. Originally, the typical week comprised two half-hour episodes on Yorkshire Television, in an afternoon time slot on Mondays and Tuesdays, until 1977 when the broadcast pattern changed to Tuesdays and Thursdays before the programme changed to a prime time drama serial in 1988, and changed its normal transmission time to 7:00pm and began transmitting episodes on Wednesdays and Thursdays. From then onwards there has been slight tweaks to the transmission arrangements, the most common one being extra episodes being added to the schedule. Firstly, the days of transmission was reverted back to Tuesdays and Thursdays from 1989 to 1997 and thereafter the series began broadcasting a third regular episode meaning the transmission days were now Tuesdays, Wednesdays and Thursdays. The second change to the pattern from then onward was the introduction of two more regular episodes from 2000 to 2004 meaning now transmission was Monday, Tuesday, Wednesday, Thursday and Friday. The third arrangement then came along with the introduction of a sixth regular episode which began transmitting on Sundays. However, the proceeding year this arrangement was axed and instead an hour long episode was broadcasted on Tuesdays. This now brings us to the current transmission arrangements which as been under production since 2009 and the current schedule is Mondays, Tuesdays, Wednesdays, Thursdays and Friday with two episodes being broadcasted on Thursday.