This was so interesting and I'm glad I stumbled across it, I've now subscribed to your channel. However, there is one major error you made made throughout. You reference the village as was as "Beckinsdale", however, it was Beckindale. There was no S in it.

What I like about Emmerdale is how it uses its child characters. They have lines, storylines, they're *actors* and characters in the show. Very good.

THE PLANE CRASH OR RATHER THE LACK THEREOF DIDN'T LOOK REALISTIC ! ! !

Surprised on the Blanche take but absolutely loved the video. Really glad to have stumbled across it

Interesting video, the Emmerdale Plane Crash was a defining. Moment not just for Emmerdale but for the genre in the U.K. as a whole, it raised the stakes, whatever standard EastEnders and Brookside set in the 80s, Emmerdale raised by 100, ironically Emmerdale would outlast Brookside as that was cancelled in 2003, at the same point Emmerdale had its second biggest disaster in ten years with the hurricane storyline which was just as destructive as the plane crash of 1993, If I recall, the actor who played Mark Hughes didn’t want to leave, in hindsight I feel his death was a mistake, especially with how the shows trajectory went from the mid 90s onwards, I’d have killed off Nick Bates instead who was deadweight by 1993, Mark was coming into his own, however I can also see that his death affected the Sugden’s and Rachel, great video, you should do a video on the Hurricane storyline of 2003

I think Julie Walters is on record for saying she didn't actually base Mrs Overall on Amy Turtle but Mavis Hooper, who was landlady to the likes of Benny and Iris Scott and estranged from Sid who worked in the garage.

Isnt this in the same universe as brookside and this was on the newspaper in brookside

Loving this channel! Would love a deep dive on early Slaters and the impact of "You Ain't My Muvva!"

I was nine when I watched the episodes. I was very scared after that I had nightmares about it and didn't like anything involving fire

The 5 unnamed villagers killed were the entire Hutchinson family. I think the partially demolished house Frank Tate passes at the beginning of the second crash episode is supposed to be theirs.

Thold episodes had characters. Void of today

I enjoyed bet lynch return and her engagement with her rich mate

Whilst Lockerbie probably had some bearing on this story line, the one you overlooked happened only 2 months before and was disturbing for different reasons, in fact, I would argue reflects "a plane dropping on a town" was EL-AL Flight 1862 which happened in October 1992. Granted, ITV has filmed all this before the EL-AL disaster, hearing the ITV exec being overjoyed that their new year had been saved, I wonder how the tabloid press or press in general had of felt about this considering the horrific injuries, death and the mourning that would've still been going on, would've looked at ITV very differently. For those that do not remember this flight or old enough to know, I recommend going to look at how a "Jumbo Jet" can literally fall from the sky when 2 of its engines had fallen off. The more and more I think about that flight, it's eerry just how life like Redmond got.

When they brought the Dingle family into Emmerdale it killed it As a realistic rural soap

Can you look into New Zealand's 🇳🇿 longest running soap "Shrotland Street" please

Love Coronation Street, Eastenders comes and goes with the good but Emmerdale I can’t bloody stand lmao! Ooh err

I had a shop in Harrogate aat this time, “Jackie” came into m shop in following week, I told him that he looked well after being blown up in a plane crash. Loved the series.

16:54 What about the Paradise Club on BBC1? That was quite a big programme, on the main channel, after the 9 o'clock news and co-starring with Don Henderson who was a household name at the time too. Ran for a couple of series.

In her own words, she couldn't keep up with the 5 day show - she was used to 2 days a week, and it nearly led to nervous breakdown.

Interesting...but it's BECKINDALE not BECKINSDALE.

Did Benny and the sheep survive?

So glad this popped up in my recommended!

Is there a spit guard you could use for your microphone?

A shame the show today tends to kill off its most interesting characters and leaves all the boring ones alive.

Eek what folks from Lockerbie think about that 😳

Please do stuff on Family Affairs 🥰❤️

I watched the storyline through for the first time when it was repeated on ITV3 a few years ago. It's a remarkable feat and even now still hugely impressive.

I was 9 then, I’m 40 now, I clearly remember watching the plane crash episode on a family holiday in London!

The disaster that killed Emmerdale as a soap. Went down hill after this with the introduction of the Dingles. RIP Emmerdale Farm

Interesting documentary and thankyou for putting it together. Just wanted to point out a minor error, at 30:12, the photo in the middle isn't a writer - that's guitarist Steve Howe from the band Yes.

Yay I been waiting for another soap video from you. Desperately need these high quality videos on soaps there’s definitely a gap in the market

Fantastic video I really remember the plane crash well at the time I thought wow that's different thanks again for showing this video great stuff 👍

The Jordache story line in brookie was so hard hitting for me, as a girl S A'd in childhool stuggling with her sexuality, Beth was such an icon.

This is a great documentary. I was born in 1976, and I vividly remember the hazy "sunset at dawn" titles and original theme tune and that was enough to make my heart sink at another boring episode of Emmerdale Farm! My younger self preferred Crossroads!! 😂 "Oh my God. The MOTEL! It's on FIRE. MUM!!" - terrifying to this then 5 year old lad !! My first memory of a disaster on this show was one that isn't mentioned in this video - Pat Sugden's nippy beige Ford Fiesta carreering down a hillside, killing her off - it was 1986 and I remember being actually quite shocked. I was still quite young though, and that was quite a big stunt for this show, at that time. By the time we get to the plane crash episodes, I never watched the series regularly, by now, a big - no, HUGE - Brookside fan, and because of this, I followed Uncle Phil Redmond to see what he was going to do to Emmerdale, and I wasn't disappointed! These episodes are a masterclass in writing, directing, with real special effects as well - no CGI here!! You can see that they threw everything at these very expensive episodes, and they work beautifully. What I also admired was that it _wasn't_ a gratuitous bloodbath, it was very restrained with regards to what was shown, and the relatively low number of characters that were killed off. Fun fact; Malandra Burrows revealed in an interview that her character (no idea what her name was!) was earmarked to be killed-off in these episodes, but Phil Redmond vetoed the plans as he liked the character and she got a last minute reprieve. This was undoubtedly a landmark in British soap! Having said all of that, I never did become a regular Emmerdale viewer !! 😂

Yeah the only problem I have with the 1993 Christmas special of the plane crash is? That it came only 5 years after the Lockerbie terrorist bomb explosion of flight 103 ……so in a way it was a bit insensitive on the town of Lockerbie …….this is nuts I put this comment way before you mentioned Lockerbie? But here you are mentioning Lockerbie how nuts is that?!! But my view still stands because funny how everyone else thought the same

Beckindale

You put some effort into that, well done👍

Neighbours is my favourite soap of all time 👍

could you please do tier video on Neighbours Paul Robinson( Stefan Dennis) is clearly up there with one of soaps greatest villans

found my new fave youtube channel 🎉

BECKINSDALE. Sorry had to stop watching. You claim to have seen this show yet get the town name wrong !!

Beckensdale? It's Beckindale.

At the end of the day Phil Redmond being brought in saved the show ....even if some of the cast were NOT happy about the story line it (apart from the ones who got canned but they were leaving anyhow as was mentioned in the vid) saved the show and kept thier jobs ......ontherwise they would have all been jobless if itv cancled it as was apparently on the cards! ...I remember watching the orginal Emerdale farm as a kid in the 70s in the afternoons as i hadnt quite started school so my gran looked after me when mum and dad were at work and she tuned in EVERY afternoon! also remember general hospital, crown court, paint along with nancy and the galloping gourmet from those times too in the afternoons!

I started watching Emmerdale last year and I started with the new episodes and then I saw they are not good, and then I went to old episodes and when I came across the plane crash storyline, it’s when I realised Emmerdale plane crash changed the soap then

what a legend! just appears out of nowhere and drops the best soap analyses on the platform every time 🤯

Hi mate great video and I was wondering how about if you upload and talk the best personality transplant changes in soap history including characters who are hardmen, loveable buffoon, villains and LGBTQ characters like in EastEnders, Emmerdale, Coronation Street and Hollyoaks please.

I really enjoy your videos. I hope you don't mind people making suggestions for future videos as i was thinking it would be interesting to see you look at Brookside's demise and the different elements that led to its decline and axing. I think that would be a good one to do.

This is an incredible video, made me go watch the lead up to, the main story and then the aftermath just before this video got to speaking about the actual plane crash. It was an amazing storyline.

There's an error in your assertion Corrie had a week point in the early 90s. That's absolutely not the case. Corrie was still very much in a golden age and Eastenders was still in a bit of a slump at that point. Eastenders' rejuvenation and Corrie's slump actually began in 1995.

Absolutely brilliant, thoughtful, revealing and interesting study. I've never watched Emmerdale but was mesmerized by this insightful journey. Primo 👌