#classic emmerdale

[thelovetheystole]

Thinking about classic Emmerdale and how the teens have personalities and storylines and, some decent acting as well.

What do we have now? I mean, take Sarah for example. She's a legacy character, half Sugden half Dingle. She was often on as a child, because of her illness and her parents messy love lives, but now she's just there in the background. I don't feel like I know her, or care much.

She used to have a very close relationship with Cain, but now we never see them together. We should, especially since she's not seen her father for years.

We know Sarah won't have a long life because of her condition, shouldn't the show invest in that and her? Let her have a romance or two? A lovestory with the possibility of a bittersweet ending?

#my thoughts on emmerdale #classic emmerdale

[oswincoleman]

Jenna Coleman's Emmerdale episodes will soon be shown again on ITV's Classic Emmerdale website! They are currently in March 2005, and Jenna first appears as Jasmine Thomas at the end of June, 2005.

#jenna coleman #jenna louise coleman #jasmine thomas #emmerdale #classic emmerdale

[sweetorangeginger]

The current characters on emmerdale seem like cardboard cutouts compared to the classic show

#emmerdale #classic emmerdale

[riverdaleandmoregifs]

"If this gets out I'm not going back to school.

I'd rather stay and be a farmer...it's that bad!" (Then flounce out the kitchen) - Robert Sugden

When Robert finds out about Sarah and Ritchie (31st May 2000 ep 2700)

#classic emmerdale #emmerdale #quote #relatable #robert sugden is my spirit animal #robert sugden #teenage dramatics #2000 #episode 2700 #christopher smith #bi drama

[themackenzieboydchronicles]

Now and Then.

Frazer Hines aka Joe Sugden.

#now and then #frazer hines #joe sugden #emmerdale #classic emmerdale

[sugdensflaherty]

#Robert Sugden #Andy Sugden #Katie Sugden #robron #Aaron x Robert #Robert x Aaron #Emmerdale #classic ED #parallels #2004 #2015 #06/04/04 #24/07/15 #storm posts #gifs

[kornknock]

so I’m watching Dennis and Sharons storyline for the first time since it was live i guess (when i would have been like 6? lol) and im just obsessed… staying up til 2am to watch….. seeing dennis’ face when i close my eyes.. this is what mental illness looks like

#i love eastenders so much lol #current EE is so good at the moment and watching the classic as well #also this started cos Nigel harman is on strictly lol #ALSO also.. there’s so many moments where Dennis reminds me of Robert?? #and I’ve just seen that Aaron is back on emmerdale 👀 #so I’m back to my soapy roots 🫠🫠

[bobbie-robron]

Although I’m not sure Edna would appreciate the competition. She might turn you into a frog.

Two brief scenes to close out October of that year with Victoria not a happy girl with Robert because he wouldn’t let her go trick or treating until Katie offers to go with her making her up as a witch (giving Edna competition). Robert also asks Katie to help him out since Jack & Diane are in Las Vegas. Well, that’s fine and dandy until Andy shows up and Victoria gets into another snit since Robert won’t allow her to spend time with him so forget Halloween.

31-Oct-2004

#classic ED #classic ED robert’s story #20041031 #episode 3884 #classic ED 2004 #200410 #no Classic ED the last week of December #two brief filler scenes #robert sugden #karl davies #katie sugden #victoria sugden #andy sugden #wicked witch of emmerdale #jack and diane got to vegas whole our lads didn’t 😔 #Victoria has an attitude towards robert 🙄

[missingdeath]

00s Sugden Brothers - "He is my brother. It doesn't matter that we are not related by blood."

#emmerdale #classic ed #robert sugden #karl davies #andy sugden #kelvin fletcher #00s

[consanguinitatum]

David Tennant's Obscure TV Appearances: 1989's Biting The Hands

I'm back from my visit with my family and ready to dive straight into my latest find - I'm excited to share I've finally obtained access to David's 3rd earliest TV performance! His first two performances were in 1988: his anti-smoking ad, and in Dramarama: The Secret Of Croftmore. And in 1989 he did a Play On One called Biting The Hands. And I've FINALLY got it! Biting The Hands has been one of the most elusive pieces of work David did in his early years. First, it wasn't a sitcom or an ad but a one-off play, and it was broadcast in the late 1980s, limiting its exposure to those who might be recording on beta or VHS. It was part of the second series of the prime-time contemporary single TV play series, The Play On One (which was itself a re-tooling of an older series called The Play For Today.) Biting The Hands was directed by Carol Wilks and produced by Norman McCandlish. It was 75 mins in length, and was broadcast at 9:30 pm on 11 Apr 1989. Here's the play's synopsis: "Linda and Gail are Hell's Belles - an alternative comedy double act. When success begins to beckon, they must decide whether to change their act or keep doing what they believe in. Are their principles justified, or are they just 'biting the hand that feeds them'?"

The writer of Biting The Hands, Rona Munro, was born in Aberdeen in 1959 and is an award-winning Scottish playwright. She started writing professionally in 1981 and has written for film, television, stage and radio. Biting The Hands was Munro's first play for BBC-TV. Given today's excitement about the Doctor Who 60th Anniversary trailer, it might interest Whovians to know Munro wrote the classic DW story Survival as well as the New Who story The Eaters of Light, making her the first (and only!) writer to do both Classic and New Who!

But Munro has yet ANOTHER connection with our dear DT! For their production of Scotland Matters in 1992, the 7:84 Scottish People's Theatre asked established Scottish writers to consider aspects of life in Scotland and write playlets about them. Munro was one of these writers! She wrote a playlet called 'The Fence' for Scotland Matters which concerned the interrogation of a Gulf War peace protester. In a turn around of questioning technique, we are told the story through the security police and not via the protester. David played the protester Keith!

But back to Biting The Hands - which was produced three years before Scotland Matters and filmed when David was still in drama school. Let's take a look at what the play was about, and go more in depth about its stars: Judith Sweeney (Linda) and Louise Beattie (Gail).

Judith Sweeney (Linda McKay) attended David's alma mater - the RSAMD, now the Royal Conservatoire - and graduated in 1977. She played the role of Sally Shaw on the Scottish soap opera Take The High Road. Louise Beattie (Gail Graham) later went on to star in Emmerdale.

Here are a few more articles on "Biting The Hands" from the time of its broadcast:

Beattie's older sister Maureen has ALSO starred with DT many times! Among these are For One Night Only (an evening of theatrical prose, poetry, and gossip at the Swan Theatre for the 1998 RSC Fringe Festival) and a 2001 staged reading of Medea at the Cottesloe Theatre. More recently, Maureen has played David’s mother in Deadwater Fell, and Kelly MacDonald's mother in The Decoy Bride!

Now we've been introduced to the stars of the play, and we know what it's about, let's get to David's part! His part begins about 47 minutes into the play, and it's a role which makes up a total of about 20 whole seconds. He plays one of three squaddies (low-ranking military) and is in a group of soldiers who travel on the train the main characters Linda and Gail board in Edinburgh to go to London - but he's not seen in this particular scene. After the ladies board the return train back home to Edinburgh, by coincidence these same squaddies happen to be traveling on their train. David's character is the only one of the squaddies to speak, and his words entail wolf-whistles at the two women and calling them "Pet"! Here are some screenshots:

In a later scene, Linda and Gail happen to bump into another friend on the train, and the three open a bottle of liquor and sing and drink. David's character sings and drinks with them. Here are a few screenshots of that short scene:

You may notice in the first set of screenshots David is clean shaven & in the second, he sports a mustache. These scenes all supposedly occur on the same train from London to Edinburgh so it seems there's a continuity error here. Perhaps these scenes were shot at different times?

These short scenes are the only times David appears in the play. He's given credit in the end titles. Of significance, though, is he is NOT credited as the "Third Squaddie" (a designation I've seen all over the Internet for close to a decade). He's just the third squaddie listed.

The BFI (British Film Institute) holds a VHS video recording of Biting The Hands. The copy is in "pending" status, which means it's unlikely the copy can be viewed.

Before I close this post on Biting The Hands, two more little benefits: here are its opening sequence, and its title frame!

#DavidTennant #ObscureDavidTennantPerformances #BitingTheHands

[scotianostra]

On November 1st 1969 Morag Siller the actress, voice artist, and radio personality was born in Edinburgh.

Aged three Morag, along with her twin brother Colin, were adopted and brought up in the capital’s Greenbank district. She came to terms with being adopted with forthright honesty, “I was lucky to have been adopted by such a loving family” she once said. “I wouldn’t change things for the world.” She attended James Gillespie’s High School where she first wanted to be a pianist, but came to the conclusion she would not be able to make a career out of it, Morag also thought about joining the police force, but caught the acting bug and began to take a keen interest in drama often appearing in the school’s plays.After leaving school she attended the Edinburgh Acting School, at 18 she moved to London where she trained at the Sylvia Young School and at Rada.

While still a student she landed a role as a jitterbug dancer in David Puttnam’s film Memphis Belle, directed by fellow Scot Michael Caton-Jones.

Siller appeared in many roles on television – being cast in semi-regular roles such as Flora Kilwillie in Monarch of the Glen, Leona in Casualty (she had a permanent crush on Derek Thompson’s charge nurse Charlie) and a Dingle in Emmerdale. She won an award for the role in Casualty and also appeared in Doctors, EastEnders, Fiona’s Story (with Jeremy Northam and Gina McKee) and Hetty Winthorp Investigates.

She appeared in several musicals – West Side Story, Les Miserables and Mamma Mia! both in the West End and on tour around the UK. Siller appeared in the world tour of Mamma Mia! and performed the show in China.

At the first day of rehearsals for Les Miserables the cast were brought together to meet the orchestra and Siller recognised a familiar face. “I know you” she said to the horn player. “We were at school together.” She married Tim Nicholson at Prestonfield House in Edinburgh in 2005. In 2013 she played a central role in some gripping scenes in Coronation Street.

She married Tim Nicholson, a classical musician at Prestonfield House in Edinburgh in 2005. She was devoted to Scotland (“I’m never as happy as when I’m in Scotland” she told a reporter) and often returned to visit friends and family - she and her husband holidayed every year in Orkney. a friend also commented (that) “Morag was besotted by Scotland: Edinburgh and Scotland defined her personality.”

Morag and Tim had been about to adopt a child in 2011 when she was diagnosed with breast cancer.

She wnet on to became a patron of two cancer charities, for which she organised fundraisers, and had hoped to resume the adoption process. But the cancer returned and she was told it was incurable. Morag sadly passed away on April 15th 2016.

#scotland #scottish #history #cancer #actress #rip

[starrythomas]

The boys discover why Claire didn't show up to the meeting with her kids. Ash has an answer for Rose. Also contains the Thomas-classic scene: Aaron and Robert discuss stuff while snuggling in bed.

The final chapter!

#robron #aaron sugden dingle #aaron dingle #robert sugden dingle #robert sugden #emmerdale #mine #my writing

[123star3456]

Classic Emmerdale - Jack Sugden Attacks Sarah Sugden (15th November 2000...

Saint Jack ey....

#youtube #jack sugden #anti jack sugden #sarah sugden #the sugdens #robron #emmerdale

[thelovetheystole]

These constitutes as a classic Emmerdale "spoilers" since 2018. It's so vague, I don't even understand why it's worth mentioning in the first place... And surely it's not lost on Laura that it sounds exactly like the one they gave us before Christmas, except this will apparently bring two families together not tear them apart?

#emmerdale spoilers

[themackenzieboydchronicles]

Now and Then.

Actress Malandra Burrows aka Kathy Glover 1985 - 2001.

#emmerdale classic #now and then #malandra burrows #kathy glover #kathy's tearooms emmerdale #emmerdale #emmerdale ladies

[tvmigraine]

FORGOTTEN LIVES: Christopher Baker

Before we begin! Remember to get a copy of the Forgotten Lives Omnibus at this link! I believe pre-orders are open until the 1st of September, you may miss your chance to get this book - don't miss out!

It's no secret to any Classic Who fan (or even modern Who) that the BBC failed to maintain classic stories, with a many missing episodes reanimated to fill these spaces and a majority of Who's third season completely lost to time. Of course, without Doctor Who at home, fans had to find other places to have the Doctor's adventures at home. In 1964 we'd see the first Doctor Who novel released, alongside something much more important to today's discussion - the TV Comics.

I originally made the claim that Christopher Baker (1937-2011) had no proper ties to the show, but I was actually wrong about that. While he wasn't tied down by Doctor Who like other Morbius Doctors were, he was a Production Assistant at the BBC during the 70s. He also went on as a director for shows like Emmerdale and Star Cops later in his career during the 80s.

While the Doctor himself is certainly interesting, I think it's more interesting to discuss his companions for this story. Rather than running into a companion surrogate on an adventure, the Doctor travels with his two children - Jilly and Cedric. As one of the few Doctors in this book with a definitive final story, we get to experience the lives of Jilly and Cedric fully as they travel with their father through time and space.

We've never had the opportunity to meet the children of the Doctor before, so this presents a unique chance to learn more about the Doctor without pulling away the curtain. The idea of the Doctor travelling with two of his children may feel familiar to fans of the TV comics, which introduced us to John and Gillian Who, two other grandchildren - the TV Comics were unable to use the television companions for a time, so instead had the 1st and 2nd Doctors travel with two other grandchildren on adventures. Getting to see more of the paternal side of the Doctor was refreshing, a side that I'd argue we haven't seen since Hartnell's care for characters like Susan, Vicki and Dodo. Cedric and Jilly present a fun dynamic with their Doctor, where he can try and raise them to follow some of the lessons he's taught himself while they offer him a relationship he rarely has the luxury for.

There is other notable things about this Doctor that I personally love. Have you ever read a classic sci-fi from 50, 70, 90 years ago only to find it makes some radical prediction of the future that never came true? This story does much the same thing, with the astonishing year where man has managed to make it to Venus being 1975. For a story written as if it came out in the 40s, 1975 helps it both fit with the fiction of the time's improper predictions while also... honestly just being fun.

The design for the Doctor stands out due to his Pilgrim aesthetic, a nice way of making him seem more anachronistic than even some later Doctors after him. It also nicely contrasts with the design for his TARDIS - the metal pillars give it a feeling reminiscent of the 8th Doctor's TARDIS, while the overall design feels like a cathedral. Considering the subject matter of his first story, The Cross of Venus, it feels apt.

I'm going to be more candid than usual, because the Third Doctor has a personal importance to me. I want to be a writer someday and I'd wanted to write for Doctor Who since I was a kid, but I had fallen out of my passion for both since starting uni and struggling with mental health for a while. Last year, before my second year of uni started, I chose to pick up Forgotten Lives 1&2 because the money went to a good cause (please support Alzheimer's Research). All of the stories in these books helped pull my love of Doctor Who back out, even prompting me to bring out all my old DVDs and start collecting again. As much as my renewed love for the show is thanks to Obverse Books and everyone else involved, my love for writing and storytelling was brought about by "The First Englishmen". It's hard for me to properly explain, but it was @pluralzalpha's story that specifically made me write again, telling the first proper story I had since I was in school. So as dopey as it is, I have immense gratitude both to him and everyone else who worked on Forgotten Lives for getting me to create again. And it's why, so long as pre-orders are open, I'll insist anybody with interest should pick up this book. Support the release and raise money to fight Alzheimers.

For more insight into the creative process of every author that worked on Forgotten Lives, you can go to @forgottenlivesobverse and find interviews from everyone involved across the books. If you're looking for insight on how the outfits were designed, you can go to Paul Hanley's Patreon and find what went into designing each Doctor.

Here's what to expect from the Third Doctor's adventures, travelling time and space with his son and daughter. Expect to see a saboteur on Venus and covered up history.

THE CROSS OF VENUS by Andrew Hickey

THE FIRST ENGLISHMAN by Daniel Tessier

RETROGENESIS (Part Three) by Philip Purser-Hallard

SWAN SONG by Andrew Hickey

Our next Doctor will be the Philip Hinchcliffe Doctor, who shows how art can influence the writing. Until then, I wish you all well and don't be scared to create something.

#forgotten lives obverse #forgotten lives #obverse books #doctor who #the brain of morbius #christopher baker