Everything you need to know about Emmerdale's explosive 50th special
15.10.2022 - 10:21
/ ok.co.uk
Hold onto your hats – and everything else for that matter – as Emmerdale celebrates its 50th birthday in style this week, when a killer storm ravages the village.The rural soap has seen all manner of high drama since it broadcast its first episode in 1972. Back then the show was a cosy lunchtime drama, centred on lives of the Sugden family on the Emmerdale Farm of the show’s original title. But as the eighties gave way to the nineties, the show was given a big makeover, moving to a teatime slot and famously dropping an entire jet plane on the village in its first big stunt episode.
Since then, those villagers have seen it all. From floods to fires, car crashes to literal cliff-hangers, the drama just keeps on coming. And this week promises to top all of that with their most drama-packed week ever.
“We will be having some huge stunts, big emotional heartache, secrets, lies, comedy and sadly, some of the soap’s much-loved characters will sadly lose their lives,” promises producer Jane Hudson. “There will be funerals, a wedding and a birth. It’s going to change everyone’s lives forever.” BRIDE AND DOOM! Kim Tate ( Claire King ) is not a woman you want to make an enemy of.
So, Harriet had better watch out after Kim spots her declaring her love for Will – the man Kim is due to marry the very next day. “There’s quite a few confrontational scenes – Harriet has Kim by the throat at one point,” teases Claire King (Kim). “You’ll have to wait and see which way that one goes.
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