Emmerdale repeats on ITV3.

[butterball]

Poor old Dave Glover, the only character not to have had a miraculous recovery from the Lourdes of the North and go home unscathed within a matter of  days. I actually felt sorry for Kim though as the pair really did love each other. Instead of confronting her Linda Glover/Fowler just started tugging at her hair through her car window like an alley cat.

So many great characters though - Jack, Frank and Chris Tate, Alan Turner, Seth, the Glovers, Terry and the Windsors with jail bait Kelly getting close to her teacher;even Pollard is interesting, unlike today when its frankly a tiresome, repetitve bed hopping borefest. 

[butterball]

Watching 1996/97. Biff Fowler has been told by his estranged mother that Huntingdon's disease runs in the family and to get tested. Fast forward to 2020 and we have Lydiot with the exact same storyline.

[CAEF]

Tom Merrick lookalike Tony Cairns has arrived. Same actor to play Tom Merrick in the early 1980s.

Frankie Tatie leaves soon.

[butterball]

Saw somewhere that Moron is Thicktoria's best friend, Wot? He is old enough to be her father, he is in his 20s in the Classic and she is no more than a baby. W I E R D O.

[CAEF]

Goodbye Frank Tate. He was a central character 1989-1997.

[butterball]

Yes RIP Frank, one of the greatest characters ever. Plenty of great characters in the Classic version that are sorely lacking in the 2020 version, I mean Harriet the vicar - Plurrse.

[CAEF]

Mandy is more insufferable in 2020 than in 1997. Moron is still around sadly as is Spack Dingle and his demented son Sammy Dingle.

In 1997 we had Jack, Turner, Betty, Seth, Frank (Until May), Chris, Kathy, Rachel, Biff, Zoe, Ned, Jan, Linda - all great characters now all sadly gone.

[butterball]

Kim is so wonderfully horrible although sometimes retains a smidgeon of humanity. She is very accepting of Zoe and Sophie when other villagers label them as 'perverts' a strange word to hear now about gay people, when the word gay does not seem to be yet used. So many funny lines when in today's Emmerdale it is just a negative, sordid, poor old me fest. Albert Dingle is a great character, even Marlon seems almost bearable having just got a job in the kitchen in Pollards Wine Bar where I presume his cookery expertise began. It great stuff.

[butterball]

Still watching the 1990s version and its amazing the way attitudes have changed. Terry Woods a middle aged predator that was called a 'ladies man' in those less enlightened times is expecting Alan Turner's grand daughter who is young enough to be his daughter to have sex with him while Alan is away and will not leave her alone Its quite uncomfortable watching although I think at the time we were supposed to either find it funny or feel sorry for the absolutely revolting creep.

[Lotty27]

Yeah there was quite a 'lads' culture in the 90s with women being very objectified e.g. lads mags (and young actresses being told to do shoot for them even if they were uncomfortable), the whole 'ladette' culture with women emulating the worst of male excesses to fit in and like you've pointed out above, young women having to put up with older letches or you were frigid or didn't have a sense of humour - like that's the worse thing they could accuse you of 

Yet many thought we were really liberated!

And needless-to-say I didn't have a sense of humour when it happened to me

[CAEF]

The whole Dingle mishpucha were insufferable but not as bad as now.

Mispucha means family in Yiddish. Been watching too many New York TV shows where Yiddish words are used, like they can be in London. The Dingle mishpucha has always been a bad mishpucha.

[sillybint]

I started following Emmerdale just after Frank had left. Since then I've gotten two small stacks of DVD, the earliest 'Farm' ones Network put out, and then these odd ones from Norway I think? They went up to nine volumes, late '80s early '90s (and one came with a keychain fob which I still use). Just had to turn off the Norge subtitles when playing them, but they seemed to have stopped making these as well.

[butterball]

Kim just gone off in a chopper leaving Steve to go down for the horse rustling. Kelly of the sour little bitchy face is about to start shagging her equally horrible step brother, Scott. Belle or Tinkerbelle as she was called has recently been born. Its brilliant even though its surprising how attitudes have changed in 20 years.

[CAEF]

The repeats are getting nearer to the Reynolds debut, and just a years worth of episodes until Cain and Charity debuts.

[sillybint]

Must be very near to where I first jumped on as a regular viewer. I just remember finding it better than Corrie at the time, maybe it was just paddocks with ewes in place of cobbles and bricks...