Post by CAEF on Jun 24, 2024 14:35:17 GMT
We can say Emmerdale is the worst for this, even though you can explain that as being no pre September 1986 characters remaining, and September 1986 was 14 years into the show's run. And that September 1986 to present character is of course one of the most iconic characters ever - Eric Pollard.
Since Kim returned we have another character from the 1980s even if Kim just edged in by the skin of her teeth, first appearing in November 1989. We have quite a few mentions of Frank Tate and Ben Dingle, and Seth and Betty and Jack but apart from them we never get a mention of characters such as Matt and Dolly (although when Victoria mentioned relatives down south in 2020 when Annie died, could that have been Matt and Dolly?).
Amos and Mr Wilks have not been mentioned since Jack's funeral in February 2009, and the previous name of the village, Beckindale, seems to have been forgotten about. Even when we see old maps of the village it erroneously says "Emmerdale" not "Beckindale", and in 2004 Charity found a badly photoshopped pic of Tom King in 1980 (looking like Billy Walker) with Alan Turner in the photo, and the "Emmerdale Cricket Team 1980". *************
Pat Sugden was mentioned in January 2018. George Verney in 2014 by Lawrence White.
But as for characters like Maurice Westrop, Jackie Merrick, Sandie Merrick, Caroline Bates, Harry Mowlam, Charlie Nelson or Dryden Hogben a mention seems virtually impossible now.
**********Then again Neighbours had a major continuity error in 2017 when it revisited the Kim Taylor storyline and had Paul Robinson the father, and in 2017 we saw a 1985 photo of Scott Robinson in the school yearbook and it had Jason's Scott and not the original.
Since Kim returned we have another character from the 1980s even if Kim just edged in by the skin of her teeth, first appearing in November 1989. We have quite a few mentions of Frank Tate and Ben Dingle, and Seth and Betty and Jack but apart from them we never get a mention of characters such as Matt and Dolly (although when Victoria mentioned relatives down south in 2020 when Annie died, could that have been Matt and Dolly?).
Amos and Mr Wilks have not been mentioned since Jack's funeral in February 2009, and the previous name of the village, Beckindale, seems to have been forgotten about. Even when we see old maps of the village it erroneously says "Emmerdale" not "Beckindale", and in 2004 Charity found a badly photoshopped pic of Tom King in 1980 (looking like Billy Walker) with Alan Turner in the photo, and the "Emmerdale Cricket Team 1980". *************
Pat Sugden was mentioned in January 2018. George Verney in 2014 by Lawrence White.
But as for characters like Maurice Westrop, Jackie Merrick, Sandie Merrick, Caroline Bates, Harry Mowlam, Charlie Nelson or Dryden Hogben a mention seems virtually impossible now.
**********Then again Neighbours had a major continuity error in 2017 when it revisited the Kim Taylor storyline and had Paul Robinson the father, and in 2017 we saw a 1985 photo of Scott Robinson in the school yearbook and it had Jason's Scott and not the original.