Product Details

• Amazon Sales Rank: #7956 in DVD
• Released on: 2007-10-15
• Rating: Suitable for 12 years and over
• Format: PAL
• Number of discs: 4
• Running time: 650 minutes

Synopsis
Features a collection of episodes from the rural soap opera EMMERDALE FARM, set in West Yorkshire amongst a farming community. The soap was renamed EMMERDALE in 1989.

Customer Reviews

Emmerdale Farm? - Farm? where did that come from
Never having really seen Emmerdale Farm (my earliest memmory of Emmerdale is the Plane Crash). I really enjoyed this gentle but still fairly fast paced drama. The characters of the Sugden family, Amos Brearly, Henry and Marian Wilks etc, are extrememly well delineated. What i also liked about this series was the slightly sad but extremely poignant for the time and today too reminder that traditional ways of life - simple and fairly uncomplicated are slipping away to be replaced with the world were people have not time for each other, if they even know each other in the first place.
I wholeheartedly recommend Emmerdale Farm - Series 1 and can't wait for Series 2.I hope we can see it soon.

Just as I remember it
This is a great DVD and takes me right back to those happy lunchtimes, snuggled up to my Mum on the settee, watching the newly aired soap (only available in Yorkshire at the time, I think) when "nowt much 'appened in't Dales" and "the were nowt so queer as folk!!" No murders, sex, violence, no nothing happened really. Boring to some, but happy memories for me. Soap Saddo ....YES, that's me!!

''Take it slow, i don't want Jacob bumped about on his last ride''
These are the early days of the soap, when it was called 'Emmerdale Farm'. This is long before Andy and Robert Sugden, Edna Birch, Betty Eagleton, or Alan Turner. The 4 DVD's include the first ever episode. The farm is in the beautiful Yorkshire Dales, it is home to the Sugden family, who are attending the funeral of Annie's husband Jacob Sugden, ''Take it slow, i don't want Jacob bumped about on his last ride''. The charecters soon became house hold names, Annie Sugden (Sheila Mercier), her elderly father Sam Pearson (Toke Townley), Annie's son's Joe and Jack (Frazer Hines and Andrew Burt), son in law Matt Skilbeck (Frederick Pyne) and 'Woolpack' pub owners Amos Brearly (Ronald Magill) and Mr.Wilks (Arthur Pentelow). I no longer watch the series since they changed it to 'Emmerdale' and the word 'Farm' was dropped. I would rather watch it how it use to be, when it was the original series, with all the animals, the beautiful countryside, Annie Sugden looking after all her family and the original theme music by Tony Hatch. Network DVD have not only released 'Emmerdale Farm'-Volume One containing the first 26 episodes, but also 'Emmmerdale Farm'-Volume Two, containing a further 26 episodes, 'Coronation Street' is available, with a mixture of 8 episodes from the 1970's, in the days when the street itself was the Rovers pub, the corner shop, six houses and a park bench in the gap where No.7 once stood, (all built in an old railway yard) and 'Crossroads' is also available, containing a mixture of 12 episodes, mainly from the 1970's. Unlike most soaps today 'Emmerdale Farm', 'Coronation Street' and 'Crossroads' never tried to copy each other, each soap was unique, but they had one thing in common, they had lovely kindly storylines the whole family could watch.