I Am A Swede

That happened to Emmerdale as well.

Yes, that's definitely Tony Audenshaw.

That's Michael and Elsa Feldmann. Their mother, Elizabeth, married Eric Pollard and died in the plane crash. Elsa and Nick later had daughter Alice together, the little girl that Kathy looked after when Nick went to prison.

I have the four volumes available for purchase through amazon.co.uk and they only reach episode 116, screened in 1973. I do wish they would release more though. It was only on twice a week with seasonal breaks back then, so it shouldn't be impossible to get at least the 1970s episodes without too many volumes. Especially since there were long breaks in both 1976 and 1979. Only 38 episodes aired in 1976, and the show was off the air from 18 May 1976 to 3 January 1977. I'm not sure why there was such a long break that year. In 1979 there was a strike at ITV, so the show had a break from 5 July 1979 to 8 January 1980. During that break there was also a major cast change when Katharine Barker left her role as Dolly Skilbeck and was replaced by Jean Rogers. I can't for the life of me understand why they've chosen to take this direction with Robert. Like you said, he is such an important character to the show's history and with such potential for the future. But, he's not a Dingle, and therefore obviously not important enough. You mentioned Pat's daughter in an earlier post. She (Sandie Merrick) is Robert's half-sister, just like Victoria is, but I can't help but wonder if they even remember she exists? It's a shame they never gave Joe any children, apart from his step-children Mark and Rachel. Of course they're both dead too. With this development for Robert it's only a matter of time before Victoria is the only real Sugden left. I refuse to count Andy and his two kids as real Sugdens. Especially since Debbie Dingle is the kids' mother. She is one of the worst characters ever on this show.

That does indeed suck. It seemed like the show was on the mend from the posts here, but this is a giant step backwards. Destroying Robert like that, and for someone like Katie! Why couldn't they have made Andy responsible if anyone had to cause her death? Why did they have to kill her at all? Now there's no way to bring her back in the future if they had wanted to. It's such a short-sighted way of operating, killing characters off like this. Oh well, I still have a few episodes from the late 1970s to watch, and when I'm done with those hopefully some more will have been uploaded. There's also some material from the 1980s and early 1990s I haven't watched yet. I also have one of the dvd releases from the show's beginning left to watch.

What's happened? Don't tell me they're throwing Robert under the bus just to give Katie a dramatic sendoff?!! Robert has always been treated badly, both by the writers and on the show itself. I never could understand why Jack so consistently took Andy's side over Robert's. Well, I can always console myself with older episodes on Youtube. I've watched close to 50 of them the past few days, and I hope more will get uploaded.

I've been watching these old episodes all day. Mostly from 1978 and 1979, but I've also watched some from late 1989 (just when the Tates arrived in Beckindale), one from New Year's Eve 1974 (episode 222) and one from early 1976 which ended with the tragic train crash that killed Sam and Sally Skilbeck, Matt and Peggy's twins (episode 288). It's such a treat to see these old episodes, and I absolutely love the show back then. The difference compared to now is immense, it's more of a regular drama series than a soapopera which it is now. All the familiar faces I remember from watching this show as a child, Annie, Sam, Matt, Dolly (the original one), Amos... Also some early Seth, and we get to see his wife and children! The reverend back then, Donald Hinton, reminds me of Alan Turner, both in looks and the way he speaks. I'm in Emmerdale-heaven!

This is fantastic! I love watching these old episodes.

I guessed that's what he meant, and then it would be completely accurate. But I personally always include the pre-open era results, and if you do that then Serena is tied for third with Helen Wills-Moody behind Margaret Court and Steffi Graf. But all this is purely academic. You really can't compare players from different eras, since the game has evolved so much over the years.

No, Margaret Court is ahead of both her and Steffi with 24 grand slam titles.

I can't say I've paid much attention to Taylor Swift before, but that tweet was fabulous!

Yes, Nadal is out!!

Katy Kurtzman?! Wow, no wonder I couldn't place her, yet she felt so familiar.

Getting rid of Terry and, especially, Viv the way they did was unforgivable. Viv could still have played a major part on the show, and I would rather have had her still on the show and gotten rid of Bob. Terry on the other hand lost some of his relevance back when Chris Tate died, so his death wasn't as upsetting as Viv's was. But I would still have preferred if a Dingle or two had died before him....

Who is the woman between The creature formerly known as Bo Hopkins and Leann Hunley? I recognize her but cannot remember her name.

Amen to that!!

Venus Williams beat 6th seed Agnieszka Radwanska, and there could be a semi-final between her and Serena. It's like we've gone back 10 years in time.

Another one from the same era, and very much in the same vein as Nicola's, was Chloe's exit.