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📺 'Emmerdale Farm' Monday 16 October 1972 - ITV: 13:30 'Emmerdale Farm' is broadcast for the first time. Everyday stories of country folk was part of a new experiment in ITV's daytime schedule and became Britain's first ever lunch-time drama serial. Some 2,203,000 viewers tune in for this first ever episode and it would soon outgrow its humble afternoon scheduling. Rid your mind of the more current sex-in-the-shit-sheds kaboodle that my other half is addicted to. No, older Beckindale was a lunc

Emmerdale Farm - Episode 224 (7th January 1975)