History Series / Emmerdale

* FootsieUnderTheTable: In the version of the opening credits that debuted in 2011 is shot from a KneeHighPerspective, it features a woman instigating footsie with a man under a table in [[MyLocal The Woolpack]] towards the end just before the scene shifts outside and the title card flashes up.

''Emmerdale'' is a long-running British SoapOpera, set in the titular Yorkshire village.

** Location scenes based in Hotton are usually filmed in the town of Otley, close to the TV studios in Leeds where the show is filmed. Until the late 1990s, an actual village, Esholt, was used for exterior scenes of the village, until a purpose-built set was built on the grounds of a stately home close to Leeds.

* SettledForGay: Despite her first husband and subsequent fiancé both cheating on her with men, Bernice Blackstock still married Laurence White in the full knowledge that he’d had gay experiences and wasn’t interested in sex with her. (His enormous bank balance may have helped.)

** 2003: A storm hits Emmerdale village, Tricia is crushed when The Woolpack is struck by lighting and collapses, Ashley and Louise crash off a bridge to avoid a fallen tree. Tricia later died.

* DisasterDominoes: A highly compressed version when Emma pushes James from an overpass during an argument; he lands on Ashley's windshield, causing him to swerve and flip his car. Between drivers swerving to avoid Ashley and drivers further ahead being distracted by the crash behind them and crashing themselves (plus heavy fog), within a minute there's a 20+ car pile-up in the middle of the motorway, and another car (which ran off the road trying to avoid the crash) floating to the bottom of a nearby lake.

* DefiantToTheEnd: Val, realising that she's going to die in the rubble after the helicopter crash, lights a final cigarette and gives a speech about how unstoppable she is and how much she's overcome to the massive shard of glass dangling over her, moments before it falls and kills her.

Seen as something of a television version of ''Radio/TheArchers'', albeit set among bluff [[OopNorth northern]] types rather than well-heeled country folk, the series received a dramatic ReTool during the early 1990s. Starting with the name change, more and more classic "soap opera" elements were introduced, but the series was still in the shadow of its more illustrious rivals ''Series/CoronationStreet'' and ''Series/EastEnders'' -- until 1993, when writers had a plane crash onto the Woolpack, drawing in much controversy but also 18 million viewers.

* SorryImGay: Finn says this to [[UsefulNotes/{{Asexual}} Liv]] when he thinks she's trying to flirt with him. Subverted, as she wasn't,

* SorryImGay: Finn says this to [[UsefulNotes/{{Asexuality}} Liv]] when he thinks she's trying to flirt with him. Subverted, as she wasn't,

* NoBisexuals: Averted; Robert describes himself as bisexual (though other characters still refer to him as gay).

* IllGirl: Sarah Sugden, Debbie's and Andy's daughter who was first diagnosed with a rare disease called Fanconi anemia when she was six, but got better with a sibling transplant (who was conceived for this very purpose). When she was 12 she became sick again, with aggressive throat cancer. The next year she ended up in the hospital again, after suffering heart failure due to complications from the chemotherapy and requiring her to obtain a heart transplant.

** Chris Tate who upon discovering his wife had been cheating on him with his enemy - and her cousin - Cain Dingle went after Cain with a gun then decided Charity was the one he truly hated so he committed suicide and framed her for murder (having recently discovered he had months to live).
** Cain Dingle himself definitely fits this trope: after being rejected by Angie he stalked her and frightened off any man she got involved with until she was so desperate that she tried to framed him for a crime. He also attacks and/or threatens any man who shows interest in Charity.

* FanDisservice : Paddy the vet, whose current shaven head does him no favours at all.

* IllGirl: Sarah Sugden, Debbie's and Andy's daughter who was first diagnosed with a rare disease called Fanconi anemia when she was six, but got better with a sibling transplant (who was conceived for this very purpose). When she was 12 she became sick again, with aggressive throat cancer. The next year she ended up in hospital again, after suffering heart failure due to complications from the chemotherapy and requiring her to obtain a heart transplant.

** If you're a streetlighting geek, like on [[http://www.ukastle.co.uk this site]], then look out for the various types of streetlight - it's a way to tell the current state of affairs for councils on location filming.

* TookALevelInBadass: Dan when he tries to sneak up on Cameron with a chair in the Woolpack hostage crisis. Unfortanutely Debbie alerts him to it.

* RomanticAsexual: Liv Flaherty came out as asexual, spoke openly about it, with both her family and friends, and they're doing a storyline where she's going to go into a romantic relationship where she explains to the boy she's dating that she's asexual.

From its creation in 1972 until 1989, it was known as ''Emmerdale Farm''[[note]](a name that more than 30 years later ''still'' refuses to die out in pop culture, curiously not only among older members of the population)[[/note]], as the series was generally based around the farm and rural life in the village, often centering around the village [[UsefulNotes/BritishPubs pub]], The Woolpack.