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Message: <blockquote data-quote="soapfan" data-source="post: 421660" data-attributes="member: 354">If Emmerdale had stayed as Emmerdale Farm and not evolved as it did, it wouldn't have lasted as long as it has done.  Worse still, whilst ITV and Amazon have promoted the first 50 years of Coronation Street on DVD box set, Emmerdale however haven't and only have few select volume things from the 1970s when it was Emmerdale Farm, when the show was more boring in those days and mostly became The Sugden show and about the farm instead of the village. Otherwise I prefer the other individual characters like Amos, Henry, Seth rather than the show being too family-orientated etc. Finally, I sometimes wonder how Norman Bowler's Frank Tate would have fitted into Emmerdale Farm during 1972-1988, he'd have been a force to be reckoned with, there's no doubt about that. Apart from The Tate family when Emmerdale Farm became Emmerdale in 1989, there's only character actress Lynn Whiteley that's still alive and well today.</blockquote>