Emmerdale Farm - Vol. 1 [DVD] [1972] | ![Emmerdale Farm - Vol. 1 [DVD] [1972]](http://ecx.images-amazon.com/images/I/51aMsKgxnhL._SL160_.jpg) | Directors: Desmond McCarthy, Tristan DeVere Cole, Gordon Flemyng
Actors: Sheila Mercier, Andrew Burt, Frazer Hines, Ronald Magill, Arthur Pentelow
Studio: Network
Category: DVD
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Rating:  7 reviews
Sales Rank: 11978
Format: PAL
Language: English (Unknown)
Rating: Suitable for 12 years and over
Region: 2
Number Of Discs: 4
Running Time: 650 Minutes
Shipping Weight (lbs): 0.2
Dimensions (in): 7.1 x 5.4 x 0.6
EAN: 5027626276645
ASIN: B000V6AEMM
Release Date: October 15, 2007
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 Emmerdale Farm? - Farm? where did that come from April 19, 2008
Luke J. Daines (Pemorkeshire, Wales)
10 out of 10 found this review helpful
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.
br /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 October 29, 2008
Jaynie
5 out of 5 found this review helpful
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!!
The origins of Emmerdale Farm March 27, 2009
Hilda Farncombe (Surrey UK)
2 out of 2 found this review helpful
EMMERDALE FARM SERIES 1 takes you back to the origins of the soap that now goes head to head with "Eastenders" and "Coronation Street".
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br /These first 26 episodes ... the first series only ran for 13 weeks ... introduces us to the Sugden family around whom the series originally centred. It occasionally moves away from the farm but only to push the family's story into new areas.
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br /There is a wonderful mix of location and studio filming, including some early location video, and it features the original entrance of Jack Sugden at his father's funeral. The funeral sections were recreated 36 years later when Jack Sugen's funeral followed the same structure of his father's.
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br /The attention to detail shows why this soap has become a part of British Television history and has survived into it's fourth decade!!
''Take it slow, i don't want Jacob bumped about on his last ride'' April 25, 2009
Sir S. R. Martin (u.k)
2 out of 2 found this review helpful
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.
By eck, tha's produced a reet rum 'un 'an no mistake! November 13, 2007
Mr. C. J. Iredale (hezza bezza)
7 out of 10 found this review helpful
Congrat to Netword. Again (thou has produced some reet classics!). This is a beaut. For those who remember this kind of country story telling the first time round and those who liked Heartbeat, before YTV saw it became soupy and stomance churning story telling nonsense. Lunchtimes for early 70s. This is a great Northern release and is something to be savoured with a cheeky ale once t'sun gone over t'hill with the missus. Hehehehehehh!
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br /In truth, (review by a proper Northerner, both and bred) this is in stark contrast to what the programme has developed (not becomed) and thus summit to lift a glass to.
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br /I have really enjoyed this. I hope thee does too.
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br /By 'eck! etc
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