Emmerdale will celebrate its 50th anniversary with an hour-long Sunday night episode next month, it has been announced. The ITV soap will be marking five decades on our screens this October, after first being broadcast in 1972.
The special episode will air on Sunday, October 16, exactly 50 years to the day since the long-running drama set in the Yorkshire Dales launched. To mark the occasion, the ITV soap has unveiled an official cast photograph, which was taken earlier this year outside the village's Woolpack pub.
The image features everyone in the current cast from the longest-serving cast members to the newest additions, and even the Dingle family dog. Emmerdale has slowly been teasing what viewers can expect from the episodes airing during the month of their landmark anniversary - it has been confirmed that a storm will hit the village.
