It's a big month for Emmerdale with the ITV soap marking 50 years on our television screens. The long-running weeknight drama first launched in October 1972 as the afternoon series Emmerdale Farm, but has since become a regular part of evening viewing for many fans.
Throughout the years the Yorkshire soap has broadcast some hard-hitting, emotional storylines, there have been affairs, fights, explosive stunts and plenty of humour thrown in too. To mark the milestone birthday, since the start of October a number of big storylines have been playing out and a huge storm is also set to hit the village, leaving destruction in its wake.
Over the past week there have been a few familiar faces making a brief return to the village too, including ITV's I'm a Celebrity... Get Me Out of Here! winner Danny Miller, who plays Aaron Dingle. Amy Walsh is also back as Tracy Metcalfe and Elizabeth Estensen made her first re-appearance as Diane Sugden in Wednesday night's episode surprising Faith Dingle in the back of an ice-cream van.
