[James2001]

One interesting thing looking at the show's history was when there was a strike at Yorkshire in late 1981/early 1982, rather than make the episodes that should have been made during the strike when it was over, they just skipped them entirely, leading to a narrative gap in the storylines. Seems a very curious thing to do, but presumably there were logistical reasons behind it.

Coronation Street seemingly did a similar thing back in 1964- which included the episode where the Ogdens moved in.

Watching these episodes really has given me the urge to see more of the Emmerdale Farm Era, I'd argue much of it's stronger than the 2002 episodes ITV3 are currently showing. I guess I could hunt down the Network DVD releases, though they only include the first 15 months of it.

The episode the ITV Hub has labelled as "Dolly gives birth" isn't though... in fact it's from much earlier in the year, before Dolly was even pregnant. The date given for the previous episode is wrong too, by 11 months, it's actually from January 1979, not December (the Christmas setting of the episode and the fact it was delayed due to a strike might have confused someone there).