Episode 492 (11th January 1979)

==Plot==
It's Christmas Eve and the Sugdens prepare the farmhouse for Christmas. Henry is surprised when Annie invites him and Amos over for Christmas dinner. Len informs Amos that Maurice is the new manager of NY Estates. Henry discovers Amos has already bought a turkey for their Christmas dinner. He rings Annie to say that they won't be coming up. Annie also finds out that Nellie is spending Christmas with her sister-in-law. Florrie arrives at the church and finds Donald cleaning the floor and guiltily takes over. He tries to make her consider spending Christmas with her mother, but she says he doesn't know what she's like. As Christmas Day arrives, Amos and Henry exchange gifts. Donald's words have clearly had an effect on Florrie as she brings her mother home to Len's annoyance. Henry finds out that Amos's turkey won't be ready in time for dinner and decides to accept Annie's invitation to dinner after all. Everybody sits down to dinner together at Emmerdale.
==Cast==
===Regular cast===
*Annie - Sheila Mercier
*Joe - Frazer Hines
*Matt - Frederick Pyne
*Sam - Toke Townley
*Wilks - Arthur Pentelow
*Amos - Ronald Magill
*Dolly - Katharine Barker
*Rev. Donald Hinton - Hugh Manning
===Guest cast===
*Aunt Jessie - Kathleen Helme
*Florrie Arnold - Sheila Fay
*Len Arnold - Jackie Shinn
==Locations==
*Phone box on Main Street
*The Woolpack - Public bar and backroom
*St. Mary's Church - Interior and exterior
*Emmerdale Farm - Farmhouse kitchen/living room, parlour and attic, cowshed
*Unknown roads
==Notes==
*A strike at Yorkshire Television over productivity which began on 18th December 1978 (some sources state 17th December) was not called off until Wednesday 3rd January 1979 with transmissions resuming at 5.45pm. This episode was the third of three episodes which were intended for broadcast in December 1978. On the same day the strike ended, Yorkshire Television quickly set to work to get the programme back on the air and the outstanding episodes broadcast before the schedule resumed as normal on 16th January 1979.
*This episode was broadcast in the London region on Friday 12th January 1979 at 6.30pm.
*Although a TV Times synopsis appeared in the magazine for this episode, the events listed were actually part of Episode 494, broadcast on 18th January 1979.
Category:1979 episodes
Category:Emmerdale Farm episodes