Emmerdale Farm in 1989

1989 was Emmerdale Farm's/Emmerdale's 18th year. This year was notable in that the show was renamed from Emmerdale Farm to simply Emmerdale.
==Episodes==
===Emmerdale Farm episodes===
===Emmerdale episodes===
==Main Cast==
Ranking	Character 	Played by 	Duration 	Number of Episodes	Running total	Previous year's ranking
1 	Amos Brearly 	Ronald Magill 	Full year 	102 	1360 	5
1 	Annie Sugden 	Sheila Mercier 	Full year 	102 	1328 	2
3 	Joe Sugden 	Frazer Hines 	Full year 	101 	1137 	2
3 	Kate Sugden 	Sally Knyvette 	Full year 	101 	137 	21
5 	Alan Turner 	Richard Thorp 	Full year 	95 	667 	8
6 	Henry Wilks 	Arthur Pentelow 	Full year 	94 	1342 	6
7 	Matt Skilbeck 	Frederick Pyne 	Until December 	93 	1361 	2
8 	Seth Armstrong 	Stan Richards 	Full year 	92 	803 	11
9 	Caroline Bates 	Diana Davies 	Until November 	90 	527 	8
9 	Kathy Merrick 	Malandra Burrows 	Full year 	90 	373 	7
11 	Rachel Hughes 	Glenda McKay 	Full year 	85 	111 	23
12 	Dolly Skilbeck 	Jean Rogers 	Full year 	82 	980 	1
13 	Pete Whiteley 	Jim Millea 	Full year 	67 	67 	-
14 	Archie Brooks 	Tony Pitts 	Until November 	66 	330 	15
14 	Mark Hughes 	Craig McKay 	Full year 	66 	91 	24
16 	Nick Bates 	Cy Chadwick 	Until August and from November 	65 	256 	10
17 	Lynn Whiteley 	Fionnuala Ellwood 	Full year except April 	64 	64 	-
18 	Jackie Merrick 	Ian Sharrock 	Until August 	63 	731 	11
19 	Donald Hinton 	Hugh Manning 	February to August 	46 	615 	22
19 	Eric Pollard 	Christopher Chittell 	January, April to November 	46 	165 	17
21 	Bill Whiteley 	Teddy Turner 	From February 	45 	45 	-
22 	Sandie Merrick 	Jane Hutcheson 	Until May 	38 	595 	11
23 	Bill Middleton 	Johnny Caesar 	January to March, May to June, September to October and December	31 	181 	25
24 	David Hughes 	Martyn Whitby 	March to April and from October 	29 	29 	-
25 	Jack Sugden 	Clive Hornby 	April, August to September and from November 	28 	840 	16
26 	Jock MacDonald 	Drew Dawson 	January to February, June, September to October and December 	20 	230 	18
27 	Sarah Connolly 	Madeleine Howard 	April, August to September and from November 	18 	25 	29
28 	Denis Rigg 	Richard Franklin 	February to April, June to July 	16 	36 	26
29 	Samuel Skilbeck 	Benjamin Whitehead 	January, March, May, August and November 	12 	308 	27
30 	Frank Tate 	Norman Bowler 	From November 	10 	10 	-
31 	Robert Sugden 	Richard Smith and Christopher Smith	February, April and from November 	7 	135 	19
31 	Christopher Tate	Peter Amory 	From November 	7 	7 	-
33 	Kim Tate 	Claire King 	From December 	4 	4 	-
33 	Zoe Tate 	Leah Bracknell 	From December 	4 	4 	-
35 	Phil Pearce 	Peter Alexander 	Until January 	2 	206 	14
==Storylines==
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==Who lives where==
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==Awards and Nominations==
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Category:1989
Category:Emmerdale year-by-year