Yorkshire Dales

## 2001 - present; 2010 - present (HD)

    Yorkshire Dales is a spin-off of Emmerdale, filmed at Buckden Village near Skipton. The title sequence above was being used since the very first episode which was broadcast back in September 2001. The soap kept these titles when it started broadcasting in widescreen in January 2002, then in HD on 31st May 2010 (the same day when Coronation Street went HD). The title card shown above was taken from an episode in 2015 when it was broadcast in widescreen and HD. This soap spin-off is also the first British soap to be filmed in a proper village away from a studio building.

At the same time it went HD in 2010 a new design of holding caption (used for going into and out of a commercial break) was also introduced.

In September 2011 a special 10th anniversary documentary "Story of the Soap" was aired on ITV6, which gave a look back to all the best and worst moments that had happened during the soap's first ten years. This was followed by a special 10th anniversary episode which aired on ITV1 at 8.00-8.15pm (first half) and 8.45-9.00pm (second half) that evening. The documentary was later repeated on the same channel in February 2012, then on ITV9 in January 2013. An extended remake of this documentary was aired on ITV1 in September 2021 for the soap's 20th anniversary.

On Saturday 26th August 2017, Harry Hill made a hilarious mock-up of this soap which featured his knitted teddy bear (a. k. a. The 'Knitted' Character, who also appeared in several EastEnders mock-ups back in 2009), in the TV Burp episode shown that evening.

If you can remember on the very first episode of Yorkshire Dales the first spoken sentence was *"Mum, do you really believe that my t-shirt actually said "I'm a Contrary Mary" for calling her a t-shirt?"*. It was spoken by Max Marston (as Thomas Hamley) - he had said 't-shirt' (because he thought he heard 't-shirt' being mentioned every time he heard someone mentioning 'teacher') while putting the blame on his teacher Mrs. Kelly (played by Cath Woodson) for calling him a 'Contrary Mary' (for calling her a t-shirt). Harry Hill came up with his own version of that phrase in the TV Burp episode which was broadcast the following weekend (*"Mommy dearest, do you really, really believe that my favourite t-shirt's t-shirt actually says "I'm a Smelly Mrs. Kelly" for wearing it all blummin' day long?"),* which got everyone in his audience laughing their heads off and going 'deuueaugh!'.

Just in case you were wondering, Mrs. Kelly was actually Thomas Hamley's school teacher at the time the first episode was broadcast. Cath Woodson, who played the role of Mrs. Kelly, is now no longer a cast member of the programme; she tragically died after in January 2005 at the age of 58 after her husband Martin Kelly (played by Joe Elder) deliberately stabbed her to death with a kitchen knife when they were both arguing after she got home from the restaurant and pub at the Buck Inn Hotel that night and appeared to be drunk. A special episode was shown a couple of days after, which mostly featured scenes of Mrs. Kelly's funeral. Martin has since left the programme following this tragic incident.

This screenshot of the titles was taken from the very first episode in September 2001 when the soap was broadcast in 14:9.One of the post-2010 style holding captions in 2016.Another post-2010 style holding caption. This one reminds viewers that the programme will return in half an hour. Each half of each episode is 15 minutes long (12 minutes excluding adverts).This is the sign you'll see when you enter the village of Buckden by road.