Season 18

Looking to watch Emmerdale (1972), Season 18 online? iFILM has the full run. The action sits in 1989, with the Yorkshire Dales village seeing out the end of the decade.

As ever, the drama rides on people rather than plot twists. The farming families work the land, fall out and make up, marry off their children and bury their dead; the pub and the farm still gather every conversation worth having. Emmerdale has always found the big stuff inside the ordinary — the everyday routine where the real drama hides.

Its strength this season is patience: it never rushes the viewer, letting the characters simply live. Watch Emmerdale Season 18 online on iFILM.