Thread:Benny1982/@comment-25358237-20190111111735/@comment-3244635-20190203195441

That must be why in 1993 they decided to drop a plane on the village and bring back some of the high octane drama the show had from 1983-1985. The plane crash got 18 million viewers, the highest ever. January 1985 saw it get 15 million, and it would have climed higher if the drama had ramped up. In mid 1985 Kevin Laffan said he hated the sex, sin and sensationalism in the show, so maybe they took note of that and toned it todwn a bit, sadly. Kevin created the show but at first he was unsure about a farm setting until asked to set it on a farm. He was asked to create a new show for daytime TV.

1988 was good as was 1990 but 1991-1993 was quite boring. Once the Mowlam storyline ended, the show went very sedate for the rest of the year and into 1987.