Episode 1011 (19th December 1985)

Plot
It is Christmas time in Beckindale and everyone is getting ready for the Christmas play. Derek Warner asks Sandie if she has seen her dad recently. Terence decides that the village is getting on his nerves and wants to move on. He says goodbye to Alan and Mrs Bates at Home Farm. The Christmas play at the village hall goes withot a hitch.

Regular cast

 * Annie Sugden - Sheila Mercier
 * Matt Skilbeck - Frederick Pyne
 * Jack Sugden - Clive Hornby
 * Pat Sugden - Helen Weir
 * Amos Brearly - Ronald Magill
 * Henry Wilks - Arthur Pentelow
 * Dolly Skilbeck - Jean Rogers
 * Sam Skilbeck - Benjamin Whitehead
 * Jackie Merrick - Ian Sharrock
 * Sandie Merrick - Jane Hutcheson
 * Alan Turner - Richard Thorp
 * Mrs Bates - Diana Davies
 * Rev Donald Hinton - Hugh Manning
 * Seth Armstrong - Stan Richards
 * Terence Turner - Stephen Marchant
 * Harry Mowlam - Godfrey James
 * Karen Moore - Annie Hulley
 * Kathy Bates - Malandra Burrows
 * Archie Brooks - Tony Pitts
 * Nick Bates - Cy Chadwick

Guest cast

 * Sita Sharma - Mamta Kash
 * Derek Warner - Dennis Blanch