Chris Thompson wrote 234 episodes of Emmerdale from 1998 to 2011. His other work includes Heartbeat and Children's Ward, as well as appearing on Emmerdale: Backstage Pass.
Episodes written by Chris Thompson[]
1990s[]
1998 (3 episodes)[]
- Episode 2414 (10th September 1998)
- Episode 2433 (21st October 1998)
- Episode 2459 (21st December 1998)
1999 (13 episodes)[]
- Episode 2468 (6th January 1999)
- Episode 2470 (12th January 1999)
- Episode 2500 (23rd March 1999)
- Episode 2501 (24th March 1999)
- Episode 2525 (19th May 1999)
- Episode 2533 (8th June 1999)
- Episode 2546 (7th July 1999)
- Episode 2551 (20th July 1999)
- Episode 2558 (4th August 1999)
- Episode 2579 (17th September 1999)
- Episode 2587 (6th October 1999)
- Episode 2600 (2nd November 1999)
- Episode 2610 (19th November 1999)
2000s[]
2000 (18 episodes)[]
- Episode 2633 (5th January 2000)
- Episode 2648 (9th February 2000)
- Episode 2654 (18th February 2000)
- Episode 2678 (11th April 2000)
- Episode 2688 (3rd May 2000)
- Episode 2691 (11th May 2000)
- Episode 2710 (22nd June 2000)
- Episode 2720 (13th July 2000)
- Episode 2721 (14th July 2000)
- Episode 2744 (6th September 2000)
- Episode 2758 (5th October 2000)
- Episode 2759 (6th October 2000)
- Episode 2762 (11th October 2000)
- Episode 2763 (12th October 2000)
- Episode 2787/2788 (15th November 2000) (co-written with Martin Jameson)
- Episode 2800 (4th December 2000)
- Episode 2815 (25th December 2000)
- Episode 2816 (26th December 2000)
2001 (19 episodes)[]
- Episode 2832 (17th January 2001)
- Episode 2841 (30th January 2001)
- Episode 2859 (23rd February 2001)
- Episode 2876 (20th March 2001)
- Episode 2893 (12th April 2001)
- Episode 2894 (13th April 2001)
- Episode 2900 (23rd April 2001)
- Episode 2911 (8th May 2001)
- Episode 2942 (20th June 2001)
- Episode 2967 (26th July 2001)
- Episode 2968 (27th July 2001)
- Episode 2981 (13th August 2001)
- Episode 2992 (29th August 2001)
- Episode 3016 (2nd October 2001)
- Episode 3023 (11th October 2001)
- Episode 3042 (7th November 2001)
- Episode 3043 (8th November 2001)
- Episode 3068 (13th December 2001)
- Episode 3069 (14th December 2001)
2002 (18 episodes)[]
- Episode 3081 (1st January 2002)
- Episode 3108 (7th February 2002)
- Episode 3123 (28th February 2002)
- Episode 3132 (13th March 2002)
- Episode 3142 (27th March 2002)
- Episode 3143 (28th March 2002)
- Episode 3188 (29th May 2002)
- Episode 3200 (14th June 2002)
- Episode 3201 (17th June 2002)
- Episode 3218 (9th July 2002)
- Episode 3235 (2nd August 2002)
- Episode 3254 (29th August 2002)
- Episode 3268 (18th September 2002)
- Episode 3280 (4th October 2002)
- Episode 3289 (17th October 2002)
- Episode 3314 (21st November 2002)
- Episode 3339 (26th December 2002)
- Episode 3340 (27th December 2002)
2003 (18 episodes)[]
- Episode 3347 (7th January 2003)
- Episode 3371/3372 (10th February 2003)
- Episode 3404 (27th March 2003)
- Episode 3405 (28th March 2003)
- Episode 3416 (14th April 2003)
- Episode 3417 (15th April 2003)
- Episode 3439 (13th May 2003)
- Episode 3451 (29th May 2003)
- Episode 3452 (30th May 2003)
- Episode 3497 (25th July 2003)
- Episode 3510 (13th August 2003)
- Episode 3511 (14th August 2003)
- Episode 3545/3546 (29th September 2003)
- Episode 3554 (9th October 2003)
- Episode 3555 (10th October 2003)
- Episode 3619 (26th December 2003)
2004 (22 episodes)[]
- Episode 3645 (26th January 2004)
- Episode 3646 (27th January 2004)
- Episode 3664 (17th February 2004)
- Episode 3665 (18th February 2004)
- Episode 3691 (19th March 2004)
- Episode 3713 (14th April 2004)
- Episode 3714 (15th April 2004)
- Episode 3730 (4th May 2004)
- Episode 3731 (5th May 2004)
- Episode 3764 (9th June 2004)
- Episode 3765 (10th June 2004)
- Episode 3772 (22nd June 2004)
- Episode 3773 (23rd June 2004)
- Episode 3804 (29th July 2004)
- Episode 3805 (30th July 2004)
- Episode 3831 (30th August 2004)
- Episode 3851 (22nd September 2004)
- Episode 3852 (23rd September 2004)
- Episode 3863 (6th October 2004)
- Episode 3864 (7th October 2004)
- Episode 3890 (7th November 2004)
- Episode 3919 (10th December 2004)
2005 (23 episodes)[]
- Episode 3942 (6th January 2005)
- Episode 3943 (7th January 2005)
- Episode 3962 (30th January 2005)
- Episode 3990 (4th March 2005)
- Episode 4005 (23rd March 2005)
- Episode 4026 (17th April 2005)
- Episode 4027 (18th April 2005)
- Episode 4033 (25th April 2005)
- Episode 4074 (14th June 2005)
- Episode 4075 (15th June 2005)
- Episode 4101 (17th July 2005)
- Episode 4102 (18th July 2005)
- Episode 4120 (8th August 2005)
- Episode 4121 (9th August 2005)
- Episode 4161 (23rd September 2005)
- Episode 4184 (21st October 2005)
- Episode 4185 (23rd October 2005)
- Episode 4201 (10th November 2005)
- Episode 4202 (11th November 2005)
- Episode 4210 (21st November 2005)
- Episode 4211 (22nd November 2005)
- Episode 4238 (22nd December 2005)
- Episode 4239 (23rd December 2005)
2006 (18 episodes)[]
- Episode 4274 (1st February 2006)
- Episode 4275 (2nd February 2006)
- Episode 4298 (1st March 2006)
- Episode 4316 (22nd March 2006)
- Episode 4338 (17th April 2006)
- Episode 4339 (18th April 2006)
- Episode 4362 (15th May 2006)
- Episode 4363 (16th May 2006)
- Episode 4374 (29th May 2006)
- Episode 4375 (30th May 2006)
- Episode 4413 (17th July 2006)
- Episode 4414 (18th July 2006)
- Episode 4438 (15th August 2006)
- Episode 4472 (22nd September 2006)
- Episode 4515 (12th November 2006)
- Episode 4516 (13th November 2006)
- Episode 4544 (14th December 2006)
- Episode 4545 (15th December 2006)
2007 (20 episodes)[]
- Episode 4569 (11th January 2007)
- Episode 4581 (25th January 2007)
- Episode 4582 (26th January 2007)
- Episode 4604 (20th February 2007)
- Episode 4605 (21st February 2007)
- Episode 4639 (2nd April 2007)
- Episode 4660 (26th April 2007)
- Episode 4661 (27th April 2007)
- Episode 4688/4689 (29th May 2007) (co-written with Lindsay Williams)
- Episode 4690 (30th May 2007)
- Episode 4694/4695 (5th June 2007)
- Episode 4728 (13th July 2007)
- Episode 4729 (15th July 2007)
- Episode 4756 (15th August 2007)
- Episode 4779 (12th September 2007)
- Episode 4780/4781 (13th September 2007) (co-written with Philip Gerard)
- Episode 4842 (25th November 2007)
- Episode 4843 (26th November 2007)
- Episode 4860 (16th December 2007)
2008 (19 episodes)[]
- Death Becomes Her (1st January 2008)
- Episode 4906 (6th February 2008)
- Episode 4925 (28th February 2008)
- Episode 4926 (29th February 2008)
- Episode 4955 (4th April 2008)
- Episode 4960 (11th April 2008)
- Episode 4961 (14th April 2008)
- Episode 4970 (24th April 2008)
- Episode 4971 (25th April 2008)
- Episode 4994 (23rd May 2008)
- Episode 5034 (10th July 2008)
- Episode 5035 (11th July 2008)
- Episode 5057 (6th August 2008)
- Episode 5089 (12th September 2008)
- Episode 5097/5098 (23rd September 2008)
- Episode 5142 (13th November 2008)
- Episode 5171 (17th December 2008)
2009 (19 episodes)[]
- Episode 5218/5219 (10th February 2009)
- Episode 5231 (25th February 2009)
- Episode 5249 (19th March 2009)
- Episode 5250 (20th March 2009)
- Episode 5263 (6th April 2009)
- Episode 5272/5273 (16th April 2009)
- Episode 5300 (20th May 2009)
- Episode 5301 (21st May 2009)
- Episode 5331 (25th June 2009)
- Episode 5348 (15th July 2009)
- Episode 5349 (16th July 2009)
- Episode 5392 (4th September 2009)
- Episode 5393 (7th September 2009)
- Episode 5439 (29th October 2009)
- Episode 5468/5469 (2nd December 2009)
- Episode 5492 (30th December 2009)
2010s[]
2010 (16 episodes)[]
- Episode 5499 (7th January 2010)
- Episode 5500 (7th January 2010)
- Episode 5526 (8th February 2010)
- Episode 5550 (8th March 2010)
- Episode 5570 (31st March 2010)
- Episode 5609 (14th May 2010)
- Episode 5619 (27th May 2010)
- Episode 5620 (27th May 2010)
- Episode 5641/5642 (29th June 2010)
- Episode 5694 (27th August 2010)
- Episode 5708 (14th September 2010)
- Episode 5724 (1st October 2010)
- Episode 5790 (16th December 2010)
- Episode 5791 (16th December 2010)
- Episode 5802 (28th December 2010)