Episode 459 (27th June 1978)

Episode 459
ITV broadcast date	27th June 1978 (Tuesday)
Writer	Kevin Laffan
Director	Derek Martinus
Executive producer	David Cunliffe
Producer	Michael Glynn
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Plot

Pip arrives back in Beckindale and finds Annie waiting for her. She takes her to the Police Station. Dolly comes face to face with Phyllis and asks her what she's playing at. Phyllis introduces her new husband, Leonard Purwick, as her new father and insists that Leonard give her away at the wedding. Amos isn't happy when he arrives back at The Woolpack to find a chair broken and the glasses not cleared away, and that Joe broke the chair when hitting Tom. Amos gets a bigger shock when he finds Dolly's up at Demdyke with her mother and 'father'. Annie discusses Steve and Pip's case with Alec. She's annoyed that nobody is stepping in to defend them. Mrs. Hawker visits Donald and tells him that she's found out Tom threatened to tell Steve that she was living with Joe unless she left the village. She's relieved to hear she's back and tells Donald that she's planning to ask Pip to live with her as she's leaving Tom and going to live with her sister in Hotten. Amos is appalled to discover Joe was responsible for breaking the chair in The Woolpack. Phyllis tries to guilt Amos into allowing Leonard to give Dolly away at the wedding. Alec agrees to use his status as a QC to try to help Pip and talks with Pip in private to establish the facts. Amos refuses to go back on giving Dolly away.

Cast

Regular cast

• Annie - Sheila Mercier
• Joe - Frazer Hines
• Matt - Frederick Pyne
• Sam - Toke Townley
• Wilks - Arthur Pentelow
• Amos - Ronald Magill
• Dolly - Katharine Barker
• Rev. Donald Hinton - Hugh Manning

Guest cast

• Phyllis Purwick - Jean Heywood (Credited as 'Mrs. Acaster')
• Leonard Purwick - Alan Hockey
• Alec Ferris - Donald Morley
• Polly Ferris - Valerie Georgeson
• Miss Jessie Renfrew - Kathleen Helme
• Pip - Julie Dawn Cole (credited as Dawn Cole)
• Mrs. Hawker - Kathleen Worth

Locations

• The Woolpack - Front exterior, Public bar, Backroom, Back exterior
• Beckindale Vicarage - Exterior
• 3 Demdyke Row - Living room
• Emmerdale Farm - Farmhouse kitchen/living room, Yard, Sam's garden
• Unknown road

Notes

• This episode was broadcast in the London region on Wednesday 28th June 1978 at 5.15pm.
• TV Times synopsis: Dolly meets her new step-father. He wants to step straight into Amos' shoes and give her away at the wedding, but Amos isn't having that. (The London edition of this synopsis contains a condensed version reading: Dolly meets her new step-father.)