The plane crash in 1993 took over three weeks to film at a cost of £1 million pounds.

30/12/1993

EPISODE 1829

Synopsis Text
PART 1 - Jack & Joe fuss over Annie & Leonard who are about to set off for the airport on route to Spain ; Lynn Whiteley phones up asking for her vacuum cleaner returning ; Joe insists that Mark takes it back & he will drive his mum to the airport ; Joe reminds Jack to go & sort the access out over Skipdale Bridge ; Annie tells them all where she keeps her life policies in case anything happens ; Frank is watching a carol service on television ; he takes a wrapped present out of the drawer & looks at it ; Kathy packs at Mill Cottage ; she leaves a note for Chris & then telephones Josh to tell him that she loves him ; Elizabeth is cold towards Eric ; he tells her that he has managed to convince the police that she made up the stories about his involvement defrauding Frank ; she is determined to see him go to prison though & he does look worried ; Zoe arrives home ; she invites Frank to the Woolpack for Seth's prostate benefit night ; he says that he will see her later & then takes the present out ; Joe & Mark row as Joe nags at Mark to take the hoover back to Lynn's ; Mark says goodbye to Annie & Leonard ; Joe promises that he will make up with him later ; Nick is not happy that Archie has asked lizabeth to babysit ; he is worried about his forthcoming custody battle ; Alan has dressed up as Charles Dickens for the Woolpack Dickensian Evening ; Shirley is dressed as Nell Gwyn ; the Windsors turn up at Kim's stables to see Samson ; Frank drives up & watches them ; Kathy comes across her wedding album as she packs ; the contractors
have not cleared Skipdale Bridge ; Eric walks into Demdyke
& demands to know what Elizabeth is planning ; he gets
angry with her ; there are not many people in the Woolpack
; Seth is worried because it is his benefit night ; Nick
gets angry at a remark Lyn makes about him & Archie being
gay ; he is worried about how the rumours will affect his
custody of Alice ; Archie storms out after another remark &
Nick goes after him ; Seth then angers Alan who calls him
" ignorant & rude" before ordering him to leave the pub ;
Seth sets off for the Malt Shovel ; Elizabeth hits Eric before going back home ; she tells Eric to stay & look
after Alice, but he goes after her ; she knows that he has
been looking through her stuff ; Frank waits outside Kim's
stables ; suddenly a ball of fire hits the stables ; Nick &
Archie are walking home when they are blinded by some fluid
& Archie is engulfed in flames.

PART 2 - the Woolpack windows explode ; Joe crashes the car
as he drives Annie & Leonard & flames come towards him ;
the Woolpack bar is in darkness & everyone lays unconscious
on the floor ; Nick stumbles around blindly shouting for
Archie ; he falls into a hole & ends up next to a dead
sheep ; Frank takes charge at the stables ; he prevents Kim
going back to save her horses ; she calls the fire brigade
instead ; the McAllisters look on at the fires ; they have
no idea what is happening ; Frank orders Kim to remove her
stuff from the caravan before it explodes ; he decides to
go back to the village to see what has happened ; Leonard,
Annie & Joe lay unconscious in the car ; a shocked Zoe
arrives at the Woolpack ; Jack & Sarah look on at the
flames in the village ; Jack decides to go & help.

04/01/1994

EPISODE 1830

Synopsis Text
PART 1 - continuous episode ; Nick is still blinded & wandering round looking for Archie ; no one is stirring in Joe's car ; Frank drives through the village & looks at the devastation ; the McAllisters prepare aid boxes ; Kim listens helplessly as her horses scream for help ; people in the Woolpack begin to come round ; Frank arrives & finds Zoe ; Josh can't get through to the village because of the bridge ; he tries ringing Kathy ; Frank is organising everyone at the Woolpack ; the wine bar has been destroyed ; Lynn starts to panic about her son ; Josh decides to try & wade across the river ; Nick is still stumbling about ; Bernard tells his family to be prepared for bad injuries when they go to the village ; the stables are still on fire ; Kim just gets out of her caravan in time before it explodes.

PART 2 - Kathy arrives in the village ; she finds Frank who tells her to go to the Woolpack ; Lynn rushes off to Peter ; Eric is wandering around looking for Elizabeth ; Alan tells Shirley that there are fatalities in the village ; Kim knows that Dark Star is dead ; Joe comes round in the car ; he has injured his leg & cannot wake Annie ; Josh finds Frank ; then Jack arrives ; they decide to do something about Skipdale Bridge so that the fire brigade can get through ; Frank has got an idea ; he asks Jock to sort out some lights ; Samson has been saved (Vic remembers the name of Steptoe's horse - Hercules) ; Kim cries at the loss of her horses ; Viv comforts her ; Alan has made a
list of those villagers who are missing - the Hutchinsons,
Jack & Kay McGuire, Mary & Jimmy Baldwin, Nick & Alice,
Archie, Chris, Elizabeth & Seth ; Eric is upset ; Shirley
thinks that he is behaving strangely ; the McAllister's
help the wounded ; Luke has had to break into the post
office for supplies ; Kathy & Josh meet up ; she hasn't
changed her mind about leaving Chris ; Jack & Frank tackle
the bridge ; they try & lay some pipes ; Lynn's house is on
fire ; Zoe is with her ; Mark's arm can be seen sticking
out of some rubble with the vacuum cleaner ; a fire engine arrives at the bridge ; Lynn comforts baby Peter ; the
Windsors leave Kim just as she finds a rosette belonging to
Dark Star ; Angharad comes across some bodies ; more
emergency services arrive at the bridge ; Angharad arrives
at the Woolpack in tears ; she asks Bernard to follow her ;
Frank notices the plane engine still smoking near the
bridge ; Angharad takes Alan & Bernard & shows them the
bodies ; Alan picks up a plane ticket with the name
Kurshkov on it ; he notices more wreckage in the field & it
becomes more clear what has happened.

05/01/1994

EPISODE 1831

Synopsis Text
PART 1 - Lynn Whiteley's house is still on fire ; Zoe & Kathy try & encourage her to go & see a doctor ; Luke rides up to the stables to tell the Windsors that they need to open the shop for supplies ; he tells them that it looks like a plane has come down on the village ; the Windsor children have to leave Samson behind ; Alan is still writing his missing persons list ; Dr McAllister does not think that anyone will have survived the plane crash ; Shirley offers to find the school caretaker (Mr Derry) to open up & use as a base ; she is also going to open up the village hall as a point for the emergency services to work from ; Kim arrives at the Woolpack ; she cries on Frank's shoulder ; Zoe is worried about Chris ; Jack is still filling in the hole to rebuild the bridge ; Sarah turns up ; she is wondering what has happened to Joe & Annie ; Joe is pleased when he realises that Annie is alive ; he talks to her & then begins to ramble ; the bridge is ready ; Kim & Lynn mourn the loss of their properties ; Seth's house has also been completely demolished ; Alan gets upset remembering how they parted on bad terms ; he presumes that Seth is dead & starts to cry ; Dr McAllister is tending to people in the school hall ; Eric is wandering round looking for Elizabeth ; he says to Viv "I shouldn't have done it" ; Vic thinks that he is in shock ; the emergency services manage to get over the bridge ; missing list - Seth, Elizabeth Pollard, Jess & Margaret Hutchinson, Nick, Archie, Mark & Alice.

PART 2 - Joe wakes up again ; he hears the sound of traffic
passing & decides to drag himself up to the road, but his
legs give way ; Josh sees Samson who leads him to the wine
bar wreckage ; he hears Chris call for help ; everyone
comes out of the Woolpack to help ; Chris wants Kathy with
him ; Luke finds Zoe & tells her that she is wanted at a
nearby farm ; Chris's legs are trapped under heavy rubble ;
Joe manages to flag down a police car ; Kim & Shirley help
out with the injured ; Eric asks a policeman if he is
looking for him ; the fire crew cannot send anyone to help Chris yet ; Frank notices Samson & gets an idea ; the army
have arrived ; some of the plane wreckage is still on fire
; Eric wanders around ; Samson is used to help pull
wreckage off Chris ; Josh watches as Kathy comforts Chris ;
s wreckage from air.

06/01/1994

EPISODE 1832

PART 1 - it is daylight ; Chris has had the rubble removed from him ; Frank tells him that he is going to be helicoptered out of the village ; s of wreckage from helicopter ; Eric is still wandering around looking for Elizabeth ; Vic persuades him to go back to the school ; Chris is apologising to Kathy for being too possessive with her ; she can't tell him that she is leaving him now ; he makes her promise to stay with him ; she looks longingly at Josh & Zoe notices ; the school is being turned into a temporary mortuary ; Jack reminisces about being at school there ; he notices Mark's watch amongst the personal belongings that have been found ; it is the one that Annie gave him at Christmas ; Annie is being rescued from the car ; a fireman tells Joe that Leonard is dead ; Vic notices some looters at the crash site ; Josh is at Mill Cottage ; Jack has to identify Mark's body ; Josh has broken into Mill Cottage & a policeman has followed him ; he gets rid of the note that Kathy left for Chris ; Jack sees Joe by the roadside.

PART 2 - a policewoman tells Angharad that the roads to the village are blocked with sightseers ; Josh is brought back to the village by a policeman ; Zoe vouches for him, but wonders what he was doing at Mill Cottage ; Josh tears up the note that Kathy wrote to Chris ; Kim & Lynn have words ; Kathy is by Chris's bedside ; Frank arrives ; he talks to Kathy about her marriage ; he seems to think that Kathy & Chris will be fine ; Jack is by Annie's bedside ; Frank
sees him ; they talk about the disaster ; Joe is on
crutches ; he doesn't know about Mark yet & Jack has to
tell him ; Zoe is still looking for Archie ; Kim & Zoe make
up ; Elsa Feldmann turns up looking for Nick & Alice ;
Frank is driving home when he sees something in a tree that
makes him feel ill ; Frank has rescued a dead baby ; Kim
looks on as he argues with a policeman ; Bernard tells
Angharad that the Emergency Planning Officer has taken
charge of everything ; Kim comforts Frank ; Zoe looks
disapproving ; they look like starting a reconciliation.