Elves have needs too - will there be a pheasants' revolt? Discuss The Archers here

[PseudoBadger]

I've just browsed Lowfield for the first time - they really don't like Pat do they!

Didn't even hey have the road decision at the end of yesterday's? I'd glazed over a bit by then

Well maybe it will be an episode of the Brookfield archers angsting

grr. hoping that soc is not planning to kill off all the village with roads etc.

Ambridge is saved!

All the missing people are appearing in the pub " Oh, look, there's Nelson Gabriel! And Nigel! He was wearing a parachute after all!!"

oh.

what a surprise.

hurrah.

If only.....

That was clunky, wasn't it? A real episode in a sense, but I do miss Home Farm when we get a lot of undiluted Brookfield.

Still, 18,000 episodes is no small achievement. You may not know or care but TA is the longest running soap opera in any medium anywhere in the world. There was a US soap called Guiding Light that started on radio in 1937, transferred to TV in 1952 and ran till 2009. That leaves TA triumphantly in the lead. Here's a clip from 1955 (yes, it's that episode): www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/p0168wd7

I hope that the new editor will grease the mechanism and make it run smoothly with more subtlty and reinstate the complexities of characters and stop with the plot devices (as if shula would miss the single wicket unless an emergency. )

It's like they were reminded that they hadn't tied up the road story. As the point of the road was to give us the totally not full of suspense Brookfield move so I guess they didn't have much oomph to give it a good end

Oh well - here's a for the poor, persevering actors.

How long till the 20,000th?

What I wanted was some sort of acknowledgement from the Dopeys that it was always bloody ridiculous making decisions to sell up so long ago, and that they would have felt right idiots if they'd uprooted themselves to Prudhoe with Heatherpet in her grave and no road through Brookfield.

I really hope that carol will drop some clues to anna. carol was never a rob fan. I wonder if jill and peggy will get to speak to anna. or fallon. making comments about him collecting her from the cafe when she tried to meet her friends.

there was no comment fromn david about dropping ruth in it either... he decided... what about ruth? grr

Oh god. That had not one shred of booposity about it. At all.

A little part of me died during David's "rabble rousing"

If BOOP doesn't think there was any BOOP we really have reached a low haven't we?

Crumbs, what happened to the David who got a Ford Escort, something flash, for his 21st. Eddie hated him for that.

BOOP - are you sure you're not coming down with something? You don't seem quite yourself ...

(Slightly evil)

not even the hope of carol and anna getting together for tea?

Come on, everyone! SOC is on his way out of the door. Soon we will have a wonderful new editor and everything will be great again!

[yes, a little wine has been taken]

Love your optimism GTWD

Please please please... 47 yrs until 6 weeks ago. Please new editor, buy a new archivist. (Pick someone from this board who actually knows the characters) stop the plot driven rather than character driven story lines.... Shula would NEVER be left out of the single wicket episode....

I just read the Lowfield summary of today's epi

My only reaction was ODFOD (SOC, that is)

(Well, my actual, literal first reaction was "fuck off". I tidied it up. )

we shall indeed hang out the bunting when he leaves. let's hope that the new person is better at characters.