Emmerdale - The Dingle Family Album

Friday 9 November 2007 7:00pm - 7:30pm on ITV1.

Ever since Ben Dingle arrived in Emmerdale village in 1994 we've seen over 30 of soap's most riotous family members turn up to entertain us with their rows, tragedies and very complicated love lives.

In Emmerdale: The Dingle Family Album 2 narrator Matthew Kelly opens up the archives to celebrate the newest members to join this most notorious of soap families.

For the cast, being a Dingle is an honour, as Lucy Pargeter (Chastity) says: "Definitely the Dingles are the best family. I wouldn't want to be anything but a Dingle."

The sweetest and cheekiest Dingle newcomer by far is Zak and Lisa's little angel Belle. We hear how award-winning actress Eden Taylor-Draper has won the hearts and respect of fellow cast members and the public for her acting.

Teenage mechanic Debbie (Charley Webb) is far from the mild mannered girl who arrived in 2002 as Cain's daughter. Her life became ever more complicated by her friendship with Vicar's niece Jasmine, which developed into the soap's most recent lesbian kiss.

We also see when Marlon's estranged brother Eli turned up on the doorstep, and some revealing audition footage of how actor Joe Gilgun impressed producers and fellow cast members.

Plus there's a run-down of kissing Dingle cousins; some memorable Dingle exits, including Alice's death and Cain's seaplane goodbye, and the best comedy moments and dramatic storylines of recent years.