Scheduling of Emmerdale and Central Television chose to move the programme to 19:00 on Tuesdays and Thursdays in February 1989, This was the first time Anglia had screened "Emmerdale Farm" in the 19:00 slot, Central were simply returning to the slots they used until December 1987, for a period Anglia and Central saw episodes one week later than other regions. From January 1990 all other regions followed the Central and Anglia schedule in the familiar Tuesday and Thursday 19:00 slot. Most companies continued to broadcast the series at 7 pm on Tuesdays and Thursdays, repeats was shown in the daytime slot of the
Major Emmerdale storylines a paramedic told him that they were unable to save Leonard but Annie was still alive. Many buildings in the village were left in ruins as a result of the plane crash. Excluding the four dead characters, many other bodies were found all over the village. The Emmerdale storyline also made a brief crossover into "Brookside", as the Liverpool Echo (a real newspaper based in Liverpool), which was being read by one of the characters in Brookside, had a front-page story featuring the crash in Emmerdale. In 1994, Reg Dawson (Niven Boyd) turned up in Emmerdale, claiming that he wanted