The Sugdens are a fictional family in the ITV soap opera Emmerdale. Introduced during the show's conception in 1972, they were the main family for storylines between the 1970s and 1980s and remained as such for many years. The families original unit consisted of widowed farmer Annie Sugden (Sheila Mercier), alongside her children Peggy Skilbeck (Jo Kendall), Jack Sugden (Andrew Burt and Clive Hornby) and Joe Sugden (Frazer Hines). Subsequently these characters went on to produce more generations of Sugdens.
The Sugden family are characterized as a hardworking bunch, but the family has struggled with various types of dramatic moments such as Peggy's death and the death's of the Skilbecks, Jack's affair with Rachel Hughes, Sarah Sugden's death, rivalry between Robert and Jack's adopted son Andy, Andy's abuse on his wife Jo Stiles, a house fire, Robert murdering Andy's ex-wife Katie Addyman as well as his homosexual affair with Aaron Dingle, Andy being framed for murder and going on the run, Jack's daughter Victoria's rape and Robert being sent to prison for murdering her rapist Lee Posner.
As of 2023, Jack's daughter, Victoria and her son Harry Sugden, remain the only two Sugdens by blood on the show. Additionally, Andy's daughter Sarah Sugden remains on the show but she is not a Sugden by blood.
The Sugdens are a fictional family in the ITV soap opera Emmerdale. Introduced during the show's conception in 1972, they were the main family for storylines...
Annie Sugden (also Pearson, Kempinski and Brearly) is a fictional character from the British television soap opera Emmerdale. She was played by Sheila...
in February 2009. Jacob and Annie Sugden's son Jack is one of the original characters in Emmerdale. The Sugdenfamily were the owners of Emmerdale Farm...
Joseph "Joe" Sugden is a fictional character from the British television soap opera Emmerdale, played by Frazer Hines. He first appeared on-screen during...
Patricia Ruth "Pat" Sugden (also Harker and Merrick) is a fictional character from the British soap opera Emmerdale, played by actresses Lynn Dalby in...
Andy Sugden (also Hopwood) is a fictional character from the British ITV soap opera, Emmerdale, played by Kelvin Fletcher. He made his first on-screen...
Diane Sugden (also Blackstock) is a fictional character from the British soap opera Emmerdale, played by Elizabeth Estensen. Since her first appearance...
Victoria Sugden (also Barton) is a fictional character from the British soap opera Emmerdale, played since 12 October 2006 by Isabel Hodgins. As a young...
Sarah Connolly (also Sugden) is a fictional character from the British television soap opera Emmerdale. She was first played by Madeleine Howard from 1988...
Sugden refers to: David E. Sugden, British glaciologist and geomorphologist Edward Sugden (methodist) (1854–1935), Methodist minister, first master of...
first episode aired on 16 October 1972 at 1:30 pm, and began with the Sugdenfamily convening in the fictional village of Beckindale for the funeral of...
Katie Sugden (also Addyman and Macey) is a fictional character from the British ITV soap opera Emmerdale, played by Sammy Winward. She made her first screen...
Robert Sugden is a fictional character from the British ITV soap opera Emmerdale. The character originally appeared on the show regularly between 22 April...
folk singer Sid Kipper, the younger half of the Kipper Family. Born in West Runton in 1952, Sugden initially studied pharmacy at Leicester Polytechnic before...
Previously, he had portrayed Robert Sugden in the ITV soap opera Emmerdale. Davies took over the role of Robert Sugden in the soap opera Emmerdale in August...
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his affair and subsequent relationship with Robert Sugden (Ryan Hawley), his role in Katie Sugden's (Sammy Winward) death, self-harming, revealing that...
early executive producers focused on rural life and the events of the Sugdenfamily, but in the late 1980s, Keith Richardson and a new team of producers...
telling her that Jack killed her mother Sarah Sugden (Alyson Spiro). Victoria then starts a fire at her family home. Having been released from prison, Billy...
feels it belongs to the rest of the family. Pyne immediately identified with his character and the Sugdenfamily, explaining: "When they described Matt...
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