Emmerdale announces three special standalone episodes

They'll all air this autumn.

Emmerdale has announced that it will air three special standalone episodes featuring key storylines this autumn.

With April Dingle, played by Amelia Flanagan, at the mercy of the merciless drug dealers, we hope that her ever present and worried father Marlon, played by Mark Charnock, can get through to her.

A special episode will explore this fragile and possibly broken relationship between a father and his daughter as she slips further from his grasp.

We will take a reflective look behind the bars of Robert Sugden’s, played by Ryan Hawley, recent incarceration. What did happen when he got sent down for six years? And has it changed this man forever?

And when Paddy, played by Dominic Brunt, and Bear, played by Joshua Richards, found life under the same roof difficult, Bear decided to leave for another life in Ireland. He has been gone for 3 months.

Paddy believed his estranged father was safe with friends in Ireland, but when it becomes apparent he never made the journey across the Irish Sea, where did Bear disappear to?

A special standalone episode will explore the hundred missing days of Bear’s life and we'll learn that he is sadly trapped in an all too common situation for a forgotten generation.

Emmerdale continues Mondays to Fridays at 7.30pm on ITV1 with first look episodes available from 7am on ITVX