Emmerdale would not be the soap it is today without the Dingle family, who first appeared in the ITV soap back in 1994, 22 years after the series started, however it was stated they'd always lived there.
Zak Dingle, played by Steve Halliwell, is the patriarch of the family and is set to return to screens shortly after a six-month break.
Plenty of his family members still cause havoc around the village, with Cain (Jeff Hordley), Chas (Lucy Pargeter), Charity (Emma Atkins), Marlon (Mark Charnock) and Aaron (Danny Miller) providing plenty of dramatic storylines.
But with the Dingle family being one of the soap's largest and far-reaching, there are countless characters who have left the village or been killed off.
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