ITV/Shutterstock/Comp Emmerdale Insider Share By Kerry Barrett Aug 4 2025 By Kerry Barrett Aug 4 2025 Classic Emmerdale preview: Marlon fights for his life as Pearl fights for her home Marlon's at death's door! Classic Emmerdale Spoilers Share By Kerry Barrett Aug 4 2025 By Kerry Barrett Aug 4 2025 Marlon is shot and left fighting for his life in Classic Emmerdale previews for episodes airing on ITV3 Monday August 4 – Friday August 8. Eli’s worried the police are going to find out, and Marlon’s just concerned his wife will hear all about it! What will happen when Donna finds out what her husband’s been up to? Meanwhile, Pearl and Edna team up to fight Pearl’s eviction, and Bob and Viv decide to try married life again. These episodes originally aired in June 2007. Read on to find out more in our Classic Emmerdale preview. Perdy gets unexpected support Rosemary is causing Perdy problems simply by living in her house! And she’s even more annoyed when Gray arranges a client dinner and asks Rosemary to help with the catering instead of her. article continues below Read all the latest spoilers So to rattle her mother-in-law, Perdy invites Jonny and Paul to the dinner and muscles in on the catering. But Rosemary is happy when everything backfires on a stressed-out Perdy. She loses her cool and hurls a pan across the kitchen! Later, Gray is worried about his wife’s erratic behaviour after the trauma of her hysterectomy. He points out that her outburst at the dinner party was concerning and even suggests that Perdy might like to try counselling. Perdy though is determined she can control her moods with medication instead. When Rosemary finds out about Perdy’s medication, Perdy is surprised when her mother-in-law is supportive rather than being her usual mean self. Rosemary reveals that her first husband suffered from depression. Marlon is shot when he tries to get the gun from Eli (Credit: ITV/Shutterstock) Marlon gets shot! Marlon can’t bring himself to tell Donna that he’s lost all their savings. He’s feeling guilty when Donna tells him how much she’s hoping they’ll be able to buy Tall Trees. Instead, he talks to Eli about the mess he’s made, and vows to return to the bookies and get what he’s owed. Eli agrees to help, but on condition that Marlon follows his lead. Marlon agrees. When they turn up to do the job at the bookies in a stolen car, Marlon starts having second thoughts. And he’s even more horrified when his unpredictable brother reveals that he’s brought a gun! Furious, Marlon starts arguing with Eli, and Eli marches off into the bookies himself. The brothers argue and Eli goes into the bookies alone but Marlon is worried when Eli is gone for a while. Going to see what’s gone wrong, Marlon walks in to see Eli threatening the manager and a customer with the gun! Realising everything’s out of control, Marlon tries to grab the weapon, there’s a tussle, and the gun goes off. Marlon is left in a pool of blood! He lies on the floor as he urges Eli to make a run for it! Marlon fights for his life Marlon’s rushed to hospital as a frantic Donna follows, terrified he’s going to die, just like her dad did. Guilt-stricken Eli tells Debbie what happened, and bursts into tears as she reveals Marlon’s fighting for his life. Viv’s shocked to hear the news about Marlon and rushes to the hospital to be by Donna’s side. But when the Dingles show up, she and Lisa are soon butting heads. Eventually, though, the stress of the day makes the women realise that there are more important things than their feud and they find a way to put their differences aside. There’s huge relief for Donna when Marlon wakes up and she’s super-proud when Barraclough turns up at the hospital and announces Marlon is a hero. She says he tried to prevent a robbery, and Marlon fudges the details. Meanwhile, Eli panics when he arrives at the hospital and sees Barraclough there. Bob and Viv make a go of it – again! Back home, Viv’s grateful for Bob’s support while Marlon was critical in hospital. She’s soon lashing out at him again, though, once things are back to normal. With some effort, she manages to stop herself, and instead she asks Bob to come back to her and have another go at their marriage. Marlon faces the consequences Meanwhile, Marlon’s furious with his brother, and not impressed when he’s forced to cover for him with Barraclough again. And he’s left feeling guilty when the grateful bookie shows up with his winnings! He fesses up to Donna about the bet, and she’s disappointed in him. When he tells Eli he wants to tell Donna the truth about everything – even the robbery – Eli warns him that if he does, it’ll destroy him. Meanwhile, a delighted Donna is thrilled to have enough money for a deposit in the house auction, but worried they’ll have to go up against Eric. Zak suggests that if Jasmine writes an article about Marlon’s heroism, it might help them win the auction. When Jasmine’s story hits the papers, it’s a big success and even makes the nationals. But a chat with Donna about the night of the shooting, leaves Donna surprised to hear that Marlon gave Jasmine a lift to Hotten. She realises Marlon’s not being honest about everything that happened, and Marlon feels bad. There’s good news for Marlon and Donna as well-wishers donate money for their house fund. But Barraclough has more questions for Marlon. Afterwards, she tells Donna how odd it is that Marlon can remember everything that happened during the robbery, but not what took place just before. Donna is quick to defend her husband, but at home with him she quizzes him further. Kelly’s modelling job goes a bit wrong (Credit: ITV/Shutterstock) Classic Emmerdale: Kelly’s modelling career goes wrong Kelly’s modelling job proves less than glamorous when she finds out it’s for a DIY store and she’s demonstrating equipment. Things go from bad to worse as she has to fight off the sleazy store manager, and then accidentally turns on a chain saw and destroys the set! Sharon’s delighted to discover that someone’s filmed Kelly’s disastrous modelling job and it’s gone viral online! Wanting to rub salt in the wound, she arranges a radio interview for Kelly, who is horrified to hear from the DJ and hangs up. Convinced her modelling career is over, Kelly is feeling despondent, until a magazine calls her to ask her for her side of the story. Has this helped her career after all? Shadrach gets Jo’s goat Now Rosemary’s left Home Farm, things look shaky for Jo’s goat’s milk business. Jack offers to buy into the business instead, and Jo’s pleased, but his offer falls apart when the Kings discover that the contract was already in place. They insist on taking control of the business idea and tell a fed up Jo that they expect a return on their investment. Wanting to prove her independence, Jo buys some goats from Sam and Shadrach. But when Paddy checks them over, he’s amused to discover one of them is a billy goat, who’s definitely not going to be any use for giving milk! Later, Paddy suggests Jo goes to visit an experienced goat farmer for advice. The idea backfires when the farmer sees her goats and realises that they are his – they were stolen! Jo is upset when he insists that she pay him for the goats and she storms off to confront Shadrach for his crime. Val and Sharon butt heads in Classic Emmerdale! Sharon and Val clash over the kiss-and-tell story in the newspaper, because Val’s parenting skills are not shown in a very good light in the report! Sharon’s pleased to have landed a modelling job out of the article, but furious Val plans to get her daughter to leave the Woolpack. Meanwhile, Rodney gets a job as the Home Farm Estates Manager. And Paul thinks about setting up his own events business. Emily annoys Jasmine and worries Sam Jasmine’s annoyed by Emily’s constant presence at the house, and can’t settle to revision. Wanting some quiet, she goes to the pub, and she’s irritated when Emily turns up there, too. Emily can’t understand what the problem is, not even when Diane points out that Emily’s closeness to Ashley is a little odd… With Laurel still away, Sam is worried about Emily’s obsession with married vicar Ashley. When he expresses his concerns, Emily accuses him of being jealous. Later that day, Ashley cooks Emily dinner but Sam’s words stay with her and the meal goes awry when anxious Emily makes her excuses and dashes out. Ashley’s confused! Pearl and Edna barricade themselves in the cottage (Credit: ITV/Shutterstock) Pearl faces eviction! Pearl’s devastated when Alan tells her she’s being evicted despite his efforts. David feels guilty and offers to help Pearl move out. When the bailiffs arrive to turf Pearl out, guilty David manages to delay them. He sends Pearl for a drink in the cafe, but Pearl overhears the bailiffs badmouthing her and she’s not happy about it! Furious, she storms back to the house and barricades herself in. Edna happens to be in the house, and much to Pearl’s surprise, she offers her support. Bad romances in Classic Emmerdale Diane’s grumpy about Val and Billy’s blossoming romance, leaving Val wondering what’s up with her sister. When Diane doesn’t respond, Val assumes she’s miserable about her upcoming 60th birthday. Diane is forced to agree that’s the problem though tells Val to keep quiet about it. As if Val has ever kept quiet about anything! Obviously, she organises a birthday party for Diane’s big day, thinking it will help cheer her up. Hmm. Elsewhere, Louise and Jamie share stories of their relationship disasters. Later, as they’re flirting with one another, Terry arrives home and takes Louise’s attention, leaving Jamie feeling a twinge of jealousy. Read more: Who’s leaving Emmerdale? All the cast exits, arrivals and returns Share Good to Know Share By Kerry Barrett Aug 4 2025 By Kerry Barrett Aug 4 2025
