Which Monteath (Alec or David) acted on a show set in a fictional town based on inner-city Salford?
Alec Monteath Alec Monteath (born 22 May 1941 in Perthshire) was an announcer for Scottish Television from 1964 until 1969 and an announcer on BBC Scotland. Monteath was also an actor who played Dougal Lachlan in STV's Take the High Road from 1980 until 1992. His son, David Monteath was an actor on Coronation Street.
Emmerdale Emmerdale (known as Emmerdale Farm until 1989) is a long-running British soap opera set in Emmerdale (known as Beckindale until 1994), a fictional village in the Yorkshire Dales. Created by Kevin Laffan, "Emmerdale Farm" was first broadcast on 16 October 1972. Produced by ITV Yorkshire, it has been filmed at their Leeds studio since its inception. The programme has been broadcast in every ITV region.