All Creatures Great & Small [DVD]

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Join the nearly 200,000 fans who are delighted subscribers to our award-winning All Creatures Great and Small Insider newsletter. The series is a new adaptation of Wight's books, following the previous BBC series of 90 episodes that ran from 1978 to 1990 and a number of other films and television series based on Herriot's novels. Helen offers to help with the chaotic practice accounts when she is not working at the Alderson farm, but Siegfried undermines this. The BBC series, which was broadcast between 1978 and 1990, had been filmed in the northern part of the Dales, ( Wensleydale and Swaledale), with the village Askrigg used for the fictional Darrowby.

The Daily Telegraph's Michael Hogan gave the show four out of five, and commented "Revisiting the world of All Creatures Great and Small felt like meeting old friends. Siegfried Farnon (described as an " eccentric") hires James Herriot into his veterinary practice at Skeldale House. Based on James Herriot's autobiographical bestsellers 'If Only They Could Talk' and 'It Shouldn't Happen to a Vet', the series stars Christopher Timothy as James Herriot, Robert Hardy as Siegfried Farnon, Peter Davidson as his brother Tristan, and Carol Drinkwater as James's wife Helen.Ralph admits that "for 90 percent of those scenes with the animals, the animals actually weren't there. He said that James will be "trying to steer Siegfried, slowly but surely, down newer, more modern roots of keeping the practice up to speed with the modern day" but that this leads the pair to "come to loggerheads". James Herriot’s adventures as a veterinarian in the 1930’s Yorkshire Dales get a glorious new adaptation in a TV series based on his internationally celebrated books. Helen and James begin married life in the bedsit in the Skeldale House attic, but although happy together they have to contend with Siegfried's reluctance to hand over any real responsibility to James despite the new partnership, or divide earnings fairly.

Find out about the cast, delve into James Herriot’s books, watch the cast discuss their characters, and more. James and Helen are now "happily married", while Tristan is away serving in the Royal Army Veterinary Corps, which prompts James and Siegfried to bring in some extra help to keep things ticking along.The two bond over the frailty of one of the puppies before fog traps them at the farm overnight; they struggle to contain their attraction to each other, and Helen ponders whether marrying Hugh is what she really wants. Due to lockdown restrictions, they were struggling to find everything from homeware to farming implements made before 1938. Tristan revels in his new job collecting debts from clients, until he ends up frittering it all away in the pub—but then uses his insider knowledge to his advantage in betting on the second favourite to win it back.