All Creatures Great And Small Documentary Part 3

[@ginabideau3748]

I watched this show all through the late 70s until 1980 and then until 1990. Now I'm watching the reruns during Covid 19 and it just keeps my mind at peace . It was a time when our world seemed a much better place and I am rereading the books and laugh so much at some of the stories that James Herriot tells us about, I actually had my hubby up late last night reading him the chapter where James car had no brakes. The three main characters in the series ,the vets,the actors were so good together,my favourite was Tristan because he was always getting up to no good.I am just so thankful that this wonderful man and vet wrote down his memories of the Dales,the herdsmen ,his colleagues and his family for us to recognise his full worth. May God rest your beautiful James.

[@writeract2]

the world was a better place - now it's satanic.

[@wesmcgee1648]

I grew up on my dad's cattle ranch in Louisiana during the seventies . We had a small b/w tv in the tack room of our horse barn, and I would watch this show every Sunday on PBS while feeding horses and soaping saddles. I a km ways loved it.

[@LordEriolTolkien]

Hardy's Siegfried is an epic performance and character

[@sabejreid2072]

Loved this show and all the wonderful actors!!!!!!

[@danmaclean268]

This how reminds of the days when people were ACTUAL HUMAN BEINGS! I LOVE this show so much! Love from Canada

[@gailgriffith8957]

I loved this series and would get up at 530 on Sunday mornings to watch. ❤️

[@steelyman08]

Loved the entire thing from start to finish. Got used to the changes in personnel & am very glad it was continued. The spirit remained true enough. Always missed Mrs. Hall though.

[@schwarjm100]

Yes, I agree that the series continued into Season 4. I wish it would have never ended!

[@steelyman08]

@@schwarjm100 Indeed! But towards the end they were literally making up shows from Herriot"s personal notes. I think they did a fantastic job. And if we hadn't had the second series of shows, there would have been no Calum & Deirdre! They were the highlight of the second series for me (-:

[@racheldemain1940]

The Actress who played Mrs Hall died unexpectedly I gather .

[@michaelcarlson7403]

Absolutely love this beautiful series based on true and down to earth and very well written! Have the whole 8 set series’s “a keeper”! Thanks BBC!

[@keithspottiswoode5594]

Watching the dvd box set at the moment and absolutely loving it..the first three series were the best but the series following on are still very watchable..love watching Robert Hardy act...

[@mariabarnard4484]

For me I thought Robert Hardy was overbearing to start with and then he grew on me and became my absolute favourite. I just finished watching the DVD set. I got it because so many things reminded me of my husband who was a vet who I lost to cancer in Oct 2021. And yes he was often called out and there was precious little family time.

[@jmcallion2071]

Only came across last weekend bbc four running the first episode and Robert hardy was brilliant in making chris Timothy relax! A real father figure. It brought back many happy memories of the early eighties when i would get bits of the show but not really interested in it. Indeed times were easier and simpler. That lovely theme music the country side and Siegfried and the car full of dogs!!!

[@laurawoodford1225]

Loved this series more than any other of that time period as well as reading all the books biographies erc

[@andrewmacdonald5158]

Being brought up on a farm, loved this series.😊

[@beverlyl.crawford3305]

Yes lovely more bev

[@duster15670]

Love all creatures great and small and that includes the new generation ones and currently as watching them week by week (late 2023) we are also watching all 7 seasons of the old ones in-between...its that good and enjoyable!!...(ITVX at £5.99 month to watch them)....Would be great to see Chris or Peter as a cameo role in new ones..

[@inkyguy]

I would watch these with my best mate in college on the American PBS series and fell in love with them then. Not unlike the books, I didn’t appreciate his special a time that was, just the two of us in each other’s company enjoying these shows together.

[@hughgilroy8021]

agree totally with john doyle i don't know why but i loved the breakfast scenes and mrs. hall.

[@duncannapier318]

Please dig up part 2 and post it. 🙏🇿🇦🙏

[@ladycplum]

The scene where Tristan is snipping the piglets is probably the funniest scene in the whole show!

[@racheldemain1940]

Yes it was, the cats getting stoned!!!

[@BeataSiwinski]

Delightful, thank you for posting =)

[@linreedshukla2023]

Omg! That last part about having the arm up the cow's ... oh my, I couldn't stop laughing! Wonderful show. Wonderful documentary. Perfect. Thanks.

[@dashcammer4322]

"You learn more from having your arm up a cow's arse..."

[@rubberdc]

Thank you so much Emma , that was very kind of you to find that episode for me.I hadnt watched it in ages.I lobed all those series and wanted to relive it.

[@cryingonion2]

THanks so much for uploading. I must have missed this when it was shown. Lovely to see the actors now.

[@SaschaSass]

Thank for putting up this great documentary. I grew up with this series and I loved it and it's been a huge success over here in Germany, too. Here we know it as "Der Doktor und das liebe Vieh" .. (means something like "The Doc and the beloved animals") ;)

[@ritaseymour8116]

Absolutely wonderful

[@lisagd22]

The series is currently available on Britbox.

[@trickywoo5165]

Thanks to this show I’m much better with animals, simple things like wrapping a dog in a towel to not get bitten etc. Thx 🙏🏻

[@johndoyle3076]

They shouldn’t have made anymore episodes after the 3rd series. After the actual written stories by James Herriot too me the show wasn’t the same at all and I don’t know what they were thinking when they changed the Helen actress. The first 3 series were fantastic!!

[@jeffhayden2737]

Totally agree, I really never could get into the later series. I loved the first three series so much I wanted to love the rest.

[@Supportahol]

I know the man with his dog at 5:25 Thats Rio Fanning. I used to take care of his mother. One of the nicest people you could ever meet.

[@dinasinay5645]

i enjoy it seeing all creatures great and small

[@Anguilla2001]

Only 84 episodes after 12 years? Wish there could be more

[@Castrolvalva]

That's all right - actually I recorded this to test my PC could record the TV - but I'm glad I kept it and posted it up here! I've not yet been to 'Herriot Country' (the closest I've got is Derbyshire!) but I do want to go one day!

[@philwilliams2505]

Go it's wondderfull

[@schwarjm100]

Castrolvalva I’d love to be there & it’s 2020 during COVId-19.

[@racheldemain1940]

It's beautiful here up North.

[@wildbill7267]

I remember how on the original series the characters were drinking heavily, got plastered and drove while intoxicated. None of that in the new series.

[@damianprice8422]

Any chance that the whole of this documentary could be uploaded (or where I could watch it all)? I really want to see the middle part of it, and also what John mcglynn (callum) had to say when he got cut off

[@lisacox4984]

The original version is a lot better than the remake, which has fallen prey to cultural acceptability. My folks don't mind the new one, but I elected to go in another room and find something about the original on youtube :)

[@boromirofmiddleearth557]

exactly, no smoking of woodbine cigarettes for example.

[@mauriziosant1658]

The Brittish actors are the best!!👏👏👍👍🙆‍♂️🤸‍♂️🥇

[@Castrolvalva]

I'm also watching the series on Yesterday, I have recorded some of them and might upload them onto another KZbin account at some point

[@duster15670]

why is part 2 hidden?

[@kathygoodman6159]

Why would BBC block part 2 but allow parts 1 & 3? How disappointing!

[@wandalewy491]

I think it's very difficult experience for actress to be a vet! I like it very much! The fumor makes me fun 💚☺

[@sumibear]

Hello from early 2021! So now there is a remake of "All Creatures Great and Small" which I'll eventually watch... but not until the glow of discovering this old show has worn off. Maybe it's because of the times we are in, but this original series is perhaps the best thing I've seen on television made in my generation. I expect it to have a real resurgence. This resurgence might re-awaken a scandal. It happened to me, so I expect others will look at their screen and think "Those two have a real life romance! I'm sure of it." Then season 4 will happen and you'll feel like the Beatles broke up. That'll start you off on a long-ago celebrity drama mystery, complete with Catholic-school girl vs. Hollywood wolves, Weinstein-esque revelations, media intrusion, an affair that makes the Brangelina scandal seem trite, cruel curses, living people the actors represent in a tiz, the studio under pressure to fire the heart of the hearth, a reverse-curse she seems to have of ir-replace-ability, a cautionary tale about commitment and irreversible decisions. So rich, so many layers! The real-life drama behind the series is a goldmine of movie material. Very intuitively, and very wisely I think, Carol Drinkwater published a short my-version-tell-all article in September 2020. If you're too quiet people will fill in the blanks themselves, so good move. I'd love for Christopher Timothy to say more too. The meat of this human drama would be in Part 2 and it's UNAVAILABLE IN MY COUNTRY, which is killing me! But thank-you SO much for posting Part 1 & 3!

[@JB-wu9dc]

I am a big fan of the original series. When the new series started it was very hard for me to begin to watch. For myself I found it not as exciting to watch as the original. Mrs Pumphrey character, although I loved Dame Diana Rigg, wasn't right and neither is the replacement. The original Mrs Pumphrey there was something about her that can't be matched. But regardless of that I will still watch because I love the books by James Herriot and the beautiful scenery it brings.

[@thomaskelly1286]

Where to buy the books of all creatures Great and Small. !

[@thomaskelly1286]

Love the show. Great performance by All !

[@thomaskelly1286]

Love the show. Great performance by All !

[@thomaskelly1286]

Love the show. Great performance by All !

[@priscillawatson7049]

can't wait!

[@lorettatayor5840]

Named my son Tristan after the vet, don't you know!!

[@lizclegg7556]

The programme went totally downhill after series 3. The first three series were wonderful. James Herriott (Alf Wright) was right, and they should have stopped filming.

[@ladycplum]

I agree, Lynda Bellingham was horrible as Helen. She looked so frumpy and had none of the warmth and wit Carol Drinkwater grought to the role. Not to mention that complete lack of chemistry between the two. And I hated how they kept on writing Tristan as an idiot who still has problems with the easiest of cases, and still chasing after girls probably no older than 22, tops, when Peter Davison was pushing 40!

[@hoopenhanger]

+Liz Clegg You're absolutely right. I could never embrace the show the after season three because it was lacking the warmth and humor that we had grown to expect.

[@lou-nc4rc]

I was more bothered by the shows becoming more about the people and their relationship rather than having animals at the heart of the story like the series based on the books. It made a difference having a vet tell the story and having scriptwriters do it. And that let that new vet and Deidre thing go on much too long.

[@ddrose06]

@rubberdc That episode is on youtube. I don't know if you can get it in your country. I'm in america, and I can see it here.

[@jude175]

Where is Part 3? Does anybody know?

[@stevejailbirdmatt]

I thought Christopher Timothy's performance was stilted. He was referred to a s a Scotsman and Alf Wright was a Glaswegian so why the perfectly English voice? However, Robert Hardy and Peter Davison were marvellous! Anthony Hopkins also made a perfect Siegfried in the first movie version. I couldn't stand Buchanan and Deidre in the later episodes and series 3 should have been the last. All adaptations will never beat the books and the imagination and Herriot's wartime activities were completely overlooked.

[@racheldemain1940]

It's Alf WIGHT. there is no R in it. !!

[@manelnavasgarcia9092]

Tengo los 2 primeros libros y intentaré conseguir alguno más traducido

[@ripleyemmem3981]

Can't seem to find part two...

[@purplepassionfreedom1352]

The show was undoubtedly the best thing the Beeb ever made. Everyone was fantastic but Christopher Timothy had the edge. I don’t know what he was like in real life but I suspect that he was naughty and probably an insatiable ladies man. Ridiculously handsome, unbelievably sexy. This is retrospective, what with him being 45 years older than me 🤷‍♀️

[@racheldemain1940]

I have met Christopher Timothy at the James Herriot Museum. He's a lovely man and was happy to chat about his time on the programme. I loved it and still do.

[@debbiewinterrowd203]

Just ask the first actress that played Helen

[@convict13]

wish it ran on my tv screens.

[@overcomer4226]

Lynda Bellingham looks fantastic. Why did they make her look so frumpy in the show?

[@glen7318]

women living in the country after the war, didn't usually look glamourous?

[@wife97]

Love Peter Davison as Albert Campion, but he doesn't mention it.

[@mjburnham]

Gtreat movie, Alle Creatutres Gtreat and Small.

[@Castrolvalva]

@rubberdc I know it is uploaded on Dailymotion.

[@FedericoPrieto13]

la mejor serie del mundo... desde venezuela

[@delillablanton4994]

Is it still on

[@nancysexton545]

Can get the show on Britbox, 6.99 a month..lots of other goodies on Britbox too...

[@rubberdc]

Have you got the story "sleeping partners"? I have looked for this all over and I cannot find it.It has a section where James has to get into a thick rubber calving suit and i think its hilarious.

[@manelnavasgarcia9092]

Una serie maravillosa ojala pudiera ver la serie original la primera que se r rodo pero traducida o al español CATALAN FRANCES O ITALIANO

[@manelnavasgarcia9092]

La hug necesita mas series mas libros como los de James HERRIOT los seres humanos NECESITAMOS ESPERANZA NO A LA GERRA UN MUNDO MEJOR ES POSIBLE

[@Castrolvalva]

I don't know whether any ACG&S episodes have been put up on KZbin, if anyone wants to watch them I suggest hiring or buying them off the internet. I do have some on DVD myself (specially burned by a friend, not bought before anyone asks!) but I do not have any software that can copy them and so I can't post them up here! :-(

[@jacksugden8190]

The late Lynda Bellingham, couldn’t take to her due to her stiff matron like voice, and that Hardey’s continued bad temper continued to annoy me at the time.

[@anderjpoo]

@@Tea-Totally 19 October 2014, cancer, it was very sad.

[@racheldemain1940]

Robert Hardy didn't like what the writers were doing to Siegfried. It was because Alf had stopped writing from a Vets point of view so the new writers were making it into a Soap almost. Alf had focussed on the Vetinary aspects and Animals first.

[@katherinewilson1853]

@@racheldemain1940 I didn't like what they did either. I stand with Siegfried!

[@TheBorzoilover]

It is hard to single out any of the actors on this programme because they were all first class ..... remake not a patch on the first series.... .

[@johnprovince5304]

Lynda Bellingham was quite the sugar cookie and reputedly a river of horribly dirty jokes. You have to love her.

[@KimStodolski]

I really like John McGlynn, have not watched all the episodes yet. I still do not understand why he was only in season 1 of Silent Witness - that is where i first watched him, he was fantastic in that role, a number of actors where not in season 2. I really lost interest in the show at that point. So watching him in ACLAS was much different and he looked so young. Was suprised he was I think 35 at the time. When i first watched the cow scenes i was like they are actually doing this - oh God ha - i wonder what he is doing now.

[@julienielsen3746]

Enjoying the new version, but the actors aren't as good as the ones in the original.

[@psalm37v4]

We can only see parts 1 and 3 in the US. Part 2 is blocked :(

[@schwarjm100]

Psalm 37v4 Britbox has has all 3 parts (seasons) YAY

[@MrDavey2010]

I bet Hardy was a total pain. He had a certain reputation.

[@laurawoodford1225]

Anglophile and fan of vets both

[@Elizalynn-sunshine]

Callum and Deidre were very tiresome🤦‍♀️

[@jpgrumbach8562]

People say series were going down but one must acknowledge the fact that modern times after ww2 were less romantic for us, the viewers. There is the episode about herriot arriving early morning on a modern big farm nobody having time for him because all has to be ready for the milk lorry driver. The atmosphere is rather cold and the new ugliness of the building is shown on tv. So maybe times were becoming colder, less beautiful and then the production time also was a factor. Because the end of the seventies was the beginning of a new world too. All of a sudden it was dallas/denver/the like contrary to our little farm/etc. The new message was rich/beautiful/happy whereas before money was only an issue concerning poverty. Human relations were important. I am sure our neolib times and its feeling were prepared by this new flat tv products connecting new values to shallow stories. They changed our way of perceiving society and morals. So the last episodes were correctly showing a different world, two different times, offering more comfort, but less consolation.

[@btnled357]

Milked it for too long...

[@2Sugarbears]

Robert made a point of being a bully.

[@johnbanks4761]

i enjoy the show, but both bothers and james all bug me......both brothers are horrible work associates..really scummy in their treatment of eachother and james especially...and james..spineless..never stands up for himself and never stands his ground unless its working with one creature trying to save its life..which is his most redeeming trait

[@nayrod4529]

I can't believe they palpated animals w/o gloves.. yuk.

[@Castrolvalva]

This really isn't the place for political activism, so don't bother again.

[@niederdonau]

VOTE BNP (X)

[@someoneelse.2252]

The guy who played Siegfried overacted in every single program. Pathetic. They could have gotten someone who simply 'acted' and not overdone it

[@jasonconlan6903]

+Pat TheHombre watch the documentary....Robert Hardy didn't agree with Siegfried shouting and flying off the handle at every turn and wrote his own scenes in the end and if you read the books James Herriot wrote the character was spot on as the man he was based on was a mass of contradictions. Think before you speak.

[@hoopenhanger]

+Pat TheHombre Not at all. Hardy was a wonderful actor who played the part magnificently.

[@racesla]

+Pat TheHombre Please get off your high horse.

[@yecats953]

I thought so too at first when I saw the series, but after starting to read the book, you immediately realize that he was playig the character exactly the way Alf Wight described the real man. It was shockingly spot-on. Ever since reading that description, Robert Hardy became one of my favorite actors. Please read! Not only are they amazingly entertaining stories, but you can see for yourself the brilliant acting chops.

[@ramaraksha01]

Agree with all the replies so far - Robert Hardy was the best - he had the character of Siegfried spot on! just exactly as how Alf Wight wrote about him - Commanding, Eccentric, quick temper - except that he was obviously a bit old for the character in fact all of them were except Peter Davison, who seemed about the age of the real Tristan The actors who fit their characters the best in my opinion were 1. Robert Hardy 2. Carol Drinkwater who played the first Helen - was sad to see her go, I thought she was perfect for that role - did not catch on to her replacement much 3. Peter Davison and Finally Christopher Timothy - not that he was bad in the role but I thought the others were better at their roles

[@TesterAnimal1]

2:17 the cats always eat the testicles. And there’s no Novocaine. It’s cut, pull, and they’re off! (Worked at a pig farm as a summer job once… no, I didn’t do that job, just watched)