Using the stethoscope on the cow's heart, then lungs, then stomach" the actor recalled. Learning how to approach the animal and everything like that. "Straight off the bat with our on-set vet adviser Andy Barrett, we were up close and personal with horses, sheep, kind of going through the procedures and things that we would be doing. Naturally, the actor required training in veterinary procedures for authenticity in the show. They said to me that I had the hardest job because Alf is a kind of observer to these bigger, larger-than-life personalities", he recalled. "They spoke a lot about Donald and Brian, the real Siegfried and Tristan. He also met the vet's son and daughter, Jim and Rosie. Production Cast and characters Īctor Nicholas Ralph did quite a lot of research on James Herriot ("Alf" Wight) who died in 1995. Drew Cain as James Herriot Snr, James's father.Gabriel Quigley as Hannah Herriott, James's mother.Will Thorp as Gerald Hammond, a local man who becomes close to Mrs Hall (series 2-present).Dorothy Atkinson as Diana Brompton, a flirtatious divorcée who has a casual romance with Siegfried (series 2).Imogen Clawson as Jenny Alderson, Helen's sister.Tony Pitts as Richard Alderson, Helen's father.Mollie Winnard as Maggie, barmaid at the Drovers Arms who has an off-and-on romance with Tristan before marrying another man. Maimie McCoy as Dorothy, Mrs Hall's friend who has a brief romance with Sigfried (series 1).Matthew Lewis as Hugh Hulton, a wealthy landowner who competes with James for Helen's affections.Diana Rigg (series 1) and Patricia Hodge (series 2-present) as Mrs Pumphrey, the wealthy owner of the Pekingese Tricki Woo.Rachel Shenton as Helen Alderson (later Helen Herriot), a farmer's daughter she and James fall in love and eventually marry.Callum Woodhouse as Tristan Farnon, Siegfried's younger brother.Nicholas Ralph as James Herriot, a veterinary surgeon.Anna Madeley as Mrs Audrey Hall, the housekeeper at Skeldale House.Samuel West as Siegfried Farnon, a veterinary surgeon and owner of Skeldale House.Besides Siegfried and James, there is Siegfried's younger brother, Tristan, and Mrs Hall, their housekeeper. Siegfried Farnon (described as an " eccentric") hires James Herriot into his veterinary practice at Skeldale House. The show revolves around a trio of veterinary surgeons working in the Yorkshire Dales beginning in 1937. The fourth series began airing on 5 October 2023 in the UK and is scheduled for 7 January 2024 in the US. The first episode aired in the UK on 15 September 2022 and in the US on 8 January 2023. Filming on the third series began in March 2022. The series premiered in the UK on Channel 5 on 1 September 2020 and in the US on PBS as part of Masterpiece on 10 January 2021.įollowing a second series in late 2021, the show was renewed for two further series, each composed of six episodes and a Christmas special, in January 2022. The first series, which consists of six episodes and a special Christmas episode, was filmed to coincide with the 50th anniversary of the publication of the first book in the James Herriot series. It is filmed in the Yorkshire Dales, and received some funding from Screen Yorkshire. 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. The series was produced by Playground Entertainment for Channel 5 in the United Kingdom and PBS in the United States. All Creatures Great and Small is a television series, set in Northern England starting in 1937, based upon a series of books about a Yorkshire veterinarian written by Alf Wight under the pen name of James Herriot.
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