Raetsonwe Redundant and unnecessary.

SnoReptilePlenty Memorable, crazy movie

TaryBiggBall It was OK. I don't see why everyone loves it so much. It wasn't very smart or deep or well-directed.

Zlatica One of the worst ways to make a cult movie is to set out to make a cult movie.

George Wright I fondly recall this British series very well, along with many others in the early days of PBS. Christopher Timothy was excellent as James Herriott, the serious and dedicated vet whose television stories inspired me to read the original books. These were great books--literate and hilarious. I also remember a coffee table book about the moors that was inspired by the TV series. The TV series brought many extraordinary characters from the Yorkshire moors where James practised his veterinarian trade among the locals. The landscapes with its hills, streams and heather were outstanding under the often dark, forbidding skies. Much of the real fun came from the two brothers Siegfried and Tristan Farnon. The rivalry between the brothers was often instigated by Robert Hardy, as the older Siegfried. Tristan, played by Peter Davison, could never live up to his brother's standards and he was often trying to cover his tracks before Siegfried could catch up with him. When James's new wife Helen came into the show, the series took on a new focus. Helen was perfect and had to navigate among the male egos. My favourite was Robert Hardy who went on to other roles as a great actor. In this series he sparkled as the bossy brother of Tristan, mentor to James, dear friend of Helen and a great neighbour to the proud and independent people of the moors. I'll never forget this series, one of my favourites of the British television shows of the1970's.

oscar-35 Spoiler/plot- All Creatures Great and Small, 1978. The film explores the life and career of a veterinary in the rural English countryside. His patients, friends, co-workers, and the people of his village through the tough years between 1930 to 1950.*Special Stars- Christopher Timothy, Robert Hardy, Peter Davidson, Carol Drinkwater. *Theme- Nature is a wonder to be appreciated.*Trivia/location/goofs- Based on a best selling book. Shot in the farmland Yorkshire 'Dales', north/west central counties of England. 'James Harriot's' wife role was re-casted with a different actress after the TV show came back after two years(two successive year's Christmas Specials) and post-WW2 in the story line with two Harriot children added to the cast. Peter 'Tristan' Davidson went on to play the lead role in the longest running TV science fiction show, 'Doctor Who'. The household dogs of Robert 'Seigfried' Hardy were his real household pets used in the show's filming.*Emotion- A completely charming, satisfying, entertaining, enjoyable, and heartwarming TV show on an unusual subject, a small rural veterinary medicine practice. It enjoyably follows a veterinary's hard life and it explores their larger issues of human nature and people's relationship to their farm livestock and pets in a rural setting. Beautifully shot, written, acting, cast and paced, this series delightfully shows viewers a little about the English village people and maybe a little about ourselves.

allregistered1 I have to start by saying I love this series. I grew up with it as a child, I watch it now, and I'm just charmed to pieces, my American girlfriend loves it too. The only black eye so far is Johnny Byrne. The episodes were written by a few different people... so for example, in Series 1, episodes 1,2,4 were written by various others, 3 and 5 by Byrne. We had to fast forward through parts of 5 it was so bad. These nicely drawn characters with their witty byplay collapse into 2 dimensional cutouts when he writes, the plot points are preached at you directly, rather than played out... We got to the beautiful music at the end of 5, which is the part at which you normally feel uplifted, and we both just felt violated instead."Why do you do this endearing thing?" says James to some minor character whom we see only once."Because {SOB STORY ABOUT YOUTH}""Oh I see. Well, bye then."or"Good morning James. You look tired" (rather than James just LOOKING tired, or "Late night there James?", or something involving actual drama)"Yes I am tired. Because {PLOT POINT}. I really think it's because {EXPLANATION OF PLOT POINT}."Arghhh! Now given that this guy wrote about a third of the episodes, we're undecided about whether to just skip the rest he wrote or to plow through. I love the show so much I'd be loathe to miss them (especially Robert Hardy, who's the only one who carries off any of Byrne's lines really at all), but I don't know if my heart can take the beating he lays on it.

Dock-Ock All Creatures Great and Small, is one of those rare, timeless and charming BBC Productions that never seems to age and which can still be enjoyed all these years after its production finished. I think the key for this is the belief that the producers, writers and directors installed into the series to make it real. The charm comes from the fact that it is set a long time ago, in a more gentle and picturesque time when life was easy as could be imagined, before the ravages of World War II left its scars upon the nation. This is a brighter, happier time.The Vetenary work place is of no particular interest to me, but I think that because of the setting of the 1930's it makes everything seem all the more like a fantasy. The other major reason for its success is that it has an absolute solid gold cast in the trio of principles leads. Christopher Timothy as lead Vet James Herriot is basically a good person who loves his job, but who is kind and tries his best with people to be of good nature. He is excellently portrayed by the under-rated Timothy. Second to the success of the series is Robert Hardy as Sigfried Farnon. Hardy is one of the finest television presences, and as the senior Farnon delivers his lines with alot of believable conviction and commands the screen, his character is of the old guard, an even older time when people were strict and strong. You never once doubt that Hardy is a Vet. Completing the trio is the ever suffering Tristan Farnon, perhaps the series most beloved character. Tristan provides the light relief for the series, and is constantly on the bitter end of Sigfrieds wrath. Again the character is excellently played by The Fifth Doctor Who Peter Davison, who exudes public school boyish charms here.He dithers and bumbles his way throughout the series, while at the core being an essential and perhaps strong character, he means well but never quite gets it. Davison is one of Britains finest character actors, again under-rated but looking now as if he will hit the big time after the success of At Home With the Braithwaites. All Creatures Great and Small also has the benefit of some of the finest writers and directors having worked on the show, such as Terence Dudley and Peter Moffet, as well as the multi talanted and consistant head writer Johnny Byrne. It is beautiful to look at from its period setting to the Yorkshire scenery. Defenitley on of the BBC's finest series, and one that shouldn't be overlooked. A fantastic production.