All Creatures Great And Small Documentary Part 1 

A British show I had never heard of became my favorite show of all time over the course of a month. I've never been to England (American) but somehow this show makes me homesick for a place and time I've never experienced.

It was a wonderful TV series which is sadly missed. Great actors and storylines.

for my opinion the best tv-series ever made! greetings from germany.

I loved this. We watched it every week!

What a great show. What great actors.

Ich liebe diese Serie! Einmalig diese Charaktere und alles so, wie es wirklich war.

I LOVE these books...I'm reading them now...I'm 57, I cant count how many times I've read each one. I could calve a cow.

I foud the first chapter on you tube and watch it with tears in my eyes, I use to see this series when I was 15 an I used to dream about being a vet, now I each again in my 50's I became a vet and the same scenes that I remember so vividly, now have a different flavor, this production is amazing, being a vet myself I can't find any failure, is so realistic, incredible job, thanks to all that made it possible

I read all the books as a child, then read them again. And Again. Finally this series was shown on American TV. Thankfully I purchased all the DVDs. Including the very first specials. To this day, All Creatures remains my favorite television show. I watch the entire series and specials at least 4 times a year. Thank You for putting up this documentary behind the scenes. I only today stumbled upon it. And yes will be watching it again.

Love this show. Peter and Robert had great chemistry and were so believable in a role a lot of siblings take in real life, one might be a bit of an overachiever, the other might be a bit of a slacker. I love how often they would put poor James in the middle of their constant arguing. And Peter was supposed to only be in it for a few episodes, but after Christopher got hit by a car they had to give Tristan more to do! And even though it was certainly not pleasant for Chris, it was great that Peter was made a regular cast member!

Still the best series yet. Unfortunately do not like the new one .

I loved the series, so did my parents. They were farmers all their lives so the show brought back a lot of memories. When my youngest was a child she would refer to it as her 'story', like Coronation Street was mine

How wonderful ..to see this after all these years .Knowing Tommy Masterman, the first farmer on it this video, from our village and of course we know Alf Wight one of the nicest people we often used to see on his rounds when we were out with the horses on a winters morning ..We are forever in AW's debt for what he brought to the area's economy

The actors we were very well cast...I just love this show! Wish there were MORE episodes!

I love this series and still watch it today on dvds from the library. Thanks for posting the documentary which I've never seen. Very interesting.

I still think this was the best series I've ever seen( with the exception of the later shows, which were just a bad rehash of the imperishable originals) Genuine, human characters in real life situations and, I hesitate using the word, but a lesson or moral to each episode, that was done so without being preachy. So glad they made the shows when they did. I shudder to think what these would look like in todays world.

Im so happy there's going to be a reboot of All Creatures. Im sure its going to be completely different. But it will be great to see my beloved North Yorkshire and all our funny people.

I grew up watching this with my Daddy.... I loved it

My childhood was delightfully drenched in this BBC series for a new episode debuted on KPBS, Sunday at 9 pm, in the USA; KPBS repeated same episode Saturday early afternoon. I would watch with my childhood dog and just hug him through the entire series and could not wait to talk to my best friend about it. Her family did not watch public television so we checked books out of the library for her to compare what I'd been watching. What wonderful characters, actors, and stories to fill the imagination of a child that grew up in Los Angeles, on astroturf and in a white/celery colored home where nothing could be out of place. As an adult, I've always strived to have a bit of the James Herriot's Yorkshire Dales in my life including my dogs :) James Herriot; the author who keeps on giving! I do not believe this series was originally produced under Masterpiece Theatre will Allstair Cooke as our host. Allstair Cooke was such a an influence on my childhood, too. Love to the BBC from the USA by contributing to public television :) !!

misss it....i love the serie and the actors.................

" Hand me scalpel and stand back"...... Read that line to my children about forty years ago and I'm still laughing. Great books and great series....

Adored it every single week.

Thanks! Haven't seen this documentary before. Still a favourite series.

My all time absolute favorite show.

bloody borris is awesome!! im reading this series at the moment and i am currently on "Let Sleeping Vets Lie" amazing books and incredible tv series

I have been watching the new series on public television in America which began in the winter of 2020. It has to be one of the most wonderful series, so sweet, and well done. Thank you , and I can't wait for season 2 !

How wonderful to discover this; thank you so much for posting this and the other links I'm seeing.

Poor Christopher Timothy struggled to get work after this. Everyone just knew him as James Herriot.

Very nice of the BBC to remove almost every scrap of this marvelous show right as COVID was (and still is) keeping millions around the world locked in at home. I used to have a lot of respect for the Beeb, but even they've gone completely rotten now. Thanks to the uploader for this segment of the documentary. They've left us parts 1 & 3, but taken away part 2! If you're old enough to have enjoyed this show when it was released, you have to be scratching your head in bewilderment. Why would they leave the beginning and the end, but remove the central section of an old documentary that no one is going to buy anyway?

All creatures Great and small loved the vet series it was Yorkshire vet wonderful it was as l loved the animals 1978 vet were wonderful as well thank you

Loved this programme! Read the books, and went to the cinema and enjoyed the sieries Really loved it! Thanks for sharing this interesting clip

Absolutely great! casting decisions. Some one deserves an award.

'All Creatures Great and Small' is now being broadcast on the (UK) digital channel 'Yesterday' between 4:00 and 5:00 in weekday evenings.

I'm reading this book now, I can't help but picturing these actors, and It's hard trying to suppress my cackling in public. The description of the rubber suit at 5:58 was hilarious.

Such a wonderful series......I knew a Boris...at being petted once, he would ignore you..a second pet would end very badly...the "run and get a towel!" kind of injury...

Had forgotten about Boris. The true background makes the scene even better.

Thank God Peter Davison played Tristan. Nobody else could have. Ha Ha, I remember that scene with that cat.

The 'All Creatures' series was set in the fictional village of Darrowby. The real James Herriot practised in the village of Thirsk, but Askrigg was the village used in the TV series, with countryside locations filmed in Swaledale and Wensleydale. I don't think the documentary can be purchased, although I know the TV series is available on the online BBC shop.

I really want to see this, mostly because I Peter Davison, but also because I love pretty much any non-traditional comedy.

The whole series is being shown on The Yesterday Channel (freeview 12) from 25th July.

I can’t believe they have mostly shut down the old shows for the new junk ones

i love them all sooooo much! the whole cast, the whole lovely charakters - siegfried, james, tristan, helen, callum, deirdre......its always like meeting friends, when i watch these films. its sooo sad, that everybody forget about these beutiful books and serials (especially in germany)...... and for gods sake, i would have married tristan,,,,peter davison,,,but just now i realized, that hes about 50 years old :DDD iam sooo sorry that there will be no more new stories in future.....

carol drinkwater is beautiful......with a beautiful heart aswell.....

Una sino la mejor serie que evisto además tengo los 2 primeros libros traducidos al CATALAN LA SERIE LA TENGO GRAVADA Y ESPERO PODER COMPRAR ALGUN LIBRO MAS DE ESTE ESCRITOR

THE BEST 👌

Good script, good director(s?). Incredible casting. And then on top the great robert hardy. He was able to pull it off. The center of the books became the center of the series too.

I had heard of the series but never saw it. So I found the whole series on DVD, good price, bought it, and am very much enjoying it. I tried a few episodes of the remake, I can definitely understand what is being said (the cockney on the original gets pretty intense), not sure if it will capture my interest like the original, but we’ll see.

Excellent!

I've pretty much seen every episode of the series from the first series all the way through to the end, and I've never seen him with a moustache, although Seigfried is my favourite character!

a brilliant series for all to be had ,just great stories ,what i want to know is how the hell did they managed to find there way at night driving down the country roads with the poor dismal lights on the cars especially when driving in a stormy night

That's a good point - I'll amend the description as necessary! :)

It's a shame that there is no 'Part 2'.

How fun to see this all these years later! I loved this series, and I love all the behind the scenes stuff. Are all 4 parts posted? I found two. Peter Davison was in Denver for a Doctor Who convention - another of my favorite series from the UK. I asked him about the hand up the cow. I still have the autographed picture I got that day 😁

I really hate how RUDE this current generation is in comment on this old beloved TV show ... if this is what being the success-full wealthy nation means in 2017 it isn't my future. Joy being bought by a street dealer, wages earned by being a tool to the corporation. Not their fault, but just how it is. My future was being a post war child, born into poverty and knew the beauty of struggle for success. Today kids don't have any freedom they are caged into schools, computer games, and told to choose a path to own more material goods. No one works with their hands, and owns success like they did in the early 20th century.

@khzocszter This is the BBC televisionof All Creatures Great and Small, not the films that were made of the same name.

@lordpatthethird As far as I'm aware, only the TV series and special episodes were made with the cast in the video above. However, some films were made with a different cast - just search on Wikipedia for the details. :)

@6mariatk tehehe, right...I also fell in love with Tristan in very young age XD must be fourteen years ago....he is so freaking funny! ( I even start laughing when I just remind several scenes where he gets drunk or crashes cars, fights with Siegfried and ALL the other desasters,,,but on the other hand he can be extraordinary cool)

@hezkyden Surgery was from 6 to 7 O'Clock, as Mrs Hall told him,so he evidently went for surgery outside those hours.

...wundervolle Serie, einfach genial. Schaue ich mir immer wieder sehr gerne an, herrlich..... Aber wo sind endlich mal alle Folgen in deutsch in guter Qualität hier auf youtube zu sehen???? Ich finde nur welche, wo die Qualität des Tones nicht gegeben ist...

A great story with amazing actors - more amazingly done! MOST unfortunately, I haven't been able to watch the TV series because i live in India and could never get access to it. I only wish Netflix would take it on and give us viewers a chance to watch a seriously good series. netflix....Hope you're listening

I've been trying to find the original series to buy.

Can you please make part 2 available? It is currently hidden, only parts 1 and 3 are public. Thank you!

Cannot find Part 2 - have found Part 3

oh my god. 3:23 was hilarious- "YIPPE!!!!" XD

As a cat fancier I can't imagine why you wouldn't clip the stupid cats claws at least. Uncut they certainly are a force to be reckoned with, I remember watching that scene and thinking 'how did they manage that'. I thought it was a puppet cat! They just got a mean cat and let it go berserk!

Any chance you could re-upload Part 2, as its been blocked, so only part 1 and 3 are available. Or could you edit them altogether to make one video?

Hmm.. I think Thirsk would best be described as a town rather than a village.

@bigwoolleypenguin Yes Sigried had a moustache but that wasn't during the Series. After S3, they recorded two movies, one in '83 and one in '85. The movie made in in ''85 he had a moustache!. So your memory is till ok!

@Castrolvalva there were films?

It must be fairly recent, because I recorded it on the 3rd February 2008.

The 1985 Special has Siegfried sporting a moustache

I would hazard a guess and say Scotch Whiskey? That's a boozer's nose if ever I saw one!!!

Hear hear!

I thought at first, long time ago...it was a modernized version of...Coronation Street ;-)) Hilaric!

Can you tell me when that 3 part All Creatures documentary you posted was filmed? Also do you know where if it can be purchased?

Je had one in the books

youtube went and deleted the All Creatures Great and Small channel!

thanks boris made me laughed for days

0.55 - my screen isn't very good and nor is my eyesight but am I watching a man who seems at home (is it his home?) in a white fur lined grotto?

which is this version?

My sympathies are with the cow that was used in this production. Those men had no idea how much pain they were causing her.

I don't wish to be rude (my parents always told me not to make personal remarks), but why has Christopher Timothy's nose become so bulbous?

He was concered about having a wife and children to support but he then had an affair with his on TV wife

Maybe I am old school, but for me, there is only one true James Herriot series. The new one is too staged and with bad acting. Some things are better left alone.

I've seen AC more than once and seen a few wild cats. They are not good actors, cats. THere;s one where Siegfried is holding a kit in a scene with James and the cat's writhing furiously...

Timothy never struck me as a James Harriet, should have been James Harriet himself.

Robert Hardy... such a good actor and so charismatic, could hardly think of a better Siegfied Peter Davison.... seems born to play this part, what a fabulous Tristan. He made it his own Christopher Timothy was incredibly lucky to get the part. Thank god he didn't play Tristan! Thankfully the central character in a series like this is neutral and so doesn't need to be played by a good actor and he didn't actually ruin it.

Bought this on dvd, as I wasn't alive to view it on it's original transmission. A total head-fuck. Sinister and debauched. Rosemary's Baby for the suburban, upper-middle class. Mary Whitehouse must've been off her tits not to rise up in fury.

I enjoyed it very, loved it!!!