
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 a great deal of research about James Herriot ("Alf" Wight) who died in 1995.

Anna Madeley as Mrs Audrey Hall, housekeeper of Skeldale House.Samuel West as Siegfried Farnon, a veterinary surgeon and owner of Skeldale House.Nicholas Ralph as James Herriot, a veterinary surgeon.Besides Siegfried and James, there is Siegfried's younger brother, Tristan, and Mrs. 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 second series premiered on 16 September 2021 on Channel 5. 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.Īll Creatures Great and Small was renewed for a second series, also of six episodes plus a Christmas special. 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. and is one of a series of movies and television series based on Herriot's novels.

The series is a new adaptation of Wight's books, following the previous BBC series of 90 episodes that ran from 1978 to 1990, also called All Creatures Great and Small and which is still regularly reshown. 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 2020 television series, set in 1937, based upon a series of books about a Yorkshire vet written by Alf Wight under the pen name of James Herriot.
