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All Creatures a great walk down memory lane!
All Creatures Great and Small was shown on PBS when our children were very young. After it was no longer aired, we really missed watching it. Now that we can purchase it on video/dvd, it's wonderful to be able watch all these episodes from the 70's and 80's. It is good, clean, wholesome viewing for children, grandchildren and adults - something that isn't always possible in today's world. Every year we have bought another series/season of the 45 minute shows. If you grew up watching Lassie, you won't want to miss All Creatures.

The coming of the war..
The third series of this classic series is set against the events leading to WW2, and concludes in the final episode with the partners departing their beloved Darroby to fight for all they hold most dear in the war, following it's outbreak. <
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>James Herriot is very happily married to Helen, and a half partner to Seigfried, with the latters younger Brother Tristan, still struggling to qualify as a vet. Despite the impending disaster of the war, life must go on, and here it does with another joyful collection of episodes including "Charity Begins at Home" with Seigfried determined to teach his partners an example in cost cutting...if only he practised what he preaches! "Hair of the Dog" where James is unable to resist a visit from Granville Bennet, a gregarious local vet with a taste for drink! "Matters of Life and Death" Seigfried and Tristan attend a military function, with dire concequences for Tristan! <
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>The last episode, "Big Steps and Little 'uns" sees both James and Seigfried depart for the war, and contains a great scene by the fireside where James explains to Seigfried why he loves hs life in Darrowby so much, yet has to leave to defend it. <
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>Although intended as the conclusion to this wonderfuil series, All Creatures returned some years later, post war, to continue to stories of the life and times of the partners. It continued to be hugely entertaining, but after this series 3 was no longer based on the books by James Herriot, and new writers were brought in. Subsequently, it never quite recaptured the magic of the early stories. Even though at times, it came close..