The programme's sweeping theme music was composed by Johnny Pearson.
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The series ran for three more seasons, plus another Christmas special. A couple of Christmas specials kept the concept alive during the early 1980s, before public clamor was answered with a new series in 1988. The series "ends" after three years when James and Tristan head off to join the war effort (Herriot's original novels had run out). James meets and marries Helen Anderson (Carol Drinkwater, later played by Lynda Bellingham) who later bears him a son, Jimmy (Oliver Watson), and a daughter, Rosie (Rebecca Smith). If James is not preventing foot and mouth or groping around up a cow's posterior, he is treating the likes of Tricki-Woo, the pampered Pekinese owned by villager Mrs.
Hall (Mary Hignett), helps to build up the practice and deals with all manner of agricultural and domestic animal ailments. There he joins senior partner Siegfried Farnon (Robert Hardy), his easy-going brother, Tristan (Peter Davidson), and housekeeper Mrs. Findlay's Casebook) took viewers back to the 1930s as Herriot arrives at Skeldale House, home of the veterinary practice in the North Riding town of Darroby (the real-life Askrigg). With Christopher Timothy now pulling on the vet's wellies, the TV adaptation (with its echoes of Dr. BBC 1 1978-80 1983 1985 1988-90īased on the celebrated autobiographical novels of James Herriot, All Creatures Great and Small proved to be an enormous success as a TV series, inspired by a 1974 cinema version featuring Simon Ward, and its 1976 sequel, It Shouldn't Happen to a Vet starring John Alderton.