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All Creatures Great and Small

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This beloved PBS series, an adaptation of the 1970s book series by Alf Wight (writing under the pen name of James Herriot), follows three veterinarians working in the Yorkshire Dales shortly before the outbreak of World War II. It is arguably the most charming and cozy bit of escapism on TV.

The series stars Nicholas Ralph as James Herriot, Samuel West as Siegfried Farnon, and Callum Woodhouse as Tristan Farnon — who together comprise the three vets at the center of the narrative. Rachel Shenton and Anna Madeley also star, with Patricia Hodge, Matthew Lewis, Will Thorp, Maimie MCoy, and the late Diana Rigg in recurring roles.

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Episode 7 The Night Before Christmas

All Creatures Great and Small Finale Recap: Farewell to Our Yorkshire Friends The first season’s Christmas-set closer errs in keeping our core characters apart, but makes up for it in holiday decorations and a donkey named Bob.
Episode 6 A Cure For All Ills

All Creatures Great and Small Recap: 50,000 Candles in the Wind This episode is 98 percent tragedy for James.
Episode 5 All’s Fair

All Creatures Great and Small Recap: Panic at the Pony Show In the sage words of Siegfried, “the labors of Hercules pale in comparison to being a vet at the Darrowby Show.”
Episode 4 A Tricki Case

All Creatures Great and Small Recap: The One With the Snack Hamper Take it away, Tricki Woo!
Episode 3 Andante

All Creatures Great and Small Recap: Requiem for a Horse This whole episode is really about Siegfried and his moral compass, which is the Greenwich Mean Time of moral compasses.
Episode 2 Another Farnon?

All Creatures Great and Small Recap: The Prodigal Brother Returns Tristan the Slightly Rakish has come to Darrowby.

Episode 1 You’ve Got to Dream

All Creatures Great and Small Premiere Recap: Hygge in the Hills The balm of 2021 delivers unto us low-stakes drama, likable characters, and extremely good cow content.

Episode 7 The Perfect Christmas

All Creatures Great and Small Season-Finale Recap: Well, What Do We Do Now? The cozy, insular world of All Creatures caps off a delightful season with an extremely heartwarming Christmas episode.
Episode 6 Home Truths

All Creatures Great and Small Recap: A Pretty Decent Proposal Yes, there’s the whole thing with the dog, but the finale is otherwise a delightful ending to the season.
Episode 5 The Last Man In

All Creatures Great and Small Recap: The Big Cricket Match Siegfried and Tristan finally have a real chat. Cricket brings people together!
Episode 4 Many Happy Returns

All Creatures Great and Small Recap: The Birthday Dinner Tristan finally learns the truth from Siegfried and All Creatures’ version of the Red Wedding.
Episode 3 We Can But Hope

All Creatures Great and Small Recap: Chickens in the Streets Buckle in: We’ve got a sad episode.
Episode 2 Semper Progrediens

All Creatures Great and Small Recap: The Daffodil Ball A magnificent cow and a cantankerous pig!

Episode 1 Where the Heart Is

All Creatures Great and Small Season-Premiere Recap Tell Tristan he isn’t a vet!

Episode 7 Merry Bloody Christmas

All Creatures Great and Small Recap: Choices Are Made This Christmas episode is about Siegfried convincing himself it’s okay to injure a horse and Mrs. Hall deciding she’s into Gerald. Why?
Episode 6 For Whom the Bell Tolls

All Creatures Great and Small Season-Finale Recap: A Declaration of War The looming specter of war finally stops looming and just full-on arrives at England’s doorstep.
Episode 5 Edward

All Creatures Great and Small Recap: Take the Biscuits, Edward Mrs. Hall and Tristan deserve better than this, but at least no cows died in this episode … that we know of.
Episode 4 What a Balls Up!

All Creatures Great and Small Recap: Follow That Cow! Who would’ve thought the Ministry of Agriculture could be so terrifying?
Episode 3 Surviving Siegfried

All Creatures Great and Small Recap: Siegfried Goes Full Horse Girl Our normally calm and gentle show has a whole bunch of war flashbacks and horse murder this week.
Episode 2 Honeymoon’s Over

All Creatures Great and Small Recap: Cows in Peril This week is all about adjustment — and also saving baby cows.

Episode 1 Second Time Lucky

All Creatures Great and Small Season-Premiere Recap: Cozy Escapist Show Returns What could possible stand between James and his wedding? What about 77 cows that may or may not have tuberculosis?

Episode 7 On a Wing and a Prayer

All Creatures Great and Small Recap: To the Remarkable Mrs. Hall and Jesus It’s a stressful time for James — he’s training for war, his wife is about to have a baby, it’s Christmas, and a cat is missing!
Episode 6 The Home Front

All Creatures Great and Small Season-Finale Recap: Who Moves to the Lakes? Helen, please stop working and relax! You almost got kicked by a sick cow!
Episode 5 Papers

All Creatures Great and Small Recap: Driving Lessons It’s time to save a cat, which is a metaphor for James and Helen’s situation, but also is a cat.
Episode 4 By the Book

All Creatures Great and Small Recap: Knowledge, Fleas, and Family The run of happy, cozy episodes has come to an end.
Episode 3 Right Hand Man

All Creatures Great and Small Recap: Siegfried Stands Corrected We have to talk about Cedric the Farting Dog.
Episode 2 Carpe Diem

All Creatures Great and Small Recap: Blossom Rides Again The number of times this show has made me weep over cows.

Episode 1 Broodiness

All Creatures Great and Small Season-Premiere Recap: So Bloody What? All Creatures is getting risqué in season four. How do we feel about that?

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