All Creatures Great and Small

ALL CREATURES GREAT AND SMALL. British television series created by Bill Sellars, based on the books of the British veterinary surgeon Alf Wight, who wrote under the pseudonym James Herriot. It ran for seven series with 90 episodes between 1978-1990. The Herriot novels were written in an episodic style with each chapter generally containing a short story within the ongoing narrative of Herriot's life. This format greatly facilitated the adaptation to a television series. Set in the Yorkshire Dales, beginning in the mid-1930s it starred ; Christopher Timothy (James Herriot) / Robert Hardy (Siegfried Farnon, the proprietor of the Skeldale House surgery) and Peter Davison as Siegfried's "little brother". The supporting cast, both recurring and one-offs numbered over 600, most of whom appeared as farmers or clients of the surgery.