Insider's Guide to the Yorkshire Dales Filming Locations". Great British Life. 1 September 2020 . Retrieved 26 February 2021. Grassington's transformation into a busy and bustling 1930s Darrowby is something to behold It is September 1939 and the signs of war are all around Darrowby, including the first evacuated children. Helen and James face a moral dilemma over TB testing, which could have serious repercussions for their future. Meanwhile Tristan goes for lunch and ends up very drunk. When he has recovered, he makes a bold move. Mrs Pumphrey repurposes her home as a war garden and sanctuary. Siegfried and Tristan argue again, and Helen goes into bat to save James at the Ministry. War is declared, and the future of several of the characters hangs in the balance.

Newly qualified veterinary surgeon James Herriot travels from his home in Glasgow to the Yorkshire village of Darrowby for a job interview at Siegfried Farnon's practice. Siegfried takes James to his first job treating an abscess in a gelding's hoof. James meets Helen Alderson while treating an injured calf and she urges him to stand up to Siegfried, who will respect him. The locals get James drunk and he mixes up a pair of cats while trying to feed them, resulting in Siegfried almost neutering the wrong one. James manages to prove himself after saving the lives of a cow and her calf, leading Siegfried to offer him a permanent job as his assistant. Patricia Hodge Replaces The Late Diana Rigg On Channel 5/PBS Series 'All Creatures Great & Small' ". Deadline.com. 8 April 2021 . Retrieved 11 April 2021. Sherwood, Harriet (11 January 2022). "All Creatures Great and Small gently conquers America". The Guardian . Retrieved 14 January 2022. Weekly top programmes on four screens". Broadcasters' Audience Research Board . Retrieved 4 January 2021. An additional 0.91m (excluding device viewership) for the Sunday repeat in seven-day viewership [66] contributed to a total of at least 5.78m.An additional 1.33m watched the narrative repeat on Boxing Day (Saturday 26 December), contributing to a total of 6.32m.

All Creatures Great and Small's Stars on the James & Helen Romance". Masterpiece, PBS. 21 February 2021 . Retrieved 25 February 2021. But he doesn't use the moment to tell her how he feels Top programmes report - week 39, September 27 - October 03 – Channel 5". Thinkbox. Archived from the original on 12 October 2021 . Retrieved 12 October 2021.

All Creatures Great and Small casts Patricia Hodge as Mrs Pumphrey following the death of Dame Diana Rigg". Radio Times . Retrieved 11 April 2021. All Creatures Great and Small is Channel 5's biggest show in five years". Radio Times. 2 September 202 . Retrieved 27 February 2021. the BBC series which premiered in 1978 became a massively popular show, running for a total of 90 episodes and ending in 1990. The Los Angeles Times's Mary McNamara disputed the apparent consensus of the show as being a necessary sanctuary in the pandemic and calling it "a disappointment" because it deviated too much from the source material. [83]