BBC movie series recommendations please :)

[Geoff Bannister]

--- In HPFGU-OTChatter at yahoogroups.com, "Carol" <justcarol67 at ...> wrote:

 Shaun: 
> > > You might also like 'All Creatures Great and Small' which began in the 1970s and ran on and off into the 1990s and which depicts the life of a country vet in the 1930s and 1940s.

> > Alla:

> > Sounds wonderful! Really wonderful, thank you.

Carol:
> I remember "All Creatures Great and Small"--a delightful series based on an autobiographical book by James Herriott (I think that's a pseudonym, but I'm not sure). One of the main characters, Siegfried Farnon (Herriott's boss), is played by a much younger Robert Hardy (Cornelius Fudge). He has a younger brother named Tristan, which gives you an idea of the taste in reading of their parents! I think it's set in the 1930s. I remember having trouble understanding some of the characters because of their accents, but the stories themselves were usually either funny or touching.

Geoff:
Just for accuracy's sake, as I said in my earlier post,  there were 7 seasons 
and 90 episodes. The seasons ran from 1978-80 and from 1988-90 with 
three special episodes, a couple in the mid-1980s and a final one-off at 
Christmas 1990.

The time scale of the TV series was from the 1930s well to the 1950s - 
there are episodes set around the time of the Coronation in 1953 for 
example.

Tristan is played by Peter Davison who also achieved fame as one of 
the Doctor Who incarnations.

James Herriott is indeed a pseudonym. He was really James Alfred Wight, 
a vet who lived from 1916-1995. He actually wrote about a dozen books 
about "his" world as a vet, the first published in 1970.