The following clip is from a documentary about the making of the series and the casting, with the perspectives of Hardy, and of Christopher Timothy (James Herriot) and Peter Davison(Tristan Farnon). Robert Hardy as Henry V and Judi Dench as Princess Katherine, 1960 © BBCArchive. "An Age Of Kings," a series of Shakespeare's history plays. Two years later another attempt, It Shouldn’t Happen To A Vet, crashed and burned.īut Herriot’s compact storytelling seemed ideally suited to a television series, although it paired two then-unknown young actors with veteran Robert Hardy, a well-respected Shakespearean performer. The original All Creatures Great and Small ,a 1974 Hallmark presentation, disappeared into rightful obscurity, despite the presence of Anthony Hopkins as Siegfried Farnon. The first two attempts, both feature films, didn’t do very well. His humor, deftly drawn characters of both the two- and four-legged variety, and thoughtful portrayal of a disappearing way of life in one of the most beautiful spots in England made his stories a natural fit for conversion to the big-or small-screen. J ames Herriot’s short stories about his life as a veterinarian in rural Yorkshire are beloved worldwide and still remain immensely popular years after the death of the author, Alf Wight (1916-1995).
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