# All Creatures Great & Small **URL:** \ **Category:** Cafe Society\ **Tags:** tv-shows-scripted\ **Created:** [January 12, 2021, 3:27pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/all-creatures-great-small/930335 "2021-01-12T15:27:17Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 15\ **Page:** 3
**Author:** ![Magiver](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/4491bb/32.png) [@Magiver](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Magiver)\ **Post date:** [February 21, 2023, 3:16am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/all-creatures-great-small/930335/41 "2023-02-21T03:16:45Z")
Is it usual for a British TV series to be 7 episodes in a year’s time frame? It seems terribly short . And I’ve never read the books but it looks like they’re going to kill off Mrs Hall’s son in the war given the ship he’s on. ---
**Author:** ![Dewey\_Finn](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/dewey_finn/32/4222_2.png) [@Dewey\_Finn](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Dewey_Finn)\ **Post date:** [February 21, 2023, 3:20am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/all-creatures-great-small/930335/42 "2023-02-21T03:20:09Z")
American but I’ve watched many UK shows and short seasons (series, in UK terminology) is very common, with many having just six or so episodes. What I’m wondering is what’s going to happen next, if James and Tristan are both signing up. (I know in real life James Herriot spent part of the war flying planes for the RAF.) ---
**Author:** ![romansperson](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/romansperson/32/17100_2.png) [@romansperson](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/romansperson)\ **Post date:** [February 21, 2023, 3:21am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/all-creatures-great-small/930335/43 "2023-02-21T03:21:30Z")
This new series is straying far away from the stories in the books and is creating its own new story lines, so it will be interesting to see where it goes. ---
**Author:** ![Beckdawrek](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/beckdawrek/32/3647_2.png) [@Beckdawrek](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Beckdawrek)\ **Post date:** [February 21, 2023, 3:28am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/all-creatures-great-small/930335/44 "2023-02-21T03:28:22Z")
Missed this thread when started. Like the OP I loved the books. I’m enjoying it. Not sure I like the Mrs. Hall character as they’ve portrayed her. And Mrs. Pumphrey should be a large woman. I liked Diana Rigg better in that part. ---
**Author:** ![Magiver](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/4491bb/32.png) [@Magiver](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Magiver)\ **Post date:** [February 21, 2023, 3:50am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/all-creatures-great-small/930335/45 "2023-02-21T03:50:47Z")
> [@Dewey\_Finn](#): > > American but I’ve watched many UK shows and short seasons (series, in UK terminology) is very common, with many having just six or so episodes. That’s just mean. Are they overlapping other series to fill up a year or do we need to start a go-fund-me? ---
**Author:** ![kenobi\_65](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/kenobi_65/32/13178_2.png) [@kenobi\_65](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/kenobi_65)\ **Post date:** [February 21, 2023, 4:01am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/all-creatures-great-small/930335/46 "2023-02-21T04:01:14Z")
> [@Magiver](#): > > That’s just mean. Are they overlapping other series to fill up a year or do we need to start a go-fund-me? As far as on Masterpiece on PBS, they run a variety of series over the course of each year, mostly from the BBC. On our local PBS station last night, after the final episode of Season/Series 3 aired, they mentioned that All Creatures had been picked up for a fourth series. If one really wants to do a bit of crowdfunding in support of the series, pledging some support to your local PBS station does just that, especially if you indicate on your donation that you’re specifically supporting that series. ---
**Author:** ![StarvingButStrong](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/starvingbutstrong/32/335_2.png) [@StarvingButStrong](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/StarvingButStrong)\ **Post date:** [February 21, 2023, 4:41am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/all-creatures-great-small/930335/47 "2023-02-21T04:41:59Z")
> [@eenerms](#): > > Disappointed that it was a shorten season! Wee bit WOKE . I was disappointed that it seemed the animal stories got pushed to the side. Way too much time spent on Mrs. H’s son, Mrs. H’s romance, the Tristan/whosie romance, on and on. Even the Trickie Woo pieces they put in seemed almost perfunctory. ---
**Author:** ![terentii](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/terentii/32/212_2.png) [@terentii](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/terentii)\ **Post date:** [February 21, 2023, 4:58am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/all-creatures-great-small/930335/48 "2023-02-21T04:58:42Z")
> [@Magiver](#): > > … it looks like they’re going to kill off Mrs Hall’s son in the war given the ship he’s on. I haven’t seen that episode yet. Is it _HMS Hood_? ---
**Author:** ![OttoDaFe](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/ottodafe/32/356_2.png) [@OttoDaFe](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/OttoDaFe)\ **Post date:** [February 21, 2023, 7:47am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/all-creatures-great-small/930335/49 "2023-02-21T07:47:29Z")
HMS _Repulse_, sunk 10 December 1942 off Singapore. About half her crew were rescued, but his sleeve insignia suggests an engineer so his odds wouldn’t be great. ---
**Author:** ![terentii](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/terentii/32/212_2.png) [@terentii](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/terentii)\ **Post date:** [February 21, 2023, 7:56am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/all-creatures-great-small/930335/50 "2023-02-21T07:56:51Z")
_Repulse_ and _Prince of Wales_ were my two other choices. ---
**Author:** ![muldoonthief](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/muldoonthief/32/3188_2.png) [@muldoonthief](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/muldoonthief)\ **Post date:** [February 21, 2023, 4:57pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/all-creatures-great-small/930335/51 "2023-02-21T16:57:04Z")
Dec 10 1941, not 1942. I wonder what nickname Repulse crews were given by other sailors? But yeah, next season there’ll be an episode that starts with Siegfried reading about the Repulse in the newspaper, and ends with Mrs. H receiving a telegram from the Admirality. ---
**Author:** ![gnarator](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/gnarator/32/8266_2.png) [@gnarator](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/gnarator)\ **Post date:** [February 21, 2023, 5:12pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/all-creatures-great-small/930335/52 "2023-02-21T17:12:45Z")
ETA: Ninja’d Though another young man was from the _Exeter_. It could be worse. ---
**Author:** ![OttoDaFe](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/ottodafe/32/356_2.png) [@OttoDaFe](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/OttoDaFe)\ **Post date:** [February 21, 2023, 9:45pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/all-creatures-great-small/930335/53 "2023-02-21T21:45:57Z")
> [@muldoonthief](#): > > Dec 10 1941, not 1942. 🤦‍♂️ I suppose it’s _possible_ he would be reassigned somewhere in the two years between the start of the war and the sinking, especially since the ship was laid up for refitting for a couple of months before sailing to the Far East (an ideal time to transfer crew). But like Mrs H, we’ll just have to wait and see. ---
**Author:** ![Magiver](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/4491bb/32.png) [@Magiver](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Magiver)\ **Post date:** [February 22, 2023, 12:43am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/all-creatures-great-small/930335/54 "2023-02-22T00:43:03Z")
Well they kinda rapped up the relationship issue when the deaf woman told her she could read her son’s lips as the train pulled out and he said he loved her. Or, it’s a fresh start of a new relationship for the 2 of them. The writers appear to have set up something big with the reference to a ship the viewers know is going to sink. ---
**Author:** ![dummygladhands71](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/c0e974/32.png) [@dummygladhands71](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/dummygladhands71)\ **Post date:** [February 22, 2023, 2:24am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/all-creatures-great-small/930335/55 "2023-02-22T02:24:50Z")
On a side note, IMHO, the woman who plays Audrey, Anna Madeley, is simply beautiful, such symmetry of her face. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/all-creatures-great-small/930335.md?page=2)