Audrey Hall is the best character in this series. Intelligent, compassionate, insightful and most beautiful. I love her voice especially how Anna does it accent, crackling, inflection and all.
When this series was done the first time, I really didn’t think the most current one could touch it. The cast in the first series was superb, and, of course, the stories speak for themselves. However, as this adaptation has evolved, I am more and more touched by the deepness of the relationships and the way their personalities are being developed in such a humanistic way.
Just that its not the real story Mrs Hall was an old women a widow and she had an admirer. Helen was no tomboy she took care of her younger sublings two not one and Siegfried had five dogs not one
@@katarinasvensson9801 Well, maybe Mr. Herriot didn't describe the whole reality either. Why can't the persons and their characters be changed in the new series as well? Mainly because it's really, really good, the actors are excellent.
@@polyglot.basketer947 I say nothing about the actors but the first serie was outstanding this new can never come near. And no it cant he the writer could change but not the directors. The serie is completly distroyed in my opinion. Helen was no tomboy she was not engaged and she certantly dident left anyone by the altar. Mrs Hall was an older women who never ate with the others she dident want to. Siegfried had five dogs not one.
I agree, this version of Mrs Hall is the most personable and interacts with Siegfried best. Siegfried needs someone who is his equal to temper and stand up to him!
Mrs. Hall in the original books is nothing whatsoever like the Mrs. Hall in the new series. Mrs. Hall in the original series was much more like the character presented in the books. The new character is meant to reflect 21st century sensibilities. Lovely, but not as historically/culturally convincing. Also, writers of the new series have taken huge liberties with the original stories. I do hope people will actually read the books. They are wonderful.
Oh, yes, not many shows will tug at the viewers' heartstrings, but the shows that CAN are indeed very well written and acted. It always amazes me that they can find so many instances of animals giving birth to film.
This is one of the best programs that has ever come out of England. I have CDC's of the seasons 1 and 2, and I have played/listed to it at leased fifteen/twenty times in the past four months. Amazing. Thank you PBS for [picking it up for all of us in Canada. Thank you
I am like you . I have recorded the series and watch it over and over. It warms my heart and soul so much! Love the time period and the kindness of these people ❤️
The original series was more true to the books, but I love what they've done with the characters in this series. I just watched both of them, and I love each one differently. I really love all of the actors in both, but these are more endearing. I can't wait for the new season!
I’m still rooting for this ship … I felt like they were playing with the idea more in the first then the second season (so far), but they did drop what could’ve been a tad of it this season …
I've just come back from a few days break in Grassington, North Yorkshire where the external village scenes are filmed. What a perfect location! We enjoyed lunch in the Drovers Arms and a pint of the Drovers ale brewed specially for the series.
This is my favorite series on PBS and looking forward to season 5. Read the books many years ago in school and just ordered the books to read them again. These two are my favorite characters on the series and I felt bad on this last season when Audrey and Gerald broke up. The animals like Trikki Woo make the series even better!
My mother passed away a year ago and I refuse to get over it. It's especially hard since Dad won't talk about it, or anything else that matters. But since we started watching this series together, something happened and we've become closer. I'm so grateful for this show right now.
The original was their housekeeper. Loved and respected, yes. But first and foremost, their housekeeper. The new Mrs. Hall, well I see the relationship between Mrs. Hall and Siegfried is different. More intimate and I do not mean physical. However, there appears to be that potential given a younger and more attractive Mrs. Hall.
I started watching this series about a month ago and I'm all caught up. I subscribed to PBS masterpiece theater just so I could watch it. Been watching about an episode a night. It's the best thing that's ever been on TV as far as I'm concerned. Everything from the writing to the acting to the story to the cinematography to the incredible interconnected episodic stories… It's just wonderful. I have not read the books but I have ordered them, and it drives me crazy that Mrs. Hall and Sigried have not figured out that they need to be together. 🥰 I hope season 5 come sooner rather than later
Truly impertinent question here, but inquiring minds want to know: are the decorative lights on the Christmas tree toward the end really close to a chartreuse & Pepto-Bismol pink or did the camera distort what was green & red? If they are the more pastel, garish colors, is that because they used different types of tree lights back 83 years prior to the filming of this scene?
All Creatures Great and Small is my all time favourite television show. I live in Australia and as yet we have not seen Series 3 and 4 Hopefully it will be shown on our ABC Thank you for the pleasure this show gives so many people. Sincerely Chris
I was prepared to deeply dislike this incarnation. I was wrong. There's more to to say that wasn't in the original books and series. I am profoundly moved by this incarnation.
Kinda wonder how Tristan will be when he returns from Military service...Will he come back with a bride in tow..Will he still want to be a Veterinarian like his big brother.
Love the series but the original one was my favorite, especially Robert Hardy who in real life was a local of this area and he rode horses across the countryside. I wonder if this series will go on as long as the old one did, I believe there were 7 series and several specials. One positive thing about the new series is they gave "Helen" a more interesting role. The original Helen, Carol Drinkwater, left the series and had to be replaced as she said she got bored. There should be more series like these.
I Loved Robert Hardy I'm watching all the series now on Drama everyday .It was such a total waste of a lovely Man when I read he had taken his own life You were so lucky he lived in your area .This program is very nice but Robert was the Best just thought he was amazing .
I hope they get together. In the older tv version from 1978-1990, Siegfried get together with Caroline Fisher. The real life Siegfried Farnons second wife was called Audrey. But I believe she was not his housekeeper. I don't know if Mr Hammond is based on a real person or fictional.
I’ve read the books several times. Mrs Hall was only mentioned in passing - never great stretches of dialogue as this new series shows. The original series of ACG&S made an agreement with Alf Wight (the true James Herriot and the author of the books) that they would stick to his books and only film stories from his books. This new series seems to be taking greater liberties. I like the new Mrs Hall (the original actress was also exceptional) but we have to suspend our hope for an accurate portrayal of the books.
@@WBCRO Too right, Wendy. Thanks for your informative post. The original actress I miss the most is Margaretta Scott as Mrs Pamphrey. A true original, genuinely eccentric, and such fun. The late Rigg and current Hodge, though fine actresses, don't seem to understand the character.
I've read all the books and the relationship they portray here is pure fiction. It makes for good viewing but there was no sexual tension between the two in real life.
I don't see their relationship as having sexual tension at all. All the people who are posting about it here are just projecting what the want it to be. Their relationship is great as is.
There may be something wrong with the rest of us, but I do not feel sexual tension between these two at all. They are more like siblings. She is more like the sister in between the two brothers that never was. I think he would rue losing her to her love interest because he has come to depend upon her in a familial way, but not spousal manner.
There was no tension between them in real life because Mrs Hall never existed. She was invented for the books. There never was a housekeeper at the practice.
In the original series, the widowed Mrs. Hall was going to marry another guy just as Siegfried and James were leaving to join the Royal Air Force at the start of WW II. When the series resumed several years later, they all paid tribute to Mrs. Hall, who had apparently died while they were serving in the military. Sadly, actress Mary Hignet, who portrayed the Rock of Gibraltar-like Mrs. Hall, died after undergoing surgery during the show’s hiatus. She was greatly missed on the show.
I think this was made with American 💵 in mind. American audiences never really ‘get’ British characterizations, or period sensibilities, or actual historical culture.
I'm curious if this is a collection of run-throughs or rehearsals? I'm asking because the actors in these scenes don't appear to be acting much. I mean, there's not much energy.....everything is flat, the pacing is making me drowsy. So, I'm guessing they're conserving their dynamism for an actual take?
I have to agree. The actors seem very talented but this is just not for me. Absolutely none of this is in the book. It is made up out of whole cloth, and it needs to be remembered that while these were fictional characters, they were fictional characters based on real people. Not for me.
I could never stand this version of the TV series. They made it into a soap opera and everything is wrong. The original series with Robert Hardy was brilliant and true to the feeling of the books. This is just something for people who've never read them or seen the original adaptation and just come across a show.
I agree with your assessment, but I still watch the series, albeit without the same anticipation and delight with which I watched the original series. There is no substitute for reading the books.
Another great production from the Brits! I LOVE the show and purchased all three seasons and can’t wait for the fourth. Can’t get TV here in the US like this. Back in the 70’s and 80’s we had great TV but it’s all gone to hell now
@@gailshmail3420 Well somebody's not listening to them b/c it is dystopic and truly horrific, right down to the opening sequence and credits - what is that????
This is a beautiful story. True to the book or not doesn’t bother me. The story has just been updated a little bit, that’s all. I love the gentle unfolding of a budding romance that pulls you in and makes you want to shout, “Come on Siegfried and Mrs Hall! When are you going to wake up and realize you’ve fallen in love?
@@shirleyjones3252 You see, that is the modern sensibility the creators have invented for this series. It is all Disney-ish and that annoys those of us who have read the original stories.
this i the worse thing they could do to herriots book. this is not all creatures great and small of james herriots books/ it is an insult James herriot would turn over in his grave if he saw this
Audrey Hall is the best character in this series. Intelligent, compassionate, insightful and most beautiful. I love her voice especially how Anna does it accent, crackling, inflection and all.
Samuel West and Anna H. are such masterful actors.
Love Mrs. Hall. I love the way she gently nudges Siegfried into doing the right thing!
I love Siegfried so much. Not an easy man to work for or live with but he's still so lovable.
These are people you wish you could step in to the show and get to know. Love it!!!
I guess you never saw the original TV series. This has nothing on that.
I can do without knowing him.
When this series was done the first time, I really didn’t think the most current one could touch it. The cast in the first series was superb, and, of course, the stories speak for themselves. However, as this adaptation has evolved, I am more and more touched by the deepness of the relationships and the way their personalities are being developed in such a humanistic way.
Just that its not the real story Mrs Hall was an old women a widow and she had an admirer. Helen was no tomboy she took care of her younger sublings two not one and Siegfried had five dogs not one
@@katarinasvensson9801probably the other series was more realistic as well because the original characters were around for consultation.
I have read all of the book.the movie is nothing like the book.
@@katarinasvensson9801 Well, maybe Mr. Herriot didn't describe the whole reality either. Why can't the persons and their characters be changed in the new series as well? Mainly because it's really, really good, the actors are excellent.
@@polyglot.basketer947 I say nothing about the actors but the first serie was outstanding this new can never come near. And no it cant he the writer could change but not the directors. The serie is completly distroyed in my opinion. Helen was no tomboy she was not engaged and she certantly dident left anyone by the altar. Mrs Hall was an older women who never ate with the others she dident want to. Siegfried had five dogs not one.
The Christmas church scene had me BAWLING!!!! Mrs. Hall keeping it in as best she can and Siegfried being her rock…..😢😢😢❤❤❤
I love this version of Mrs. Hall. She’s very well written.
I agree, this version of Mrs Hall is the most personable and interacts with Siegfried best. Siegfried needs someone who is his equal to temper and stand up to him!
IN the book MRS hall is a large woman
She is a major force!
I love how she interacts with each character. They are all her children.
Mrs. Hall in the original books is nothing whatsoever like the Mrs. Hall in the new series. Mrs. Hall in the original series was much more like the character presented in the books. The new character is meant to reflect 21st century sensibilities. Lovely, but not as historically/culturally convincing. Also, writers of the new series have taken huge liberties with the original stories. I do hope people will actually read the books. They are wonderful.
I love this program. It’s very well done by the actors and the scenery is amazing.
Love this series!! They're wonderful actors and so well written!🇨🇦
old married couple energy
The sweetest energy ever!!!
This is such a wonderful show! such talented actors…
Oh, yes, not many shows will tug at the viewers' heartstrings, but the shows that CAN are indeed very well written and acted. It always amazes me that they can find so many instances of animals giving birth to film.
Portraying real hearts in the best of times and struggles
This is one of the best programs that has ever come out of England. I have CDC's of the seasons 1 and 2, and I have played/listed to it at leased fifteen/twenty times in the past four months. Amazing. Thank you PBS for [picking it up for all of us in Canada. Thank you
I am like you . I have recorded the series and watch it over and over. It warms my heart and soul so much! Love the time period and the kindness of these people ❤️
Come on…Marry her Seigefreed!! I hope I’m spelling his name correctly. She’s the calm to his many storms. I really love them together.❤️
I have fallen in love with this show on PBS here in Chicago.
The original series was more true to the books, but I love what they've done with the characters in this series. I just watched both of them, and I love each one differently. I really love all of the actors in both, but these are more endearing. I can't wait for the new season!
They ought to just go on and make it official. From the way they interact with each other you'd never know they weren't married.
Yes...Siegfried has found his match in the younger Mrs Hall. Which version of Mrs Hall (younger or older) do the books elude to?
@@carolhama4156 I honestly don't know. Unlike a lot of people I have never read any of the books. I just watched the show because I enjoyed it.
More like brother and sister.
@@richardcogbill6791 Maybe so but I think there's more to it than that.
Totally agree. If these two don't get together in a romantic way, I will be devastated. They are perfect for each other. Please, please producers!
I’m still rooting for this ship … I felt like they were playing with the idea more in the first then the second season (so far), but they did drop what could’ve been a tad of it this season …
Wish I could just live in this show
What do ya think we did in the Wrens? .....hysterical! as she displays her shooting skill at the fair.
I've just come back from a few days break in Grassington, North Yorkshire where the external village scenes are filmed. What a perfect location! We enjoyed lunch in the Drovers Arms and a pint of the Drovers ale brewed specially for the series.
This program and all the cast are marvelous!
I love their relationship….
19:15 I think to have such a friendship is the best gift of all.
This is my favorite series on PBS and looking forward to season 5. Read the books many years ago in school and just ordered the books to read them again. These two are my favorite characters on the series and I felt bad on this last season when Audrey and Gerald broke up. The animals like Trikki Woo make the series even better!
I love that James gets a promotion, but not a raise in pay! I have had jobs like that too.
The scene singing of him coming to join her at church always makes me cry, such a sweet moment
My mother passed away a year ago and I refuse to get over it. It's especially hard since Dad won't talk about it, or anything else that matters. But since we started watching this series together, something happened and we've become closer. I'm so grateful for this show right now.
I Absolutely Love this Show and All it's Actors.❤❤❤
Talented team of writers, actors, directors, producers, and the entire production crew. Oh, and the animals are great also!
Something I really liked is that the newborn animals I’ve been seeing so far really look newborn
I just love her demeaner. Wonderful acting too!
The original was their housekeeper. Loved and respected, yes. But first and foremost, their housekeeper. The new Mrs. Hall, well I see the relationship between Mrs. Hall and Siegfried is different. More intimate and I do not mean physical. However, there appears to be that potential given a younger and more attractive Mrs. Hall.
Love this show and cast of characters!
Now waiting for season 5. Such a wonderful show.
Good job putting this together 🥰
“Mrs Hall I think I’m dying”…
He’s brilliant 😂😂😂
So good! You did miss Mrs Hall saying. "You really are the most ridiculous creature."
Love this show ❤
I'm enjoying it on it's own merits. I've found that comparing book to adaptation dampens that.
Amazing program, I watch it every week!🇨🇦
I started watching this series about a month ago and I'm all caught up. I subscribed to PBS masterpiece theater just so I could watch it. Been watching about an episode a night. It's the best thing that's ever been on TV as far as I'm concerned. Everything from the writing to the acting to the story to the cinematography to the incredible interconnected episodic stories… It's just wonderful.
I have not read the books but I have ordered them, and it drives me crazy that Mrs. Hall and Sigried have not figured out that they need to be together. 🥰
I hope season 5 come sooner rather than later
These are my 2 favorite characters in the series. And the last one in this video is the best...
I so love this show, says this American ❤
great series
I can't even read these comments because my eyes are filled with tears.
Truly impertinent question here, but inquiring minds want to know: are the decorative lights on the Christmas tree toward the end really close to a chartreuse & Pepto-Bismol pink or did the camera distort what was green & red? If they are the more pastel, garish colors, is that because they used different types of tree lights back 83 years prior to the filming of this scene?
All Creatures Great and Small is my all time favourite television show. I live in Australia and as yet we have not seen Series 3 and 4
Hopefully it will be shown on our ABC
Thank you for the pleasure this show gives so many people.
Sincerely
Chris
I was prepared to deeply dislike this incarnation. I was wrong. There's more to to say that wasn't in the original books and series. I am profoundly moved by this incarnation.
I sense some sort of relationship. Hope I'm not wrong.
My favourite program.
Kinda wonder how Tristan will be when he returns from Military service...Will he come back with a bride in tow..Will he still want to be a Veterinarian like his big brother.
Kinda wondered why they never had a romance...They know and understand each other so well...
Mrs Hall(not the real one)must have doubles running around everywhere,she's the house keeper not the mother.😂
Lol! Surviving Siegfried!
Yeeeess! I love these two. Now, may I request a video of series 2?
it is on it's way
@@EA-il7gw great! You're the best!
Love the series but the original one was my favorite, especially Robert Hardy who in real life was a local of this area and he rode horses across the countryside. I wonder if this series will go on as long as the old one did, I believe there were 7 series and several specials. One positive thing about the new series is they gave "Helen" a more interesting role. The original Helen, Carol Drinkwater, left the series and had to be replaced as she said she got bored. There should be more series like these.
I do love that all the characters including Helen have interesting roles.
I Loved Robert Hardy I'm watching all the series now on Drama everyday .It was such a total waste of a lovely Man when I read he had taken his own life You were so lucky he lived in your area .This program is very nice but Robert was the Best just thought he was amazing .
Not a patch on the original. Peter Davidson as Tristan on his own
is impossible to replicate.
Mrs. Hall is like the cousin of Mary Poppins. They have the same blood running through them. ❤️
This is NOTHING like James Harriet's books ,which I read over and over
I completely agree. The first TV series was much closer to the stories, and truer to the original books in characters and atmosphere.
It doesn’t take away from this series for me. I love it.
Simon West played Prince Caspian on BBC Chronicles of Narnia 1990.
Could they get together? What was their real relationship? With all the versions confused, was the dog walking guy real?
I hope they get together. In the older tv version from 1978-1990, Siegfried get together with Caroline Fisher. The real life Siegfried Farnons second wife was called Audrey. But I believe she was not his housekeeper. I don't know if Mr Hammond is based on a real person or fictional.
@@EA-il7gw I hope they get together romantically as Siegfried has met his match in the younger Mrs Hall! I will have to read the books to discover...
I’ve read the books several times. Mrs Hall was only mentioned in passing - never great stretches of dialogue as this new series shows. The original series of ACG&S made an agreement with Alf Wight (the true James Herriot and the author of the books) that they would stick to his books and only film stories from his books. This new series seems to be taking greater liberties. I like the new Mrs Hall (the original actress was also exceptional) but we have to suspend our hope for an accurate portrayal of the books.
@@WBCRO Too right, Wendy. Thanks for your informative post. The original actress I miss the most is Margaretta Scott as Mrs Pamphrey. A true original, genuinely eccentric, and such fun. The late Rigg and current Hodge, though fine actresses, don't seem to understand the character.
Meh. I think they're just good friends.
I've read all the books and the relationship they portray here is pure fiction. It makes for good viewing but there was no sexual tension between the two in real life.
I don't see their relationship as having sexual tension at all. All the people who are posting about it here are just projecting what the want it to be. Their relationship is great as is.
There is absolutely no sexual tension
There may be something wrong with the rest of us, but I do not feel sexual tension between these two at all. They are more like siblings. She is more like the sister in between the two brothers that never was. I think he would rue losing her to her love interest because he has come to depend upon her in a familial way, but not spousal manner.
There was no tension between them in real life because Mrs Hall never existed. She was invented for the books. There never was a housekeeper at the practice.
true
Anna Madeley is outstanding...far and away the most believable in the show...makes the other "actors" look lame
What ever happened to Mrs Hall's husband?
In the original series, the widowed Mrs. Hall was going to marry another guy just as Siegfried and James were leaving to join the Royal Air Force at the start of WW II.
When the series resumed several years later, they all paid tribute to Mrs. Hall, who had apparently died while they were serving in the military.
Sadly, actress Mary Hignet, who portrayed the Rock of Gibraltar-like Mrs. Hall, died after undergoing surgery during the show’s hiatus. She was greatly missed on the show.
ok
The house was big rambling and old.nothing like what it is on tv
Their relationship is like brother and sister.
I think Mrs. Hall and Diana should have been cast opposite. Mrs. Hall is too young and Diana too old.
I'll give them something for effort, but for my money the old series is much better
I like the new series. But it helps to not compare it with the well loved books
I think this was made with American 💵 in mind. American audiences never really ‘get’ British characterizations, or period sensibilities, or actual historical culture.
Apparently, you don't really "get" Americans. By the way, which Americans are you speaking of? There are so many to choose from.@@createone100
I'm curious if this is a collection of run-throughs or rehearsals? I'm asking because the actors in these scenes don't appear to be acting much. I mean, there's not much energy.....everything is flat, the pacing is making me drowsy. So, I'm guessing they're conserving their dynamism for an actual take?
I have read the series since childhood. This is far from Herriott's writings. Very disappointing.
I have to agree. The actors seem very talented but this is just not for me. Absolutely none of this is in the book. It is made up out of whole cloth, and it needs to be remembered that while these were fictional characters, they were fictional characters based on real people. Not for me.
I could never stand this version of the TV series. They made it into a soap opera and everything is wrong. The original series with Robert Hardy was brilliant and true to the feeling of the books. This is just something for people who've never read them or seen the original adaptation and just come across a show.
I agree with your assessment, but I still watch the series, albeit without the same anticipation and delight with which I watched the original series. There is no substitute for reading the books.
you are right the book is much driffrent.than the movie.
2 minutes and not anything like the book...
Another great production from the Brits! I LOVE the show and purchased all three seasons and can’t wait for the fourth. Can’t get TV here in the US like this. Back in the 70’s and 80’s we had great TV but it’s all gone to hell now
For hevens sake, just read the books . You will laugh and cry.
i can't stand this series - I don't know where it comes from but nothing close to reality, can't hold a candle to the orignal 70s series.
🙄🙄🙄🙄
Both of Wight's two children are on the set advising the actors and writers constantly.
@@gailshmail3420 Well somebody's not listening to them b/c it is dystopic and truly horrific, right down to the opening sequence and credits - what is that????
This is a beautiful story. True to the book or not doesn’t bother me. The story has just been updated a little bit, that’s all. I love the gentle unfolding of a budding romance that pulls you in and makes you want to shout, “Come on Siegfried and Mrs Hall! When are you going to wake up and realize you’ve fallen in love?
@@shirleyjones3252 You see, that is the modern sensibility the creators have invented for this series. It is all Disney-ish and that annoys those of us who have read the original stories.
NO relation to the books. No thanks.
Not as good as the orignal.
Personally I think it’s better. Samuel West is brilliant
this i the worse thing they could do to herriots book. this is not all creatures great and small of james herriots books/ it is an insult James herriot would turn over in his grave if he saw this