Two iterations of the same man are both beset by the same righteous world-weariness, one that would have resonated just as clearly four decades ago as it does today. But in Siegfried’s awareness of the traumas of war, the two series do feature remarkable echoes. To call the new series a remake of the prior one would be inapt, as both take their own liberties in adapting Herriot’s books. But they first became staples of the TV landscape in 1978, when the BBC premiered the first serialized adaptation of All Creatures Great and Small. The series centers on veterinary surgeon James (Nicholas Ralph), who toils under the watchful eye of the persnickety Siegfried Farnon (Samuel West), whom he struggles to please - though not as much as Siegfried’s layabout brother, Tristan (Callum Woodhouse), does.Īll of these figures are familiar to readers of Herriot’s books. The show, adapted from the internationally bestselling series of memoirs by veterinary surgeon Alf Wight, who wrote under the pen name James Herriot, has thus far been situated squarely within the late 1930s in the sleepy English farming community of Darrowby, a fictionalized corner of the Yorkshire Dales where 21st-century viewers might burrow away for an hour a week and let their troubles be replaced by gentle tales of rural animal care. This week’s episode of All Creatures Great and Small - the third episode of the third season, entitled “Surviving Siegfried” - offered something rare for this series: flashbacks.
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