Demobbed from the army, James Herriot returns to Yorkshire and his day-to-day dramas of a country veterinary practice.
21-12-2024
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Siegfried discovers that a gift given in good faith can deal out death. James discovers that dealing out death can accidentally be the gift to life.
07-12-2024
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James returns to Angus Grier and, to his shame and Grier's pleasure, is coerced into giving the wrong treatment. Grier's triumph is short-lived as James discovers his guilty sec ...
30-11-2024
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What can a country vet do when a herd is struck by a disease for which there is no cure - especially when a man's life savings are at risk?
30-11-2024
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Richard Carmody, a superior student, accompanies James on his rounds to learn, but it becomes clear that there is very little that he doesn't know.
16-11-2024
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Some farmers like to do their own vetting, but James discovers that sometimes the vet can cure the farmer.
16-11-2024
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The Dalby family fortunes dwindle even more until, almost by accident, James stumbles across the reason for the herd's illness.
09-11-2024
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James's luck changes for the better in his romance with Helen, but for the Dalby family there seems to be no turning of the tide.
09-11-2024
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James makes a date with Helen, without Tristan's help. The practice loses a customer, with Tristan's help. Siegfried stops smoking, which doesn't help anyone.
02-11-2024
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The practice in Darrowby goes from strength to strength - unlike James's private life. Tristan decides to remedy matters and arranges a double blind date.
02-11-2024
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Siegfried wins a major victory and Tristan has to deal with pigs in more ways than one. James discovers that he has a rival.
26-10-2024
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James seems to be falling into the routine of being a country vet, but the peace is shattered when Siegfried employs a secretary and James meets Helen Alderson.
26-10-2024
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The result of the post-mortem is known and James finds that while a vet's life is not altogether enviable, a dog's life might well be.
19-10-2024
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Newly qualified, James Herriot arrives in the Yorkshire town of Darrowby to be interviewed for his first job. It's 1936, and work is hard enough to find, but his prospective emp ...
19-10-2024
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When Tristan discovers that the attractive new schoolmistress is part of the bell-ringing team, he decides to try his hand at campanology. Meanwhile, the brothers fall out over ...
06-12-2020
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