All Creatures Great & Small Returns to UK Screens on Thursday 15th September 2022

in Thirsk in Yorkshire Dales

Series 3 of All Creatures Great and Small will be shown on Channel 5 from Thursday 15th 2022 at 9pm in the UK. The series will also be available to stream weekly on My5.


In the US

For US viewers, All Creatures Great and Small Season 3 will premiere on Sunday, January 8, 2023, 9/8c on MASTERPIECE on PBS.

If you want to see it first, why not come to Yorkshire?


Season 3

The Trailer

The story

James Alfred Wight OBE FRCVS was a veterinary surgeon who graduated from Glasgow Veterinary College at the age of 23. He headed to a veterinary practice in Thirsk, Yorkshire, in 1940 where he fell in love with the Dales and the woman he would marry, Joan Danbury. Wight later wrote stories based on his own adventures as a young country vet, under the pen name James Herriot, quickly becoming one of Britain’s best-loved authors.

James Herriot (Nicholas Ralph) & Helen Alderson (Rachel Shenton)

Series three begins in spring 1939. Some big changes are happening at Skeldale and everyone has to learn how to adjust. James enters into a new stage of his life with Helen and at the practice, where Tristan is now also a qualified vet. After being made joint business partner by Siegfried, James pushes to take on more responsibility via the Ministry of Agriculture’s new bovine TB testing scheme, but its unexpected challenges risk pushing him to breaking point. As a potential Second World War looms, all of our Skeldale family have to consider their purpose in Darrowby and beyond.

All Creatures Great and Small: Series 3 – Episode 1 (Behind The Scenes), Plate pictures in Skeldale House

Nicholas Ralph is back as young vet James Herriot, and Samuel West as his mercurial mentor Siegfried Farnon. Anna Madeley returns as the matriarch of Skeldale House, Mrs Hall, whilst Callum Woodhouse is Siegfried’s slowly maturing brother Tristan. Rachel Shenton returns as local farmer Helen Alderson. A characterful ensemble of farmers, animals and townsfolk living in the Yorkshire Dales in the 1930s will also return.


Stay in the real Skeldale House

The frontage from the the original series is actually called Skeldale House and you can stay there, in luxury, thanks for the refurbishment efforts of Maison Parfaite.


Buy the books

All Creatures Great and Small is a timeless classic that continues to be much loved by generations of readers. Never out of print, the books have become a global cultural phenomenon with devoted fans around the world.

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