Why All Creatures Great and Small remains classic Yorkshire TV for the ages – The Yorkshire Post says

Channel Five’s new series, in which Grassington replaces Askrigg as the fictional town of Darrowby, is testament to the enduring appeal of the original All Creatures which epitomised the very best of BBC light entertainment.

It’s also a nod to Alf Wight, the Thirsk vet, whose chronicles inspired James Herriot, the fictional TV and literary phenomenon now played by Nicholas Ralph who heads an all-star cast for a new generation.

Even performers as accomplished as Samuel West, son of national treasures Timothy West and Prunella Scales, are in awe of the show’s past and legacy. He says that he “can’t help thinking” about the iconic Robert Hardy who played the original Siegfried Farnon.

But there’s one certainty ahead of the verdict of viewers – such TV ‘creature comforts’ are a shop window like no other for Yorkshire’s countryside.

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