(light piano theme) - [Narrator] "All Creatures Great and Small" on MASTERPICE has lovingly captivated readers, viewers and animal lovers for the past half century.

The timeless stories of James Herriot and his fascinating life as a veterinarian in the picturesque English countryside continue to enchant us with humor, romance and kindness.

(orchestral music) - I love you, James Herriot.

(gentle oboe music) (roaring bonfire) - I love you too.

(oboe theme crescendos) - [Narrator] Season 6 of "All Creatures Great and Small" starts with a three year time jump to 1945 as our characters experience the end of World War II and look forward to the future with optimism, hope and excitement.

In today's special, we'll hear from the cast and meet many of the charming new characters and animals of Season 6.

(uptempo orchestral music) We'll spend some time with actor Nicholas Ralph, also known as James Herriot, at a Yorkshire Dales dry stone wall building competition.

Throughout this special we'll revisit some of our favorite moments from Season 6.

(gentle music) - Why have you only got one shoe?

- Bridge.

(soft music) - Nothing one of your restorative breakfasts couldn't fix, Mrs.

Hall.

- [Narrator] Join us as we spend some time with James, Helen, Siegfried, Tristan, Mrs.

Hall and Tristan's new love interest, Charlotte.

We'll take a behind the scenes look with the cast and creators in this special presentation, "All Creatures Great and Small, Chapter 6."

(music theme fades) - [James] The flocks of sheep graze these hills for hundreds of years and the sheep, they know to stay in the same place.

- Away!

(bleating and soft music) - - [James] They know where they belong, it's in their bones, passed from one generation to the next.

- [Nicholas] Playing James, you get to play so many different things.

Like the life of a veterinarian I guess, every day is so different, there's so much variety and it's wonderful.

And this year is no different for James, it's another absolute rollercoaster.

- [Siegfried] To be early is to be on time, to be on time is to be late.

- Cup of tea.

- Please.

- [Siegfried] Out of the question, our work appointments call onwards to work we go.

- [Rachel] The themes that "All Creatures" encompasses don't have a sell-by date.

They are always going to feel important.

- I know you're not my mum, not really.

(emotional orchestral swell) But you are... you are.

(music fades) - [Anna] It's funny, it's moving, it's very truthful because it's characters that people have been able to spend time with and go on the journey with.

- It's amazing getting to just be these characters for so long and to spend so much time in their shoes.

- You've met my family lots of times, when am I going to meet yours?

- Look you've met Siegfried.

- Yes, and if that hasn't put me off what will?

(Tristan chuckles) - [Nicholas] We pick up this season just over three years later, so we're spring of 1945.

I was really excited by the time jump.

So you know as much as for the viewer at home it was a surprise for us as well to get the first script.

And like, "Wow Mrs.

H., she's in Sunderland and we're at Heston and where's Siegfried and Tristan?

We have those questions like the viewers do.

(violin music) - Jimmy!

- [Jimmy] Dad!

- What are you doing out so early?

- Flying my plane.

Mum's making breakfast with Rosie.

- Quite right too.

Shall we finish your patrol together and then go inside and fill up our tummies?

- [Anna] As an actor you want to know what's happened all through that time and imagine what that's done and then imagine what meeting up again is going to be like on the other side of that.

(music swells) - [Siegfried] Mrs.

Hall, what on earth?

- Mr.

Farnon.

- [Siegfried] What are you doing here?

- I were in the pantry.

- All this time?

- No, I just arrived.

- [Siegfried] Ah, that does make more sense.

I was joking.

- [Samuel] To move to a time when the piece arrives means that you can put your characters into new situations.

- [Dorothy] Right foot forward.

Eye on the target.

(gentle music) I'm not the target, am I?

(music) Don't think about it too much.

(gentle music) (thud) Yes!

Very impressive, Siegfried.

- [Anna] There are lots of different reasons in people's lives why the show has touched them and, and that's really special to hear.

- [James] Tricki is as much a part of this family as anyone and so are you.

(oboe theme) (background chatter) - You're quite the talented writer.

Perhaps you should write some stories about him.

(James chuckles) - [Samuel] Getting back to it's always really easy.

Everybody knows what show they're in, everybody loves the books.

It's like you're in step with yourself.

It's really good.

- [Siegfried] I'll give you money if you can hit your father.

- [James] Don't touch us.

- Ahhh!

- [Mrs.

Hall] Stop it.

(music swells and fades) - [Narrator] One of the most unique aspects of Season Six is the three year time jump that our characters experience during episode one.

- [Newscaster] This evening the Ministry of Information has confirmed that an official statement declaring the end of the war will be made symbol-- (eruption of cheers) - [Samuel] At the beginning of Series Six it's three years later so the war is now very nearly over.

- Wouldn't that be nice to (thud) gather folk together again?

Not to be strong or brave but... but to laugh and celebrate and do the kind of things we used to do.

- We kick off with a much more grounded James.

He's a father now to not only one but two children.

- [Helen] Come on Rosie.

- [James] Can we take the baby to see the pony?

Come on Jimmy lad.

Let's go.

- It was funny doing the time jump because we normally carry straight on so there might be a passage of a few months but this time we've all been through some years of the war and we're coming to a different place.

- I didn't know you were back today.

- I told Siegfried last week.

He must have forgot that he was picking me up from the station.

- No surprises there.

- In this interim time things have changed at Skeldale.

Mrs.

Hall has left.

Siegfried has, uh... become a much more trying challenging character than he ever has been before.

- Me, distracted?

You're the one that keeps forgetting everything.

- Completely untrue.

- It can't go on.

The wheels have well and truly come off the wagon.

- There is no bloody wagon.

(bird chirps) And even if there were the wheels would be firmly on.

- Any attempt that Siegfried has to hold it all together is failing.

We find him face down on a sofa and for some reason there's a miniature horse in the dining room.

- [Jimmy] Dad!

- [Siegfried] Unh...oh, ow.

- [Jimmy] There's a horse!

(horse snorts) - Things are not running as smoothly as they used to be.

The practice is kind of losing business.

The documents and the, the letters and the bills they're piling up.

The office, it looks like a grenade's gone off in there.

- [Rachel] Things are going a little AWOL at Skeldale House.

Siegfried's pretty difficult to manage so in the interim period between seasons we've seen Helen and the children move to Heston Grange.

(muddy footsteps) (footsteps continue) (giggling) - [Helen] Dad, are them your boots?

- [Jimmy] Granddad said it were the boots make the farmer.

- [Nicholas] Mrs.

H has left Skeldale to go an- and care for her son who has survived but i- is injured.

- Glad to see you back in one piece.

- I left a few bits behind but I'm right now.

Thanks to Ma.

- Oh, he keeps saying that.

(spoon clinks) I think he's fed up with me fussing over him.

- [Anna] Edward survived his ship going down but out of that difficult time comes, comes a lot of joy.

Edward meets a lovely lady called Betty and they have quite a whirlwind romance.

Have a baby and Mrs.

Hall's over the moon to have Mary and, uh, Betty join the family.

- We should get her and Mary together.

- Oh, I'd like that.

(Helen laughs) (cup clinks) I have missed you all.

- [Callum] Tristan has done some more time away in Italy and he's taken on a lot more responsibility.

- I thought you could use a moment to yourself after that service.

- I take it in my stride, you know me.

- Well no need to rush straight back in.

Your brother and I have it in hand.

- [Tristan] But I'm fine.

Where do you need me?

- [Samuel] It's annoying when he comes back and he's been promoted.

It's annoying when there are two Captain Farnons.

(quirky music) You know I thought I was the only one.

- They made you a Captain.

- Field promotion.

- [James] Careful, Siegfried.

He'll outrank you soon.

- [Mrs.

Hall] Why didn't you tell us?

- [Tristan] Oh, you know me Mrs H. Never one to brag.

I know how insecure it makes my brother.

- Absolute balls.

- [Tristan] I rest my case.

- [Nicholas] We had done quite a few years in the war and I just felt like it would be real revitalizing just to get back to some of those wonderful themes and storylines that "All Creatures" really is about.

- [Jimmy] If the war is really over will things be different now?

- [James] Well, when you're here in the Dales it might not look like it.

The Dales is the Dales, isn't it?

- [Jimmy] Mm hm.

But I promise you they will.

- [Callum] This show isn't a war show it's a show about relationships and the sort of overarching effect that has on a community.

So, whilst it was amazing to have some series in wartime and to see the effect that that had we did want to get back to what the show is really about which is people and doing nice things for animals.

- [James] He's made an excellent recovery and more importantly he looks very stylish in this.

- Mmmm.

Best way to stop him getting out the stitches.

(James chuckles) And yes it does suit him.

- [Samuel] Season Six is deliberately spread across a joyous period between VE Day, victory in Europe and VJ Day victory over Japan and the final surrender.

- [Newscaster] Japan has today surrendered.

(pensive music) The last of our enemies is laid low.

(tense music continues) - [Samuel] The war becomes the biggest character.

It becomes the biggest antagonist and the trouble is that when you're in a war all you can think about is that it's never going to end and that's really good and interesting but it's also got to pass in order for the characters to move on.

(soft orchestral music) - [Siegfried] All those years of uncertainty never knowing if a bomb would drop on our heads or we'd be invaded any moment, we made it through.

- This season is about everybody realizing how important that sense of home is to them and that it's something that they all need.

- [Samuel] There's a huge relief that the war is over and the house is beginning to feel a little bit like it was before.

(music swells) - Shall we?

(gentle orchestral music) - [Mrs.

Hall] Oh, it's good to be back.

- [Siegfried] It's good to have you back.

(crowd noise) (distant fireworks) (Helen and James laugh) (orchestral music) - [Siegfried] Just wait till you see how far behind we are with the laundry.

(gentle music) - [Narrator] As time weaves its way forward, families blossom and expand.

Now, let's take a look at the growing Herriot family.

- Aye, what are you up to?

- Just driving my car.

- Just driving your car on Daddy.

- [Nicholas] The Herriots made the choice to go back to Heston Grange and start raising the kids there and there they've got all this open space, they've got the animals, a wonderful place for the kids to grow up.

- You're nearly as tall as me.

- [Helen] Audrey.

- Hello.

- Do you want to play marbles?

- I'd love to.

You go and set them up, I'll be with you in two ticks.

- [Rachel] They're now a family of four, little Rosie's arrived.

(music swells) (child cries) - [Jenny] I've got her.

What's up, Rosie?

- [Helen] Shall I take her, Jenny?

- [Jenny] She's fine here with her auntie.

- [Nicholas] Chatting to Alf White, the real James Herriot's son and daughter, Rosie and Jim was great.

- [Rachel] I communicate with Rosie frequently.

She sent over the-- at this point was a very sort of fun point in the kids lives and, and Helen was always at the forefront of the fun.

James was pretty busy as a vet now because he was a partner in the practice so it was mainly all on Helen with the two children and it was a sort of struggle and a juggle as parenting is so I wanted to bring the chaos to everything.

- Hello.

(kissing sounds) - Are you ready?

(Mrs.

Hall laughs) - Here you go, I think you're winning.

- Thank you.

- [Nicholas] Chatting to Alf White's real kids, Jim and Rosie.

Jim would come out and Rosie would come out and he'd say Jimmy can you get me this from the car and before he'd even said the full sentence Jimmy's off like a shot striding through in his little welly boots to get the thing for Dad.

- [Tom] You say the calf could be anywhere?

- [Richard] Aye, we've looked over every field up here.

- [Tom] Mm, we'd better hurry then.

- Aye.

- [Jimmy] Grandad.

- Yes, son?

- If I were missing I know who'd find me.

- [Richard] Who's that?

- Mum.

(distant cows mooing) Why don't we let the cow do the looking?

(thoughtful music) - Ah.

- Come on.

- [Nicholas] We asked Rosie did they have pet names for another, she said not really, but one thing was any time James or Helen left they would always kiss.

You know, just little details like that that we've been able to incorporate into the show and I think that those are just priceless you know those little details those little specificities just make it all the more richer.

- I could drive up at lunch.

Well, Jenny'll have the kids then.

- [Helen] I will only get 20 minutes.

- 20 minutes with you?

Worth it every time.

- All right.

Charmer.

- [Nicholas] We very much kick off this season seeing that split James between father, parenthood, Heston Grange and business partner practice.

- What can I do Dad?

- You help your granddad.

- [Jimmy] Where are you going?

- [James] For reinforcements.

- Wilco.

Wait for me Granddad.

- [Neil] They're living at Heston Grange and living with Helen's dad which is deeply problematic for James.

(mysterious music) - Well I've not walked it in.

- Well it's not me.

So unless bloody cows are wearing these size 10s and treading it in, it's you.

- [Rachel] We've seen her and James's relationship mature over the years and now she's sort of a mum of two.

She's busier than she's ever been, she's juggling more than she ever has and it's just about practicality, it's about getting through the day.

It's incredibly relatable.

She's sort of too busy to get caught up in any of the small stuff.

- [James] I thought we were having breakfast together.

- [Helen] Look, I've kept him waiting.

James, you did sleep in late.

- [James] Aye, I got in after three.

- [Jimmy] Daddy.

- Oh it's truly magnificent driving there, Jim.

- [Helen] No, no, no...don't... don't eat that Rosie.

- [Nicholas] Little Jimmy's four and a half years old and at the age now where he's ready to come out and start assisting his dad with his little instruments in his little bag.

- [James] Don't you worry you haven't just got Sherlock Holmes to investigate today.

You've got Watson, too.

- [Jimmy] Watson ready for duty.

(gentle music) - [Nicholas] I think it's wonderful for James to be on call and have his kids with him.

(orchestral swell) - [Richard] Thank the Lord for Herriot and son.

(James chuckles) - Particularly the son.

(James laughs) (gentle music) - [Nicholas] One of the things that's lovely about the books he was an older man when he was writing the books but he wrote them in the living room with his family in the evening, so that environment and love between them all and the family has seeped into the books because they spill over with that sort of sentiment and tone and spirit.

- I want to give you the best life I can.

(romantic music) - I've got the best life, right now in this moment.

(romantic music continues) Best life we could have.

(music swells) - [Narrator] We started this season with our favorite housekeeper living far away from Skeldale House but naturally our characters and all of us eagerly awaited Mrs.

Hall's return.

(music swells) (door opens) - Oh my goodness.

- Mrs.

H... - [Mrs.

Hall] - James.

(music) (distant laughter) - [Anna] We now find ourselves in 1945 where Mrs.

Hall has been up in Sunderland with Edward who's home married with a little baby.

- [James] Edward.

Good to see you again.

- And you.

Here she is.

Hello.

My little angel.

(Edward chuckles) - [Samuel] Mrs Hall's son Edward has started a family and she's moved out to see them and to spend more time with them and that's lovely but it's all happening away from Skeldale House and away from me.

- [Siegfried] Where have they gone?

- [Tristan] Well they have to be somewhere.

You must have put them down.

- So where the hell are they?

- You just had them.

- Which means somebody must have moved them.

- [James] What's going on?

- Ahh, keys.

- Why can't anything just stay in one place?

Is that too much to ask?

It's maddening.

- [Callum] I think it was a very interesting decision to have Mrs.

Hall you know away, looking after her son but we needed her back.

- Helen doesn't think we should bother her.

She's really settled there.

- It's up to you.

You're the one stuck here with him.

- [Nicholas] James makes a decision to try and get Mrs.

H to come back to Skeldale House and that comes from James and he kind of goes against what Helen has said and what other people have said and thought because he really has conviction with this and, and thinks it's the right thing to do.

- Well the thing is, Siegfried... - The old goat's lost his marbles, he's gone totally berserk.

- Tris.

- The man's a menace.

Worse than when he was when you first met him.

- Worse?

- I thought we weren't going to lay it on too thick.

- [Tristan] He needs help.

We need help.

Yours specifically.

- Not that we want to put you under any pressure.

- No, of course not but we would be completely lost without you.

- [Anna] They're hoping that she can come and right the ship at home which she comes and does and her nurturing skills come into the ready again.

(Anna chuckles) - Oh, don't worry about that.

- No, sorry.

(paper shuffling) It'll drive me bananas.

(paper shuffling) - [Tristan] Oh, Mrs.

H.

- Hello, Tris.

- [Anna] Mrs.

Hall and Mr.

Farnon haven't seen each other for a while so it's quite a shock to them both I think coming back together and, and seeing each other again and also the circumstances in which Mrs.

Hall comes back are a bit of a surprise for Mr.

Farnon.

- [Siegfried] I didn't know you were coming.

- [Mrs.

Hall] Well, neither did I till a few days ago.

-It's good to see you again.

- You, too.

- [Anna] There's a lot to negotiate and a lot of change and I think on the one hand it's wonderful to see each other again and on the other hand there's a lot of feeling about having had that much time away and I don't think Mr.

Farnon has liked it very much.

- He mentioned there'd been some problems.

- Problems?

Is that why you're here?

Is that what I am to you?

A problem to be solved?

- No, I w-, I wouldn't put it quite like that.

(tense music) - It's later than I thought.

- Siegfried is very bad at admitting that he cares for people and he pushes people away.

- She left us!

What was I supposed to do?

Pretend to be happy?

Pretend to be fine?

- If you keep pushing people away eventually they will go away.

(crickets and bird chirps) - Well, thanks a lot, that's very bloody incisive.

- [Narrator] At the end of the first episode of Season Six, Mrs.

Hall decides to leave Skeldale House and she boards a train back to Sunderland.

(soft music) - Sorry love, but it's time.

(crackling fire) Dash, come on.

Don't make this any harder than it already is.

Come on now.

(Mrs.

Hall sniffles) - [Narrator] However, once Siegfried learns that Mrs.

Hall has left for the train station, he realizes that he has made a terrible mistake.

- [Siegfried] It's all my fault.

I drove her away.

- There's still time.

- [Samuel] He won't admit to himself how much he needs her.

He doesn't like being vulnerable and he's terrified of being abandoned.

- Mrs.

Hall!

(dramatic music) (loud train noise) (music builds) (train entering station) - [Samuel] In the aftermath of the war, all bets are off.

You say things that you've been sitting on for a long time and he's on firmer ground when he brings himself to say how much he cares about her.

(dramatic music builds) - [Siegfried] Mrs.

Hall!

Audrey!

(sustained orchestral note) - Mr.

Farnon, there really is no need.

- [Siegfried] We tried to find a replacement, it could never work.

No one could ever work.

- Because they'd never put up with your nonsense.

- [Siegfried] Because they're not you.

(dramatic music) I understand you might have to live your life if that's not here with us.

(music continues) (train station chatter) Well, that's up to you.

(distant train station chatter) But you should know that we would like it to be.

(piano theme music) - [Narrator] When we return, we'll continue our look back at Season 6 of "All Creatures Great and Small."

We'll take a look at new animals and love interests.

And we'll spend some time with Nicholas Ralph, who plays James Herriot as he visits a dry stone wall building competition.

You won't want to miss that and much more in "All Creatures Great and Small, Chapter 6."

(piano theme fades out) - [Narrator] Welcome back to "All Creatures Great and Small, Chapter 6."

Today we're taking a look at everything we love about Season 6.

Coming up, we'll take a look at Tristan's new love interest and travel with Nicholas Ralph to a dry stone wall building competition.

(page turning) But first, let's take a look at the changing times of post-war England.

(whoosh sound) (music fades) - As I suspected, it's an infection.

- Hm?

- Not to worry, antibiotics will clear it up.

Incredible things.

Don't know how we got by without them.

- [Samuel] 1945 was such a brilliant year for this country in terms of, you know, what we built in the post-war consensus.

We have a whole new raft of things available to the vets.

- [James] Remember I was talking to you about bringing in some modern equipment.

- What have I done with the other one?

- An- and we discussed X-ray machines.

- [Siegfried] Oh, yes, marvelous things.

- Well, an opportunity has arisen.

- Where on God's Earth is it?

- And I felt it too good to refuse.

- Aha!

- I'll be having it delivered this week.

(Siegfried sputters) - Which one of you is the culprit?

(Dash pants) (Jess whines) - We see James just trying his best to make the practice a successful place and seeing how they can move things forward within the veterinary side of things as well, whether that's through medicine or instruments.

- We'll see him again in a few days.

What the hell is that?

- [James] An X-ray machine.

- [Neil] There's an episode in which James buys an X-ray machine and that causes new kinds of problems for the practice.

(loud click) (distant radio music) - [Tristan] No.

(clunk sound) (snap and explosive pop) (music blast then static) - [Siegfried] Herriot!

- [Nicholas] James is trying to run a successful practice, a successful business with this partner who is doing his best to not make that happen.

- It is rather a good investment, you know.

- Well, I can't say, since I can't see it in action.

- Hmm.

(loud inhalation) Maybe we could try it on the inside of your head.

Find out what actually happens in there.

- [Rachel] My dad puts a phone in Heston Grange, which means James can now be with the family again, and that's a huge moment.

And something that we never thought Richard Alderson would do.

- [James] I know Helen and Jenny have been awfully busy.

You could try again later.

I certainly will be.

(phone ringing) There we go.

All those miles between us and them, and they're about to fall away.

Go on.

(phone ringing) (click sound) -Darrowby 7-6-3-2, how do?

- It also means that her dad's kind of moved the needle a little bit, which she never thought would happen, and he's maybe mellowing.

(sustained ironic note) Don't know if he is, but maybe.

- Yeah, it won't be able to ring.

- [James] Why?

- I've disconnected it.

- What?

- [Richard] Telephone.

It's- it's a bloody nuisance.

I haven't got time for all that carry-on.

- [James] What carry-on?

- Turns out my number's just one different from railway station.

- [James] Is that a problem?

- It is if you've got folk ringing all bloody day, asking for times of next train.

- [Narrator] Even Mrs.

Hall adapts to the changing times by taking a turn at driving the Vauxhall.

- [Mrs.

Hall] Right, I'm driving.

(door slams) - What?

No, Mrs.

Hall.

- Jimmy'll be all right with Tristan.

- I absolutely forbid-- (door slams) - Are we going or not?

(building oboe music) (car ignition) - Now, remember, this is not the Rover.

It needs to be handled with proper-- Whaaa!

(car accelerating quickly) - [Anna] This year Mrs.

Hall does some excellent driving, if I do say so myself, um, in the Vauxhall.

The Vauxhall is 92 years old.

(loud car idling) - What are you doing here?

- Drive!

(car accelerating noisily) - [Anna] I'm very grateful I can drive a manual car, but it's a lot of fun, and it looks like it's going very fast when it's in second gear, so that's great.

- [Siegfried] Did I mention we won't be able to pay you this week?

- Who cares!

(loud car driving) (Mrs.

Hall squeals with delight) (laughing) (laughing) (car skidding on dirt) - There's a new mood of optimism and hope among the people, and a post-war consensus that we must never do this again.

- It is an expensive piece of kit.

- [James] I know.

But the war is almost over.

The world has changed.

We need to change with it.

- I think we already have.

- [Narrator] Season 6 of "All Creatures" features a storyline about our characters building the iconic dry stone walls at Heston Grange, and recently we visited a dry stone wall competition.

The annual Nidderdale Festival showcases farmers and cultural traditions that are unique to the Yorkshire Dales.

Recently, Nicholas Ralph, who plays James Herriot, visited the festival and observed one of the most iconic events of the day, the dry stone wall building competition.

- So Roger, we don't have a fleet of builders here.

Wha- what's going on here?

- No.

There's a dry stone walling competition going on, so there's different classes, there's some amateurs and veterans.

- [Nicholas] Brilliant.

I mean, the dry stone wallings are so iconic to Yorkshire, aren't they?

- [Roger] 'tis.

- [Nicholas] They're everywhere.

We go halfway around the world-- - I think there's about 5,000 in the Yorkshire Dales, I think 5,000 miles.

- 5,000 miles of dry stone walling?

- [Roger] There's nothing like it in the world.

- And the dry stone wallings, they are hundreds of years old, this craft.

- It goes back, back to 1600s to 1800s.

So, to enclose it, to look after sheep and animals and things, they needed to make dry stone walls or fences and hedges and that, so that's why they became really popular.

- [James] I thought you wanted help with the wall?

- [Richard] Aye, not with the putting.

Sorting's all you're good for.

- Sorting?

- Big... - Small... - Middlings.

- Funny-shaped ones.

You start off sorting, then picking.

After three or four years, you get to the "putting."

- Aye, then you get to the putting.

- [James] Three or four years?

- [Nicholas] There's no cement here there's no, there's nothing else bar the rock.

But tell us a little bit about, because it's to do with big rocks, little rocks.

- Yeah, they start with the big ones and they'll say, and then they'll quietly go, and each course comes in a little bit.

12 inch.

- [Nicholas] They are sort of like that, kind of, ever so slightly as that.

- [Roger] Yeah, and the top stones really should span throughout the top, and then that's tried to stop water going in.

- Ah, right.

- Good luck, James.

- I think I can manage to pick up a few rocks.

- [Jenny] Mmm.

- [Richard] They're-- stones, they're not rocks you're picking up, they're stones.

- And the inside, is that little ones they put, they're kind of fillers, is it?

- Yeah, the worst ones, yeah, fillings.

And if you notice, they're all taking time in placing them.

- [Nicholas] Yeah.

- [Roger] If you try and cross your joints, you don't have a straight joint.

- [Nicholas] See that, yeah, you can even see in the pattern.

- [Helen] Rounded middling.

- Right, rounded... middle... Here we go, this one looks about right.

- Perfect.

- [ Richard] Are you kidding me?

It's probably in the craft of it we did a little bit this year in Series Six of "All Creatures," and James, the wide place, doing a little bit of dry stone.

- You're a little bit of, yeah.

- He stood there a little bit of dry stone walling, but it was hilarious because they, like this, they took down a bit of a farmer's wall.

And then some of the guys, two of the guys that do dry stone walling that work on the crew, they put it up for me, and then I had to come in and go, "Oh, is it all right, Helen, did I do a good job?"

It looks amazing, because they're professionals.

- Is it bad?

- [Helen] Mmm... - Oh, it's bad, isn't it?

- A few minor adjustments, it won't be terrible.

- And that's a bar just low enough for me to clear.

- Hmmm.

- The professionals, well, they had this up a lot quicker than - Should, hopefully, yeah.

They started at about 9 o'clock this morning, so, they'll come get finished.

- [Nicholas] Right, so a few hours in?

- [Roger] Yeah, yeah.

Should get finished 3, 4 o'clock.

- [Nicholas] It's great to see as well you've got all all generations doing it as well.

- [Roger] Yeah, yeah.

(hammers hitting rocks) - Roger, thanks very much.

- Well done.

- Cheers.

(gentle music) - [Richard] And James definitely did this wall, did he?

- Mmm.

(gentle music) - Do he want to do rest of 'em?

(Helen laughs) (gate squeaks) (whimsical music) In the wrong bloody job.

(whimsical music concludes) - [Narrator] Season Six is full of new experiences and new faces.

Now, let's take a look at Tristan's new love, Charlotte.

(soft music) - [Charlotte] Captain Farnon?

- Morning.

- Morning.

- [Charlotte] That is impressive.

You ask for one Captain Farnon and they provide a spare.

(Siegfried chuckles) - Administrative mix-up.

It's family practice.

- [Callum] Tristan does go on a bit of a journey.

He finds new love this series with Charlotte.

- I know stablehands that swear by singing to their horses.

Pilbrick's more of a sophisticate.

- Philbrick.

- Philbrick.

- [Callum] You couldn't have two characters from more different sort of sides of the spectrum in terms of class.

- [Charlotte] Thank you, Derek.

- Well, I could get used to this chauffeur business.

(gentle music) (door slam) Only problem, he wouldn't stop at The Drovers.

- [Charlotte] He was under strict instructions.

- [Callum] He's sort of going above and beyond to help and save her horse, who is very, very precious to her, because she's also spent time in the military with this particular horse.

- Sorry, Philbrick was at war?

- [Charlotte] In Sicily.

(gentle music) I was in the Auxiliary Territorial Service and he was abandoned by an Italian army unit, so we took him for our supply lines.

Such a dear boy, I retrained him as a riding horse.

(gentle music) - I- I was in Sicily.

(pensive music) - [Anna] The arrival of Charlotte Beauvoir is rather wonderful because they clearly click well and she has some understanding of his world.

And what it's like to come home from having been in this completely different environment.

- Isn't it strange, back in Sicily, the dust, the flies, the sun roasting you in your tent, all I could think about was England.

(distant thud) Now that I'm here.

(birds chirping) - Yes.

(soft music) - [Callum] Tristan saves this horse and it's better than any sort of chat up line he could ever come up with for any other love interest in any other season.

- These antibiotics should get him back on form.

- [Charlotte] You're sure?

- Yes, I'm sure.

(soft barn noises) - I can't tell you how it feels, Tristan.

(horse snuffle) Thank you so much.

(quiet barn noise) - No, humbug.

If we'd worked it out before your party, you wouldn't have had a ruined evening.

(kissing noise) (gentle shuffling in barn) - [Callum] The ideal woman for him wouldn't it be someone who he can bounce off with and have jokes with and just match that level of sort of wit that he's got, that razor sharp wit and that's exactly what Charlotte is.

- To what do I owe this honor?

- Ohhh... I come bearing feeble apologies and flimsy excuses.

- [Charlotte] You really know how to sweep a girl off her feet.

(Tristan chuckles) (kissing sound) - Do you want your father running me off the grounds with a pitchfork?

- Well, if you'd like me to stop.

- Ah, how painful can a pitchfork be?

(gentle music) - Tristan would need somebody who made him laugh.

That's the most important thing because laughter is so much part of the way he sees the world and deals with the world.

- I think we had a lucky escape.

Imagine the damage you could have done with a croquet mallet.

- I practiced.

- You didn't.

- I bloody practiced.

- That's so sweet.

- [Tristan] I was ready to lie convincingly about croquet.

- [Charlotte] Okay, Aunt Edna.

(Tristan laughs) - [Callum] They go on these interesting dates, these funny dates, and they're constantly bantering with each other and she doesn't care what her dad thinks and he doesn't care what his side of the family thinks and they just go together very, very well.

(music swells) - I wanted the world for her once.

Now, I just want her home.

And I want her happy.

(birds chirping) I like seeing her happy.

(gentle music) - I think coming back from the war, he's had a tough time.

So I think he's going to need someone who can be understanding about that and very kind.

- My concern is that I shall never quite be the same chap I was again.

(distant crowd noise) (distant crowd) (gentle music fades up) As sincerely as is possible to be, Tristan.

- Dearest Tristan, that's quite all right.

I like you now.

Always, Charlotte.

(gentle music) (gentle music) (bottles clinking) - [Callum] Their relationship just goes from strength to strength, really, over the course of the series.

He introduces her to his family, which I think he was very nervous about doing.

(Callum laughs) In case they embarrass him just by being themselves.

- Everybody, this is Charlotte.

Charlotte, everybody.

- [Siegfried] How wonderful to have you here!

Come in, come in.

Sit on the receipt.

It doesn't matter.

- [James] How do you do, Harriet?

Uh, no, wait.

Harriet's Monday's, which one is this?

- Jim!

- I'm joking.

(Charlotte laughs) I'm kidding.

- Can you make paper planes?

- Oh, I make fantastic paper planes.

- [Callum] They just really get on with each other.

They just really like each other.

It's just a very natural chemistry.

It's been a really, really sweet storyline.

(Big Band swing music playing on the radio) (gentle music) - [Narrator] One of our favorite aspects of "All Creatures" is the ever-growing relationships within the Alderson family.

(whoosh sound) (gentle music fading) - [James] Tell your sister I'm taking her to the flicks on Saturday night.

"The Picture of Dorian Gray."

- [Jenny] Well, she deserves a break.

But who's going to be looking after your children?

- Ah... I'm getting ahead of myself.

- I'll check me diary.

- [Nicholas] James and Helen have made the decision to go to Heston to be supported by Richard and Jenny, who do a wonderful job, especially Jenny.

- What have you got there?

- For the children.

(rummaging sounds) But might as well have 'em now.

No point in me hanging on to them.

- [Helen] Idn't that kind?

Excuse me, what did you say to your Auntie Jenny?

- Ta.

- [Jenny] You're very welcome.

- [Rachel] Every season Helen and Jenny go through something else and they grow up together and Helen's gone from being her sort of mother figure to her friend.

But this season brings something completely new.

We've unveiled another level of their relationship.

- Jenny's finally applied for nursing college.

- [James] When did this happen?

- [Helen] Sent the letter last week.

We think it were just the war holding her back.

- We'll have another Sister Rose, eh?

- [Neil] This season we see that Helen's sister, Jenny, uh, has a burning ambition to be a nurse.

(music swells) - You got in?

- I got in.

- She got in!

(relieved sighing and hugging) - She always probably knew that she'd fly the nest at some point and that she'd want to go and spread her wings but there's a really real moment where she's going to leave and she might not come back.

- [Helen] Jenny's not leaving home.

(quiet chewing noises) What?

Well, you're not, are you?

You're going to nursing college and then you're coming back.

- I haven't given it much thought.

(distant barnyard noises) - [Siegfried] Yes, you see, the fledgling spreads its wings and flies the nest and all you can do is hope it doesn't get plucked out of the air by some passing eagle.

Or worse, come back like my br-- Ow!

- You've done a lovely job with this cake, Helen.

- [Rachel] It also shines a light on her own life, I think.

She kind of looks back and goes, well, I did- I didn't get the opportunity to do that.

She became a sort of surrogate parent so young from losing her mum, so she never really got the opportunity to spread her wings and do what Jenny's doing.

So there's actually a bit of, I think, grief and nostalgia with that.

Although it's wonderful that she's got the opportunity and she's doing that, it's also a lot of other things and we get to explore that in this season, which is lovely.

- [Richard] I put far too much on your young shoulders, far too much.

(gentle piano music) - [Helen] You say it like Jenny was a burden.

She wasn't.

(gentle soft music) Far from it.

She were the reason I got up every morning.

(soft music) The reason I were able to live again.

- [Richard] Aye, you had plans and dreams of your own, though, didn't you?

It's not what you wanted.

- [Rachel] On a honeymoon, Helen said, this is the furthest I've ever been away from home.

She just hasn't had the opportunity.

So it brings up all that as well.

So it's really a tsunami of emotions for her in that little storyline where Jenny's about to leave.

- I don't know anything about it.

(emotional piano music) I don't know where anything is.

I don't know anyone.

- [Helen] It's what adventures are for, idn't it?

Discovering all them things.

(soft music) - You never got your adventure.

- That's incredibly difficult for Helen to get her head round and almost doesn't she doesn't want to.

I think she sort of fights against it for a bit until they have a lovely moment and they find a sweet spot.

And she realises that that's just the natural evolution.

- How about you come with me... to London?

- What?

- [Jenny] Just to settle me in.

- You don't need me.

- [Jenny] I want you to come.

It can be our adventure together.

(sensitive piano music) - It's all right by me, love.

(sustained emotional note) - [Rachel] There's a beautiful moment at the start of the series where she finds this quilt that she'd forgotten she had.

And it's sort of a huge thing with lots of different patches that generations of Alderson women have sort of sewn their little pocket on.

- Each patch represents a different moment in our lives.

- What's this one?

(shuffling) (soft music) - [Helen] Mum and Dad's wedding.

- [James] Ah.

(James chuckles) - [Rachel] There's one of her mom and there's a horse on there and it's like their little family unit.

And then one from their grandma.

- Me grandma sewed that one on.

(soft piano) - [James] Aww.

- [Helen] And then my mum did the last one for our Jenny Wren.

There.

- [Rachel] There's a wren and there's a sun.

And Richard says, "Ah, there you all are."

There's the- there's the family.

And Helen looks at it and kind of goes, "Oh, no... where am I?"

Because they'd always called Jenny, Jenny Wren.

And Richard Alderson sort of swallows back some emotion and says, "You're the sun."

- [Richard] They're two beautiful girls.

- [Helen] Are you seeing things?

Where am I?

It's just a wren.

(blanket moving along her leg) - [Richard] You're the sun.

(gentle music swells) - [Rachel] It made me so emotional because we hadn't rehearsed it and he took a moment and it was so subtle and swallowed it back.

I was a mess time and time again.

(soft music) - Jenny.

- All right?

- It's done.

(emotional orchestral music) - [Rachel] She gets to sort of add to this beautiful thing and gives it to Jenny in the end and says, "You need to add your patch."

And that's quite an emotional thing.

It's like it's a, a visual reference of the decades of time and such a beautiful thing to keep.

(music swells) - Over to you.

- Me?

- You're an Alderson girl, aren't you?

It's time to sew your little patch of the world.

(bittersweet music) What?

(music continues) (Jenny inhales deeply) - It's just... I don't quite know what that is yet.

- There's no rush.

(piano theme music) - [Narrator] When we return, we'll continue our look back at Season Six of "All Creatures Great and Small."

We'll take a look at all the new animals of the season and the cast's hopes for their characters in Season Seven.

You won't want to miss that and much more in "All Creatures Great and Small, Chapter Six."

- [Narrator] Welcome back to "All Creatures Great and Small, Chapter Six."

Today, we are taking a look at everything we love about Season Six.

Coming up, we'll take a look at all the new animals we meet this season and hear from the cast about their hopes for Season Seven.

(jaunty theme music) But first, let's examine Tristan's return from the war.

(whooshing sound) (theme music resolving) - [Woman] We owe you all so much.

You're all so brave.

- Thank you.

- [Anna] In terms of Tris coming home, there's the fear of, is he physically okay?

Is he mentally okay?

What's the toll the war is going to have taken on him?

- There's talk of being redeployed to India.

(crackling fire) - Scared?

- [Tristan] No, not a bit of it.

I'm excited at the prospect.

(poignant music) All right, somewhat scared.

- [Callum] Over the course of the series, it was made very clear to me that Tristan's seen some very harrowing things over there, but it's never explicitly sort of said at all what that was.

He's got this incredibly prestigious medal, which he's not telling anyone about, which could not be further from the type of character that we know Tristan to be from previous series.

- What did you expect?

Master strategist, fearless combatant, expert marksman.

I have it all.

I'm the soldier's soldier.

- Don- don't make light of it.

That's a real achievement.

(soft music) - Thank you.

- [Samuel] It turns out that it's not all hunky-dory, and there's a lot going on under the surface.

He's whole on the outside, but something inside is wrong.

- I returned from war once.

Anyway, I'm here if you're ever inclined to talk.

- Thanks.

- Tristan and I bond over a horse who is disturbed, scared, and it throws a switch in Tristan.

(dissonant unsettling noise) (horse braying) (hooves stomping) - [Callum] It gets brought out of him by a particularly sort of distressing visit to a farm, and it all comes spilling out to Siegfried.

- [Mrs.

Hall] It's clear to me that there are things you need to talk about.

Well... There's someone here you can talk to.

(shifting in the pew) Your brother.

- [Samuel] I think the moment where I do finally get him to talk about why he's a war hero is an extraordinarily important moment in our relationship, after which everything is different.

There's no going back.

- I got a medal because I managed to save a few chaps.

(emotional piano) (Tristan sniffles) But Billy wasn't one of them.

(soft music) He saved me, but I couldn't save him.

(sobbing breaths) - [Callum] Siegfried has gone through the exact same thing in World War I, and so there was probably no one better for him to talk to.

- No one wants it to be over more than me.

(sniffling) But if all it takes is some scared horse to wrench me back, then maybe it never will be.

(sobbing breath) In here.

(soft crying) (patting on shoulder) (Tristan sobs) - Shhhh... Shh, shhh.

- [Samuel] I think my main memory of that day, apart from Cal's beautiful performance, was of the crew and the respect and stillness and concentration that they brought to the day so that he could work, and I could listen.

- Your concern is much appreciated.

(door slamming) - You need to get back to your party.

- You sure?

(distant bird chirping) - We're all right here, I think.

- [Samuel] Getting him back and getting the shire horse calm, uh, again is a great bonding experience.

(uplifting music swells) (horse breathes heavily) - Shh, okay, you're soon to be well.

(Tristan sniffles) All is soon to be well.

(pizzicato string music) - [Narrator] No season of "All Creatures" would be complete without new animal adventures, and Season Six is no exception.

Let's take a look at the animals of Season Six.

(music sting) (quirky pizzicato strings) - Oh, what on earth?

(clattering of hooves and bells) If- if you want me to look at her, you'll have to help me catch her.

- Well, right you are.

- [Nicholas] - We see very much James the vet come back this year, so I get called out to all these wonderful different calls with various different animals, great or small.

- She doesn't appear to be pregnant.

- Well, that's not possible.

- [James] Well, I can state categorically from the position I'm in that it is.

- [Jimmy] Does this happen often?

- [Both] No.

- [Neil] We do try and make it as varied and interesting as possible in terms of the animals we have across the series, and in this season, there's one or two animals that we've not seen before in "All Creatures."

- [Bird] Silly ass.

(girls giggling) - Di- did he just say... - Yes.

And I'll tell you what, he says it like he means it.

- [Andy] We have a parrot in this one, and he's very unhappy because he's lost his owner.

What the writers do and the show does is try to kind of parallel the stories of the animals with the human world.

So Tristan's having a problem, the animal story will somehow kind of reflect their life and how they both work it out between the animals and their own relationships.

- George has been through a lot.

Truth is, it's going to take him some time to learn to love people again, (Bird squawks) no matter how much you love him.

(Bird pecking) - But we can keep trying, hmm?

(whimsical oboe) - [Rachel] We had a foal, and in real life, he's a teenager, so he can be a bit sort of angsty.

And I've never seen it come through in an animal so much, but he really was.

He was kind of cheeky, a bit bored at times.

He would try and get in the pockets of all the animal handlers and cast.

So that was probably one of my most favorite moments.

- [Helen] He came up with a name for her.

Florence.

(gentle music) After Florence Nightingale.

- It's perfect.

- [Nicholas] We have this wonderful story of the dog track, which comes from the books as well, which is a wonderful story.

(men chuckling) - James Herriot, I'm here about the... - Ah, veterinary!

Thank God for that!

Right, see you later, Stan.

Oh, I'm ever so grateful, Mr.

Herriot.

I really am.

You've got me out of a tight spot here, you have.

- [Nicholas] It was just a real event episode.

Where we built the whole set and everything, so it was just absolutely fabulous.

There were 20 dogs there and 100 extras.

(dramatic building music) (music continues) (yelling crowd in distance) (dramatic music crescendoes) - If you stood in the middle of the dog track and you looked around 360 degrees, there wasn't a single thing that you could see that wasn't from 1945.

- I've trained dogs all my life.

They are my life.

And I train winners when they come in.

It might not mean much to anyone else, but to me, it's everything.

- [Nicholas] I just worked recently with Danny Boy, who's a greyhound, a wonderful dog.

I came up with a song for him.

(singing) "You are so sweet and you are so lovely.

And did I tell you that you're sweet?"

(laughs) One of the other actors conned on and was like, "What?"

And then every time we'd walk past he'd be like, "And I did I tell you that you're lovely, (laughs) Danny Boy?"

- [James] He needs treatment.

(distant crowd noise) Every moment you wait puts him more at risk.

(kissing sound) (dogs whining and panting) (deep exhalation) (distant crowd noise) - Take him.

(jaunty music intro) - We're trying to breed Tricki in Series Six, and it's a difficult journey because he's a geriatric dog.

But we understand where she's coming from and she's an important client and we don't want to disappoint her.

- [Mrs.

Pumphrey] Now, Tricki's lineage.

Ummm... Be my guest.

Take it home.

Then you can have a thorough read.

- Mrs.

Pumphrey, you said this was urgent.

- [Mrs.

Pumphrey] Oh, it is.

- [Neil] The secret to a good animal story is it's not really about the animal.

It's really about the owner.

- The Pekingese is considered a royal breed in China.

- Ah...uh, and poodles were steadfast companions to Marie Antoinette and all.

(quirky music) - I'm sorry, Mister?

- [Mr.

Bolton] Bolton.

- [Mrs.

Pumphrey] Bolton, but uh... it's quite out of the question.

- [Samuel] We discover that it's more to do with perhaps her feeling of not wanting to be forgotten as well as her feeling that his line should continue.

- Tricki's given so much.

(Tricki panting) He's had such a life.

(orchestral swell) (Tricki licking his lips) I can't abide the thought that one day he may be gone with nothing to show that he was ever here.

(emotional music) - [Samuel] I love my interactions with Tricki.

They're some of my favorite moments of the whole job, but one is quite enough.

(laughing) - I don't want to give Tricki the injections.

The side effects, they can be drastic and not just physically.

It could change his personality completely.

At his age, there's probably nothing that will make a difference.

So surely it's better to enjoy the time he's got.

I'm sorry, I know how much you were hoping.

(melancholy music) - Not at all.

You've been entirely professional.

(Mrs.

Pumprhey sniffles) And you said what you believed to be true.

I can't ask for more.

(sad music fades) - [Narrator] Whether it's inside or outside of Skeldale House, the sense of community present in "All Creatures" is one of the show's greatest strengths.

- I've always thought it's not just about making the animal better or the owner.

Does you lot good as well.

- You think?

- Looking after others takes you out of yourself, don't it?

(gentle music swell) - [Andy] Every great drama really is about family and what a family does and how it cares for one another.

About a community that cares for one another.

- [Siegfried] Apologies for the delay.

But with sincere thanks to Mr.

Wentworth here, we are now in possession of an entire cartload of his famous home brew.

(crowd excitedly cheers) Come and get it.

- [Nicholas] The stories themselves, they are about kindness and love and for looking after your little pocket of the world and it harks back to simpler times and really the onus on helping out your neighbour.

- If you ever need any help again, - OK, well, I'll... I'll have a think about your offer.

(gentle music) I've thought about your offer.

(gentle piano) When can you start?

- Now?

- Good lad.

- We've hit a period of time in the world where people are enjoying that kind of escapism and I think this gives people some head space.

(big brass band playing) (fire crackling) - [Samuel] Siegfried has an unusual line in the Christmas episode, "Well, everybody's home this Christmas, so I'm rather looking forward to it."

- Are you looking forward to Christmas, Mrs.

Stokes?

- Yeah, well, it'll be a farmer's Christmas, same as any other day.

But I might let the old girl in the kitchen for a few treats.

If she behaves herself.

- That's a big if, knowing Hilda.

- [Mrs.

Stokes] Aye.

(both laughing) What about you?

- Well, everybody's home this year.

I'm rather looking forward to it.

- [Mrs.

Stokes] Oh, good.

Well, you don't want to be rattling round that big house on your own again, do you?

- Not if I can help it, no.

- [Neil] In this year's Christmas special, The Drovers is planning a very big Christmas Eve event for everybody who's going to be back from war with a very symbolic Christmas tree.

- You've probably noticed this fine tree here (soft laughter) (gentle music) as we know because of the blackout, many of us haven't bothered with Christmas lights for a while.

(emotional music) But all of that, (music continues) that's all over.

- [Rachel] The show is ultimately about love and friendship and community and looking after each other, and that doesn't age.

- I'm sure you'll all join me in raising your glasses to those we lost.

(melancholy music) Let's hope their sacrifice wasn't in vain.

(music continues) Let's hope that it means the world doesn't go down this dark road again.

And let's hope the year ahead brings us all the things we truly need.

Good tidings, comfort and joy.

- [All] Hear, hear!

- [Samuel] I think doing a series where people on the whole are connected and support each other through misfortunes and unhappinesses and glory in each other's triumphs, that's a good thing to build a series around.

(uplifting music) (crowd cheers loudly) - [All] Merry Christmas!

- Merry Christmas everyone!

(festive holiday music) - [All] Merry Christmas!

- [Narrator] Now it's time to look ahead and hear from the cast about their hopes for our favorite characters in the upcoming Season Seven.

(delightful pizzicato music) - Looks like a busy day ahead.

- Yes, though small animal work won't keep us afloat.

- It all adds up.

We'll chase any outstanding money.

Then with Tris here, we're three vets until the summer.

(truck idling) Get our noses to the grindstone and I think we can be back in the black in no time.

- My hopes for James in Season Seven would be more of the same in that he continues to grow as a person professionally and personally.

I think that's just wonderful to see a bit more of that and the family developing.

- Morning.

Here you go, Uncle Tris.

Jimmy's made you a lovely egg.

- Oooh, what a delicious-looking soft-boiled egg.

Can't wait to taste it.

(egg cracking) Oop!

You tricked me, you little rascal.

(laughter) - Are you on kitchen duty, eh?

- I would like Tristan in Series Seven to take even more of an active role in Skeldale again and then just continue to be the person that he's becoming in the community, you know, helping out Maggie in The Drovers, helping out the person, not just the animal.

- [Tristan] If it weren't for that outsized brain of yours, Philbrick was a cert for Jeff Mallock's.

- Mm-hmm.

(soft music) - Doesn't mean you can't respect me as a bloody good vet.

(soft music) - You've come back a very impressive fellow all round.

It's no surprise a woman like Miss Beauvoir would notice.

(music resolves) - We're coming out the end of the war, so minds have to turn to what will be next and start to think about, well, what's the future?

They're able to see that now it's on the horizon.

- We spend our lives trying to find our other half.

Even if one half dies, we go off trying to find another that matches.

(gentle music) - [Samuel] I want love for Siegfried, and then he might start to see what's in front of him.

(satisfying thwack) - Yeah!

(cheering) - She's done it, she's got it right there!

(Mrs.

Hall laughing) (continuing applause) (dramatic music swells) - [Rachel] I hope that Helen and James and the kids get to have some fun.

It's been very serious in their life for a long time.

I'd love to see them having fun doing sort of what James and Helen do best, but with these two little people in tow, that'd be great.

- You're not going to fall in love with some handsome London hero soldier and run away with him, are you?

- I hadn't thought about that.

But now you mention it.

- Careful!

(splashing) No, stop it!

- Careful!

- [Helen] Stop it!

I'm kidding, I'm kidding!

- I want everybody to look forward with the optimism and the hope that post-war Britain did look forward in.

(distant fireworks) - Ah, look at the colors!

(distant fireworks popping) (James exhaling) (uplifting music) (fireworks in the distance) - [Jimmy] Do you think Rosie stayed up to watch these fireworks?

- [James] Yeah, I hope so.

(music fades) - [Anna] There's also the joy of having everybody home, so I think having everybody around the table will be good.

(Anna chuckles) (dishes clinking) - Ah, Mrs.

H!

- All right, then.

- I want 12 peas, please.

(music sting) (delightful theme music) - [Narrator] Thank you for joining us for this comprehensive look back at Season Six of "All Creatures Great and Small" on MASTERPIECE.

We've explored the new faces, new animals, and new optimism of postwar England as the cast and characters look forward to what lies ahead for them.

Until next time, this has been "All Creatures Great and Small, Chapter Six."

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