(soft music continuing)
Crimes don't solve themselves. (Will chuckling)
- [Emma] After four series, Tom Brittney has decided
that it's time to go and do something else,
which is a real shame to us,
but it gave us a real opportunity
to bring in a new character.
(car zooming past)
And... Daisy came up with a brilliant storyline,
so we're introducing Alphy Kottaram,
which is really exciting.
(car zooming) (birds chirping)
- [Mrs. C] (huffing) There's a gentleman
breaking into the vicarage!
A swarthy gentleman.
(footsteps) (tussling and grunting)
(crockery shattering) - Gotcha!
(grunting and shouting) (fist connecting)
- [Alphy] Bloody hell!
Oh, yeah, that's it, I'm calling the police.
- I am the police.
- [Rishi] My name is Rishi Nair,
and I play Alphy Kottaram.
- If this was your house, that would make... you...
(cheeky piano music)
Oh, God.
- Not quite, but you know, on speaking terms.
- [Geordie] You're the new vicar.
(church bells clanging)
- [Daisy] It's always exciting bringing
a new character into the show.
'Cause... it's seeing how they interact
with other actors, other characters.
- [Emma] He is a very different character.
He's not somebody like Will,
who was immediately interested in, in getting involved.
He's kind of wary, and he's a little bit wary of Geordie,
and it takes a little bit longer
for their relationship to cement.
- I need your help with a case.
- I'm not a great believer in the police.
- I'm not a great believer in God.
- Well then, there we are!
- [Robson] There's this moment where Geordie
brings him into the police station,
because he has a connection
to one of the murders in Episode Three.
And I said...
- [Geordie] You coming?
(cheeky woodwind music)
- To the morgue?
- Yes.
(Alphy chuckling)
(cheeky music continuing)
- W- Why would I come to the morgue?
- [Melissa] And it's really fun to watch Geordie
have to get--
- Have to get... yeah, yeah... - a new vicar on his side.
You know? He's literally like...
"But my last vicars have always helped me
with these cases, so what's wrong with you?"
- [Geordie] It's almost impossible
to hold a rifle that long... and shoot like that.
- Why are you telling me this?
- [Melissa] And obviously, Alphy's like,
"This is weird-- I am just here to be a vicar."
- No reason.
- So, can I go?
- [Robson] But we see him in the vicarage thinking about
this scenario that's happened in Grantchester
with this guy that's potentially committed suicide.
(tentative piano and orchestral music)
And he starts to work it out himself,
and then realizes that he is...
he's being drawn to Geordie's world,
and he's being drawn to the "Grantchester" world.
- [Rishi] When I watched previous seasons
of "Grantchester,"
the chemistry between all you guys was, was amazing.
And then I've come here and I've met you in person...
It's because it's real.
It is a- actually is there. - [Robson] Yeah.
- [Rishi] How is it for you?
How is it like having it...
This is, this is the third vicar now.
(Robson and Rishi laughing)
- [Robson] Immediate- what ha- I knew your energy would work.
So you're gonna bring a new dynamic to it,
that sometimes a long-running series needs.
- [Rishi] And I met Tom yesterday for the first time,
and-- such a lovely guy--
and gave me some great tips, um, on how to deal with you.
(Robson and Rishi laughing)
But yeah, he's proper passed the baton over to me,
and, um, I'm excited.
- [Robson] Just enjoy the journey,
'cause it's gonna be a fabulous journey.
(Robson laughing loudly)
(uplifting orchestral music)
- [Narrator] An integral part of any cozy mystery
are the signature locations.
(car zooming away)
The small, rural villages our stories are set in
often feel like one of the main characters.
Perhaps no location fits this description best
than the village of Marlow, England.
The title location of "Marlow Murder Club."
- [Robert] It's the town,
it's the river, it's the church.
It's the quintessential Englishness of Marlow
that I think makes it such a fun location.
I live in Marlow.
All of the locations in the books are real locations.
- [Alison] We tried to deliver the things
that you would sort of want to get from this kind of a town,
but also try and be surprising about it.
(mysterious orchestral music)
- [Crew Member] Cut it.
- [Andrew] One of the things
that really attracted me
to the script and the book
was the opportunity to design Judith's home.
It was described as a Arts and Crafts mansion,
on the river, with a boathouse.
I knew that it was gonna be a difficult location to find,
because it had to do so many things.
We filled the... home with lots of archeological finds,
lots of books.
- And when I imagined the show,
I really imagined Judith's house
just as it's been delivered.
It really is exceptional.
- We've been so lucky that the town have sort of embraced us
as a production,
and let us film everywhere and been very encouraging.
- [Crew Member] B marker!
(slate clapping)
(car zooming past)
- [Narrator] Of course, Grantchester is the epitome
of a cozy mystery town,
with its cafes, churches and sleepy streets,
belying a town that creates
a surprising number of murder victims.
(shouting) (gun firing)
(grunting)
(upbeat piano music)
Perhaps the most interesting locations
are those interwoven in the "Magpie"
and "Moonflower Murder" mysteries.
Each location has to double for a village in the 1950s,
along with its contemporary version.
- [Jill] Looking at the way
that we light things differently
and frame things differently,
between '21 and '55...
And that's gonna be quite fun,
because we're using the same village,
but we're going to... it's going to just look,
with the color adjustments, slightly different.
(mysterious orchestral music)
- [Pippa] So we're in the village of Kersey today,
which is where most of the 1955 story occurs.
And it's the most beautiful,
quintessential English country village.
You feel that time has stood still here.
- Everywhere you turn, the camera works,
and it's kind of pretty much unchanged from 1955.
We even found old photos of it in '55,
and it stayed the same.
(mysterious orchestral music)
The location department did a really good job,
and the people of Kersey were just lovely.
People were really helpful-- it was great--
let us just use their houses,
and we had to move all the contemporary cars
out of the high street.
We could just sometimes just change our minds
on the spur of a moment,
"Oh, can we shoot it outside your house?"
- [Rebecca] Particularly what's different, I think,
about "Moonflower Murders,"
is we have two separate locations.
- Eh, for the 1950s, we have the Moonflower Hotel.
Um, which is Melissa's Hotel.
And then Branlow Hall,
which is the house that we're in now,
in Howth Castle, which is the i- the modern day hotel.
- [Rebecca] It's a good landscape, I think,
for things to happen behind closed doors.
- It's a, it's a great setup.
A hotel is a fantastic setup for a murder mystery.
'Cause you know, hotels have secrets.
People hide there.
So you don't really know what's happening,
and who is who and who has done what.
- [Peter] The locations have been a joy to shoot.
We added a little bit of smoke atmosphere to the 1950s,
because everyone was smoking cigarettes, and all the time.
And we didn't do that for the more modern period.
- [Louise] We're kind of introducing the world,
and then suddenly the world kind of turns upside down.
And we've been able to kind of live in that world
with those characters,
and feel like you're going on that journey with them.
And I think that's why this one in particular is so good.
(music crescendoing and fading)
- [Narrator] What is it that we love
about "Magpie Murders"?
(tense string music)
Amateur detective?
Check.
Beautiful English countryside locations?
Check.
Grumpy local police?
Check.
- [Locke] This is the real world,
and I don't need some fancy editor... from London
poncing around pretending to be
some sort of private detective!
- [Narrator] "Magpie Murders" serves up
everything you could want in a cozy mystery, and much more.
- [James] We'll all miss you.
- [Narrator] Because this unique series
serves up two mysteries in one.
A fictional tale set in the 1950s,
and a modern murder of the mystery author himself.
(slate clapping) - [Director] Action!
- Have you read "Magpie Murders?'
- It's a crime thriller, a whodunit, uh,
in two different time zones--
Uh, the present day, and the 1950s.
The modern day storyline concerns
the famous author Alan Conway,
who is famous for writing
the Atticus Pund murder mysteries.
- Who has recently died, apparently committed suicide.
And who's left the final Atticus Pund novel unfinished.
- Right now, I think we should be concentrating
on what happened to the missing chapter.
- Well, how do we even know he wrote it?
- And so it's about what happens when the final chapter
of his latest book goes missing,
and we crisscross between the dramatization of the book,
and chief editor played by Lesley Manville,
trying to kind of become a detective herself.
- Both of those storylines run parallel to one another.
So the structure and the form is mixed in,
they're like kind of threads that constantly
interweave with one another,
which lends itself to this amazing canvas,
really, to, to play on.
- [Anthony] Everybody in the book is based on somebody
in the author's life,
and one of those people has murdered him.
So it's a sort of a whodunit inside a whodunit,
and it's also a murder mystery about murder mysteries.
- The characters are so vivid,
and they're painted so brilliantly by Anthony,
and you know, they're, they're, they're delicious.
You want to kn- you want to spend time with them.
- It was possible, perhaps, to have more fun
with the murder mystery format,
to write not just a whodunit with a solution--
"the butler did it"--
but a whodunit that actually informed you
about the world of literature, about why we read whodunits.
The idea was, was to write a, a tricksy whodunit,
that at the same time posed interesting questions
about the world in which it existed.
(disorienting orchestral music)
- [Matthew] Yeah, big attraction to the job was
getting to play two parts,
and two very different parts as well.
And getting to explore those, those different sides.
I've never done anything like that before.
And it's great,
actually, also finding the similarities.
I mean, there's, there's a lot of differences,
but also, you know, what, working out what thread
could connect these two people.
- [James] I hope that doesn't shock you.
- Not at all.
- So I think it's been very nice for the actors.
I mean, the cast is great.
We've got a really top-of-the-range cast.
And I think the carrot for a lot of them,
apart from the obvious things
like the script and the great writing,
is, is that they get to play two people.
Um, and-- 'cause you never really
see that on television.
So you can literally be in a scene where
you'll see Susan driving up in her red MG to Abbey Grange,
and then the camera might pan off of me,
and pan-- come into Abbey Grange,
and there's the characters from the 50s.
(dramatic string music)
- [Peter] It's been great fun playing
with the echoes and...
even the things like Clarissa Pye's house
and Claire Jenkins's house where we've got the same shots
and you've got like an old kettle and a new kettle,
and you've got an old toaster and a new toaster.
And I would kind of hope that people who love the show,
they can actually look back
and kind of spot all these little echoes.
- [Matthew] The drive for you as a reader
wanting to know, or as a viewer in this case,
wanting to know what happens at the end
is the same drive Susan has
trying to find out what happened in the end,
and the same drive Atticus has
when he's trying to work out what happens in the end.
So the viewer and the characters
all share the same... drive
and, uh, investment in the story.
- Blood.
- [Conleth] Intrigue.
- [Daniel] Murder.
- Red herrings.
- [Daniel] Passion.
- [Peter] I think a bit of humor
and a bit of twinkle in the eye.
(dramatic orchestral music)
- [Michael] A good mystery means there has to be
a really good solution.
- Don't tell 'em everything up front.
(dramatic orchestral music continuing)
- [Matthew] Everyone is a suspect.
- [Alexandros] Perfect, you know?
You don't know who done it.
That's great, you have to wait till the end.
- A good mystery is made
when you care about the fate of the characters.
- The delight is in
how wrapped up in everybody's story you become.
- [Tim] Well, I think it's, um,
the workings of the human heart.
That's the ultimate mystery,
why we do the things that we do.
- [Susan] He played games and they were always games
designed to hurt people!
- [Anthony] A great mystery puts
all the clues on the page.
It is a mystery that you can solve.
But with a bit of luck, you won't.
(dramatic orchestral music crescendoing)
(dramatic music fading)
- [Narrator] Stay with us, because when we return,
we'll take a look at those pesky police officers
who always seem to just get in the way
of our beloved detectives.
We'll explore a bit of romance
in the midst of all that murder.
And we'll take a look behind the scenes
at the show that breaks all the rules,
as we further investigate
"The Cozy Mysteries of MASTERPIECE Mystery."
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of MASTERPIECE Mystery."
Coming up, we'll investigate the professionals
in law enforcement who make things so difficult
for our amateur sleuths,
and we'll learn why humor is such an important element
of cozy mysteries.
But first, let's look at the next installment
of the "Magpie Murder" series.
with its follow up "Moonflower Murders."
(dramatic orchestral music)
- Hey, Cecily.
- Dad, we've made a terrible mistake.
- What are you talking about, darling?
- [Cecily] Stefan Leonida, I was right all along.
He wasn't guilty.
He wasn't the killer.
- Just-- Cecily, slow down.
- [Cecily] You know that book I bought, "Atticus Pund?"
It's got the answer.
- What?
- The real killer is named in the book.
- Cecily, you're not making any sense.
- Just read it, Dad, it's all in there.
- Bu--
If it wasn't Stefan, who was it?
(door opening dramatically)
- [Anthony] "Moonflower Murders,"
takes place about a year
after "Magpie Murders" ended when Susan Ryeland left the UK
for Crete, where she set up a hotel
with her partner, Andreas.
And two guests walk into her life
with a story they tell her,
and she's drawn back to England
and to further murders.
- [Conleth] And like "Magpie Murders"
we have the two ongoing 50s
and contemporary investigations.
- [Pooky] It's a double brain tease
and it's a double rollercoaster ride.
- [Lesley] The crossover of the two worlds
being that Pund
and Susan have this really rather lovely relationship.
Um, and, of course, he's a manifestation
of her imagination.
- [Susan] Why does everything have to be so
bloody complicated?
- [Pund] The investigation or your personal life?
- Both!
- [Tim] In "Magpie Murders"
she was terribly shocked when he appeared
and took a while to get used to him,
and now they're, they're sort of... they're like two people
who have known each other for years.
You know, it's really nice.
- [Pippa] What I think audiences will love
about "Moonflower Murders," is, um,
some familiar faces returning
and some new faces joining.
So, Madeline is in the 50s part of the show
and she is Atticus Pund's new secretary.
- [Tim] And we have a great working relationship.
She's super efficient, anticipates my every needs.
- [Pund] You're a remarkable person.
- [Tim] And, uh, kind of surprises me
with her perspicuity.
- [Mark] I play Frank Parris
and Oscar Berlin.
Frank is a rather mean,
nasty man. (laughing)
In the 50s, in the book that Alan has written,
Oscar Berlin is a, is a European film director.
Oscar is clean-shaven and
has a very f- strange toupee
(laughing)
and a very strange accent.
- [Oscar] I will not sign a contract
when production begins two months from now.
If you back out now, do you have any idea?
- [Rosalie] I just completely loved
the fact that, uh, Melissa,
who's the 1950s character,
is like a 1950s movie star.
I was like... "Dreamy."
I would, I was like-- (laughing)
"Let me have a go at this."
- [Adrian] Lance was great fun to play, you know,
whatever the situation is,
he'll work it to his advantage.
Lawrence is, is a pretty straight, moral character.
I think he's got sort of a steady backbone.
- [Pooky] So, I play Pauline and Maureen.
And so, Pauline is a very well respected hotelier in 2015.
Maureen is a character in 1954, she runs a hotel
with her husband Lance,
but she's definitely more dodgy than, uh, Pauline.
- [Will] It's, it's so much fun to play the two roles.
Very confusing and very tricky,
but, um, but it's been, it's been great to see
how they inform each other as well.
- [Suzanne] There's three timelines
in "Moonflower Murders" where we flip
between 1954, the present day, 2023,
but we also have a storyline in 2015, which is very,
very key to the 2023 storyline.
Moonflower Hotel is the hotel owned by Melissa James.
She's a retired Hollywood actress.
She's given up acting
and she has opened this kind of boutique, Art Deco hotel.
- [Rosalie] It was so beautifully designed.
You'd lift up something
that was exactly from that time period.
There was no stone left unturned.
- [Louise] Clarence Keep also, which is Melissa's home--
and Melissa's home ended up being
like a house in the 1920s.
And then also knowing that she's this movie star
where you tried to bring in a bit of Hollywood glamour,
like maybe she'd picked up props from, you know,
Hollywood films and brought them back to England
and everything was a little bit over the top.
And then, you know, all the detail of the hotel as well
that, um, she was trying to,
people were coming to the, her hotel,
Moonflower Hotel, for the glamour
and trying to get a, see... get a bit of movie star.
(slate clapping)
- [Pippa] What I think makes a great murder mystery
is delicious writing, fabulous characters.
- And it, ultimately, I think you have
to have a really clever murder.
- [Pund] A sense of evil in the air.
(tentative piano music)
It's here too.
(tentative music continuing)
- [Conleth] The characters, on the surface
seem to be idyllic,
and rural, and happy, but it's not.
- [Daniel] It has an amazing sense
of intrigue and mystery
and sort of deep, dark secrets, really.
- [Pooky] It's just a double delight.
It's a double brain tease.
- [Will] And I think it, it makes for
a, a very sort of exciting, visceral experience, hopefully
when they're watching.
(dramatic music concluding and fading)
- [Narrator] While we may love cozy mysteries,
one group is rarely happy
to see our amateur detectives on the scene-- the police.
- Then why did the killer leave this
at the second crime scene,
but nothing at the first?
- [Judith] I know!
- [Tanika] Oh, how did she get in here?
Come on, guys!
We are literally the police
and we've just been broken into.
- [Judith] Well, not a bit of it!
That nice young man let me in.
- [Tanika] Oh, when Jason gets back here, I want a word.
- And I know why that medallion
has "Hope" written on it.
- (chuckling) That's not possible, love.
- [Judith] I think you'll find it is.
- [Samantha] Judith likes to work things out
very logically, very precisely.
- [Judith] Knowledge can be derived by
what is observed and measured.
- [Samantha] She strives for the truth
and she knows at the first incident
it hasn't been investigated properly.
- Listen to me, because every time I see you,
there are more of you.
- And we're even more successful.
- [Tanika] Well, we're dealing with a double murder here.
- I was right.
- [Natalie] My name's Natalie Dew
and I play Tanika Malik.
She is the Detective Sergeant in charge
of the case in Marlow.
The police haven't had to deal
with a murder like this before.
- [Tanika] What did we get from door-to-door inquiries?
- Nothing.
- [Natalie] It's definitely their, their first
sort of big, big case.
And so, I think it is a real step up for her.
She's an am- amazing woman in terms of-- she seems
to be balancing home life and work life.
But, there is this thing of, of having to prove yourself
and it, and, and predominantly in quite a--
a male environment as well.
- [Brendan] Not to worry, our civilian advisors
will come to the rescue.
- [Natalie] I think she definitely has
moments of, um, self-doubt,
but it's about trying not to show that
in front of the team.
- [Narrator] This season, "Miss Scarlet" is dealing
with a new colleague at Scotland Yard,
Detective Blake.
- [Kate] They don't get off to a great start.
Eliza comes on very strong.
Uh...
She's confident, she behaves like she owns the place
and, uh, that doesn't go down very well with Blake.
- Inspector Blake, I presume?
(tentative piano music)
May I congratulate you on your new position?
From what I hear, it's well deserved.
- And... you are?
- Eliza and Alexander don't work together.
That is the point.
Alexander does not want to work
with Eliza Scarlet under any circumstances.
He thinks that she gets involved
in business that isn't hers.
This is strictly police work
and the fact that there's a private detective
getting involved in any way
is unnecessary and fairly ridiculous.
- [Alexander] I'm afraid you're wasting your time.
I do not engage the services of private detectives.
- Well, may I at least present the progress
I've made on the Boden case?
- There is no need.
My officers will deal with it.
However, if you have a contract,
you will be paid for your work so far, but that is all.
(straightening papers)
Good day.
- [Narrator] In the latest season of "Grantchester,"
the tables are turned a bit as it's DI Geordie Keating
who has to convince the new vicar in town
to assist his investigations.
- What have you got against us,
if you don't mind my asking?
- In a nutshell, you're a bunch of morally bankrupt,
power hungry, violent thugs... who wield their power purely
to inflate their own egos and line their own pockets.
- Who enforces the law without us?
God?
(Alphy chuckling)
- Well, He'd do a better job.
Anyone would do a better job.
Someone who cares.
- I didn't used to care.
Not very much.
(quiet background chatter)
Till I met one of you lot.
Now I have got empathy pouring out of me at a rate of knots.
(quiet chatter continuing)
(soft jazzy music)
- [Narrator] Whether it's "Magpie"
or "Moonflower Murders,"
Detective Sergeant Locke is never pleased
to see Susan Ryeland snooping around.
(jazzy music continuing)
- [Daniel] There's an enjoyment
of watching those characters again
and the interplay that they have.
For instance, when you get, you know,
Locke coming up against Susan again,
you know, he, I think one of his opening lines is like,
"I can't believe it's you again."
- I thought we were on first-name terms by now.
- We're not on any terms at all, I want a word.
- [Daniel] You know, you know that the, the characters
have worked in the past,
you know that there's an appetite
from the audience for it.
(jazzy music concluding)
- [Narrator] She breaks the rules in more ways than one,
she's "Miss Scarlet."
(dramatic orchestral music)
- [Eliza] Do you always enter people's houses
without permission?
- Yes, all the time.
- There is no "we," Miss Scarlet.
(dramatic music continuing)
- Independent...
ambitious, determined.
- You have all the answers,
don't you, Inspector Blake?
(gavel banging)
- [Eliza] If I were to take your case,
it would put me in a difficult position.
- Eliza Scarlet, I'm arresting you on suspicion of murder.
- [Narrator] "Miss Scarlet" may not be set
in rural England,
and she's definitely no amateur--
a total pro all the way--
but we can't help feeling cozy
when watching her go about her business.
- [Kate] So we find Eliza
at the beginning of this series, uh...
she's back in the comfort of her own office.
(cheeky orchestral music)
She's had a level of success
that means that she can reemploy
Clarence and her staff.
I think our viewers can look forward to
some really suspenseful storylines
and some really great cases as ever,
and we've had to say goodbye to some people,
but we haven't forgotten the power
of a very exciting, uh, "Will they, won't they?"
- My name is Tom Durant Pritchard,
I am... playing the role of Alexander Blake.
He is the Detective Inspector
who's taken over at Scotland Yard.
He is trying to get things under his control
pretty quickly.
He's... got some plans.
- [Alexander] Are we ready?
- Yes, Inspector Blake.
- All right, let's go.
- [Tom] He's got a way of working,
and he's making sure that everything runs smoothly.
We'll find it out as the season goes along,
but he has a young daughter
who he brings with him to this new job,
and...
but his wife, um, passed away three years ago,
so he's arrived at this new job...
with the pressure of being a single dad.
- I think Fitzroy is a lot more grateful
to have this new boss than maybe Phelps might be.
- I don't care what you say,
I think he's impressive.
- 'Course you do.
- Did you notice he spent two years in Hong Kong?
He speaks fluent Mandarin.
- Oh, and that'll come in useful.
- And I believe he served in
many different parts of the world,
and... - Stop.
(indistinct chattering of police)
- What is it?
- Nothing.
I just want you to stop talking.
- It's your turn, my dear.
(cheeky orchestral music)
(wine glass slamming)
- Yes, I know it's my turn, Barnabus.
- [Cathy] Well, we see Ivy in a really unhappy place
at the beginning of this season.
I think her world is closing in on her.
Um...
She's unhappy with her lot in life.
(melancholy orchestral music)
Everybody around her f- to her, feels like
they're all moving on,
Mr. Potts has got a promotion,
Lizzie is getting on with her business and her life.
- ...at Aldgate Mortuary,
so I came by to inform you,
I will not be partaking in breakfast this morning.
- [Cathy] Ivy feels undervalued, undermined...
- [Eliza] ...hole in this sleeve.
- [Cathy] ...and in a bit of a rut.
- [Ivy] What have you been doing?
- Well, if I told you, you'd only worry.
Mr. Potts.
- Miss Scarlet, I really do not have time
to eat with you.
- [Ivy] Very well, off you go then.
- [Mr. Potts] Ladies.
- [Ivy] Sit down, have some breakfast.
- I don't have time either-- must go!
- Well, will you be home for dinner?
Lizzie!?
(orchestral music concluding)
- So we find Nash in a bit of a pickle,
in prison and licking his wounds.
So I think he has a lot of his home comforts
to keep him happy within the four walls.
(suspenseful orchestral music)
- [Nash] Load of rubbish. (book slamming)
- [Felix] I don't think he's struggling in prison,
let's put it that way.
(Nash sighing)
- Season Five is gonna be the most exciting season yet.
We see Clarence stepping up
and, uh, going into the field as a, as a proper detective,
so it's been huge fun seeing him
leave his little, uh, world of the office
and actually go out and face a bit of danger.
- I think this is our best season to date.
I think there's huge surprises, new characters,
and there's a big event at the end of this season.
- I think our viewers can look forward to
some really suspenseful storylines
and some really great cases as ever.
- [Tom] Well, you will firstly get to meet
Alexander Blake
and you will see a relationship of sorts
with Eliza blossoming over the episodes.
And... I guess we'll just have to see what happens.
- [Mr. Potts] May the next year... or so...
be simply marvelous.
- Marvelous.
- [Eliza] Marvelous.
(bright string music)
- [Narrator] While murder may not be a laughing matter,
humor is a vital component of any cozy mystery.
- Pleasure to meet you, Mrs...?
- Chapman.
- [Leonard] Sylvia.
(cheeky orchestral music)
Not me-- she's Sylvia, I'm Finch.
Leonard, Leonard of the House of Finch.
(cheeky music continuing)
- [Narrator] In "Grantchester,"
some of the best comedy comes from none other than Mrs. C.
(cozy orchestral music)
- [Mrs. C] In fact, nevermind the church,
if you don't get this sorted,
you'll end up killing half the parish.
(cozy music continuing)
- Let's hope not.
(cozy music continuing)
- Supper's ready.
(gentle music) (footsteps receding)
(Leonard chuckling)
- [Rishi] Just the way it develops
over the season,
is really lovely, we've done some great scenes
and it's always, always such a laugh working with Tessa.
I really, really love working with her.
- [Mrs. C] There is something afoot
with Alphy and the Bishop.
- Ah!
- So he did tell you.
- And I don't feel comfortable breaking that trust.
- He's a gambler, isn't he?
He looks like a gambler.
- What does a gambler look like?
- Is it women?
Is it men?
- You're such a-
- Such a what?
- You'll end up falling out with everyone
if you carry on like this.
- I don't fall out with people.
- Cathy, Geordie, Esme.
- I just want to know what's happening under my own roof.
- It isn't your roof though, is it?
It's Alphy's roof and Alphy's conversation
and Alphy will tell you when he's ready.
(birds chirping)
- He's definitely a gambler.
(intriguing orchestral music)
- [Narrator] In the "Magpie" and "Moonflower Murders,"
much of the humor comes from fictional detective Pund.
- May I give you one other piece of advice?
- Of course.
- You should really stop smoking.
- [Susan] (scoffing) You're not real, are you?
(birds chirping) (footsteps receding)
You're just my guilty conscience!
- [Pund] Always a pleasure to see you, Susan.
(intriguing music continuing)
- It's irreverent and witty
and a little bit naughty, a bit cheeky.
(mysterious orchestral music)
- [Narrator] While Miss Scarlet
is deadly serious about her work,
Clarence can always be counted on to keep things light.
- When I met Clarence, Oliver, he was teetotal.
- Oh, our Miss Scarlet has turned you to drink?
- Let's just say, working with her,
there's never a dull moment.
(laughing uproariously)
Yeah...
- [Narrator] Perhaps no amateur detectives
make us laugh more
than the ladies from "The Marlow Murder Club."
- We're not going to stop investigating, are we?
- No way! - Not on your Nelly.
- "Not on your Nelly?"
- What?
(Becks laughing)
- [Samantha] It's been very funny to shoot
and, um, it makes the director laugh,
so hopefully, it'll make the audience laugh too.
- [Judith] Maybe one of you should lure him away.
- [Suzie] Oh, that should be easy.
Just need to create a diversion.
- [Judith] Oh, that's a good idea.
- [Becks] Judith?
- [Suzie] Oh God, what have you done?
- [Becks] You're a giraffe!
- [Judith] How're you going to do that?
- [Becks] Judith...
what are you doing?
- [Judith] What? - [Becks] What have you...
- [Judith] Why am I a giraffe?
I must have pressed something.
Oh, this is ridiculous, how do I change it?
- [Suzie] Go to the bottom of your screen.
- [Becks] Change the setting.
- [Suzie] You should see a giraffe or some other Animoji.
- What's an Animoji?
(digital pinging)
I've done it again!
This is preposterous.
- [Narrator] Don't go away because when we return,
we'll investigate the history of cozy mysteries.
We'll also take a peek at some mysteries of the heart,
and we'll introduce you to some of the cuddly characters
that make these stories more fun,
as we put a magnifying glass to
"The Cozy Mysteries of MASTERPIECE Mystery."
(mysterious orchestral music)
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- [Narrator] Welcome back to
"The Cozy Mysteries of MASTERPIECE Mystery."
Coming up, we'll go behind the scenes
with some of the cuddly animals
that guest star on cozy mysteries,
and we'll see that, even in the midst of murder,
there's time for romance.
But first, let's inspect the origins
and evolution of the cozy mystery.
- [Alan] Atticus Pund was the greatest detective
in the world,
but his next case was going to be his greatest challenge.
- [Narrator] Although the term "cozy mystery"
has only been around since the late 20th century,
the genre feels timeless.
This is because "cozies" have their roots
back in the golden age of crime fiction
in the 1920s and '30s.
Whodunits by authors like Dorothy L. Sayers,
Ellery Queen,
and of course, Agatha Christie
charmed millions of readers around the world.
- (gasping) "Magpie Murders."
- [Charles] "One for sorrow, two for joy,
three for a girl and four for a boy."
- [Susan] "Five for silver, six for gold,
seven for a secret never to be told..."
It's very Agatha Christie, have you read it yet?
- [Charles] I've started it.
- And?
- Number One in time for Christmas.
- Yay!
(intriguing piano music)
- [Narrator] Today's cozy mysteries
often have other interesting and varied characteristics,
like cuddly pets, quirky supporting characters,
and unique hobbies or occupations
that feature into the crime solving.
Whatever your interests may be,
there's an entertaining cozy mystery out there for you.
(gunshot)
And what's more entertaining than an amateur detective?
How about three?
They're "The Marlow Murder Club."
(intriguing piano music)
- [Tanika] You don't think they carried out
a thorough search?
- [Detective] All clear! - [Judith] I know they didn't.
Someone shot Mr. Dunwoody.
- [Tanika] Mrs. Potts, this is Marlow we're talking about,
I think that's very unlikely.
(foreboding string music)
- [Samantha] My name is Samantha Bond,
and I play Judith Potts in "The Marlow Murder Club."
Judith is a retired archeologist,
she's very happy in her own company,
she has a wonderful cat.
When we first meet Judith,
I think it's quite a set of contradictions,
you know, she is blissfully happy
when she's swimming in her river
and it's a place where she can think and she can reflect.
But within that, there are lots of shadows from the past.
- [Director] Action!
- This is the proof we've been looking for.
Iqbal must have found out the truth
and that's why Giles killed him.
- [Judith] Unfortunately, Tanika told me
that Giles Bishop was in Windsor Hospital
when Iqbal was murdered.
- He's in the clear?
- So if Giles didn't kill Iqbal, who did?
- [Becks] And why?
- [Robert] "The Marlow Murder Club" is about Judith
and she bumps into what she thinks is a murder.
(gunshot) (ominous percussion)
- It's my neighbor,
I think someone's just shot him.
- [Robert] And the police don't believe that.
And in investigating her neighbor's death,
she bumps into Becks, the local vicar's wife,
and also Suzie, a, uh, a dog walker,
and together they solve a sequence of murders
that happen here in Marlow.
- Hello.
- [Judith] I think your husband's
involved with these murders.
You know it and I know it.
- Who is this?
- [Judith] Oh, you know who I am.
The Stanley Spencer painting you told us about,
it was Elliot who broke into Stefan's house
and stole it back, wasn't it?
- No!
(shuffling footsteps) (labored breathing)
I don't know.
(birds chirping)
- Daisy, I once stood by a man I knew was lying.
(birds chirping)
You don't want to carry that guilt
for the rest of your life.
(car door opening)
(bag dropping)
- (quietly) I think he's got something hidden in the house.
(mischievous orchestral music)
- [Samantha] Everyone loves a murder mystery
(mischievous music continuing) (paper crinkling)
and a good script is where it all begins
When I first read it
and you get to the end and you go... (gasping)
- [Judith] It's not as bad as it looks.
- The first thing that attracted me to the project
was the fact that it's got women at the helm.
The female characters aren't
in competition with each other.
- [Jo] The way we are as women,
the way we empower each other,
the way we support each other-- that's sisterhood.
- [Samantha] Judith's big quality
is a strive for the truth.
And that's what drives her.
- [Alison] And it's really nice to see her
almost surprise herself
as she gets drawn into the investigation
and sort of picks up Suzie and picks up Becks.
- [Tanika] What are you doing here, Mrs. Potts?
And you, Miss Harris?
- We met at Iqbal's house.
- [Judith] We want Stefan's killer caught.
- [Natalie] Like, they're all so different with each other
and have very, very different opinions.
- When we all come together,
we find all this common ground and, uh, sisterhood.
- [Samantha] It's been an amazing company of actors.
- [Jo] The character of Suzie is a dog walker,
a bit of an extrovert, she's very inquisitive,
some may say nosy.
(Suzie groaning)
- [Jo] She's busy, you know,
she's climbing through windows,
she's running to save people,
she's a little bit more like Judith,
like, she's more...
"Ah," you know, "Let's go for it," you know?
- [Cara] Becks is very key at the vicarage.
She's also at the epicenter of village life,
being the vicar's wife.
She does a lot of the kind of thankless tasks.
(plates and silverware clanking)
As she becomes involved with Judith and Suzie,
it starts to reignite that side of her character,
which is kind of curious and interested
and also very capable.
- [Becks] Mr. Eddingham, can I borrow your car?
(keys jingling)
- [Mrs. Eddingham] Lesley!
- Thanks!
- [Cara] There's a great chemistry between them all
and they have strengths in different areas.
- [Jo] The setting of Marlow, I mean,
that's the other... that's another cast member.
It's a beautiful, beautiful town,
but people are dying in Marlow.
- [Robert] So when you're trying to do
an English murder mystery,
what you're really looking for
is somewhere quintessentially English.
- [Steve] The locations are around Marlow or in Marlow.
I've not worked on anything that has, relies so much on
on its location, uh, to be accurate.
- [Natalie] There's something, um, very safe and calming
and so painfully beautiful about Marlow.
It's the perfect backdrop to, to this kind of story.
- TV adaptation of "Marlow Murder Club"
started with Debra Hayward,
who is one of the co-founders of Monumental Television,
and we all read it and got excited about it
and were lucky enough to be able to option it.
Robert always wanted to do the adaptation himself,
which felt like a no-brainer for us.
- The first week that we shot
was one of the longest weeks of my life
'cause I just couldn't believe after all of these years
that we were actually making the TV show.
Everyone had just created
what I had written in my mind seven years ago.
- [Samantha] It's beautifully put together,
and Robert's done the most amazing job.
- [Robert] I can't wait for people to see it.
- I hope it intrigues them,
I hope it fascinates them.
- We're not gonna miss this, are we?
- [Cara] The three words I'd use to describe
"The Marlow Murder Club" would be...
"never underestimate women."
(intriguing music crescendoing)
(music fading)
(tense string music)
- [Narrator] If you want to play along
with our amateur detectives,
keep your eyes open for the cozy mystery clues.
(tense music echoing)
(muffled sounds from street)
- I severed your contract
so you were determined to find a clue
that proved I'd been shortsighted
and would be compelled to rehire you on the case?
(muffled hoofbeats outside)
- Something like that.
- [Narrator] We enjoy the old time variety of clues
that Miss Scarlet must discover in 1880s London.
- [Eliza] Chateau Lemaitre.
(background chattering)
The man had expensive taste,
which is curious since he didn't drink.
(chattering continuing)
(intriguing string music)
But you didn't know that, did you?
- [Narrator] In "Magpie Murders,"
Susan Ryland has to use a mystery novel as one big clue
to solve the murder of the book's author, Alan Conway.
(anxious percussion and string music)
- [Susan] It's his last novel
and everyone he knew was in it
and that's why the last chapter was taken--
because it reveals the secret.
(anxious music intensifying)
The answer's in the book.
(anxious music crescendoing)
- [Narrator] And in "Moonflower Murders,"
another Alan Conway novel featuring Atticus Pund
contains the clues to solve the mystery
of a young woman's real world disappearance.
- [Susan] Three stars and an arrow--
that happens to be the star sign for Sagittarius.
When was her birthday?
- December the 10th.
(quiet piano music)
- [Narrator] Judith Potts's skills
as a retired archeologist
are crucial to how she discovers
and interprets the clues of "Marlow Murder Club."
- [Judith] The same gun, the same bullets,
the same shot to the forehead...
except in one detail--
a medallion at one scene...
implies a medallion at the other.
Oh, hello, what have we here?
(plaintive string music) (murmuring)
It says, "Faith" on it, doesn't it?
- [Tanika] Yeah.
- [Judith] "And here abideth faith, hope, and charity.
All three.
(strings intensifying)
But the greatest of these is charity."
- I Corinthians.
- Oh my God, faith, hope and charity.
- [Judith] Indeed.
There's going to be a third murder.
We're dealing with a serial killer.
(strings crescendoing)
(music fading)
- [Narrator] Sometimes cuddly pets
can be extremely important to solving the case.
Let's take a look behind the scenes at the animals on set.
(peaceful piano music)
(birds chirping)
(Dickens whining)
- [Will] Good boy.
Look after the next chap, won't you?
(Dickens whining)
- [Narrator] Whether he's with Will Davenport
or Alphy Kottaram in the vicarage,
"Grantchester" wouldn't be the same without Dickens.
(Dickens barking)
- Um, Leonard?
(mischievous string music)
- [Leonard] Oh yes, sorry. (Dickens whining)
This is Dickens. (Alphy chuckling)
He comes with the house.
(Dickens barking) He's very fond of sausages.
- Hello, Dickens, hello.
(quirky piano music)
- [Tom] ...he's the naughtiest dog on earth.
- The worst acting dog I've ever...
(all laughing) He just, he can't do anything.
- That's not fair.
- [Robson] But if you look, I mean if you look-
- He's not-- - No, he's four now.
- [Tessa] I am defending Dickens
... to the end. - He should be able to do...
something.
(Dickens barking)
- [Narrator] And the pets in "Marlow"
are integral to the story.
- My name's Colette McKenzie
and, and I'm here as the animal trainer
for this production.
The animals that feature on this show is,
uh, the first animal is a dog called Delta
and she's a German Shepherd and she's four years old.
She has done some productions before,
so she has bead to being on a film set.
And the other animal that is on this production
is Thor the cat.
And he is only two years old, so he's quite new to this.
So what's been involved
in getting them ready for being on set,
for Delta is obviously just training her.
(Delta barking) - [Colette] Good.
But then there's also a couple of action scenes
where she has to jump through a window,
so we've been prepping that back at home, um.
But yes, and she's very energetic, very lively.
Does love her treats,
so anything involving food, she's really good.
- That's walking! (Delta panting)
Are you walking?
(laughing)
- And, and with Thor the cat,
he's just got to be that typical lovely house cat
and just sit and stay or lay down and stay.
(intricate string music)
- [Judith] The problem is we're empiricists,
aren't we, Jasper?
- What challenges are involved in my role?
Mainly, in getting the animal to do the action
over and over again.
And that's, that can be quite challenging.
It's quite an exciting project for us.
(intricate music intensifying)
(music fading)
(romantic string music)
- [Narrator] Perhaps it's the perfect combination,
romance and murder.
(romantic music continuing)
When Alphy Kottaram becomes the new vicar of Grantchester,
it sets many hearts aflutter.
- Student?
- Vicar.
- [Caroline] Oh, I've heard all about you.
- News travels fast.
- Well, nothing stays secret here for long.
(romantic music continuing)
- [Narrator] But when his quick fling
turns out to be the town's latest murder suspect,
it strikes a bit too close to home.
- [Alphy] He wanted you to be his girl.
(tense string music)
But if you weren't gonna be Daddy's little girl,
you damn well weren't gonna be his either.
- You're twisting my words.
- Did you see red and lash out?
Did you kill Innes Clark
because he tried to control you?
- I didn't kill him for me, I killed him for Sam!
(tense music continuing)
- [Narrator] And in its latest season,
the police station becomes home
to the question of "Will they or won't they?"
between Larry and Miss Scott.
- I'm scared... if I look at you, I'll want to kiss you.
(gasping slightly)
(feet shuffling)
- That wouldn't be such a bad thing, would it?
(swallowing)
- I've never wanted to kiss you
and I don't want to start now.
(inhaling sharply)
(distant echoes)
(quiet footsteps)
(tender orchestral music)
(tender music intensifying)
Damn you, Larry.
Damn you.
(tender music crescendoing)
(kissing) (romantic music swelling)
- [Narrator] We won't expect a romantic pairing
with Atticus Pund anytime soon,
but his modern day counterpart, Susan Ryeland,
can always depend on her romantic partner, Andreas.
(setting glass on table)
- Aren't you supposed to be teaching?
- I took the day off.
- You came all this way. - Mm.
- God, you're lovely.
Where did you get the waistcoat?
- (chuckling) I bribed the waiter.
(both laughing)
- Aw, glad to see you.
I've had a horrible time here.
- We can go home together.
- Same flight?
- 17F.
- Ahh!
Alice is promoted. (giggling)
(kissing)
- We have the weekend.
- Great. - Mm.
- Can't wait.
- Yiamas! (clinking glasses)
- Cin cin! (Andreas chuckling)
- [Narrator] With the Duke no longer in England,
is there any hope romantically for Miss Scarlet?
We're dying to find out.
- [Kate] When it comes to Eliza's independence,
um, before William's departure,
she was, uh, always independent
and, uh, knew what she wanted,
so that hasn't changed with his departure.
I think what we do begin to see
is, is a real softening in her, interestingly.
And we're seeing a side of her personal life
where she's questioning what it is she wants from her life.
And in particular, her romantic, uh, affiliations
have always been sort of towards one person before,
but now I think it's quite interesting to see
what does it mean to be a young professional woman?
- I take it you would like to attend the questioning.
- Yes, very much so.-- thank you.
(background chatter)
- But perhaps next time you might wish to wear something
a little... less eye-catching.
(intriguing harpsichord music)
- [Cathy] There's a kindness in Blake as well,
which is really interesting
to see such a powerful character in a man's world
have that gentle kindness as well.
- You're supposed to be dressed and ready for school.
- [Tom] I think Alexander Blake
being a single dad,
he sees a lot of his daughter in Eliza,
and there's a mischievous side to his daughter
that he sees in Eliza.
And it brings out a slightly softer side of Blake
that I'm not sure he always wants people to see.
- But after a number of shared experiences
where Eliza's thrust herself into his world, um,
whether he liked it or not,
they begin to... warm to each other
and they start to understand each other.
And that's when we really see the magic happen.
(echoing harpsichord music)
- Drink?
(muffled hoofbeats and street noises)
- Make it a double.
- [Cathy] Can a woman have it all?
Even, you know... in the 19th century,
can she have a career and can she settle down?
(footsteps) (door closing)
- Ivy!
- [Ivy] Afternoon, Barnabas!
- Ah... I got your note.
"Most urgent," it said.
(footsteps)
If this is about what I spoke on-
- [Ivy] We have company, Barnabas.
(somber string music)
- [Barnabas] Reverend Harvey.
- Mr. Potts.
- What are you doing here?
(somber music continuing)
Oh.
(somber music concluding)
- [Narrator] Thanks for cozying up with us
as we've gathered clues in idyllic English villages
to deduce what makes the perfect
cozy "MASTERPIECE Mystery!"
As always, we've solved the case
in an upbeat, lighthearted way.
We love the time-bending double mysteries
in "Magpie Murders" and "Moonflower Murders,"
the small town family feel of "Grantchester,"
the cleverness of "Miss Scarlet,"
and the humor of "The Marlow Murder Club."
We hope you love them as much as we do.
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- [Narrator] "All Creatures Great and Small" on MASTERPIECE
offers audiences a true escape from the modern world,
with magical and unforgettable stories
filled with humor, compassion, and love of life.
With plenty of heart, a picturesque setting,
and a cast that utterly charms,
the series delivers drama, both comforting and entertaining.
- I've learned so much from you.
- Yes, well, I couldn't help noticing
that both of you took rather a long time
fully to appreciate--
- Oh, be quiet.
- [Narrator] Based on the timeless books by James Herriot,
this heartwarming drama continues to embrace the themes
of community, caring for animals, kindness,
romance, and family.
- [James] No matter what they throw at us,
I promise you, I will get back to you both.
Nothing will keep me away.
I will always, always be with you.
- I know you will.
(lively string music)
- [Narrator] As we look ahead to more of
James Herriot's treasured stories
making the leap from his beloved books to the screen,
we are pausing to raise a glass
in celebration of the first five seasons
of "All Creatures Great and Small."
We'll go behind the scenes with the cast and creators
to toast the most memorable moments,
beginning with the very first episode of the series.
We'll reminisce with the actors
who portray our favorite characters,
find out what their first impressions
of each other were like,
and learn what it's like to work with the real stars,
the animals of every size, from great to small.
- We are vets.
(poignant theme music)
We put animals before profit.
(music continuing)
- [Narrator] Join us as we toast the farmers, villagers,
and animals of the Yorkshire Dales
in this retrospective look back,
entitled, "All Creatures Great and Small:
Cheers to the Years!"
(cheeky orchestral music)
- Mr. Herriot!
- Welcome back, Mr. Herriot.
- Mr. Herriot.
- Morning, Mr. Herriot.
- I can hardly believe it's been six years.
I've just loved it from start to finish.
- [Mrs. Hall] Oh, you're back!
- [James] It's good to see you, Mrs. H!
- Oh!
- [Anna] When we come back each year,
there is a feeling of coming home
'cause it is our territory and we know it that well.
(phone ringing) - Darrowby 2297.
- [Nicholas] The stories themselves, they are about
kindness and love--
not only for the animals but for one another,
and for looking after your little pocket of the world.
- [James] We need to wait for the results,
and then we'll deal with it,
so let's stop all this talk about moving on.
Your life is here.
This is where you belong.
(birds softly chirping)
- Thanks, James.
- [Rachel] The show is ultimately about
love and friendship,
and community, and looking after each other,
and that doesn't age.
It's never gonna go out fashion.
And I think, more than ever, we need that.
- [Tristan] I saw what happened to your dog,
and I wanted to help him.
And I suppose deep down,
that also means I wanted to help you, too.
(footsteps) (soft string music)
(chuckling) It's not just the animals.
- [Samuel] The center of the series is professional people
putting themselves at the service of creatures
that can't speak,
and that's a good thing to build a series around.
- [Siegfried] You can kick me off again as much as you like.
I'm not gonna give up on you.
(poignant string music)
Don't give up on me either.
(music continuing)
Maybe we can help each other out.
- [Nicholas] It was my first television job
and, you know, the learning curve
is just like "zzzhoof!"
- [Siegfried] This is Herriot-- new assistant, possibly.
- [Mr. Sharpe] Oh, aye? Another one.
- Oh, another one!
- Yes, another one.
- [Nicholas] Now we've done six years,
and to play a character for that length of time as well
is just wonderful.
- I'd like you to meet your son.
(soft piano and string music) (baby mewling)
- You gave me a little boy.
(both laughing and crying)
- [Anna] All the meals we've had 'round the table at Skeldale,
they all build up a picture of their family unit.
- [Mrs. Hall] Remember, it's not the mountain we conquer.
- [All] But ourselves.
(piano and string music concluding)
- I don't think when you start any series,
you sort of really believe we'll go up to Series Six,
but I'm so happy (clapboard clacking)
that we're still here,
and that there's more to come (cast and crew applauding)
we're not done yet.
- Cheers.
(glasses clinking)
- [All] Cheers!
- Cheers.
(bright orchestral music) (glasses clinking)
(orchestral music concluding)
(whooshing sound) (soft orchestral music)
- [Narrator] We could not do a proper look back
without discussing the first impressions
the cast had of each other.
(whooshing sounds)
- I'm Helen.
- Herriot! James...Herriot.
- [Nicholas] My first impression of my cast members,
they were absolutely lovely.
- (whispering) Other leg.
(birds chirping outside)
(silently mouthing "Thank you")
- [Rachel] I met Nick at the chemistry read.
We auditioned together.
He was the first cast member that I met,
and we got on like a house on fire straight away.
- [James] I'll be back to see you soon.
To... see the calf.
To remove the cast from his leg.
- [Nicholas] I met Rach throughout the audition process.
There was maybe ten girls had come in to read for Helen
and at the end said, "Is there anyone
you naturally enjoyed working with?"
And the first name I said was Rachel Shenton.
- [James] It was nice meeting you.
- You too.
- We met on a connecting train from Leeds.
It was just me and Rach and Nick...
and I thought they were delightful.
- [Siegfried] Good evening, good evening!
Mrs. Hall, Helen, a delight as ever.
- I remember a train journey up to Yorkshire
where I was super nervous.
I saw Sam, I sort of smiled at him,
and I think he might have thought
that I probably fancied him or something.
And it was... it was oh... (laughing)
it was ever so slightly awkward for a minute
until I plucked up the courage to say,
"I'm in the show with you."
- You must barely recognize me.
- Oh, I don't know, Siegfried.
I think you've weathered rather well.
- [Siegfried] You're very kind.
- My first day on set was with Sam,
and he barely left my side.
Any questions I had, he was right there.
And it just felt very... Siegfried and James.
- [Siegfried] I'm sorry, who are you?
- [Mrs. Hall] Ah, I see you've met already.
This is Mr. Herriot.
- [Samuel] He hit the ground running so fast
that all of us were keeping up with him after a few days.
- [Nicholas] I just could not wait to get started.
And then being on set that first day,
I really did feel at home
and I felt like this is where I should be.
I loved it... and been loving it ever since.
- [James] You mean I've got the job?
- How does four quid a week and full board sound?
- Oh that sounds... great!
I, I mean, thank you.
- And then Cal joined us.
I remember thinking he's hilarious.
He's got such a dry sense of humor.
- Tristan Farnon?
- [Tristan] Whatever you heard, it's not true.
I didn't do it.
- Ah, no, no, Siegfried sent me.
I'm James Herriot, his new assistant.
- Really?
Poor you.
- [Nicholas] Cal was like Tristan from the books.
You know, he was so funny, so personable.
We hit it off straight away.
We went for a beer like the first night
and that seemed like a very
James-Tristan kind of (laughing)
evening that we had together over a beer.
- Was he very angry? - Furious.
- Oh, sweet manna from heaven, tell me more!
Did he shout at you?
- (chuckling) Screamed the house down.
- "What the bloody hell's the meaning of this?"
- Words to that effect.
(both laughing)
- [Callum] Me and Nick were just best mates.
By like the end of the first night,
having a beer and just sort of talking nonsense.
And that nonsense has grown over six seasons
to the point where I don't think anyone else in the cast
knows what we're talking about now,
'cause we've sort of developed our own language.
- [Tristan] The only way we'll survive, my brother,
is if we stick together.
(soft piano music)
- [Callum] Sam was a funny one
because I've been a fan of Sam for years,
so I was quite nervous to meet him.
- Tristan!
Tristan!
- (sighing) What have I done?
- [Callum] It has really helped me play the relationship
of Tristan-Siegfried because...
Tristan's sort of always after Siegfried's approval.
And that's sort of how I spent Series One with Sam.
I was like, "I really want him to think
I'm quite a good actor."
- [Siegfried] I heard what you did at yesterday's surgery.
(patrons chattering)
(glass sliding)
(clucking tongue) It's the good stuff.
(background chattering continuing)
- When Anna was cast, I thought,
"Ah, this is gonna work.
That's the last jigsaw piece
of a very nice little five-piece puzzle."
(doors opening)
- [James] Oh, hello.
- [Mrs. Hall] Mr. Herriot.
- Yes, sorry I'm late.
- I'd almost given up on you.
I'm Mrs. Hall, I keep house for Mr. Farnon.
- [Anna] The others had all met-- I was cast quite late.
I remember my first day, it was the scene
where I hear there's noise out in the shed
in the middle of the night and go out with the cricket bat,
and I find an inebriated James in the animal shed.
- [Mrs. Hall] Mr. Herriot-- what on earth are you doing?
- Feeding the cats.
- Anna is just the loveliest woman who's ever existed,
so she was incredibly easy to get along with.
- [Tristan] Mrs. H!
You look more youthful and radiant with each passing day.
- Oh.
- [Samuel] I knew her from the Royal Shakespeare Company--
from 25 years earlier-- and adored her and her work.
- [Siegfried] How is it possible?
We have nothing we want and two of everything we don't.
- It's almost as if you might benefit
from employing some sort of system.
- Anna and I never had scenes together
for quite a long time,
so we were like sort of passing ships,
just chatting in the makeup room
for a little bit and then in the trailer,
and now I'll never let her go.
- [Helen] Thanks for doing this again.
- No, it's my pleasure.
For a mother without daughters,
this is something I never thought I'd get to do.
- We've played these people for six years now,
so our instincts start to be important.
And I suppose what was interesting
was how many of those things felt like they were there
on the first day.
(very soft orchestral music)
- [Siegfried] It's the people.
(orchestral music continuing)
Infuriating as you all are...
I'm... rather fond of you.
(soft music concluding)
(whooshing sound)
- [Narrator] And as fond as we are of all the people,
we are also fond of all the favorite animal moments.
(whooshing sound)
- Today, we shall be lifting the curtain
on the fascinating world of veterinary science.
(dog barking) (horse whinnying)
(bird squawking)
(cat screeching) (pig squealing)
(James falling) (cow mooing)
(pail clattering) - Uh!
- [Nicholas] Like the life of a veterinarian,
I guess, every day is so different.
There's so much variety,
and of course, you have the challenges
of working with the animals.
(James grunting) (ewe licking)
- [James] That's good.
A healthy wee lamb.
- [Andy] I think the great fun of the program
is that it's reattaching yourself to animals
and you know, the love that people have for animals,
whether it's a dog, a cat, a tortoise...
We've had all sorts of animals on the program.
- [Nicholas] I think one thing that I really
can appreciate a lot more now
is just the different personalities
of all the different animals.
- Cedric!
(James grunting) (Cedric panting)
Oh dear, I'm so sorry,
Uncle Herriot. (James chuckling)
- [Callum] I love any scene where I get to be with a dog
because I prefer dogs to people.
- [Tristan] What's her name?
- Daisy.
- Hello, Daisy.
Daisy, hello.
- You get to know the animals
and their personalities and their temperaments.
Derek, who played Tricki wonderfully-- retired, now--
nothing fazed him.
- [James] Paws off-- this is Uncle Herriot's.
- Didn't know you were related.
- [Samuel] I always love working with Tricki.
I think he's a real character.
(cheeky string music) (Tricki munching)
- [Siegfried] No, Tricki...
You're on a strict diet-- dried dog biscuits only.
- You've got this big, furry bundle
who just nuggles into you
and is totally with you
and does everything you want them to do.
- [Mrs. Pumphrey] He does love a homemade biscuit.
- They're actually for you, Mrs. Pumphrey.
- Oh, I only eat a Fortnum myself,
but Tricki's a little less fussy.
(bright string music)
- And then you've got Dash, who's played by Erin,
who... will just lock eyes with you,
and she just wants pets and strokes.
(Dash barking) - Dash!
Hello... hello! (Dash whimpering)
- [Rachel] Little Dash... loves a cuddle and a biscuit.
And I'm like, "Well, that's kind of like me."
You know, if you're feeling a bit down,
usually a cuddle or a biscuit will fix it.
- [Nicholas] And then you've got Ernie, who plays Jess,
who's just this lovable kind of goofball.
(Jess panting) (footsteps)
(doorknob clicking)
- Hah! Not this morning, Jess.
- [Callum] I get woke up by Jess the house dog
and we had to get her to lick my face,
so we had to put, like, cheese paste on my face.
- [Tristan] No, Maggie, you're a married woman.
- [Callum] The original line was that Jess licks my face
and I wake up and I'm like, "Get off, Jess."
And I was like,
"We need to change that line.
How about he wakes up and he's like,
'Oh, good morning, Jess,'
and he kisses her back?"
And the director was like,
"Yeah, absolutely-- That's, that's way more 'Tristan.'"
(soft string music)
- [Tristan] Oh, Jess-- it's just you.
- [Nicholas] Thinking back, I remember the mix up of the cats
and one cat almost getting castrated,
which is one of the scenes I auditioned with, actually.
- [James] I don't understand it.
It said Jasper on the cage.
I know it did, so how can it be?
- (sighing) Maybe because you came home soused last night.
- I put them back in the wrong cages.
- [Nicholas] Anna would come 'round.
So, one time she came 'round
and there was one cat like on her leg, one on her shoulder.
And we're like, "Oh, reset."
Next time she comes 'round,
there's one cat here, there's one cat climbing up her back.
And then the next time she comes 'round, she just had one cat
because the other one had just left--
(laughing) had gone somewhere else.
- [James] Jasper's mange has cleared up
and you can take him home today.
The bad news-- it'll be half a crown.
(chuckling)
- That's not my cat, neither.
- Last season was great, when we had the... fox.
That was really nice.
- [Nicholas] Another one that springs to mind
is the goats careering through the house.
(knocking) - [Siegfried] James, are you--
(goats bleating) (bell ringing)
- [James] Siegfried!
Watch your head!
- God! (goats bleating)
- [Anna] The goats knew how to cause chaos.
They were well-trained
for their acting role that day.
(laughing)
- [Mrs. Hall] Not in my pantry!
James, what happened? (goat bleating)
- [James] Gotcha!
(goat bleating) (jars clattering)
- [Nicholas] Just another testament
to how well the animals are trained--
they had the goats go one meter with a buzzer and some food
and then they got more and more elaborate and further away,
and they did it perfect every time,
all the way through from the examination room,
living room, to up onto the table in the scullery.
(dogs barking) (goat bell clanging)
- [Mrs. Hall] Get down from there!
(dogs barking) (goat chewing)
- Siegfried has a rat, because I suggested it.
- Good God-- why is that thing always out of its cage?
- [Samuel] There's something about that interaction
that brings something out of him
that wouldn't come out with any other animal,
and he lives inside my waistcoat.
(chuckling softly)
- [Siegfried] You know that rats are as intelligent as dogs?
- I love working with the, the larger animals as well.
You know, horses and things like that-- they're so majestic.
We have wonderful horse trainers and they'll talk to you,
"This horse is pretty much this personality type
and he is docile and gentle and you can do anything.
This is, like... Artemis," who kicked me in the face
in Series One.
(horse neighing) (hoof thumping)
(body thudding) (mud squelching)
(James groaning)
- I'm sorry, young man, I ought to have told you.
He's a very friendly horse.
(horse snorting) (mud squelching)
He always likes to shake hands.
(Siegfried chuckling)
- [Samuel] My favorite interactions
are always with horses.
- [Siegfried] She's young and strong.
I can't see why she wouldn't recover.
I'll do my damnedest to help, in any case.
- (laughing with relief) Thanks.
- [Samuel] I've had conversations with horses
on this that you can't see but you can feel,
so those quiet moments with horses
are probably my favorite interactions with animals.
- [Siegfried] Now then...
(gentle string music)
shall we go for that ride together?
- [Nicholas] It is wonderful to see these animals
and their different personalities.
And I'm talking about all the animals, you know,
great and small.
(soaring string music) (soft hoofbeats)
(whooshing sound)
- [Narrator] As we say "Cheers to the Years,"
it became very clear
that everyone has a special place in their heart
for the very first episode.
(whooshing sounds)
- [Siegfried] So, where did it all start for you?
Wanting to be a vet?
(gentle orchestral music) (birds chirping)
- There was a, a small city farm at the back of my school.
- Mm-hm.
- It was like having a part of the country in the city.
I developed a real love for the animals there.
- Ah, well, you see...
the animals are the easy part.
(gentle music continuing)
It's the people cause all the bother.
(music concluding)
- We've had some wonderful,
wonderful episodes throughout all the seasons,
but I think... probably have to just go back to Episode One
because that's where it all began.
(people murmuring) (gentle bright music)
- [Samuel] It starts with a sort of...
really cinematic trail through Glasgow and I just thought,
"This is classy,
and it looks like a million dollars--
but it feels like a film."
- [Postman] Morning, James.
There you are.
- Thanks.
- [Nicholas] James Herriot himself went to
veterinary school in Glasgow
and he trained up there.
He lived in Glasgow, graduated,
and then one of his first jobs,
he got on a train
and he made his way out to the Yorkshire Dales
to work under Siegfried Farnon.
- [James] I got an interview.
(muffled street sounds outside)
- You did? (paper crumpling)
- [Mrs. Herriot] You didn't!
Darrowby?
Yorkshire?
- [Nicholas] Much like him, I went to drama school in Glasgow.
And then, my first TV job, I got on a train
and was heading out to the Yorkshire Dales
to start my professional life.
It was very much art imitating life in that way
that my journey and James Herriot's journey
to that beginning was very similar.
- Ooh, she likes you.
That's a good start.
Jess is suspicious of most men.
Rightly so, too.
- [Anna] I'm a huge fan of the house
'cause that's where I do most of my work.
I always wish people could come and see it up close.
It's extraordinary, the detail that's in there.
- One of the memories that never quite leaves me
is the first time I walked into Skeldale House.
Jackie Smith's design really feels like home.
(cat mewing)
- [Siegfried] Dispensary.
(footsteps)
Oh, emasculator.
(door opening)
- [Anna] Everything had been made slightly dirty,
so nothing was pristine.
Everything was lived-in, and used, and loved
and made up from different phases of someone's life.
And it does feel like a home.
You forget you're not actually in a house.
(soft orchestral music)
- What's wrong? Why can't I have that?
- Because it's not one word and it's spelled differently.
- Yes, yes-- apart from that.
(silence)
- [Narrator] The very first episode
created some different concerns for Rachel Shenton.
- [Rachel] I was terrified in the scene with Clive,
the big bull at the start of the series.
- [Helen] Sorry about Clive.
He's a miserable devil at the best of times.
- Who's Clive? (chickens clucking)
- This one.
- [Rachel] When I just said casually
to one of the animal handlers,
"How much does he weigh?"
And they were like, "Oh, we, I don't know. Two ton?"
(cheeky orchestral music)
I was like, "Oh my God."
His head was like the bonnet of my car.
It was like the biggest thing I've ever seen.
- [Helen] Go on, get!
- [Rachel] She was probably around these types of animals
as a toddler.
It had to feel like second nature,
so you just have to swallow everything else back and go,
"This is what we're doing."
And it's like one of those moments in filming where you go,
"I've just personally overcome something," as well.
- [Helen] Thanks. (chicken squawking)
Just don't look him in the eye.
(bull bellowing)
- [Rachel] Everyone was a little bit wary of the bull.
Everybody else was behind a gate
and at one point,
they were trying to get him to get a bit closer to camera
'cause he was just off on his own.
And he took maybe one more step than they would've liked,
and you just saw these big burly cameramen--
and Nick Ralph-- scatter.
Nick Ralph was up on that wall for real.
- [Callum] It was Nick's first-ever filming job,
so seeing him go from, like,
a complete amateur with screen acting
to one of the finest screen actors I've ever seen
was a real pleasure over the years to watch.
- Dick Rudd's having trouble with a calf.
Better wake Mr. Farnon.
- Don't! I'll go.
- Wha- - I can do it.
- [Nicholas] The birthing of the calf at the end of Episode One
was such a monumental moment
and just one big challenging scene,
and then it worked.
(cow lowing) - [James] Got it!
I hooked the jaw.
Take the rope.
- [Nicholas] I just remember afterwards,
just being so excited,
we were like, "That's a wrap for the week.
Thanks, guys, have a brilliant week!"
And everyone was just so excited.
I just felt we'd really achieved something.
(music swelling)
- [James] I think you've got it!
(cow mooing)
(hay rustling) (uplifting orchestral music)
(James panting and laughing with relief)
- It was just amazing seeing
that first episode come together.
It was a real sort of injection of energy into that series of...
seeing how delightful it was
and how happy people were with what we were making.
And then it went out to the audience and did the same,
which was brilliant.
- [Samuel] We watched it together in the Herriot Hotel
halfway through the first season,
and it was a big, important moment
where we all just thought, "Yeah, this works."
- Must have seen it a thousand times.
Never gets old.
(serene string music)
- [Nicholas] It was just huge for James's character,
and I just thought it was a wonderful episode.
And it was the start, it was the beginning of it all.
It was my first TV job as well,
so yeah, it holds a lot of special memories.
- [Samuel] It came out during COVID,
and nobody could make any journeys at all,
so we were their journeys, in their head and in their heart.
And many people have never left us since then.
(car driving over asphalt) - [James] Wooo!
(bright piano and string theme)
Wooooo!
(piano and string theme concluding)
- [Narrator] When we return,
we'll continue our comprehensive
look back at "All Creatures."
We'll examine the evolution
of each main character.
And you won't want to miss it when we revisit
the most memorable scenes
in "All Creatures Great and Small:
Cheers to the Years!"
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- [Narrator] Welcome back to "All Creatures Great & Small:
Cheers to the Years!"
Today, we're taking a look back
at everything we love about this series.
Coming up, we'll discuss some of the most memorable scenes,
and we'll even visit the rooftop at Heston Grange
where so many special moments have taken place.
But first, let's take a look at the character growth
over the years.
(bright piano and string theme) (whooshing sound)
- I never imagined for a second this is where we'd end up.
- Yes, you did.
- Yes. I did.
- [Rachel] What's so wonderful about playing a character
year on year, is you really get to evolve with the character,
and you get to see them going through
all those major milestones.
- Look at this.
Quietest baby in all of Darrowby.
- [Tristan] Hm!
- [Rachel] There's parts of me that are Helen
and parts of Helen that are me.
I think certainly her love for the outdoors
has probably rubbed off on me.
We spend a lot of time in Yorkshire,
and so I get out exploring.
(water rushing) (birds tweeting)
- [Helen] Morning, James!
(water splashing)
- Oh, good morning!
(gentle orchestral music) (water splashing)
- [Nicholas] It's always wonderful
playing a character like James as well.
'cause every year is a rollercoaster for him.
- He's making- - I am-
- you partner.
- Oh, Mrs. Hall, I was really rather hoping
to tell him that, myself.
- Partnership?
In the practice?
A 50/50 split?
- [Nicholas] He continues to grow as a person
professionally and personally.
- You may now...
(soft string music)
kiss the bride.
(soaring string music)
(Helen and James laughing)
- [Rachel] We've seen Helen...
from being a sort of young free single girl,
falling in love, to getting married
and having her first child and moving out of Heston Grange.
There are all these major life events
that we've seen happen.
There's nothing she can't do.
She takes it on with ease.
There's always a bit of humor.
She smiles a lot, and I love that about her.
- [Helen] Are you saying what I think you're saying?
- If you want to start a family-
- You know I do.
- Me too.
- Well, then.
- Shall we...
- Get cracking?
- Well, I was trying to think of something
a bit more romantic.
(uplifting orchestral music)
- It's amazing getting to just be these characters
for so long and to spend so much time in their shoes.
- And you've been your usual industrious self?
- Oh, you know me.
Nose to the grindstone.
(James laughing)
- [Callum] Tristan has rubbed off on me a bit.
He's taught me just to be more positive in life,
to not stress as much about certain things,
and to just sort of go with the flow.
- Sacred occasion, Tristan.
- That doesn't mean we can't have a bit of fun.
- [Callum] Tristan has matured a lot over the years.
You think of him from Series One,
him sort of sneaking onto trains, stealing cars,
making the bumper fall off.
(bumper crashing)
(ominous orchestral music)
- [Siegfried] Tristan! Herriot!
- Right! (rapid footsteps)
(door opening)
(knocking) (Tristan snorting)
- He hasn't lost that fun side,
but he's just grown up a lot over the years.
- [Tristan] There was a stray moping about the place.
I wanted to see if I could do something for him
and help Mrs. Donovan at the same time.
- That sounds very kind of you.
- [Callum] Now he carries a lot more responsibility,
a lot more maturity.
- [Tristan] What symptoms do we look for?
- A high pulse and a discolored membrane.
- And if we need further confirmation.
- Best thing is to listen to its gut.
- Give that man a coconut!
(soldiers laughing)
- I think Mrs. Hall's grown a lot in happiness.
- Violet Creams.
- You're spoiling me.
(Gerald laughing)
- [Anna] We've seen some difficult things in her life
get resolved,
and she counts her blessings.
She knows where she's been lucky in life,
and I think that's lovely
that we've seen that forward's motion for her.
(gentle music)
- [Mrs. Hall] Edward?
(tense string music)
- [Edward] Aye. It's me.
(Mrs. Hall sobbing)
- Merry Christmas... son.
Where are you?
- I think Siegfried's sort of become more himself.
The sharp bits have got sharper,
and the soft bits have got softer,
and I like that.
- [Siegfried] What are you implying?
I'm known for my patience.
(horn honking)
Get out of the way!
(glass smashing) Oh, blast it!
What's this?
It's empty!
I grow tired of endlessly clearing up after you all!
- [Samuel] He's always been quite a deep, complex person.
I was always drawn to that.
And his backstory makes so much sense.
That's a gift to an actor.
- [Siegfried] I told Evelyn that I... wasn't ready for children.
(laughing) What kind of father would I be?
The, the notion was absurd.
She didn't understand.
She saw something in me I... I didn't see.
- [Samuel] I've never played a character for this long.
It's like I know this person.
I know what he would do.
It's like putting on a really comfortable pair of shoes.
(cheeky orchestral music)
"For if they fall, the one shall lift up the other."
(cheeky music continuing) (whooshing sound)
- [Narrator] Another place that always lifts us up
are the stories at Heston Grange.
(whooshing sound) (sheep bleating)
- [Helen] Jenny-- get yourself up to the house!
Your homework needs doing!
- [Narrator] When we're not spending time
with Helen's newfound family at Skeldale House,
over the years, we've spent a lot of time
with her blood relatives at the Heston Grange farm.
- [Hugh] The lawyers have... added Helen's and Jenny's names
and... specified that they'll inherit the lease
on the same terms.
That's assuming that they want to continue farming.
- That's wonderful!
Thank you.
- Thank you, Hugh.
(uplifting orchestral music) (birds chirping)
- It's very good of you.
- [Narrator] Helen's sister, Jenny, is played
by Imogen Clawson
and her father, Richard Alderson, is played by
Tony Pitts.
- What do you think we should do, Dad?
- [Richard] I think final decision's
got to be yours, Love.
If it don't sit right with you...
we'll manage well enough without.
- [Rachel] I'd describe Helen as a modern woman in 1937.
She's had a lot to deal with.
Mum passed away.
She's, you know, looks after her dad.
She looks after the farm.
She looks after her younger sister, Jenny.
She's almost become a mother figure to Jenny.
- In a few months' time, you'll have your very own pony.
- [Helen] Lucky girl.
(birds chirping)
Candy were our mum's.
- [Jenny] Yeah, sort of like the next generation.
- [Rachel] What's really lovely about the Jenny and Helen stuff
is Rachel and Imogen's relationship
has matured as well.
- [Helen] What do you think we should do?
(birds chirping)
- Why are you asking me?
(birds chirping)
- 'Cause I want to know what you think.
- [Rachel] Helen knows that the farm is being taken care of
by Jenny Alderson because
(laughing) she is so capable.
I was gonna say Richard, but I-- it's gonna be Jenny.
- [Jenny] Boots off!
I'll not have you making this into a pigsty.
(Jenny's footsteps)
I've fed Scruff.
I'll check Joan over and put in some fresh straw for Candy.
- [Rachel] Helen has left Heston Grange to move into Skeldale,
and it was a big deal for her,
stepping away from Heston Grange,
leaving her sister and her dad,
and there's been moments throughout this series,
which have been really nice,
where she's kind of missed things at home actually.
- [Helen] Jenny?
- I've left school.
- What do you mean, you've "left"?
- Well, I'm allowed now.
- It was a decision that Jenny made
that Helen really would've been in on
had she have been there,
and she felt, "I've missed something important."
- [Helen] The truth is, you've always been a farmer.
A truly excellent one.
- No, I haven't.
- Yes, you have.
(breeze blowing) (cow mooing)
- Well... if I've been any good at anything,
it's all been down to you.
- Helen's gone from being her sort of mother figure
to her friend.
It's been a joy to play.
- What's it feel like?
- Like I've eaten all the pies in Yorkshire.
It's exciting... but terrifying.
- Well, I can't wait to be an auntie.
- There was one scene we were doing recently in Heston
'round the dinner table,
and, for some reason,
I said "Tony" instead of "Richard"
to Tony Pitts, who plays Richard Alderson.
I really said, I said, "Oh, come on Tony...
(laughing) ...ah, Richard."
- You can tell by looking at him.
He's got farmer's hands.
(Jimmy crying)
- [Helen] All right, that's enough!
- [James] The brains of a vet.
- Both of you, that's enough.
- [Richard] He'll be a farmer.
- It says, "and son"
- James. - on the bag.
- "Alderson's Farm," it says!
- Both of you!
He's a baby!
Not wishing his life away.
As long as he's happy and healthy,
that's all any of us could want, isn't it?
- [Richard] He'll be a farmer.
- [Helen] Dad!
- [Narrator] Regardless of what he wants
his grandson Jimmy to be later in life,
Richard is always looking out for his two daughters.
(serene orchestral music)
- Ah, don't wait up.
- Look after James.
- Don't you misbehave either.
- Right. You two be careful up on that roof,
and you, steady with my ale.
- Finding those moments for Helen and Jenny were easy
because it wasn't a huge departure
from what we were really doing.
Our relationship in real life is like that.
- [Helen] He's not the only one who's growing up
'round here either.
- I know.
- You're a proper mum now.
- I meant you.
(Jenny snorts)
- [Rachel] Having that sort of anchor point on top of the roof
looking over Heston is perfect
'cause it's sort of removed from the busy world,
and you've got actually a bird's eye view
so you can quite literally see clearly up there,
and it's beautiful.
I look out, and I sort of imagine
scenes in Helen's life playing out.
- [Helen] Mum's everywhere here.
(birds chirping)
Always will be.
- [Rachel] As you're up there, you can see all the history,
and so it's easy to get into those emotional moments.
Imogen's such a joy to act alongside.
She brings a real truthfulness to it.
(wistful piano music)
- [Helen] I might be a mum,
(wistful music continuing)
but I were your sister first
(wistful music continuing)
and I won't stop worrying about you.
(wistful music continuing)
- (chuckling) I've noticed.
(music concluding) (whooshing sound)
- [Narrator] And over the years, we've noticed
that this special Heston Grange location
has become very meaningful.
Let's visit the Yockenthwaite roof.
(bright string music)
- [Nicholas] Hello, I'm Nicholas Ralph
and I play James Herriot
in "All Creatures Great and Small,"
and welcome to Yockenthwaite,
one of our very special filming locations,
one hour outside of Harrogate.
We're here to talk about very special filming location,
which is the Yockenthwaite barn,
and more specifically the roof of the barn.
So the barn here and the roof in particular
is very special to the show.
There's been a couple of key scenes that have happened here,
especially one for James and Helen.
The roof of this barn is where
James and Helen had their first kiss.
- [James] You were right.
I get it now.
I'm sorry about...
(hand patting) (gentle orchestral music)
- [Nicholas] And here we have the back of the barn.
We had harnesses on and there was guys down here
holding the harnesses as we sat here.
- Behind us is usually about five or six big burly men
just really sort of grab you should you fall forward.
So that's the realities of that very romantic scene.
- [Nicholas] When we were doing the dialogue,
you had this in the background.
And then for the drone shot, when it panned out,
you had the front.
(gentle music continuing)
It really is one of those locations
where you can shoot in 360 degrees.
- [Helen] This was my mum's favorite spot,
up here on this roof.
(birds chirping)
We used to come up here at lunchtime
and eat our sandwiches.
(water flowing)
And she'd point out different parts of the farm
and tell me, "That's where you scraped your knee,
trying to jump over the bales." (chuckling)
- [Nicholas] They have a little bit of a heart-to-heart,
Helen manages to open up to James
and it's a beautiful, stunning, lovely moment between them.
- [Rachel] We felt like the audience were going,
"Yes, come on, these two got to get together."
- [Helen] "And that spot, there.
(gentle music continuing) (birds chirping)
that's where I told your dad I were pregnant with you.
(birds chirping)
And his grin filled his whole face."
- [Helen] We'd sort of blocked out what we wanted it to be like
and then on the day, it was raining,
as it does in Yorkshire all the time.
- [Nicholas] However, about 90 minutes
before the end of the day,
as we are rolling up to film the scene,
I'm not joking, the clouds parted and the sun streamed in.
(romantic string music) (birds chirping)
We got our harnesses on, we got up onto that roof,
and we managed to film the scene in the golden hour
with a drone shot on this stunning landscape out here
in the wild Yorkshire Dales.
(romantic music continuing)
(whooshing sounds)
- [Narrator] As we say "Cheers to the Years,"
we decided to ask the cast
about their most memorable scenes.
- Morning, Colonel.
No Pandhi today?
- [Merrick] You're a vet, Farnon.
- Absolutely my favorite scene in all six years
is the exploding cow.
- [Siegfried] Right! (clapping hands)
This is where we go in.
I hope you aren't squeamish, it's not for the fainthearted.
- [Callum] The scene for some reason
that is really jumping into my head is
this scene with an actor, James Fleet,
who played a character called Colonel Merrick.
He's sort of been a bit annoying towards Siegfried.
- [Merrick] Farnon, what was it you said?
"The finest vet in the district?"
You're putting on a right show now.
- [James] Siegfried,
do you not think the good colonel could benefit
from seeing some of your handiwork up close?
- [Samuel] You puncture a cow's stomach
and its sprays green slime over me and Cal and Nick
and James Fleet.
(splashing) (Tristan groaning)
(cow mooing)
- [Callum] I remember James Fleet,
this celebrated actor,
just... (laughing)
just this stomach exploding into his face,
and the gunk going underneath his eyelids
and him having to get like a saline thing
into his eyes to wash them out.
And then afterwards going, "That was brilliant.
I hope I come back for the next series."
And we were like, "What? Have we not put you off?"
And we didn't, at all.
- Farnon, what the...?
- [Siegfried] It's Mr. Farnon, and my bill will be in the post.
- [Samuel] And then at the end, we just go,
"Well, I think that went rather well, didn't you?"
(laughing) And it always makes me laugh.
- [Siegfried] Well, I thought that went rather well.
- Mm, absolutely.
- Quite the show. - Textbook.
- I certainly love watching the episodes
because then you see all the bits that you weren't in.
- [Rachel] I really like watching the stuff
that I'm not in, and actually, sometimes on purpose,
I don't read any of the other stuff.
I like watching it as a viewer,
so I'd just stick to sort of my own storyline
and then let that be a surprise when I watch it.
- [Edward] Mother?
- Edward.
- [Rachel] Season Three, Episode Five,
at the train station
where Mrs. Hall's reunited with Edward.
That to me is a standout.
- I love you more than anything in this world, Edward.
You need to know how much you mean to me.
- [Rachel] It was perfectly written.
It was done with such delicacy.
Performances were great and it looked fantastic.
- [Mrs. Hall] Edward Hall...
(poignant piano music)
I've always seen the good in you.
- The event episodes are always really fun,
so whether it's a fair or the cricket week,
you have all the cast, lots of supporting players
and guest artists that we have.
And when you just get a big team together like that,
I just think it's always just so worth it.
- [Siegfried] Here he is!
- Hello.
- An hour to play and the last man in.
(James chuckling)
- Weirdly, what comes to mind, is the dead budgie
and then Tristan pretending it hadn't died.
(cloth unfolding)
- It's not what it looks like.
- Is it a dead budgie?
- Yes.
- Then it's exactly what it looks like.
- [Narrator] We caught up with Callum Woodhouse
on the set of Skeldale House.
- This is Exam Room One.
I've taken out the cage
and the budgie is meant to have a heart attack.
I put him in this drawer here.
Safety pins now.
God, imagine if the budgie was still in there.
(drawer opening)
- You weren't supposed to see that.
(drawer closing)
- [Callum] When I start giving it CPR,
which I sort of improvised on the day,
which made Brian Percival, the director, like howl--
I think he actually ruined one of the takes
from laughing when I did it.
- [Tristan] Oh, God.
- Something the matter, dear?
- Tractor driving, I remember that being a challenge
and loving doing that.
- [Tristan] Can I have a go?
I always wanted to drive a tractor.
- I wouldn't.
(distant bird calls)
- I won't.
- [Anna] We had a big old, 'round the house argy-bargy,
and they were really fun scenes to do.
When she calls him by his full name,
those scenes are always good.
If the Siegfried Donald Farnon comes out...
(laughing)
it's, it's usually a good scene.
(door opening)
- [Mrs. Hall] Siegfried Donald Farnon.
(door opening) - I've no doubt
there's a very simple, logical explanation.
- [Nicholas] The James and Helen stuff is just wonderful
for the first few series,
the first time that they say, "I love you"
out in the middle of the Dales...
- [James] I'm not afraid to say it.
(birds chirping) (wistful piano music)
- Say what?
(wistful music continuing)
- I want to spend the rest of my life with you.
Here, in the Dales.
(wistful music continuing)
- I'm not afraid either.
- My favorite episode is the Christmas special
from Series Three--
the one where Tristan sort of leaves for war.
(envelope smacking)
- [Siegfried] This came for you this morning.
You're still in a reserved occupation.
You don't have to go.
- Yes I do.
- [Callum] They have this... heart-to-heart.
They say, "I love you" to each other for the first time.
- You're my little brother.
If anything happened to you, it would be the end for me.
I'd die if I let anything happen to you.
I bloody love you, you damn fool.
- [Samuel] I think the simplest lesson that Siegfried learns
in the Season Three finale is,
if you love someone, set them free.
We loved each other and both went off knowing that,
and that was important.
- (clearing throat) Suppose this is it.
(poignant piano and string music)
(embracing)
(poignant music continuing)
Are, are we huggers now?
- [Siegfried] Yes, we bloody well are.
(poignant music continuing)
(inhaling deeply)
I'm so damn proud of you.
- [Callum] Tristan leaves in the exact same way
that he arrives three seasons ago.
That's maybe my favorite episode.
(door clanging shut) - Tristan!
(piano and string music swelling)
(whistle blowing)
(Siegfried chuckling)
(poignant music continuing)
(train chugging)
(poignant music swelling and concluding)
(Siegfried sighing)
(bright piano and string theme)
- [Narrator] When we return,
we'll discuss the cast's favorite toast from the series.
We'll spend some time in the kitchen with Anna Madeley,
also known as Mrs. Hall,
and the talented chef who makes all the food
Mrs. H serves in Skeldale house.
You won't want to miss that, and much more,
in "All Creatures Great and Small: Cheers to the Years!"
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- [Narrator] Welcome back to "All Creatures
Great & Small: Cheers to the Years!"
Coming up, we'll hear from the cast and crew
about how they've built a family over the years
of creating the show.
We'll also spend some time in the kitchen with Mrs. Hall
and the real chef who makes all the on-camera food.
But, first, as we say, "Cheers to the Years,"
let's discuss our favorite toast.
(whooshing sound) (festive orchestral music)
(glass clinking)
- A toast.
- May I raise a toast?
- This calls for a toast.
- My favorite toast throughout all the years
100% has to be "Merry Bloody Christmas!"
- Merry Bloody Christmas.
- It's times like this...
which remind me how grateful I am...
for everything I have.
(soaring orchestral music)
- [Narrator] Of course, everyone's favorite toast
comes from the Season One finale.
- [Siegfried] Well, there's that.
(soft string music)
So...
Uh, well...
(string music continuing)
Merry Bloody Christmas.
(string music continuing)
- [All] Merry Bloody Christmas!
- It's the best!
You can't have Christmas without it.
- [All] Merry Bloody Christmas! (glasses clinking)
- [Narrator] It's now become a favorite expression
for everyone to say.
- [Samuel] My children are quite good at saying
"Merry Bloody Christmas." (chuckling)
- I guess the only thing left to say...
is Merry Bloody Christmas.
(James chuckling)
- [All] Merry Bloody Christmas!
(Mrs. Hall chuckling) (uplifting orchestral music)
(whooshing sound)
- [Narrator] Of course, right after any given toast,
the cast digs into the delicious food on the Skeldale table.
Let's spend some time in the kitchen with Mrs. Hall.
(whooshing sounds)
- Dinner is served.
(festive orchestral music)
- [Siegfried] Oh, Mrs. Hall! (all fawning and chuckling)
You've outdone yourself.
(uplifting string music)
- [Narrator] We took a moment with Anna Madeley,
who spent some time with Bethany Heald,
the chef who makes all the food
that appears on camera for "All Creatures."
- Truth is, you're our real Mrs. Hall, aren't you?
'Cause I don't actually cook anything-- spoiler.
- You mean you don't create all of the meals
(Anna laughing) that they're eating?
- You really didn't need to do all of this.
- [Mrs. Hall] Your birthday only comes around once a year.
Just eat up, and then you can get out from under me feet.
- [Anna] Lots of viewers have said to us
that they... get quite hungry from watching the show,
(Bethany laughing) 'cause they enjoy...
what you've cooked on it.
- [Bethany] That was nice to hear.
- [Tristan] Something smells delicious.
- This looks delicious.
- It looks tremendous.
- [Anna] Do you do anything to the food to make it...
look different?
- I try not to, I mean
there might be a little brush of oil or a spritz,
and then we've got the special effects guys
who come and add steam.
- When opening the oven door- - Steaming...
it can (making whooshing noise)
- [Bethany] ...billow out.
(pan bottom scraping)
- Oh, what a treat!
Thank you, Mrs. Hall.
- [Anna] How do you... manage to know how much to cook for us?
- We kind of work it out on rehearsal, don't we?
So, um... I'll have enough prepared for some of everything,
and then, when...
- Once we've rehearsed it- - when you've rehearsed it,
Then I'll go away and cook the vast amounts of... toast,
or whatever it is.
- I can't believe what you've pulled off here, Aud.
If it were me, I'd have told Tris
he could have a cold buffet and count himself lucky.
- Oh, the cooking's no trouble,
all the other madness...
- You don't know what somebody's gonna decide to eat.
It might be a sausage, it might be black pudding,
it might be toast.
So you need to have enough of everything.
- [Mrs. Hall] We don't know who is coming.
Better to have too many than too few.
- [Bethany] If it's... a food scene before lunch,
then everyone nails all the food.
(Anna chuckling) Whereas, if it's
just after lunch,
there might be a bit of... just picking
at the last little...
- [Anna] Picking after... - [Bethany] bit of toast.
- [Anna] Well, sometimes people say,
"I'm not gonna have a big lunch
'cause I know we're having breakfast."
- Oh, really? (both chuckling)
- So that happens too.
- Well, Mrs. Hall,
this is certainly... a lot of food.
(silverware clanking)
- Well, you've been hard at it all day--
I expect you've worked up an appetite.
(James snickering)
- [Callum] There's an episode where... Mrs. Hall
has cooked the biggest Sunday dinner of all time,
and neither Siegfried and James can eat it.
And Tristan comes home and he looks at Siegfried
and he says,
"I'd do anything for you, Siegfried,"
and then he just gets to work.
- [Tristan] Gentlemen, never fear...
(unbuckling belt) (sighing)
Cometh the hour, cometh the man.
Anything to help you, Siegfried.
- [Callum] We had Andy Hay directing it,
and he just put a camera on my face,
and I was like...
I got to the point where I looked like,
sort of like a squirrel,
sort of like taking nuts somewhere,
like, my cheeks were so big.
And then he was like, "Now a full roast potato,"
and it just made me laugh,
and all the food came, came flying back out.
- Anything I can do to help?
- Mm, stay out the way,
and don't touch anything.
- Understood. (pan banging)
- [Bethany] We obviously have a prep kitchen,
because ov- the oven doesn't work-
- [Anna] On account of you can't-
- [Bethany] Yeah. - [Anna] wash or cook anything
... in it. (both laughing)
- So, yeah, things... magically appear
from the, um... the kitchen around the corner.
- Well, you can take them sausage rolls through for me,
would you, James?
(festive string music)
There's a good lad.
- She cooks in here at the table
as everybody's eating quite often, doesn't she?
- I say, Mrs. H, it smells marvelous!
- It really does.
- Yes, well, it's just bread and cheese for now,
so hands off.
- [Anna] You'd need to buy everything on a daily basis,
that was sort of fresh produce.
There's no fridge in the house.
- [Bethany] No.
- [Anna] So pies were a great way of things lasting.
- [Mrs. Hall] I shouldn't be late,
but there's a pie in the oven, just in case.
- Thank you very much.
- [Samuel] I think Mrs. Hall's black pudding...
is always delicious.
- [Siegfried] This is Mrs. Hall's domain.
Cooks a mean black pudding.
Makes it herself, you know,
place looks like an abattoir afterwards.
- [Narrator] Black pudding is a distinct dish
from the United Kingdom,
similar to blood sausage.
- [Samuel] A good black pudding is not like anything else.
The problem is when you have to do 20 takes.
So I generally don't have breakfast.
- I'm off to the butcher's.
If I can get a decent enough joint,
I might try my hand at a Beef Wellington.
- Beef Wellington certainly
has a major experience - Beef Wellington is the...
- [Bethany] the last few years. - ...one big dish I had a go at.
- [Anna] I had a go at home-- it took me all day.
There's a monstrous amount of sh- chopping.
But it worked, and everybody ate it,
and I was really-
- It is delicious. - ...really pleased with myself.
- Aw! (Anna chuckling)
- Mrs. Hall, thank you for making such a delicious meal,
a- and beef of which Wellington would be proud.
(all chuckling)
- Hear, hear!
- Hear, hear.
- I think it's the only show I've been on
where everyone asks to eat the food.
(both chuckling) - That's a compliment.
- [Bethany] I want to cook food that looks real
and people want to eat.
- What do we have here, Mrs. H?
- Ah, put it back on. - Ahh.
- Put it back on, back on. (all chattering)
- [Helen] I'll take a little dressing.
That's enough, thank you.
(whooshing sound)
- [Narrator] And it wouldn't be a proper
"Cheers to the Years"
without a visit to the local Darrowby Pub--
The Drovers Arms.
- Can I interest you in a pint in The Drovers?
- Everyone, who wants a drink?!
- [Crowd] Yeah!
Whoa! Come on!
- There you go. (lively fiddle music)
(stomping and clapping) (Siegfried laughing)
- [Colin] Pubs in England are a glorious place
where people congregate on a regular basis
and talk and discuss and support each other.
- No, no more, Tom.
Look, I have plenty left here.
- Ah, it's empty.
- Which is plenty enough for me. (laughing)
- [Narrator] The recurring theme at The Drovers
is a lack of funds from Tristan.
- Now you're going to have to give me some money.
- How, I just bought you a drink
don't tell me you've guzzled it already.
- That'll be six shillings, exactly.
(cheeky woodwind music) (crowd murmuring)
- Tristan?
- Would you mind?
I've left my wallet in my other trousers.
(background chattering)
- Yes, I'm a tiny bit short.
- (scoffing) Go on.
- [Callum] Tristan is a younger man,
so would probably want a bit more excitement
in his life, at times.
And I think he gets that from spending so much time
at The Drovers.
He'll just go there at the end of a slow working day,
and just put away a good few ales.
And that's quite a perfect life for Tristan.
- [Tristan] Put your money away, James, this round's on me.
- [Nicholas] There's a big onus on people going to The Drovers
to celebrate a kind of festive time together,
to be as one, as part of the community.
(soaring orchestral music)
(whooshing sound)
- [Narrator] As the show has grown and grown in popularity
over the years,
let's hear from the cast
about some of their fan interactions.
(whooshing sounds)
- [Callum] Every time I get stopped by fans of the show,
it's always really, really, really lovely,
because the nature of the show attracts lovely people.
- [Samuel] The Grassington days are extraordinary.
I met somebody from New Zealand.
- [Nicholas] I met people from Japan, South Africa,
various places in Europe, America, Canada.
It's wonderful, the reach of the show,
and it brings people into the Dales.
People's reaction to seeing me not as James has been funny.
It still takes them a minute, they're like,
"God, you look so different with your jeans
and your trainers on, and your- (laughing)
your hoodie," or whatever it might be.
- [Anna] When we get letters from people,
there are lots of different reasons
in people's lives why the show has touched them,
and, and that's really special to hear.
- [Samuel] We have fans all over the world drawn to it
by, you know, the extraordinary tone
and beauty of the books,
but, on the whole, thinking that we've honored them,
and that's really important.
- [Nicholas] We were out filming recently in Yockenthwaite.
They do tours
out that way now, so we had about five...
different little tour buses go by,
and then we had this mini bus of people stop across the way.
They rack on the theme tune full volume,
and they all came out and they were just da-
they were dancing like this, "God, we love you guys!
You're the reason we're over here dancing
in the driving rain."
And then we're like, "Oh, cool.
Where are you from?" (laughing)
They were like, "Brazil!"
(uptempo string music)
- [Andy] I was in Grassington
and there was, um, three generations
of a family from America,
and they went, "Oh, we love the program."
And that's why they were there.
They'd flown all the way as a family to be in Grassington.
The one thing they really, really look forward
to is hunkering down with "All Creatures Great and Small."
It is like a big hug.
You know, there's a family that loves each other.
You know, every great drama really is about family
and what a family does and how it cares
for one another-- about the community
that cares for one another.
- [Colin] I think this is one of those great shows--
because of these wonderful books--
that you can sit down and watch as a family.
- [Nicholas] We wanted to make a show that all the family,
once again, could sit down and watch together
because they felt that that had been lost a little bit.
And that's something we achieved because people not only
tell us that, but they send pictures
and tag us on Instagram,
saying, "These are my kids and their cousins
and the grandparents and the parents,
all watching it together,
with the animals as well.
And then people tell us
you know, "It's something that we sit down with the
whole family and we watch."
So it's something that's been achieved.
(soft orchestral music fading)
- [Narrator] The Skeldale family sits down
around the table in almost every episode,
but it's the larger family of cast
and crew that make this program sparkle in every episode.
(whooshing sounds)
- Family is a good word for what we are
and whatever that magic is, long may it continue.
- It just feels like coming back to a big family every year.
- [Tristan] As I said, the only way
of surviving Siegfried is if we stick together.
- To surviving Siegfried.
- [Both] Surviving Siegfried. (mugs clanking)
(all laughing)
- [Patricia] The Skeldale family
lead the community and provide for the community
and that feeds back in so, so many ways.
- [Mrs. Pumphrey] I shall never forget your kindness.
(poignant orchestral music)
- Merry Christmas, everyone!
- [All] Merry Christmas!
- [James Anthony-Rose] For Carmody to find this...
family at Skeldale,
has given him a whole sort of emotional landscape.
- [Carmody] I confess I've grown rather fond of the place.
- Skeldale tends to have that effect on people.
(birds chirping outside)
- It does.
- [Rachel] It's an absolute joy to be part of this show.
We love what we do.
It's testament that the crew come back year on year.
- [Nicholas] There's a lot of the crew here
that have been on it since day one, as well.
So you come back and you're like, "Hey, how you doin', Dave?
Nice to see you again."
And then you're just back into it again.
- They approach their work with diligence
and with friendship and with love
and I think that shows on the screen.
- I'm the grip on "All Creatures Great and Small."
- And I'm script supervisor.
- I work as the second assistant camera.
- I have done every season, every episode.
So I was here on day one, page one.
- I'm very lucky to have worked on all six series
of "All Creatures Great and Small."
I've worked on the show since day one, Series One.
- There's very much a family spirit on "All Creatures."
- There's so many familiar faces, year on year,
that it's, it's like a reunion every time we get back together.
- Everybody's so friendly.
The cast are so lovely.
- It's a real privilege to work on a show
with such a nice atmosphere um, and a family feel.
- It's the people.
(peaceful orchestral music)
I love this place.
(peaceful music continuing)
It's my home now.
- [Anna] When it's hard or it's difficult,
everyone works together really well.
Um, it takes real team spirit to make the show.
And we have that.
- [Mrs. Hall] Past few weeks... been the hardest of me life.
(Mrs. Hall exhaling)
And I don't think I'd have got through them...
without your kindness.
- Every year I take a photo
and post it of Scene One, Take One.
And for five out of six of our seasons,
it's had the same director
and the same director of photography out of it.
And that in itself is just a sign of continuity
and strength of our family, I think.
- [Siegfried] To knowledge, fleas... and our growing family.
- [All] Knowledge, fleas, and family.
(whooshing sound)
- [Narrator] As we finish our "Cheers to the Years,"
the cast looks forward to how the themes of
"All Creatures" will continue to entertain us.
(whooshing sound)
- [Nicholas] The show has changed my life
in so many wonderful,
wonderful ways and every year we just get closer
as a little family and it's just an absolute joy
to come back and do another one.
- [Siegfried] Your return is a very welcome change,
indeed, James.
- It's funny, it's moving, it's very truthful
'cause it's based in real life.
It's of another time,
so it's escapist, but it's also very relatable
'cause it's human beings and how they behave.
- Well, you've earned your stripes.
Fleas tend to come with our occupation.
- Also lice and worms.
- And falling headlong in the muck.
(laughing)
- [Callum] Obviously people love period dramas
and people love that time,
but the stories within that period drama are timeless
and I think that's why people love it so much.
- Good feeling, isn't it?
- It really is.
(birds chirping) (cow mooing)
- First calf.
- [Samuel] Modern life is very confusing.
It's very easy to feel that you're out of touch.
I think doing a series where people, on the whole,
are connected, where they try and do their best for each other
is quietly revolutionary.
- Hello, Suzie.
How you getting on with those pups of yours?
- [Anne] They're all grand. (chuckling)
First one you got out's biggest of the lot.
We named him James.
- [James] I'll have to come up and visit him.
- [Nicholas] You've got high drama, you've got romance.
It's all there, and ultimately, it's feel-good, it's uplifting
and it leaves you with a smile on your face.
- [James] I love you so much.
(tender piano and string music)
- I love you too.
(piano and string music fading)
- [Callum] It's just about very honest
and real relationships between people
and I think that's why it's stood the test of time.
- You passed, little brother.
- I passed! (laughing)
- [Siegfried] Our father would be very proud of you...
and so am I.
- [Rachel] The cast are... friends
that I miss when we're not shooting.
So it's just a joy.
I feel incredibly lucky to be part of it.
- This is my home and you're not on the outside.
This is your home too,
so you should start treating it as such.
Come here.
- [Anna] I hope we'll keep in touch over the years
because we'll have a shared... memory
that will be even bigger than any one of us can remember.
- [Mrs. Hall] To things that never change.
- [All] Things that never change.
(glasses clinking)
- [Anna] It's been an amazing journey,
and kind of blows my mind now to think
that we can look back over five years.
Everyone's children have grown up
and people have got new dogs.
(crowd murmuring)
- [Narrator] Each year on the last day of filming,
the cast and crew of "All Creatures"
get together for a group photo.
(joyful orchestral music)
- Everybody's as lovely as they seemed on day one.
And the series has turned out to have all the complexity
and the beauty and the simplicity
that it had in the first series.
So to be allowed to do it again is just
such a huge privilege.
- Cheers!
- [James] Cheers. - [Maggie] Cheers.
(glasses clinking)
- [All] Cheers! (mugs clanking)
(crew cheering)
(camera flash popping)
(cheering and applauding)
- [Narrator] Thank you for joining us
for this comprehensive look back at
"All Creatures Great and Small" on MASTERPIECE.
We've heard from the cast
and creators about everything they love about the show.
And we've said, "Cheers!" to all the magic moments
that have come to life from these classic
James Herriot stories.
Until next time, this has been
"All Creatures Great and Small: Cheers to the Years!"
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