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(mysterious music)
[Narrator] The village of Marlow is a riverside gem,
where elegant architecture meets boutique shops,
where graceful rowers glide past manicured parks.
Life in this idyllic English village seems pretty perfect
if it weren't for the murders, which, of course,
makes it the perfect setting for amateur sleuths
Judith, Suzie, and Becks.
- [Judith] Becks Starling, Suzie Harris,
and Judith Potts reporting for duty.
- [Narrator] In "The Marlow Murder Club"
on "Masterpiece Mystery", the quiet village of Marlow
hides a surprising number of puzzles
that the police are struggling to solve,
which is where our quirky team of
amateur detectives comes in.
- There's something you need to see.
- What? - Evidence that suggests
it wasn't an accident.
It was murder.
- [Narrator] We'll go behind the scenes to help solve
some of the puzzles of how this favorite series is made.
- We're not gonna miss this, are we?
- [Narrator] And we look ahead to a brand new season
while we revisit favorite moments and learn inside secrets
from the cast and creators in
"Solving the Puzzles of The Marlow Murder Club".
(mysterious music swells)
- [Samantha] If I was trying to describe
"The Marlow Murder Club" in three words,
it would be intriguing,
surprising, and heartwarming.
- His body was moved to the close?
- [Judith] How fascinating.
- No. - DS Malik has hired us
as civilian advisors.
- "The Marlow Murder Club" is about Judith,
and she bumps into what she thinks is a murder.
- [Responder] We'll get someone sent straight away.
- Oh, please hurry.
I think someone's just shot him.
- [Robert] 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 dog walker, and together,
they solve a sequence of murders that happen here in Marlow.
- We need to start investigating.
- [Becks] Won't Tanika mind?
- Mind? She'll be livid.
But until she tells us we can't nose around-
- [Suzie] We can do what we like. Yeah, I like it.
- The dynamic between the three women
of "The Marlow Murder Club", Judith, Suzie,
and the character that I play, Becks,
is very much what makes the show interesting and exciting.
- What if he had an accomplice?
- Who was inside the study,
killing Sir Peter while he stayed outside.
- [Becks] Like who?
- How about the loyal gardener?
- [Cara] There's a great chemistry between them all,
and they have strengths in different areas.
- I wonder if there's a way to find out.
- Maybe there is.
A dog walker has many keys.
- [Natalie] 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 sisterhood.
- Did we get her? - [Suzie] Oh, Becks.
It all went wrong. She-she got away.
- What? - Suzie!
- It went exactly as Judith said.
- Yes! - We've got her!
- Yes!
(all laughing)
- [Samantha] Everyone loves a murder mystery,
and a good script is where it all begins.
You get to the end and you go (gasps).
- When will he be back?
- [Speaker] Tomorrow. Do you want me to leave a message?
- No. Don't worry.
By tomorrow, it will be too late.
Thank you. - Goodbye.
(tense music)
- There's going to be a fourth murder.
(music intensifies)
Me.
- [Robert] Behind all of these beautiful Farrow & Ball
painted front doors are murderous black hearts.
(Caroline gasps)
- Caroline?
(tense music)
- [Samantha] Because Robert wrote the book and the script,
there's the same humour, and the glorious characters,
he writes glorious characters.
- [Robert] I've really tried to develop strong
female storylines in this show in particular,
because you just don't see three women
catching killers that often on the telly.
- The trail ends there,
but it confirms the connection
between the theft and the murder.
- That's brilliant.
- [Judith] I think we can work out
what that connection might be.
- 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.
- [Cara] The three words I'd use to describe
"The Marlow Murder Club" would be,
never underestimate women.
- Finally, we have it.
Who killed Sir Peter, why he had to die,
and how the killer managed to escape from a locked room.
But if we're going to prove it,
I'm going to need your help.
(music swells)
- [Narrator] The original member of
"The Marlow Murder Club", Judith,
is a retired archeologist who has recently
become an amateur detective.
- [Judith] I'd like to see Detective Sergeant Tanika Malik.
The name's Potts, Judith Potts.
- [Samantha] My name is Samantha Bond,
and I play Judith Potts in "The Marlow Murder Club".
- I may just pop in on my way,
see if the police missed anything.
- How are you going to do that without a warrant?
- Well, I'll worry about that when I get there.
- [Samantha] Judith is a retired archeologist.
She's very happy in her own company.
She has a wonderful cat.
- The problem is we're empiricists.
Aren't we, Jasper?
To investigate, we will need the right tools.
(gentle music)
Knowledge can be derived
by what is observed and measured.
(rifling through drawer)
And I know what I observed.
- [Samantha] 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,
but within that, there are lots of shadows.
- [Stefan] No!
(gunshot) (tense music)
- Mr. Dunwoody? Are you all right?
- She strives for the truth,
and she knows it hasn't been investigated properly.
- Can I ask, what made you return
to Mr. Dunwoody's property?
- Oh, well, that's easy.
The gunshot I heard last night.
If you weren't going to take it seriously.
- [Samantha] That's where her archeological
background comes in.
She tries to piece the things very logically together.
- The sun?
- It's the key to unlocking the entire case.
- I don't know. It's at the center of the Solar System?
- Exactly, which means everything else moves around it,
but from our perspective, it moves around us,
subjectivity being what it is.
- Are you all right?
- It's basic celestial mechanics, Suzie,
as was understood by the Celts when they built Newgrange,
or the Mayans, Chichén Itzá,
or the Incas, Machu Picchu.
[Judith] All of which line up with the sun.
- How many coffees has she had?
- What's quite nice from Judith's point of view is
that we meet someone who's very self-sufficient
and used to doing her own thing.
She doesn't really need other people.
She's closed herself off.
- I think you're one of those busy bodies
who has nothing to fill her days with.
- Hmm.
- Who lives on her own with a cat, if I had to guess.
Knowing that I once argued with Stefan,
you've decided to have a little poke around,
thinking yourself the amateur sleuth.
How am I doing?
- Where were you yesterday at 6:30?
- You're really doing this?
- Yesterday. 6:30 PM.
- 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.
- Archeology was always something
I thought I'd return to when the time was right.
- So why now?
- My whole world's opened up recently.
Partly thanks to you two.
It's given me the courage to embrace new experiences
rather than shy away from them.
- Judith likes to work things out very logically,
very precisely.
- [Judith] Spencer Chapman and Faye Kerr.
It says they died last year.
But if they died last year, how did they manage
to witness Ezra's will this year?
- Judith's big quality is a strive for the truth,
and that's what drives her.
- [Judith] It says, "Faith," on it, doesn't it?
- Yeah.
- And here, "Abide with faith, hope, and charity".
All three. But the greatest of these is charity.
- 1 Corinthians. - Oh my God.
Faith, hope, and charity.
- Indeed. There's going to be a third murder.
We're dealing with a serial killer.
(dramatic music)
- [Narrator] Known around town as the vicar's wife,
Becks has quickly shown she has a very keen eye for clues.
(door slides open)
- [Judith] Good heavens.
Hello. - [TV audio] I wanna be like a
sexy cupcake and wants to eat me.
- Hi, I'm Becks Starling. Sorry about hiding in a cupboard.
- My name's Cara Horgan,
and I play Becks Starling in "The Marlow Murder Club".
- This room is very orderly.
Every painting under its own light, positioned to the inch.
And not a spot of dust.
- [Suzie] So?
- [Becks] So how come there's dust on that wall?
- Wow. - I notice dust.
- Don't ever come to my house.
- What are you suggesting?
- There was a bigger painting here until recently.
- She is a mother, she's married to the vicar,
so she's very much at the epicenter of the community.
- [Judith] She is in her element.
- [Suzie] Everyone loves her. What a natural.
- There we are. All done.
- How on earth do you do it?
- Do what?
- [Judith] Put people you don't know so at ease.
- Oh, it's not that hard. You just have to be friendly.
- No, it's more than that.
You care about every person you speak to.
- I've never thought about it like that. Thank you.
- [Cara] She does a lot of the kind of thankless tasks.
(cup shatters)
- I just want to check that you've ordered
the flowers for the confirmation.
- Of course.
- And you're able to pick up the orders of service?
- I'm due at the printers at 10:00.
- Oh, and Mrs. Eddingham wants you to help set up
Liston Hall for the reception with the bishop.
- Mrs. Eddingham?
- Oh, I don't know how you know what I need before I do.
Thank you. You are the best.
- [Cara] We meet her in the story at a time
when she's definitely unsatisfied
and needs new challenges and new things.
- I need you to help me.
- Mrs. Starling, this is criminal damage.
- Mr. Eddingham, can I borrow your four by four?
- Certainly not.
(dramatic music)
Leslie! - Thanks.
- When the crimes start to unfold and she meets Judith,
it starts to reignite that side of her character,
which is kind of curious and interested,
and also very capable.
- These prints were left by
a pair of ladies' hunter wellies.
You can tell from the pattern on the heel.
- Hold on. You know this how?
- It's my specialist subject. Posh wellies of Marlow.
- Oh! - Wonderful.
- [Cara] That often means not being honest with her partner
and having to not be there all the time for her kids,
but she finds she's more satisfied doing that
than she was just being a wife.
- Judith. I'll be there in 10 minutes.
Colin? - Hm?
- [Becks] I'll be out until this afternoon.
- Oh, be as long as you like. I can always do tea.
- Don't worry, I'll be back in time to do tea.
- It's a kind of complicated whodunit,
so hopefully it'll get people hooked.
- What was stopping you from going into the house,
pushing the cabinet onto him and then slipping away again?
- It was his new woman I had a problem with, not Peter.
- [Becks] But that's not true, is it?
We learned how important your name
is to you when we first met.
And the only way you can keep your aristocratic title
is if Sir Peter never remarries,
which he now never will, will he, Lady Bailey?
- [Narrator] A fun piece of the puzzle is how
DS Tanika Malik constantly clashes with the group,
but simultaneously feels like part of
The Marlow Murder Club as well.
- What are you doing here?
- I don't think this was an accident.
- [Tanika] I'm sorry?
- I think someone killed Sir Peter.
- Hello, Judith.
- [Judith] Hello, Tanika.
- My name's Natalie Dew, and I play Tanika Malik.
She is the detective sergeant
in charge of the case.
- The killer left a medallion
at the first crime scene after all.
This one has, "Faith," written on it.
Process it please, Alice. I want it fast tracked.
- Okay.
- The first murder was, "Faith." The second, "Hope."
The next would be, "Charity."
- There's going to be a third murder?
- No, we're gonna catch the killer first.
- [Natalie] The police haven't had to deal with
a murder like this before.
It's definitely their first big, big case.
And so I think it is a real step up for her.
- I just wanted to check in with you on the Marlow shooting.
- The investigation's in its early stages.
Are you bringing in another DI to head up the case?
- Do you want me to?
- No, Ma'am.
- Well, then it's yours, Detective Sergeant.
You will remain acting SIO until further notice.
So, please stay in this office for now.
- [Natalie] She's an amazing woman in terms of
she seems to be balancing home life and work life.
- [Shanti] "A lovely, spiky hedgehog,
around like a pound and near to the ground
and live in a hedge, like a hog."
- That was amazing! Read it again.
- [Natalie] But there is this thing
of having to prove yourself,
and predominantly in quite a male environment as well.
- [DS Perry] If Mrs. Potts says he's involved,
then, uh, well, he's involved.
Isn't that right, Sarge?
- [Natalie] I think she definitely has
moments of self-doubt,
but it's about trying not to show that in front of the team.
- Then why did the killer leave this
at the second crime scene, but nothing at the first?
- [Judith] I know.
- Oh, how did she get in here? Come on, guys.
We are literally the police,
and we've just been broken into.
- [Natalie] With the help of the ladies,
I think they really helped to give her some confidence.
[Cara] Tanika understands the value of the women
amongst her investigation much quicker.
- [Jo] You know, I think she still has to kind of, like,
downplay us with her team, but when we all meet up together,
she's part of our world, you know what I mean?
We need her and she needs us.
- And I suppose you don't want to know,
we've still not found Sir Peter's most recent will.
- It's an irrelevance. Nor have we.
- [Tanika] Not even listening.
And you also don't wanna know,
there wasn't a second key to the room.
The only way that door could have been locked
was with the key we found in Sir Peter's pocket.
- That's fascinating. Not.
- (laughs) Tanika's reaction to the amateur sleuths
is an interesting one.
- [Tanika] I need you to listen to me,
because every time I see you, there are more of you.
- And we're even more successful.
- But we're dealing with a double murder here.
- I was right.
- I think for her, she's trying to quiet that noise,
but I think slowly, there's a real sort of turnaround
where she realizes for all of the chaos
that comes with them, they have brilliant ideas.
- The medallion was found by some civilians.
I've decided to hire them as advisors.
- Not that woman that was here.
- No.
- Oh, thank Christ for that. (laughs)
I thought you'd lost the plot then.
- I mean her and her two friends.
(door beeps)
(upbeat music)
(upbeat music continues)
- [Natalie] I think Tanika really grows
into this sort of new role she has.
- You think he's got an accomplice?
- He's got an accomplice.
- Let's meet up. But no one can know.
Looks like we've got a killer to catch.
- Understood.
- I would hope that the series is just loved by the audience
and that they really get behind the women
and believe those friendships and relationships.
- DI Hoskins is coming back.
Once Greenly informs me of that officially,
I'll be off the case.
(Becks sighs)
I need you to help me solve it before that happens.
- We might be closer than you think.
(music swells)
- [Narrator] As an experienced dog walker in Marlow,
Suzie knows all the ins, outs,
ups, and downs of the village.
- Let me know when you land
and I'll come and get you, all right?
I can't wait to see you.
Yeah.
I gotta go.
- Suzie.
- Ah, yeah, I was just...
I was just checking these tires.
Ooh! They're super fine.
- [Jo] I'm Jo Martin.
I play Suzie Harris, dog walker, single mom,
looking to live some life.
- I can't look after Wally and Evie next week.
My daughter Zeta's coming home. (chuckles)
Yeah, Dave, I know. What am I, your marriage counselor?
It's just for a week.
- She's very inquisitive. Some may say nosy.
- Okay. I-I've seen Tanika.
- We need to get inside the cordon.
- There's a little path through the woods around the back.
Yeah, dog walkers know all the best shortcuts.
- [Narrator] Suzie became a member
of The Marlow Murder Club
when she discovered one of her clients murdered in his home.
While the police were interrogating her,
Judith stepped in.
- [DS Perry] Would now be a good time to finish
taking your witness statement?
- No, it would not.
Ms. Harris has been through quite enough for one day.
I suggest you contact her again tomorrow,
when she's had a chance to recover.
Now, how can I help you get home?
- I think Suzie is a bit lonely.
I think if truth be known, Judith is also,
and even though Becks has got this family,
she feels very othered and alone,
and I think when we all come together,
we find all this common ground.
- I got kicked out the Brownies for
masterminding a rebellion.
(all laughing)
I've never really been a joiner.
- Well, you joined us.
- Yeah, but you and Becks are rebels too,
but you keep it under wraps.
- [Jo] She's busy.
You know, she's climbing through windows,
she's running to save people.
She's always on the go.
- Okay, here goes.
(tense music) (alarm blaring)
(groaning)
- [Judith] Go on!
- [Suzie] I'm trying! (groans)
- She's a little bit more like Judith,
like, she's more, "Ah," you know,
"Let's go for it," you know?
- Stefan was killed with an antique pistol.
And where do antiques come from if not from auction houses?
- [Becks] But he has an alibi.
Elliot and I were at choir practice together.
- Hold on, we can sort this out.
We just need to get a sample of Elliot's handwriting
and see if it matches that handwriting.
And Judith, you just need to stay out of sight.
- These three dynamic women,
very different from each other,
using their life experiences to
navigate their way and to solve crimes.
- I'll tell you what else I don't get.
One of those residents killed Louis Oldham,
dumps his body in the middle of the close,
and none of the others see a thing?
- Well, that's my point exactly.
There's something going on between those two houses.
- There's new horizons for Suzie at the moment.
- Oh.
- We thought you might want some company.
- Seeing as you're our friend and
we love you.
- Well, you better come in then.
(upbeat music)
- [Judith] We've got margaritas.
- [Suzie] Oh, that's my favorite. Thank you.
- [Judith] Did you know they were named after
Queen Margherita of Savoy?
I looked it up.
She visited Naples in 1889. - [Suzie] All that matters
is that it tastes delicious!
- [Judith] And the colors represent
the colors on the Italian flag.
- [Suzie] Oh, Judith!
(swelling strings score)
- [Narrator] So far, we've touched on
many great moments from season one,
and when we return, we'll unpack some of the
investigations that take place in season two.
We'll also look at how humour factors
into this series as we continue with
"Solving the Puzzles of The Marlow Murder Club".
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- [Narrator] Welcome back to "Solving the Puzzles
of The Marlow Murder Club".
Today we're examining all the things we love about
"The Marlow Murder Club" on "Masterpiece Mystery".
Coming up, we'll see a sneak preview of season three,
but for now, let's investigate
what happened in Marlow during season two.
- [Tanika] Judith? - I'm sorry to intrude.
I know how hard this is for you.
But Sir Peter wanted me here.
I'm a key witness, and I have a few questions.
- Getting a series two was thrilling.
- [Cara] It was lovely for all of us to find out
that we've been recommissioned,
and what is wonderful is that the dynamic
and the chemistry are already there.
- There's no James Wyckham here,
but there is a Darren Benson.
- [Judith] Darren Benson, the missing fraudster
whose DNA was found on the watch link.
He looks familiar.
- [Robert] What viewers can look forward to in series two
is more fun, more joy, more murders,
more set pieces of the women doing improbable things.
- I told you Greg Cooper would be on a boat.
- Yeah, that bed's definitely been slept in.
- And there's another empty bottle on the cabin floor.
- But if it is him, where is he now?
I better call Tanika.
- [Cara] We now have six episodes
and three different investigations,
but also the bond between the characters
has developed a lot more now.
- Got a new glow about you, Mrs. P.
- Really?
- Suzie's right. Coming out of retirement really suits you.
- And we're not the only ones who've noticed.
- [Robert] So the very first story is based on my novel,
"Death Comes to Marlow".
The second one is about a war,
effectively, in a suburban cul-de-sac.
And the third one is set in the sailing club.
We get three sets of killers, three sets of suspects,
and also three different writers
telling each of the stories.
- What are you doing here?
- We want to know how a button from your jacket
ended up in your father's dressing room.
- It's a great cast.
We've got most of the same crew, same director.
- [Steve] Coming back this time feels warm and familiar.
When you're on the first series,
you're kind of entering the unknown quite a bit.
You're working out what it is,
and it's working out what it is.
When you're back for series two, you've got a template.
Now it's about really pushing that relationship
up to another level and enjoying
their familiarity with each other.
- [Alison] With the first series,
you never really know if people are gonna love it.
And fortunately, on series one, people did love it,
and so we're sort of back with real confidence.
- Where did you get that?
- [Suzie] Oh, that's his work website.
Louis Oldham's head of accounts for a loans company.
- So someone who fixes loans has been killed,
and we have a property developer who's drowning in debt.
- Got it in one.
- What do you think?
- Why did no one see anything or hear anything?
I think it's one of the people in that close.
(dramatic music)
- In the first series,
it was me just writing based on the books,
and we didn't know who we were gonna cast.
Whereas this time, we've got Sam, we've got Jo,
we've got Cara, we've got Natalie,
so you're actually writing for the actors,
what we've seen them do on screen.
- Professor Gifford seems like an interesting man.
- Oh, yes. And highly respected in his field.
- And not bad looking either.
- Really? I didn't notice.
- She blushed. I knew it.
- My favorite scene is in the church by the bridge.
There's a moment in it where we were tracking
a drone indoors, and had our three heroes come in
with a massive tracking shot that just feels like
a great spectacle, and that sort of
big moment in the church just worked,
and were great fun to shoot and very rewarding.
- We know what happened, and that you knew Seb Teller.
- I didn't set out to hurt anyone, I was...
I was just trying to protect my family.
- [Robert] One of the most enjoyable moments we had
was when we were sitting there talking about
what stories can we tell?
And we started talking about bin wars,
and how everyone in the room had a story of getting antsy
with their neighbors over the bins,
when it goes out, what you put in it.
And it was so much fun for everyone telling their stories,
and you just, you work as a team
and you collect all of the stories in the room,
and you've come up with a murder that would go around that.
Then Lucia went off and wrote her story,
Julia went off and wrote her story,
and it was just so exciting,
and it's been just a privilege to work with them.
- [Alison] One of the things that was just really exciting
to me in thinking about series two was just
the space to explore these women's characters a bit more,
gives you then space to explore
what else is going on in their lives.
So, Suzie's dealing with Zeta about to leave for university
and what that means for her.
Becks is probably a bit more fulfilled,
and she's sort of a bit more focused
on her relationship with Colin.
Judith I think has sort of laid some skeletons to rest.
Really more comfortable in who she is, I think.
- Mr. Eddingham told me you were here.
It's thrilling, isn't it? Discovery of this magnitude.
- Oh, it, it, it certainly is.
It's a coup for Marlow.
- We found another potential burial site out near Cliveden.
I was wondering if you would care to
accompany me on a speculative visit.
- I'd be delighted.
(whimsical music)
- [Narrator] Even though it's a show about solving murders,
it's not puzzling how humour
keeps us laughing with the ladies.
- Excuse me.
Um, the prints on this notebook belong to Liz Curtis.
You need to see if they match any of the fingerprints
you found on the door handle at Stefan's house.
- Is this a poo bag?
- Yep. Correct.
- [Samantha] It's been very funny to shoot,
and it makes the director laugh,
so hopefully it'll make the audience laugh too.
- [Becks] You just have to pretend to be a corpse.
Suzie, you see if you can pick him up.
- I'd rather you didn't call me a corpse.
- Sorry, Colin. The Reverend Corpse.
- Thank you. That's more like it.
- All right, let's do this.
(groans) Hold on, let's get this over here.
If I lift you... (groans)
Oh, sorry.
- I'm not that heavy, am I?
- [Narrator] The show's brilliant use of humour
helps relieve the tension of each episode,
as Judith, Becks, and Suzie try to catch the killer.
- [Phil] Left the house, went straight to cricket,
played all afternoon, albeit not very well,
then came straight home and bumped into those women.
The busy bodies.
- [Judith] How dare he?
- We chatted for a while.
Ask them if I look like someone
who's just disposed of crucial evidence.
- [Robert] When I write a line for Judith,
I'm writing it for Samantha Bond
to play Judith to say the line,
and that has been liberating
and just has made it so joyous to write,
knowing the amazing actors we've got
who are gonna be delivering the lines.
- It's a drugs drop off. Mark my words.
- I don't think many crossword setters
deal drugs in their spare time.
- I don't know. You solve murders.
- I suppose I do.
- [Narrator] Of course, rooted in the humour
is the fact that all three characters
are new to investigating crimes,
which means there can be a technological learning curve.
- [Becks] Judith?
- [Suzie] Oh, God, what have you done?
- [Becks] You're a giraffe.
- How are you going to do that?
- [Becks] Judith. What are you doing?
- What? - [Suzie] What have you-
- Why am I a giraffe? Oh, I must have pressed something.
Oh, this is ridiculous. How do I change it?
- 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?
I've done it again.
- [Narrator] Sometimes, even the police
are subjected to the trio's mishaps.
- Are you at the rowing center?
- What's that?
- [Tanika] You mustn't speak to Liz Curtis.
I want you all to come to the station at once.
- Sorry, the reception's very bad. You're breaking up.
(shaking phone)
- Do you think they bought that?
- Shh. We haven't turned it off.
- You haven't turned the phone off? You didn't turn it off?
[Suzie] Give it to me. What's this?
- [Narrator] Still, the women always find a way
to be there for each other
and help out when one of them is in a tight spot.
- Mr. Bishop, sorry if I was a bit odd just now.
I've got a family problem that I need to talk about.
But outside. I could do with the fresh air.
- Just had some fresh air.
- I love fresh air.
- Let's get some fresh air.
- [Narrator] Their camaraderie and brilliant sense of humor
ensures that the trio will always be successful.
- Ooh! - Suzie! (engine revs)
Stay in your lane, Suzie!
Morning!
- Suzie! - Sorry!
(exciting music)
- Let's get some speed on this!
Pedal to the metal!
(engine accelerates)
- Oh, God! - Hold on, ladies.
- Steady!
(bicycle peddling)
- [Becks] Hi! - [Man] Mrs. Potts?
- [Woman] Woah!
- [Judith] There he is. There he is.
- Where is he going? - [Judith] Go, go, go!
- [Becks] Left, everyone!
- [Judith] Indicate!
- [Judith] Careful, Suzie!
(car horn beeps)
- [Suzie] You got a license? - [Man] Get out the road!
- Learn to drive!
- Speed bump ahead!
- Slow down, Suzie! - [Judith] Careful, Suzie!
- Hold on! Brace yourselves!
- Hold on! - Oh!
(Suzie chuckles)
- [Narrator] Season two included many new faces in Marlow,
and everyone was delighted to perform with the guest stars.
- [Judith] Judith Potts. I think you might need another one.
- Thank you. Tristram Bailey.
- [Judith] Oh, Sir Peter's son.
- Sadly for both of us, yes.
- [Cara] We've been really blessed with
the guest stars that we've had.
It's lovely to work with such
a huge group
of exciting actors.
- [Suzie] Just like old times
- [Jackie] You and me sharing a flask of tea
while those school gate queens sipped lattes at Lorenzo's.
- [Robert] What's amazing about this series
is we get to meet a whole new suite of characters,
three times, three different stories.
- We've got a really fantastic array
of guest stars in this series.
- Peter was so kind, vulnerable.
I loved him.
Go where you like. Pull the house apart.
I want his new will found.
- In the first story of the second series of
"The Marlow Murder Club", we have
James Wilby playing Sir Peter Bailey.
- [Sir Peter] I want to invite you to a party.
- I'm sorry?
- This afternoon, to celebrate my marriage tomorrow.
What would you say?
- What I would say, Sir Peter, is that we've never met.
- Oh, your reputation precedes you.
And I'm worried something might happen.
- [Robert] In the world of "The Marlow Murder Club",
if you live in a big Elizabethan house and you're super rich
and you have a baronetcy, I'm sorry,
you are going to have to deserve to die.
- [Jenny] No, no! - We need to call
an ambulance.
- (sobs) Peter, Peter!
Peter! (sobs)
He's dead.
- [Narrator] Sam Womack joined the cast
as a guest star in season two.
- You have no idea what it was like though.
Every time I heard a knock at the door, I just, I...
I thought my whole world was going to collapse.
And then one day, it did.
- [Samantha] Sam Womack, Patrick Robinson
I hadn't worked with before.
Joyous people.
- When's the baby due?
- Why is that relevant?
- A witness came forward.
They saw you throw something into the river. Evidence.
The marine unit's been trawling the river for days.
It's only a matter of time.
- [Samantha] There's a guest in episode three
called Liz Bennett,
who I must have known for 40 years.
So it's lovely, it's lovely meeting new people,
but it's also really great working with old mates.
- James has taken all our savings, everything.
I've been such a fool.
- Oh, he fooled everyone, Mrs. Liddington.
James Wyckham is an extremely manipulative man,
but we'll find him,
and we'll get that money back, I promise you.
- One actor who I've actually worked with before
who's a great actor, Hugh Quarshie.
When I heard that he's coming down to
possibly be a little love interest for Judith,
I was like, "Mm, girl."
- [Professor Gifford] I have a lecture to give.
But it really was a pleasure meeting you.
- Likewise, Professor Gifford.
- Oh, Darius, Liz.
- I think she likes him.
- Oh, maybe she just admires his academic prowess.
- [Suzie] No. She likes him!
- [Alison] One of our guest cast is Nina Sosanya,
who specifically said that she took the role
because she wanted to be acting amongst women.
So, it's nice to feel that the thing that we think
is special about the show is also appealing to actors.
- I shouldn't have lied to you,
but I can't be connected to that body.
I can't afford the delays.
- Someone killed Seb Teller. It could easily have been you.
- It wasn't.
I never even heard that name before today.
- And Louis Oldham?
- (sighs) I would threaten and I'll intimidate no problem.
I draw the line at murder.
- [Alison] There's a sort of cliche of murder mysteries,
where the most famous person on screen is always the killer.
What's so great about our casting is that we've got
a sort of brilliant raft of familiar faces across the board.
So if anyone's trying to play the guessing game
of most famous is the killer, they won't be able to do that.
- [Rosanna] It's still so hard to believe. What a mess.
(gentle music)
Thank you for catching father's killer.
- It's the least he deserved.
- [Narrator] What makes this show different
is to see women at the helm of all the investigations.
The sisterhood is everywhere in Marlow.
(door opens)
- Oh, you came.
(gentle music)
Both of you.
- The dynamics between Judith, Suzie, and Becks,
what's fascinating about this is over the first three hours,
we see that relationship grow and flourish.
- Could this be our killer?
- Well, it's possible.
Although Tanika thinks Sir Peter's death was an accident.
- What about you? What do you think?
- [Judith] I think my house tomorrow morning.
See you both then.
- It's been an amazing company of actors.
- When I get back to the station,
I can sort you out with accreditation, lanyards.
You came prepared.
- 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.
- Why is she talking in riddles?
- Hold on. We've been here before.
Do you know who killed Louis Oldham?
- I think I do.
- And is it the same person who killed Seb Teller?
- It is.
- [Alison] 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.
- Chris Bott.
- You know him?
- I sing in the choir with him.
- Does everyone sing in the choir?
- Sometimes it feels like it. Should I give him a ring?
- And say what? "Are you the murderer?"
- Stop it. I think we can do better than that.
- The relationship between the three of them
works so well because they are so different.
- I got a tattoo.
- Huh?
- That's what I've been doing with Daniel.
- No.
- That's extraordinary.
- I'd always wanted to get one,
but I wasn't sure I could pull it off anymore.
- [Suzie] Of course you can.
- To be honest, I was worried it was all a bit
midlife crisis, embarrassing.
So I kept it a secret.
- Well, it is a little midlife crisis, but I love it.
- [Jo] Yes, it's feminist, but it's not done in
that heavy handed kind of way,
it's kind of like there's a lightness to it.
- [Tanika] Are you sure you're gonna be okay?
- I will.
- We will.
- Thank you for trusting us.
- Didn't doubt you for a second.
- [Jo] Having that kind of age range of women
that are carrying a storyline
and something that's quite kind of dynamic is fresh.
- As Confucius once said, "We have two lives,
and the second begins when we realize we only have one."
I'm going to live my second life to the full.
- Amen to that.
- They all bring something different to the table, I think.
And that's why I think as a trio, they work really well,
'cause they've got different strengths.
(door closes)
- Oh.
- Should we try next door?
- No.
I don't think any of them are gonna want to chat
to a bunch of civilian advisors.
- Then how about they don't talk to them?
I'm still the vicar's wife.
- The way we are as women, the way we empower each other,
the way we support each other, that's sisterhood.
- Did I go too far? Did I? (laughs)
I mean, I didn't mean any of it.
I mean, we're your friends, you know? We get you, Judith.
Even if sometimes we like to tease you.
It's 'cause we love you.
- [Samantha] I think the big thing
that's really very helpful
is that we all have a monumental sense of humour.
- And we all like wine.
(all laughing)
- I suggest we look to the future.
Champagne, anyone?
- Ooh! - Yes, please.
(all laughing)
- [Becks] Just a little bit.
(whimsical music)
- [Suzie] (sighs) I've said it before and I'll say it again.
This is the life.
- [Narrator] When we return,
we'll unpack more elements
of "The Marlow Murder Club",
including a look at the gorgeous locations
and a sneak preview of the third season in
"Solving the Puzzles of The Marlow Murder Club".
(mysterious music fades out)
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watching. - [Narrator] Welcome back to "Solving the Puzzles
of The Marlow Murder Club".
Today, we're examining all the ups and downs
of "The Marlow Murder Club" on "Masterpiece Mystery".
Coming up, we'll share a sneak preview of season three,
but for now, let's look at how all the clues
work to together to solve a case.
- We're still combing the crime scene for any evidence.
- Oh, then you might be interested
in that tiny gold link.
- Where?
(gentle music)
- Just there.
- Oh, yeah. Thanks, partner.
- I'm not a cowboy, DS Perry.
- No, no, you're not. Let's forget that one.
- I think that best.
- [Narrator] Our main characters,
Judith, Becks, and Suzie,
are very aware that anything found
around a crime scene could be a potential clue.
- [Judith] This is all of them.
Let's have a look.
- [Becks] Do we need more pieces?
- [Judith] No, this should be enough.
"If I die before my"...
That should be, "Wedding day."
"I leave my entire estate
to Jenny Page,
and it will have been"...
(dramatic music)
"And it will have been my son Tristram who killed me."
- [Judith] What's this doing here?
- [Suzie] What is it?
- I happened to notice
there was a button missing on Rosanna's jacket.
So what's it doing in her father's dressing room?
Everyone can touch type nowadays,
but you have to start with your hands above the Home key.
- What are you talking about?
- Jackie was confused, losing consciousness,
desperate to tell her something,
but she hadn't realized that her hands were one key out,
so she wrote this.
(mysterious music)
(keyboard noise)
Whereas if the hands were above the Home key,
where she thought they were, she'd have written this.
(tense music)
- [Narrator] But not all clues are found at the crime scene.
Some can be found in a suspect's office
or in surveillance footage.
- Gary said the drone gets blown off course over the river.
There it goes.
(whipping wind)
- And over the river is the sailing club.
Oh, Judith, you are clever.
- [Judith] The body was found near the slipway.
Oh, there, is that it?
C-can you zoom in?
- Yeah.
- Now, there's the body.
Who's that?
(dramatic music)
- Call me old fashioned, but if this was an accident,
why would anyone prioritize the boat
over helping their mate?
- Well, the rest of the footage may answer your question.
- Oh, see that? A flash of yellow in the water.
- Where? - [Judith] Yes.
- [Becks] There. Looks like a bag.
- And it's moving.
- [Narrator] And as Judith discovers in season two,
sometimes the clues are hiding in plain sight.
"Sunday," "Checkers."
(gentle music)
Date, time, place.
- [Narrator] Just as any great investigator would,
Judith follows the clues in the daily crossword puzzle
and identifies the man who's been leaving them.
- I know all about your secret codes.
I saw you in Higginson Park.
I didn't think anything of it at the time.
Are you meeting the same woman again?
Oh, there we are.
Now, I know it's none of my business,
but I think you're romantically entangled
with the woman over there,
and your wife doesn't know, does she?
- You're mostly right, but my wife knows
and she doesn't mind.
- That's what they all say. - I'll go even further
and say that she approves of the liaison.
- [Narrator] But a shocking reveal of the truth
behind the clues leaves Judith pleasantly surprised.
- [Roger] You see, we are married.
- To each other.
- Oh. - [Sue] And very happily.
I go to exercise class most mornings.
And then I sit down with the Maidenhead Advertiser
and do the crossword.
I see the secret message,
and then we meet up as if we're having an affair.
- It adds a little spice to our lives.
- Well, I must say,
I've never been so happy to be proven wrong.
- Oh. Water?
- Fill it up! (laughs)
- Oh, don't move.
(gentle music)
Heavens. That's it, isn't it?
It's Stonehenge.
- It's a carafe of water.
- No, no, no. It's Machu Picchu.
- And she thought we were odd? (chuckles)
- [Narrator] Now let's take a moment
to appreciate the unsung heroes of the series,
all the charming pets of "The Marlow Murder Club".
(gentle music)
- Relax, mate. There's no way they'd wanna take you.
No offense.
- My name's Colette McKenzie,
and I'm here as the animal trainer for this production.
The animals that feature on this show is...
The first animal is a dog called Delta,
and she's a German Shepherd, and she's four years old.
- [Iqbal] Where's my girl?
Who's a good girl? Who's daddy's girl?
- [Suzie] Hello! Hello, lovely Luna, hello!
- [Iqbal] Who's going for a little walk?
- I'll drop her off tomorrow.
Come on! - Go.
- [Suzie] Here we go.
- [Colette] She has done some productions before,
so she has been 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.
- [Judith] Oh, Jasper. She kept them all.
- So, what's been involved in getting them ready
for being on set, for Delta, is obviously just training her.
(Delta barks)
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.
(dramatic music)
(suspect groaning)
- [Colette] She's very energetic, very lively.
Does love her treats, so anything involving food,
she's really good.
That's walking. Are you walking? (laughs)
- [Suzie] Luna! Hello, girl.
Hello. No, these are not for you.
No, no, no.
(Luna whines)
- 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.
- [Judith] Right, Jasper, who has something to hide?
(dramatic music)
- What challenges are involved in my role?
Mainly getting the animal to do the action
over and over again, and that's been quite challenging.
It's quite an exciting project for us.
(dogs barking)
- [Suzie] Go on, go on, Luna! Come on!
(dogs barking)
(Suzie chuckles)
- [Suzie] I love getting out here.
- [Narrator] There is a lot to love in Marlow,
as it provides a stunning backdrop
for all the locations of the series.
- What a beautiful home.
- Yeah, nice lady with the, uh, wings.
- [Phil] Ah, when we bought the house,
we got a local carpenter
to make the staircase and a few other pieces
out of reclaimed boat wood.
Like our coffee table.
Why don't you take a look?
(classical music swells)
- 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] When you're trying to
do an English murder mystery,
what you're really looking for
is somewhere
quintessentially English.
- The locations are around Marlow
or in Marlow.
I've not worked on anything that
relies so much on its location to be accurate.
- We've been so lucky
that the town has sort of embraced us
as a production and let us film everywhere
and been very encouraging.
- There's something very safe and calming
and so painfully beautiful about Marlow.
It's the perfect backdrop to this kind of story.
- [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.
- Mrs. Wingrove?
- (gasps) Oh, sorry, I didn't see you there.
- I find this spot comforting too.
- Nearly all the locations
because of the plot are river fronting.
- If I wanted to disappear in Marlow,
I'd hide out in one of them boats.
There's hundreds of them.
- We can't search 'em all.
- [Suzie] You got a better idea, Brendan?
- [Tom] The river gives it this, you know,
extraordinary kind of atmosphere.
- [Steve] It became very hard to scout locations
without being on the river.
We were looking for riverside mansions
for our lead character and for the first murder.
- This place is something else.
- Um, it belonged to my great aunt.
I was lucky enough to inherit it.
- [Suzie] And it's just you here?
- [Judith] Yes, just me.
- Must get lonely.
- No, not at all. I've always liked my own company.
- 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 an arts and crafts mansion on the river.
I knew that it was gonna be a difficult location to find
because it had to do so many things.
- I think it's wonderful. I crave peace and quiet.
- We filled the home with lots of
archeological finds, lots of books.
- [Suzie] Geez. You ever thought of recycling?
So, this is where you got all your old articles from.
- [Andrew] We had an interior in Hambledon,
which was the sitting room,
and we ended up using a second location for the exterior,
which was a separate house in Marlow.
- [Robert] When I imagined the show,
I really imagined Judith's house
just as it's been delivered.
It really is exceptional.
- [Tanika] We've just arrested
Elliot Howard and Giles Bishop.
- [Suzie] Great. - [Tanika] We've also searched
Mr. Howard's property and recovered
the Stanley Spencer painting.
- Thank you.
- You couldn't have just started a book club, could you?
- Not on your nelly.
(all chuckling)
- Seriously, I don't know how you did it. Thank you.
- With Becks, we actually found a fantastic location
that is one of the oldest properties in Marlow,
with very, very old windows.
It kind of reinforced the idea that she was
constantly on the job as the vicar's wife.
- It's so lovely being back in the vicarage.
- It's lovely to have you here. We must do it more often.
- The actual sitting room area,
we kept a reduced palette,
and that was the room that they used for business.
- [Suzie] It can't be done.
- But that's the thing, it was done.
We may not know how or why or who did it,
but somebody moved the body from the woods to the close.
- [Andrew] We looked at several
different options for Suzie's house.
The house that we filmed in was actually very neat,
so we brought in plants to make it feel freer.
- Ta-da! - Oh! (laughs)
Oh, wow!
- You're lucky I came here when I did.
You need looking after.
- We also needed, for our sailing club story,
quite specific geography between where the sailing club was,
and then there's an archeological dig site
just opposite, across the river.
We've managed to get these locations where we'll
be able to film it in exactly the right places,
so we won't have to cheat anything,
all the actors get to play it for real.
(whimsical music)
- Of course they're here.
- [Natalie] Marlow never, ever falls short
of coming up with luxurious locations.
It seems to have them in abundance.
- [Samantha] And the residents have been
so kind and so supportive.
- What time's the party?
- It is from 2:30. Will you be there?
- Oh, of course. On one condition.
That I can bring two friends with me.
(upbeat music)
- [Narrator] Before our sneak preview of season three,
let's hear from everyone as they look onward
to the future of the series.
- [Suzie] Oh, thank you so much for the invitation.
I'd be delighted to join you on your yacht for cocktails.
Shall we say eight o'clock?
- I'd prefer a gin and fizz.
- No, I'm going to be busy at the opera.
(Suzie laughs)
- [Steve] Working with the four leads,
Sam and Jo, Cara and Natalie,
it's been great to get back together with them.
They're a real pleasure to work with,
and we have a hell of a lot to do every day,
and they do their homework and come to set with ideas
and bring so much to it.
- [Becks] Did you get it?
- Did we get it?
- Yes! We got it!
- Woop, woop! (laughs)
We're women! - Yes!
- [Robert] We get to learn more about the women
and how they interact.
We get to see different worlds around Marlow,
and we're killing people and we're catching killers,
and we're always making sure that there's
a glass of champagne at the end of it.
- Oh, hello. (chuckles) Thank you.
Ladies. - Thanks.
So what's the plan?
- Let's start with Sir Peter.
Does anyone know what he looks like?
- It's been lovely to see the three women again.
- [Samantha] Being reunited with my team,
Jo, Cara, and Natalie,
it's just lovely.
- It's not just the three of us,
it's the four of us women together,
and we balance each other out,
we're a really nice mix,
and we all get on fantastically well.
- It feels like a bit of a sisterhood.
- No, what happened?
- I missed Shanti's poem assembly.
(gentle music)
- Well, you are trying to solve two murders.
- [Becks] Did Shamil go?
- Of course he did. He's a good parent.
- [Becks] There'll be other assemblies.
- [Suzie] Tanika, the worst mother that ever lived
wouldn't give a toss about assemblies
or helping with poems about hedgehogs.
- I still let her down and put my job before her.
- [Becks] You'll make it up to her.
- [Suzie] She knows she's loved.
And kids don't care when we make mistakes
as long as we own up to it.
- [Alison] It obviously looks very beautiful,
but I think probably the key thing
that people enjoyed
was just seeing these four women leading something.
- [Judith] They were all bringing
different parts of life to the screen,
different ages of life to the screen.
- Go, Suzie, go!
- Hold on!
- [Becks] Quicker, quicker, quicker!
- I'm going, I'm going!
- [Jo] There's lots of running and jumping over stuff,
and also the humour.
- [Suzie] I'm never joining this club.
I thought sailors were supposed to be sexy.
Wait, or was that pirates?
- We've got amazing guest stars.
We've got really nice locations.
It's really fun watching the dynamic of the women develop,
and I just think it's something that people will enjoy.
- It's almost like comfort when you watch something
that engages you and transports you
and leaves the real world a little bit behind.
(group applauding)
- Well, it wouldn't have happened without
every single one of you,
even if it wasn't all entirely by the book.
- Which is exactly as it should be.
Cheers.
- Cheers. - Cheers.
(mugs clinking)
- Cheers. - Oh, cheers.
(whimsical music)
- [Narrator] And now here's a sneak preview
of the third season of "The Marlow Murder Club".
(siren wailing)
(car doors close)
- [Suzie] Am I glad to see you.
- What happened? - I dunno, it was fast.
One minute, he was sitting there.
Next minute, boof, the man was on the floor.
- Did he say anything? - No.
But he did look at his coffee cup before he went over.
There might have been something in it.
I told the witnesses to wait for you over there.
- [Tanika] Thank you.
Jason, Alice, initial statements.
And Suzie, are you gonna be okay?
You're gonna be okay.
(gentle music)
- [Tanika] Discoloration to the lips and skin,
and the pupils look dilated.
- You think Suzie was right?
- We need toxicology to test the coffee.
- But if this was murder-
- Someone has just killed the mayor of Marlow.
- [Narrator] Thank you so much for joining us
for this exploration
and celebration of everything we love
about "The Marlow Murder Club" on "Masterpiece Mystery".
More murders to solve will be headed your way soon,
and until then, this has been
"Solving the Puzzles of The Marlow Murder Club".
(mysterious music fades out)
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(light piano theme)
- [Narrator] "All Creatures Great and Small"
on MASTERPICE has lovingly
captivated readers, viewers and
animal lovers for the past half century.
The timeless stories of James Herriot and
his fascinating life as a veterinarian in
the picturesque English countryside continue
to enchant us with humor, romance and kindness.
(orchestral music)
- I love you, James Herriot.
(gentle oboe music) (roaring bonfire)
- I love you too.
(oboe theme crescendos)
- [Narrator] Season 6 of
"All Creatures Great and Small"
starts with a three year time jump to 1945
as our characters experience the end of
World War II and look forward to the future with
optimism, hope and excitement.
In today's special, we'll hear from the cast
and meet many of the charming new characters
and animals of Season 6.
(uptempo orchestral music)
We'll spend some time with
actor Nicholas Ralph,
also known as James Herriot,
at a Yorkshire Dales
dry stone wall building competition.
Throughout this special we'll revisit
some of our favorite moments from Season 6.
(gentle music)
- Why have you only got one shoe?
- Bridge.
(soft music)
- Nothing one of your restorative
breakfasts couldn't fix, Mrs. Hall.
- [Narrator] Join us as we spend some time
with James, Helen, Siegfried,
Tristan, Mrs. Hall and
Tristan's new love interest, Charlotte.
We'll take a behind the scenes look with the
cast and creators in this special presentation,
"All Creatures Great and Small, Chapter 6."
(music theme fades)
- [James] The flocks of sheep
graze these hills for
hundreds of years and the sheep, they know
to stay in the same place.
- Away! (bleating and soft music) -
- [James] They know where they belong,
it's in their bones,
passed from one generation to the next.
- [Nicholas] Playing James,
you get to play so many different things.
Like the life of a veterinarian I guess,
every day is so different,
there's so much variety and it's wonderful.
And this year is no different for James,
it's another absolute rollercoaster.
- [Siegfried] To be early is to be on time,
to be on time is to be late.
- Cup of tea.
- Please.
- [Siegfried] Out of the question,
our work appointments call
onwards to work we go.
- [Rachel] The themes that
"All Creatures" encompasses
don't have a sell-by date.
They are always
going to feel important.
- I know you're not my mum, not really.
(emotional orchestral swell)
But you are...
you are.
(music fades)
- [Anna] It's funny,
it's moving, it's very
truthful because it's characters
that people have
been able to spend time with and go on the journey with.
- It's amazing getting to just
be these characters for so long
and to spend so much time in their shoes.
- You've met my family lots of times,
when am I going to meet yours?
- Look you've met Siegfried.
- Yes, and if that hasn't put me off what will?
(Tristan chuckles)
- [Nicholas] We pick up this season
just over three years later,
so we're spring of 1945.
I was really excited by the time jump.
So you know as much as for the viewer at home
it was a surprise for us as well to get the
first script.
And like, "Wow Mrs. H., she's in Sunderland and
we're at Heston and where's Siegfried and Tristan?
We have those questions like the viewers do.
(violin music)
- Jimmy!
- [Jimmy] Dad!
- What are you doing out so early?
- Flying my plane.
Mum's making breakfast with Rosie.
- Quite right too.
Shall we finish your patrol together and
then go inside and fill up our tummies?
- [Anna] As an actor you want to know
what's happened
all through that time and imagine what that's
done and then imagine what meeting up again
is going to be like on the other side of that.
(music swells)
- [Siegfried] Mrs. Hall, what on earth?
- Mr. Farnon.
- [Siegfried] What are you doing here?
- I were in the pantry.
- All this time?
- No, I just arrived.
- [Siegfried] Ah, that does make more sense.
I was joking.
- [Samuel] To move to a time
when the piece arrives
means that you can put your characters
into new situations.
- [Dorothy] Right foot forward.
Eye on the target.
(gentle music)
I'm not the target, am I?
(music)
Don't think about it too much.
(gentle music)
(thud)
Yes!
Very impressive, Siegfried.
- [Anna] There are lots of different
reasons in people's lives why
the show has touched them and, and that's
really special to hear.
- [James] Tricki is as much
a part of this family as anyone and so are you.
(oboe theme) (background chatter)
- You're quite the talented writer.
Perhaps you should write some stories about him.
(James chuckles)
- [Samuel] Getting back to it's
always really easy.
Everybody knows what show
they're in, everybody loves the books.
It's like you're in step with yourself.
It's really good.
- [Siegfried] I'll give you money
if you can hit your father.
- [James] Don't touch us.
- Ahhh!
- [Mrs. Hall] Stop it.
(music swells and fades)
- [Narrator] One of the most unique
aspects of Season Six
is the three year time jump that our characters
experience during episode one.
- [Newscaster] This evening
the Ministry of Information has
confirmed that an official statement declaring
the end of the war will be made symbol--
(eruption of cheers)
- [Samuel] At the beginning of Series Six
it's three years later
so the war is now very nearly over.
- Wouldn't that be nice to (thud)
gather folk together again?
Not to be strong or brave but...
but to laugh and celebrate
and do the kind of things we used to do.
- We kick off with a much more grounded James.
He's a father now to not only one but two children.
- [Helen] Come on Rosie.
- [James] Can we take the baby
to see the pony?
Come on Jimmy lad.
Let's go.
- It was funny doing the time jump because
we normally carry straight on so there might
be a passage of a few months but this
time we've all been through some years of the
war and we're coming to a different place.
- I didn't know you were back today.
- I told Siegfried last week.
He must have forgot
that he was picking me up from the station.
- No surprises there.
- In this interim time things have
changed at Skeldale.
Mrs. Hall has left.
Siegfried has, uh... become a much more trying
challenging character than he ever has been before.
- Me, distracted?
You're the one that keeps forgetting everything.
- Completely untrue.
- It can't go on.
The wheels have well and truly come off the wagon.
- There is no bloody wagon.
(bird chirps)
And even if there were
the wheels would be firmly on.
- Any attempt that Siegfried has to hold it
all together is failing.
We find him face down on a sofa and for some
reason there's a miniature horse in the dining room.
- [Jimmy] Dad!
- [Siegfried] Unh...oh, ow.
- [Jimmy] There's a horse!
(horse snorts)
- Things are not running
as smoothly as they used to be.
The practice is kind of losing business.
The documents and the, the letters and the bills
they're piling up.
The office, it looks like a grenade's gone off in there.
- [Rachel] Things are going
a little AWOL at Skeldale House.
Siegfried's pretty difficult to manage so
in the interim period between seasons we've
seen Helen and the children move to Heston Grange.
(muddy footsteps)
(footsteps continue) (giggling)
- [Helen] Dad, are them your boots?
- [Jimmy] Granddad said it
were the boots make the farmer.
- [Nicholas] Mrs. H has left
Skeldale to go an- and care
for her son who has survived but i- is injured.
- Glad to see you back in one piece.
- I left a few bits behind but I'm right now.
Thanks to Ma.
- Oh, he keeps saying that.
(spoon clinks)
I think he's fed up with me fussing over him.
- [Anna] Edward survived
his ship going down but out
of that difficult time comes, comes a lot of joy.
Edward meets a lovely lady called Betty
and they have quite a whirlwind romance.
Have a baby and Mrs. Hall's over the moon
to have Mary and, uh, Betty join the family.
- We should get her and Mary together.
- Oh, I'd like that.
(Helen laughs) (cup clinks)
I have missed you all.
- [Callum] Tristan has done
some more time away in
Italy and he's taken on a lot more responsibility.
- I thought you could use a moment to yourself
after that service.
- I take it in my stride, you know me.
- Well no need to rush straight back in.
Your brother and I have it in hand.
- [Tristan] But I'm fine.
Where do you need me?
- [Samuel] It's annoying
when he comes back and he's been promoted.
It's annoying when there are two Captain Farnons.
(quirky music)
You know I thought I was the only one.
- They made you a Captain.
- Field promotion.
- [James] Careful, Siegfried.
He'll outrank you soon.
- [Mrs. Hall] Why didn't you tell us?
- [Tristan] Oh, you know me Mrs H.
Never one to brag.
I know how insecure it makes my brother.
- Absolute balls.
- [Tristan] I rest my case.
- [Nicholas] We had done quite a few
years in the war and
I just felt like it would be real revitalizing
just to get back to some of those wonderful themes and
storylines that "All Creatures" really is about.
- [Jimmy] If the war is really over
will things be different now?
- [James] Well, when you're here
in the Dales it might not look like it.
The Dales is the Dales, isn't it?
- [Jimmy] Mm hm.
But I promise you they will.
- [Callum] This show isn't
a war show it's a show
about relationships and the sort of overarching
effect that has on a community.
So, whilst it was amazing to have some
series in wartime and to see the effect that that
had we did want to get back to what the
show is really about which is people and doing
nice things for animals.
- [James] He's made an
excellent recovery and more
importantly he looks very stylish in this.
- Mmmm.
Best way to stop him getting out
the stitches.
(James chuckles)
And yes it does suit him.
- [Samuel] Season Six is
deliberately spread across
a joyous period between VE Day,
victory in Europe
and VJ Day victory over Japan
and the final surrender.
- [Newscaster] Japan has today surrendered.
(pensive music)
The last of our enemies is laid low.
(tense music continues)
- [Samuel] The war becomes
the biggest character.
It becomes the biggest antagonist and the
trouble is that when you're in a war all you
can think about is that it's never going to
end and that's really good and interesting
but it's also got to pass in
order for the characters to move on.
(soft orchestral music)
- [Siegfried] All those years
of uncertainty
never knowing if a bomb
would drop on our heads or we'd
be invaded any moment, we made it through.
- This season
is about everybody realizing how
important that sense of home is to them and
that it's something that they all need.
- [Samuel] There's a huge relief
that the war is over
and the house is beginning to feel a little
bit like it was before.
(music swells)
- Shall we?
(gentle orchestral music)
- [Mrs. Hall] Oh, it's good to be back.
- [Siegfried] It's good to have you back.
(crowd noise) (distant fireworks)
(Helen and James laugh)
(orchestral music)
- [Siegfried] Just wait till you see
how far behind we are with the laundry.
(gentle music)
- [Narrator] As time weaves
its way forward, families blossom and expand.
Now, let's take a look at the growing Herriot family.
- Aye, what are you up to?
- Just driving my car.
- Just driving your car on Daddy.
- [Nicholas] The Herriots
made the choice to go back
to Heston Grange and start raising
the kids there and
there they've got all this open space,
they've got the animals, a wonderful place for the
kids to grow up.
- You're nearly as tall as me.
- [Helen] Audrey.
- Hello.
- Do you want to play marbles?
- I'd love to.
You go and set them up,
I'll be with you in two ticks.
- [Rachel] They're now a family of four,
little Rosie's arrived.
(music swells)
(child cries)
- [Jenny] I've got her.
What's up, Rosie?
- [Helen] Shall I take her, Jenny?
- [Jenny] She's fine here
with her auntie.
- [Nicholas] Chatting to Alf White,
the real James Herriot's son and daughter,
Rosie and Jim was great.
- [Rachel] I communicate
with Rosie frequently.
She sent over the-- at this point was a very
sort of fun point in the kids lives and, and Helen
was always at the forefront of the fun.
James was pretty busy as a vet now because
he was a partner in the practice so it was
mainly all on Helen with the two children
and it was a sort of struggle and a juggle
as parenting is
so I wanted to bring the chaos to everything.
- Hello.
(kissing sounds)
- Are you ready?
(Mrs. Hall laughs)
- Here you go, I think you're winning.
- Thank you.
- [Nicholas] Chatting to Alf White's
real kids, Jim and Rosie.
Jim would come out and Rosie would come out
and he'd say Jimmy can you get me this from
the car and before
he'd even said the full sentence
Jimmy's off like a shot striding through
in his little welly boots to get the thing for Dad.
- [Tom] You say the calf could
be anywhere?
- [Richard] Aye, we've looked
over every field up here.
- [Tom] Mm, we'd better hurry then.
- Aye.
- [Jimmy] Grandad.
- Yes, son?
- If I were missing I know who'd find me.
- [Richard] Who's that?
- Mum.
(distant cows mooing)
Why don't we let the cow do the looking?
(thoughtful music)
- Ah.
- Come on.
- [Nicholas] We asked Rosie
did they have pet names for another,
she said not really, but one thing
was any time James
or Helen left they would always kiss.
You know, just little details like that
that we've been able to incorporate into the show
and I think that those are just priceless
you know those little details those little
specificities just make it all the more richer.
- I could drive up at lunch.
Well, Jenny'll have the kids then.
- [Helen] I will only get 20 minutes.
- 20 minutes with you?
Worth it every time.
- All right.
Charmer.
- [Nicholas] We very much kick off
this season seeing
that split James between father, parenthood,
Heston Grange and business partner practice.
- What can I do Dad?
- You help your granddad.
- [Jimmy] Where are you going?
- [James] For reinforcements.
- Wilco.
Wait for me Granddad.
- [Neil] They're living at
Heston Grange and living
with Helen's dad which is deeply problematic
for James.
(mysterious music)
- Well I've not walked it in.
- Well it's not me.
So unless bloody cows are wearing
these size 10s and treading it in, it's you.
- [Rachel] We've seen her
and James's relationship
mature over the years and now she's sort of
a mum of two.
She's busier than she's ever been,
she's juggling more than she ever has
and it's just about practicality,
it's about getting through the day.
It's incredibly relatable.
She's sort of too busy to get
caught up in any of the small stuff.
- [James] I thought we were having
breakfast together.
- [Helen] Look, I've kept him waiting.
James, you did sleep in late.
- [James] Aye, I got in after three.
- [Jimmy] Daddy.
- Oh it's truly magnificent driving there, Jim.
- [Helen] No, no, no...don't...
don't eat that Rosie.
- [Nicholas] Little Jimmy's
four and a half years old
and at the age now where
he's ready to come out and
start assisting his dad with his
little instruments in his little bag.
- [James] Don't you worry
you haven't just got
Sherlock Holmes to investigate today.
You've got Watson, too.
- [Jimmy] Watson ready for duty.
(gentle music)
- [Nicholas] I think it's wonderful
for James to
be on call and have his kids with him.
(orchestral swell)
- [Richard] Thank the Lord for
Herriot and son.
(James chuckles)
- Particularly the son.
(James laughs)
(gentle music)
- [Nicholas] One of the things that's
lovely about the
books he was an older man when he was writing
the books but he wrote them in the living
room with his family in the evening, so that
environment and love between them all and
the family has seeped into the books because
they spill over with that sort
of sentiment and tone and spirit.
- I want to give you the best life I can.
(romantic music)
- I've got the best life,
right now in this moment.
(romantic music continues)
Best life we could have.
(music swells)
- [Narrator] We started this season
with our favorite
housekeeper living far away from Skeldale
House but naturally our characters and
all of us eagerly awaited Mrs. Hall's return.
(music swells) (door opens)
- Oh my goodness.
- Mrs. H...
- [Mrs. Hall] - James.
(music) (distant laughter)
- [Anna] We now find ourselves in
1945 where Mrs. Hall
has been up in Sunderland with Edward who's
home married with a little baby.
- [James] Edward.
Good to see you again.
- And you.
Here she is.
Hello.
My little angel.
(Edward chuckles)
- [Samuel] Mrs Hall's son Edward
has started a family
and she's moved out to see them and to spend
more time with them and that's lovely but
it's all happening away from Skeldale House
and away from me.
- [Siegfried] Where have they gone?
- [Tristan] Well they have to be somewhere.
You must have put them down.
- So where the hell are they?
- You just had them.
- Which means somebody must have moved them.
- [James] What's going on?
- Ahh, keys.
- Why can't anything just stay in one place?
Is that too much to ask?
It's maddening.
- [Callum] I think it was a very
interesting decision
to have Mrs. Hall you know away, looking after
her son but we needed her back.
- Helen doesn't think we should bother her.
She's really settled there.
- It's up to you.
You're the one stuck here with him.
- [Nicholas] James makes a decision to
try and get Mrs. H
to come back to Skeldale House and that comes
from James and he kind of goes against
what Helen has said and what other people have
said and thought because he really has
conviction with this and, and thinks it's the right thing
to do.
- Well the thing is, Siegfried...
- The old goat's
lost his marbles, he's gone totally berserk.
- Tris.
- The man's a menace.
Worse than when he was when you first met him.
- Worse?
- I thought we weren't going to lay it on too thick.
- [Tristan] He needs help.
We need help.
Yours specifically.
- Not that we want to put you under any pressure.
- No, of course not
but we would be completely lost without you.
- [Anna] They're hoping that she
can come and right
the ship at home which she comes and does
and her nurturing skills come into the ready again.
(Anna chuckles)
- Oh, don't worry about that.
- No, sorry.
(paper shuffling)
It'll drive me bananas.
(paper shuffling)
- [Tristan] Oh, Mrs. H.
- Hello, Tris.
- [Anna] Mrs. Hall and Mr. Farnon
haven't seen each
other for a while so it's quite a shock to them
both I think coming back together and, and seeing
each other again and also the circumstances
in which Mrs. Hall comes back are
a bit of a surprise for Mr. Farnon.
- [Siegfried] I didn't know you were coming.
- [Mrs. Hall] Well, neither did I
till a few days ago.
-It's good to see you again.
- You, too.
- [Anna] There's a lot to negotiate
and a lot of
change and I think on the one hand it's wonderful
to see each other again and on the other
hand there's a lot of feeling about having had
that much time away and I don't
think Mr. Farnon has liked it very much.
- He mentioned there'd been some problems.
- Problems?
Is that why you're here?
Is that what I am to you?
A problem to be solved?
- No, I w-, I wouldn't put it quite like that.
(tense music)
- It's later than I thought.
- Siegfried is very bad at admitting that he
cares for people and he pushes people away.
- She left us!
What was I supposed to do?
Pretend to be happy?
Pretend to be fine?
- If you keep pushing people away
eventually they will go away.
(crickets and bird chirps)
- Well, thanks a lot, that's very bloody incisive.
- [Narrator] At the end of
the first episode of Season Six,
Mrs. Hall decides to leave Skeldale House
and she boards a train back to Sunderland.
(soft music)
- Sorry love, but it's time.
(crackling fire)
Dash, come on.
Don't make this any harder than it already is.
Come on now.
(Mrs. Hall sniffles)
- [Narrator] However, once Siegfried learns
that Mrs. Hall
has left for the train station, he realizes
that he has made a terrible mistake.
- [Siegfried] It's all my fault.
I drove her away.
- There's still time.
- [Samuel] He won't admit to himself
how much he needs her.
He doesn't like being vulnerable
and he's terrified of being abandoned.
- Mrs. Hall!
(dramatic music) (loud train noise)
(music builds) (train entering station)
- [Samuel] In the aftermath of the war,
all bets are off.
You say things that you've been sitting on
for a long time and he's on firmer ground
when he brings himself to say how much he cares about her.
(dramatic music builds)
- [Siegfried] Mrs. Hall!
Audrey!
(sustained orchestral note)
- Mr. Farnon, there really is no need.
- [Siegfried] We tried to find a replacement,
it could never work.
No one could ever work.
- Because they'd never put up with your nonsense.
- [Siegfried] Because they're not you.
(dramatic music)
I understand you might have to live
your life if that's not here with us.
(music continues) (train station chatter)
Well, that's up to you.
(distant train station chatter)
But you should know that we would like it to be.
(piano theme music)
- [Narrator] When we return,
we'll continue our look back
at Season 6 of "All Creatures Great and Small."
We'll take a look at new animals
and love interests.
And we'll spend some time with
Nicholas Ralph, who plays James Herriot
as he visits a dry stone wall building competition.
You won't want to miss that and much more
in "All Creatures Great and Small, Chapter 6."
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"All Creatures Great and Small, Chapter 6."
Today we're taking a look
at everything we love about Season 6.
Coming up, we'll take a look at Tristan's new love interest
and travel with Nicholas Ralph to a
dry stone wall building competition.
(page turning)
But first, let's take a look at the
changing times of post-war England.
(whoosh sound)
(music fades)
- As I suspected, it's an infection.
- Hm?
- Not to worry, antibiotics will clear it up.
Incredible things.
Don't know how we got by without them.
- [Samuel] 1945 was such a brilliant
year for
this country in terms of, you know,
what we built in the post-war consensus.
We have a whole new raft of things
available to the vets.
- [James] Remember I was talking
to you about
bringing in some modern equipment.
- What have I done with the other one?
- An- and we discussed X-ray machines.
- [Siegfried] Oh, yes, marvelous things.
- Well, an opportunity has arisen.
- Where on God's Earth is it?
- And I felt it too good to refuse.
- Aha!
- I'll be having it delivered this week.
(Siegfried sputters)
- Which one of you is the culprit?
(Dash pants) (Jess whines)
- We see James just trying his best to
make the practice a successful place
and seeing how they can move things forward within the
veterinary side of things as well,
whether that's through medicine or instruments.
- We'll see him again in a few days.
What the hell is that?
- [James] An X-ray machine.
- [Neil] There's an episode
in which James
buys an X-ray machine
and that causes new kinds of problems for the practice.
(loud click)
(distant radio music)
- [Tristan] No.
(clunk sound)
(snap and explosive pop)
(music blast then static)
- [Siegfried] Herriot!
- [Nicholas] James is trying to run a
successful practice,
a successful business with this partner who is doing his best
to not make that happen.
- It is rather a good investment, you know.
- Well, I can't say, since I can't see it in action.
- Hmm.
(loud inhalation)
Maybe we could try it on the inside of your head.
Find out what actually happens in there.
- [Rachel] My dad puts a phone in
Heston Grange,
which means James can now be with the family again,
and that's a huge moment.
And something that we never thought
Richard Alderson would do.
- [James] I know Helen and Jenny have
been awfully busy.
You could try again later.
I certainly will be.
(phone ringing)
There we go.
All those miles between us and
them, and they're about to fall away.
Go on.
(phone ringing)
(click sound)
-Darrowby 7-6-3-2, how do?
- It also means that her dad's kind
of moved the needle a little bit,
which she never thought would happen,
and he's maybe mellowing.
(sustained ironic note)
Don't know if he is, but maybe.
- Yeah, it won't be able to ring.
- [James] Why?
- I've disconnected it.
- What?
- [Richard] Telephone.
It's- it's a bloody nuisance.
I haven't got time for all that carry-on.
- [James] What carry-on?
- Turns out my number's
just one different from railway station.
- [James] Is that a problem?
- It is if you've got folk ringing all bloody day,
asking for times of next train.
- [Narrator] Even Mrs. Hall adapts to
the changing times
by taking a turn at driving the Vauxhall.
- [Mrs. Hall] Right, I'm driving.
(door slams) - What? No, Mrs. Hall.
- Jimmy'll be all right with Tristan.
- I absolutely forbid--
(door slams)
- Are we going or not?
(building oboe music)
(car ignition)
- Now, remember, this is not the Rover.
It needs to be handled with proper--
Whaaa!
(car accelerating quickly)
- [Anna] This year Mrs. Hall
does some excellent driving,
if I do say so myself, um, in the Vauxhall.
The Vauxhall is 92 years old.
(loud car idling)
- What are you doing here?
- Drive!
(car accelerating noisily)
- [Anna] I'm very grateful
I can drive a manual car,
but it's a lot of fun,
and it looks like it's going
very fast when it's in second gear,
so that's great.
- [Siegfried] Did I mention
we won't be able to pay you this week?
- Who cares!
(loud car driving) (Mrs. Hall squeals with delight)
(laughing)
(car skidding on dirt)
- There's a new mood of optimism and hope among the people,
and a post-war consensus that we must never do this again.
- It is an expensive piece of kit.
- [James] I know.
But the war is almost over.
The world has changed.
We need to change with it.
- I think we already have.
- [Narrator] Season 6 of "All Creatures"
features a storyline
about our characters building the
iconic dry stone walls at Heston Grange,
and recently we visited a dry stone wall competition.
The annual Nidderdale Festival showcases farmers
and cultural traditions that are unique to the Yorkshire Dales.
Recently, Nicholas Ralph, who plays James Herriot,
visited the festival and observed one
of the most iconic events of the day,
the dry stone wall building competition.
- So Roger,
we don't have a fleet of builders here.
Wha- what's going on here? - No.
There's a dry stone walling competition going on,
so there's different classes,
there's some amateurs and veterans.
- [Nicholas] Brilliant.
I mean, the dry stone wallings are
so iconic to Yorkshire, aren't they?
- [Roger] 'tis.
- [Nicholas] They're everywhere.
We go halfway around the world--
- I think there's about 5,000 in the Yorkshire Dales,
I think 5,000 miles.
- 5,000 miles of dry stone walling?
- [Roger] There's nothing like it
in the world.
- And the dry stone wallings, they
are hundreds of years old, this craft.
- It goes back, back to 1600s to 1800s.
So, to enclose it, to look
after sheep and animals and things,
they needed to make dry stone walls
or fences and hedges and that,
so that's why they became really popular.
- [James] I thought you wanted
help with the wall?
- [Richard] Aye, not with the putting.
Sorting's all you're good for.
- Sorting?
- Big...
- Small...
- Middlings.
- Funny-shaped ones.
You start off sorting, then picking.
After three or four years, you get to the "putting."
- Aye, then you get to the putting.
- [James] Three or four years?
- [Nicholas] There's no cement here
there's no, there's nothing else bar the rock.
But tell us a little bit about, because
it's to do with big rocks, little rocks.
- Yeah, they start with the big ones and they'll say,
and then they'll quietly go, and
each course comes in a little bit.
12 inch.
- [Nicholas] They are sort of
like that, kind of, ever so slightly as that.
- [Roger] Yeah, and the top stones
really should span throughout the top,
and then that's tried to stop water going in.
- Ah, right.
- Good luck, James.
- I think I can manage to pick up a few rocks.
- [Jenny] Mmm.
- [Richard] They're--
stones, they're not rocks
you're picking up, they're stones.
- And the inside, is that little ones
they put, they're kind of fillers, is it?
- Yeah, the worst ones, yeah, fillings.
And if you notice, they're all taking time in placing them.
- [Nicholas] Yeah.
- [Roger] If you try and cross your joints,
you don't have a straight joint.
- [Nicholas] See that, yeah,
you can even see in the pattern.
- [Helen] Rounded middling.
- Right, rounded... middle...
Here we go, this one looks about right.
- Perfect.
- [ Richard] Are you kidding me?
It's probably in the craft of it we did a little bit
this year in Series Six of "All Creatures,"
and James, the wide place, doing a little bit of dry stone.
- You're a little bit of, yeah.
- He stood there a little bit of dry stone walling, but it was
hilarious because they, like this,
they took down a bit of a farmer's wall.
And then some of the guys, two of the guys
that do dry stone walling that work on the crew,
they put it up for me,
and then I had to come in and go,
"Oh, is it all right, Helen, did I do a good job?"
It looks amazing, because they're professionals.
- Is it bad?
- [Helen] Mmm...
- Oh, it's bad, isn't it?
- A few minor adjustments, it won't be terrible.
- And that's a bar just low enough for me to clear.
- Hmmm.
- The professionals, well, they had this up
a lot quicker than
- Should, hopefully, yeah.
They started at about 9 o'clock this morning,
so, they'll come get finished.
- [Nicholas] Right, so a few hours in?
- [Roger] Yeah, yeah.
Should get finished 3, 4 o'clock.
- [Nicholas] It's great to see
as well you've got all
all generations doing it as well.
- [Roger] Yeah, yeah.
(hammers hitting rocks)
- Roger, thanks very much.
- Well done.
- Cheers.
(gentle music)
- [Richard] And James definitely
did this wall, did he?
- Mmm.
(gentle music)
- Do he want to do rest of 'em?
(Helen laughs)
(gate squeaks)
(whimsical music)
In the wrong bloody job.
(whimsical music concludes)
- [Narrator] Season Six is full
of new experiences and new faces.
Now, let's take a look
at Tristan's new love, Charlotte.
(soft music)
- [Charlotte] Captain Farnon?
- Morning. - Morning.
- [Charlotte] That is impressive.
You ask for one Captain Farnon
and they provide a spare.
(Siegfried chuckles)
- Administrative mix-up.
It's family practice.
- [Callum] Tristan does go
on a bit of a journey.
He finds new love this series with Charlotte.
- I know stablehands that swear by singing to their horses.
Pilbrick's more of a sophisticate.
- Philbrick.
- [Callum] You couldn't have
two characters from more different sort of
sides of the spectrum in terms of class.
- [Charlotte] Thank you, Derek.
- Well, I could get used to this chauffeur business.
(gentle music)
(door slam)
Only problem, he wouldn't stop at The Drovers.
- [Charlotte] He was under
strict instructions.
- [Callum] He's sort of going
above and beyond to help and save her horse,
who is very, very precious to her,
because she's also spent time in the
military with this particular horse.
- Sorry, Philbrick was at war?
- [Charlotte] In Sicily.
(gentle music)
I was in the Auxiliary Territorial Service
and he was abandoned by an Italian army unit,
so we took him for our supply lines.
Such a dear boy, I retrained him as a riding horse.
(gentle music)
- I- I was in Sicily.
(pensive music)
- [Anna] The arrival of
Charlotte Beauvoir is rather
wonderful because they clearly click well
and she has some understanding of his world.
And what it's like to come home from having been
in this completely different environment.
- Isn't it strange,
back in Sicily, the dust,
the flies, the sun roasting you in your tent,
all I could think about was England.
(distant thud)
Now that I'm here.
(birds chirping)
- Yes.
(soft music)
- [Callum] Tristan saves this horse
and it's better than any sort of chat
up line he could ever come up with
for any other love interest in any other season.
- These antibiotics should get him back on form.
- [Charlotte] You're sure?
- Yes, I'm sure.
(soft barn noises)
- I can't tell you how it feels, Tristan.
(horse snuffle)
Thank you so much.
(quiet barn noise)
- No, humbug.
If we'd worked it out before your party,
you wouldn't have had a ruined evening.
(kissing noise)
(gentle shuffling in barn)
- [Callum] The ideal woman for him
wouldn't it be someone
who he can bounce off with and have jokes with
and just match that level of sort of
wit that he's got, that razor sharp wit
and that's exactly what Charlotte is.
- To what do I owe this honor?
- Ohhh...
I come bearing feeble apologies and flimsy excuses.
- [Charlotte] You really know how to sweep
a girl off her feet.
(Tristan chuckles)
(kissing sound)
- Do you want your father running me
off the grounds with a pitchfork?
- Well, if you'd like me to stop.
- Ah, how painful can a pitchfork be?
(gentle music)
- Tristan would need somebody who made him laugh.
That's the most important thing
because laughter is so much
part of the way he sees the world
and deals with the world.
- I think we had a lucky escape.
Imagine the damage you could have done
with a croquet mallet.
- I practiced.
- You didn't.
- I bloody practiced.
- That's so sweet.
- [Tristan] I was ready to lie convincingly about croquet.
- [Charlotte] Okay, Aunt Edna.
(Tristan laughs)
- [Callum] They go on these interesting
dates, these funny dates,
and they're constantly bantering
with each other and she doesn't care what
her dad thinks and he doesn't care what his
side of the family thinks and they
just go together very, very well.
(music swells)
- I wanted the world for her once.
Now, I just want her home.
And I want her happy.
(birds chirping)
I like seeing her happy.
(gentle music)
- I think coming back from the war,
he's had a tough time.
So I think he's going to need someone who
can be understanding about that and very kind.
- My concern is that I shall never
quite be the same chap I was again.
(distant crowd noise)
(distant crowd) (gentle music fades up)
As sincerely as is possible to be, Tristan.
- Dearest Tristan, that's quite all right.
I like you now.
Always, Charlotte.
(gentle music)
(bottles clinking)
- [Callum] Their relationship just
goes from strength to strength,
really, over the course of the series.
He introduces her to his family, which
I think he was very nervous about doing.
(Callum laughs)
In case they embarrass him
just by being themselves.
- Everybody, this is Charlotte.
Charlotte, everybody.
- [Siegfried] How wonderful to
have you here!
Come in, come in.
Sit on the receipt.
It doesn't matter.
- [James] How do you do,
Harriet?
Uh, no, wait.
Harriet's Monday's, which one is this?
- Jim!
- I'm joking.
(Charlotte laughs)
I'm kidding.
- Can you make paper planes?
- Oh, I make fantastic paper planes.
- [Callum] They just really get on
with each other.
They just really like each other.
It's just a very natural chemistry.
It's been a really, really sweet storyline.
(Big Band swing music playing on the radio)
(gentle music)
- [Narrator] One of our favorite aspects
of "All Creatures" is the
ever-growing relationships within the
Alderson family.
(whoosh sound)
(gentle music fading)
- [James] Tell your sister I'm taking her
to the flicks on Saturday night.
"The Picture of Dorian Gray."
- [Jenny] Well, she deserves a break.
But who's going to be looking after your children?
- Ah...
I'm getting ahead of myself.
- I'll check me diary.
- [Nicholas] James and Helen
have made the decision to go to Heston to be
supported by Richard and Jenny, who
do a wonderful job, especially Jenny.
- What have you got there?
- For the children.
(rummaging sounds)
But might as well have 'em now.
No point in me hanging on to them.
- [Helen] Idn't that kind?
Excuse me, what did you say to your Auntie Jenny?
- Ta.
- [Jenny] You're very welcome.
- [Rachel] Every season Helen and
Jenny go through
something else
and they grow up together and Helen's
gone from being her
sort of mother figure to her friend.
But this season brings
something completely new.
We've unveiled another level of their relationship.
- Jenny's finally applied for
nursing college.
- [James] When did this happen?
- [Helen] Sent the letter last week.
We think it were just the war holding her back.
- We'll have another Sister Rose, eh?
- [Neil] This season we see
that Helen's sister, Jenny,
uh, has a burning ambition to be a nurse.
(music swells)
- You got in?
- I got in.
- She got in!
(relieved sighing and hugging)
- She always probably knew that she'd fly
the nest at some point and that she'd want to
go and spread her wings but there's a
really real moment where she's going to leave and
she might not come back.
- [Helen] Jenny's not leaving home.
(quiet chewing noises)
What?
Well, you're not, are you?
You're going to nursing college and then you're coming back.
- I haven't given it much thought.
(distant barnyard noises)
- [Siegfried] Yes, you see, the fledgling
spreads its wings
and flies the nest and all you can do
is hope it doesn't get plucked out
of the air by some passing eagle.
Or worse, come back like my br--
Ow!
- You've done a lovely job with this cake, Helen.
- [Rachel] It also shines a light
on her own life, I think.
She kind of looks back and goes, well,
I did- I didn't get the opportunity to do that.
She became a sort of surrogate parent so young
from losing her mum, so she never really got
the opportunity to spread her wings
and do what Jenny's doing.
So there's actually a bit of,
I think, grief and nostalgia with that.
Although it's wonderful that she's got
the opportunity and she's doing that,
it's also a lot of other things and we get to
explore that in this season, which is lovely.
- [Richard] I put far too much
on your young shoulders,
far too much.
(gentle piano music)
- [Helen] You say it like Jenny
was a burden.
She wasn't.
(gentle soft music)
Far from it.
She were the reason I got up every morning.
(soft music)
The reason I were able to live again.
- [Richard] Aye, you had plans
and dreams of your own, though, didn't you?
It's not what you wanted.
- [Rachel] On a honeymoon, Helen said,
this is the
furthest I've ever been away from home.
She just hasn't had the opportunity.
So it brings up all that as well.
So it's really a tsunami
of emotions for her in that little
storyline where Jenny's about to leave.
- I don't know anything about it.
(emotional piano music)
I don't know where anything is.
I don't know anyone.
- [Helen] It's what adventures
are for, idn't it?
Discovering all them things.
(soft music)
- You never got your adventure.
- That's incredibly difficult for Helen to
get her head round and almost doesn't
she doesn't want to.
I think she sort of fights against
it for a bit until they have
a lovely moment and they find a sweet spot.
And she realises that that's just the natural evolution.
- How about you come with me...
to London?
- What?
- [Jenny] Just to settle me in.
- You don't need me.
- [Jenny] I want you to come.
It can be our adventure together.
(sensitive piano music)
- It's all right by me, love.
(sustained emotional note)
- [Rachel] There's a beautiful moment
at the start of the series where she
finds this quilt that she'd forgotten she had.
And it's sort of a huge thing
with lots of different patches
that generations of Alderson women have
sort of sewn their little pocket on.
- Each patch represents
a different moment in our lives.
- What's this one?
(shuffling) (soft music)
- [Helen] Mum and Dad's wedding.
- [James] Ah.
(James chuckles)
- [Rachel] There's one of her mom
and there's a horse on there
and it's like their little family unit.
And then one from their grandma.
- Me grandma sewed that one on.
(soft piano)
- [James] Aww.
- [Helen] And then my mum did
the last one for our Jenny Wren.
There.
- [Rachel] There's a wren
and there's a sun.
And Richard says, "Ah, there you all are."
There's the- there's the family.
And Helen looks at it and kind of goes,
"Oh, no... where am I?"
Because they'd always called Jenny, Jenny Wren.
And Richard Alderson sort of swallows
back some emotion and says, "You're the sun."
- [Richard] They're two beautiful girls.
- [Helen] Are you seeing things?
Where am I?
It's just a wren.
(blanket moving along her leg)
- [Richard] You're the sun.
(gentle music swells)
- [Rachel] It made me so emotional
because we hadn't rehearsed it
and he took a moment
and it was so subtle and swallowed it back.
I was a mess time and time again.
(soft music)
- Jenny.
- All right?
- It's done.
(emotional orchestral music)
- [Rachel] She gets to sort of add
to this beautiful
thing and gives it to Jenny in the end and says,
"You need to add your patch."
And that's quite an emotional thing.
It's like it's a,
a visual reference
of the decades of time and
such a beautiful thing to keep.
(music swells)
- Over to you.
- Me?
- You're an Alderson girl, aren't you?
It's time to sew your little patch of the world.
(bittersweet music)
What?
(music continues)
(Jenny inhales deeply)
- It's just...
I don't quite know what that is yet.
- There's no rush.
(piano theme music)
- [Narrator] When we return,
we'll continue our look back
at Season Six of "All Creatures Great and Small."
We'll take a look at all
the new animals of the season
and the cast's hopes
for their characters in Season Seven.
You won't want to miss that and much more in
"All Creatures Great and Small, Chapter Six."
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at pbswisconsin.org. - [Narrator] Welcome back to
"All Creatures Great and Small, Chapter Six."
Today, we are taking a look at
everything we love about Season Six.
Coming up, we'll take a look at all
the new animals we meet this season
and hear from the cast about their
hopes for Season Seven.
(jaunty theme music)
But first, let's examine
Tristan's return from the war.
(whooshing sound)
(theme music resolving)
- [Woman] We owe you all so much.
You're all so brave.
- Thank you.
- [Anna] In terms of Tris coming home,
there's the fear of, is he
physically okay?
Is he mentally okay?
What's the toll
the war is going to have taken on him?
- There's talk of being redeployed to India.
(crackling fire)
- Scared?
- [Tristan] No, not a bit of it.
I'm excited at the prospect.
(poignant music)
All right, somewhat scared.
- [Callum] Over the course of the series,
it was made very clear to me
that Tristan's seen some very harrowing things over there,
but it's never explicitly sort of said at all what that was.
He's got this incredibly prestigious
medal, which he's not telling anyone about,
which could not be further from the type of character that we
know Tristan to be from previous series.
- What did you expect?
Master strategist, fearless combatant,
expert marksman.
I have it all.
I'm the soldier's soldier.
- Don- don't make light of it.
That's a real achievement.
(soft music)
- Thank you.
- [Samuel] It turns out
that it's not all hunky-dory,
and there's a lot going on under the surface.
He's whole on the outside, but something inside is wrong.
- I returned from war once.
Anyway, I'm here if you're ever inclined to talk.
- Thanks.
- Tristan and I bond over a horse who is
disturbed, scared,
and it throws a switch in Tristan.
(dissonant unsettling noise)
(horse braying) (hooves stomping)
- [Callum] It gets brought
out of him by a
particularly sort of distressing visit to a farm,
and it all comes spilling out to Siegfried.
- [Mrs. Hall] It's clear to me
that there are things you need to talk about.
Well...
There's someone here you can talk to.
(shifting in the pew)
Your brother.
- [Samuel] I think the moment where
I do finally
get him to talk about why he's a war hero
is an extraordinarily important
moment in our relationship,
after which everything is different.
There's no going back.
- I got a medal
because I managed to save a few chaps.
(emotional piano)
(Tristan sniffles)
But Billy wasn't one of them.
(soft music)
He saved me, but I couldn't save him.
(sobbing breaths)
- [Callum] Siegfried has gone through
the exact same thing in World War I,
and so there was probably no one better for him to talk to.
- No one wants it to be over more than me.
(sniffling)
But if all it takes
is some scared horse to wrench me back,
then maybe it never will be.
(sobbing breath)
In here.
(soft crying)
(patting on shoulder)
(Tristan sobs)
- Shhhh...
Shh, shhh.
- [Samuel] I think my main memory
of that day,
apart from Cal's beautiful performance,
was of the crew
and the respect and stillness and concentration
that they brought to the day so
that he could work, and I could listen.
- Your concern is much appreciated.
(door slamming)
- You need to get back to your party.
- You sure?
(distant bird chirping)
- We're all right here, I think.
- [Samuel] Getting him back
and getting the shire horse calm, uh, again
is a great bonding experience.
(uplifting music swells)
(horse breathes heavily)
- Shh, okay, you're soon to be well.
(Tristan sniffles)
All is soon to be well.
(pizzicato string music)
- [Narrator] No season of "All Creatures"
would be complete without
new animal adventures,
and Season Six is no exception.
Let's take a look at the animals of Season Six.
(music sting)
(quirky pizzicato strings)
- Oh, what on earth?
(clattering of hooves and bells)
If- if you want me to look at her,
you'll have to help me catch her.
- Well, right you are.
- [Nicholas] - We see very much James
the vet come back this year,
so I get called out to all these wonderful different calls
with various different animals, great or small.
- She doesn't appear to be pregnant.
- Well, that's not possible.
- [James] Well, I can state categorically
from the position I'm in that it is.
- [Jimmy] Does this happen often?
- [Both] No.
- [Neil] We do try and
make it as varied and interesting as possible
in terms of the animals we have across the series,
and in this season, there's one or two animals
that we've not seen before in "All Creatures."
- [Bird] Silly ass.
(girls giggling)
- Di- did he just say...
- Yes.
And I'll tell you what,
he says it like he means it.
- [Andy] We have a parrot in this
one, and he's very unhappy
because he's lost his owner.
What the writers do and the show
does is try to kind of parallel
the stories of the animals with the human world.
So Tristan's having a problem,
the animal story will somehow kind of reflect their life
and how they both work it out between
the animals and their own relationships.
- George has been through a lot.
Truth is, it's going to take him
some time to learn to love people again,
(Bird squawks)
no matter how much you love him.
(Bird pecking)
- But we can keep trying, hmm?
(whimsical oboe)
- [Rachel] We had a foal,
and in real life, he's a teenager,
so he can be a bit sort of angsty.
And I've never seen it
come through in an animal so much,
but he really was.
He was kind of cheeky, a bit bored at times.
He would try and get in the pockets
of all the animal handlers and cast.
So that was probably one of my most favorite moments.
- [Helen] He came up
with a name for her.
Florence.
(gentle music)
After Florence Nightingale.
- It's perfect.
- [Nicholas] We have this wonderful
story of the dog track,
which comes from the books as well,
which is a wonderful story.
(men chuckling)
- James Herriot, I'm here about the...
- Ah, veterinary!
Thank God for that!
Right, see you later, Stan.
Oh, I'm ever so grateful, Mr. Herriot.
I really am.
You've got me out of a tight spot here, you have.
- [Nicholas] It was just a real
event episode.
Where we built the whole set and
everything, so it was just absolutely fabulous.
There were 20 dogs there and 100 extras.
(dramatic building music)
(music continues) (yelling crowd in distance)
(dramatic music crescendoes)
- If you stood in the middle of the
dog track and you looked around 360 degrees,
there wasn't a single thing that
you could see that wasn't from 1945.
- I've trained dogs all my life.
They are my life.
And I train winners when they come in.
It might not mean much to anyone
else, but to me, it's everything.
- [Nicholas] I just worked recently
with Danny Boy,
who's a greyhound, a wonderful dog.
I came up with a song for him.
(singing) "You are so sweet
and you are so lovely.
And did I tell you that you're sweet?"
(laughs)
One of the other actors
conned on and was like, "What?"
And then every time we'd walk past he'd be like,
"And I did I tell you
that you're lovely, (laughs)
Danny Boy?"
- [James] He needs treatment.
(distant crowd noise)
Every moment you wait puts him more at risk.
(kissing sound)
(dogs whining and panting)
(deep exhalation)
(distant crowd noise)
- Take him.
(jaunty music intro)
- We're trying to breed Tricki in Series Six,
and it's a difficult journey
because he's a geriatric dog.
But we understand where she's coming from
and she's an important client and
we don't want to disappoint her.
- [Mrs. Pumphrey] Now, Tricki's lineage.
Ummm...
Be my guest.
Take it home.
Then you can have a thorough read.
- Mrs. Pumphrey, you said this was urgent.
- [Mrs. Pumphrey] Oh, it is.
- [Neil] The secret to a good
animal story
is it's not really about the animal.
It's really about the owner.
- The Pekingese is considered
a royal breed in China.
- Ah...uh, and poodles were steadfast
companions to Marie Antoinette and all.
(quirky music)
- I'm sorry, Mister?
- [Mr. Bolton] Bolton.
- [Mrs. Pumphrey] Bolton, but uh...
it's quite out of the question.
- [Samuel] We discover that it's
more to do with
perhaps her feeling of not wanting to be forgotten
as well as her feeling that his
line should continue.
- Tricki's given so much.
(Tricki panting)
He's had such a life.
(orchestral swell)
(Tricki licking his lips)
I can't abide the thought that one day he may be gone
with nothing to show that he was ever here.
(emotional music)
- [Samuel] I love my interactions
with Tricki.
They're some of my favorite moments of the whole job,
but one is quite enough.
(laughing)
- I don't want to give Tricki the injections.
The side effects,
they can be drastic and not just physically.
It could change his personality completely.
At his age, there's probably
nothing that will make a difference.
So surely it's better to enjoy the time he's got.
I'm sorry, I know how much you were hoping.
(melancholy music)
- Not at all.
You've been entirely professional.
(Mrs. Pumprhey sniffles)
And you said what you believed to be true.
I can't ask for more.
(sad music fades)
- [Narrator] Whether it's inside
or outside of Skeldale House,
the sense of community present in "All Creatures"
is one of the show's greatest strengths.
- I've always thought it's not
just about making the animal better
or the owner.
Does you lot good as well.
- You think?
- Looking after others
takes you out of yourself, don't it?
(gentle music swell)
- [Andy] Every great drama really
is about family
and what a family does and how it cares for one another.
About a community that cares for one another.
- [Siegfried] Apologies for the delay.
But with sincere thanks to Mr. Wentworth here,
we are now in possession of an entire cartload
of his famous home brew.
(crowd excitedly cheers)
Come and get it.
- [Nicholas] The stories themselves,
they are about kindness and love
and for looking after
your little pocket of the world
and it harks back to simpler times
and really the onus on helping out your neighbour.
- If you ever need any help again,
- OK, well, I'll... I'll have a think
about your offer.
(gentle music)
I've thought about your offer.
(gentle piano)
When can you start?
- Now?
- Good lad.
- We've hit a period of time in the world
where people are enjoying that kind of escapism
and I think this gives people some head space.
(big brass band playing) (fire crackling)
- [Samuel] Siegfried has an unusual line
in the Christmas episode,
"Well, everybody's home this Christmas,
so I'm rather looking forward to it."
- Are you looking forward to Christmas, Mrs. Stokes?
- Yeah, well, it'll be a farmer's Christmas,
same as any other day.
But I might let the old girl in the kitchen
for a few treats.
If she behaves herself.
- That's a big if, knowing Hilda.
- [Mrs. Stokes] Aye. (both laughing)
What about you?
- Well, everybody's home this year.
I'm rather looking forward to it.
- [Mrs. Stokes] Oh, good.
Well, you don't want to be rattling round
that big house on your own again, do you?
- Not if I can help it, no.
- [Neil] In this year's
Christmas special,
The Drovers is planning
a very big Christmas Eve event
for everybody who's going to be back from war
with a very symbolic Christmas tree.
- You've probably noticed this fine tree here
(soft laughter) (gentle music)
as we know because of the blackout,
many of us haven't bothered with Christmas lights for a while.
(emotional music)
But all of that,
(music continues)
that's all over.
- [Rachel] The show is ultimately about
love and friendship and community
and looking after each other, and that doesn't age.
- I'm sure you'll all join me in
raising your glasses to those we lost.
(melancholy music)
Let's hope their sacrifice wasn't in vain.
(music continues)
Let's hope that it means the world
doesn't go down this dark road again.
And let's hope the year ahead
brings us all the things we truly need.
Good tidings, comfort and joy.
- [All] Hear, hear!
- [Samuel] I think doing a series
where people on the whole are connected
and support each other through
misfortunes and unhappinesses
and glory in each other's triumphs,
that's a good thing to build a series around.
(uplifting music)
(crowd cheers loudly)
- [All] Merry Christmas!
- Merry Christmas everyone!
(festive holiday music)
- [All] Merry Christmas!
- [Narrator] Now it's time to look ahead
and hear from the cast
about their hopes for our favorite
characters in the upcoming Season Seven.
(delightful pizzicato music)
- Looks like a busy day ahead.
- Yes, though small animal work won't keep us afloat.
- It all adds up.
We'll chase any outstanding money.
Then with Tris here, we're three vets until the summer.
(truck idling)
Get our noses to the grindstone
and I think we can be back in the black in no time.
- My hopes for James in Season Seven
would be more of the same
in that he continues to grow as a
person professionally and personally.
I think that's just wonderful to see
a bit more of that and the family developing.
- Morning.
Here you go, Uncle Tris.
Jimmy's made you a lovely egg.
- Oooh, what a delicious-looking
soft-boiled egg.
Can't wait to taste it.
(egg cracking)
Oop!
You tricked me, you little rascal.
(laughter)
- Are you on kitchen duty, eh?
- I would like Tristan in Series Seven
to take even more of an active role
in Skeldale again and then just continue to be the person
that he's becoming in the community, you know,
helping out Maggie in The Drovers,
helping out the person, not just the animal.
- [Tristan] If it weren't for
that outsized brain of yours,
Philbrick was a cert for Jeff Mallock's.
- Mm-hmm.
(soft music)
- Doesn't mean you can't respect me
as a bloody good vet.
(soft music)
- You've come back
a very impressive fellow all round.
It's no surprise a woman like
Miss Beauvoir would notice.
(music resolves)
- We're coming out the end of the war, so
minds have to turn to what will be next
and start to think about,
well, what's the future?
They're able to see that now it's on the horizon.
- We spend our lives trying to find our other half.
Even if one half dies, we go off
trying to find another that matches.
(gentle music)
- [Samuel] I want love
for Siegfried, and then he
might start to see what's in front of him.
(satisfying thwack)
- Yeah! (cheering)
- She's done it, she's got it right there!
(Mrs. Hall laughing) (continuing applause)
(dramatic music swells)
- [Rachel] I hope that Helen and James
and the kids get to have some fun.
It's been very serious in their life for a long time.
I'd love to see them having fun doing
sort of what James and Helen do best,
but with these two little people
in tow, that'd be great.
- You're not going to fall in love
with some handsome London hero soldier
and run away with him, are you?
- I hadn't thought about that.
But now you mention it.
- Careful! (splashing)
No, stop it!
- Careful!
- [Helen] Stop it!
I'm kidding, I'm kidding!
- I want everybody to look forward
with the optimism and the hope
that post-war Britain did look forward in.
(distant fireworks)
- Ah, look at the colors!
(distant fireworks popping)
(James exhaling)
(uplifting music) (fireworks in the distance)
- [Jimmy] Do you think Rosie
stayed up to watch these fireworks?
- [James] Yeah, I hope so.
(music fades)
- [Anna] There's also the joy
of having everybody home,
so I think having everybody around
the table will be good.
(Anna chuckles)
(dishes clinking)
- Ah, Mrs. H!
- All right, then.
- I want 12 peas, please.
(music sting)
(delightful theme music)
- [Narrator] Thank you for joining us
for this comprehensive
look back at Season Six
of "All Creatures Great and Small"
on MASTERPIECE.
We've explored the new faces,
new animals,
and new optimism of postwar England
as the cast and characters look
forward to what lies ahead for them.
Until next time, this has been
"All Creatures Great and Small, Chapter Six."
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