New All Creatures Great and Small Channel 5

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Anyone else looking forward to this? Starts tonight at 9pm.

Why does the actress who played the barmaid look so familiar? Must have seen her in something else.

Thisismytimetoshine

really enjoying it but they have changed the phone number used to be Darrowbury 284 !

Now that is attention to detail!

I used to answer the phone quoting Darrowbury 284 if I got bored years ago ! along with Chinese laundry and others

yet another drama school 'urchin' over-acting.
The young girl playing this part is a normal schoolgirl, from the school my dc used to attend.

I’m enjoying it, just the sort of gentle tv I need at the moment. I watched the originals and read the books many years ago. Yes it’s a bit too clean and Tristan isn’t quite right, but better this week. It’s great to see the local countryside looking so beautiful and it makes a nice change from some of the more disturbing tv being made at the moment.

It must be dreadful to have to kill an animal like that, although he was in dreadful pain. That was a very difficult scene, played well.

Catching up now. This is very well done IMO.

Only seen episode 1/2 Cheesy but ok. Sam West? Is best actor.
Not keen on the Guy from The Durrells so far.
Why would the wife be in the sitting room playing games or eating dinner together in the 1930s?
Did wifes just go upstairs at 7pm in those days?
I never watched original too young but the only thing I was thinking was she wouldn't be involved in the vets or work in general more housewife and dinners.

*why wouldn't.

Mrs Hall? She's the housekeeper, not Siegfried's wife.

Oh I'm talking about Anna Madeleys character. I assumed she was his wife lol

No, she's the housekeeper!

Yes it's rewriting social mores of the time a bit.

I am totally crushing on Siegfried! I also saw that Mrs Hall's name is Audrey and Donald Sinclair's second wife was called Audrey so maybe they will get married? His first wife died of TB if I remember rightly?

They certainly didn't get married in real life, she was much older than him.

Donald's first wife died aged only 24 after drinking contaminated milk. There's a lot in the books about them bovine tubercullin testing, probably a nod to the tragedy.

No she died of brucellosis.

Bovine brucellosis. Contaminated milk.

I really enjoyed tonight's episode.

Standout performance from the actor playing Tricky Woo.

@Clawdy

They certainly didn't get married in real life, she was much older than him.

I understand that, but the relationship the programme seems to be implying between them I wonder if they might eventually put them together.

@Maireas

Donald's first wife died aged only 24 after drinking contaminated milk. There's a lot in the books about them bovine tubercullin testing, probably a nod to the tragedy.

Ah, ok. I definitely read something about TB, possibly in relation to the series. Maybe they'll make it TB in the series. I saw an interview where Sam West said the series would reference the fact Siegfried was a widower.

That's interesting, Ginger, because his widower status was never referred to in the original series.

No, the books don’t mention that Siegfried was a widower either. The first few often mention how Siegfried was a bit of a ladies’ man, not quite at Tristan’s level, but still popular with women.

I'm in love with Tricki Woo.