FAVOURITE VETS

All Creatures Great And Small, 4.20pm, Drama

THE recent Channel 5 adaptation of James’s Herriot’s tales of 1930s vets has been a joy to watch, and a third series is currently in production. If you can’t wait for the return of Nicholas Ralph and Samuel West as young James and the eccentric Siegfried, here’s a chance to catch a daily repeat of the classic BBC series, which ran for 90 episodes between 1978 and 1990, and made household names of Christopher Timothy and Robert Hardy. In the very first episode, called Horse Sense, the newly

qualified James (Timothy, pictured) arrives at Skeldale House for a job interview, and soon finds himself busy doing the rounds amid the glorious Yorkshire countryside.