Roddy Travers, an itinerant workman, comes to Skeldale with his dog for an emergency operation and deeply impresses James with his way of life.
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Series 5: 4. The Playing Field
With Siegfried in London, Tristan is left with the worst patients.
14-06-2025
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Series 5: 3. Choose A Bright Morning
James receives a cry for help from the isolated Bramley family, who last came to town in 1929.
14-06-2025
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Series 5: 2. Place Of Honour
With Helen still bedridden, James struggles manfully with both chores and children as Siegfried and Tristan look on idly.
07-06-2025
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Series 5: 1. Against The Odds
James battles through snowy dales to save a litter of piglets, and Tristan hopes Siegfried will give him a job.
07-06-2025
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Series 4: 10. For Richer, For Poorer
Young James performs at the piano recital, and Siegfried 'performs' the perfect operation.
31-05-2025
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Series 4: 9. City Slicker
City banker Andrew Bruce, an old school friend of James's, visits Darrowby to experience a few days of rural bliss, but very soon it begins to look like a rural nightmare.
31-05-2025
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Series 4: 8. The Healing Touch
James visits Granville Bennett's lavishly impressive small-animal hospital. The fruits of this veterinary surgery are evidently much richer than the hard-grafting life of James' ...
24-05-2025
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Series 4: 7. Ace, King, Queen, Jack
Calum tickles a few trout, Tricki Woo enters the dog show, and Bramble, the cow with a wink, is a success.
24-05-2025
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Series 4: 6. Only One Woof
A sheepdog that cannot bark and a wild cat receive expert veterinary care, while attractive Mrs Derrick invites Tristan to lunch - to see her Toggenburg goat.
17-05-2025
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Series 4: 5. Hail Caesar!
The Herriots go in for highland dancing, and Siegfried catches fleas. The disappearance of a dead stag could be poaching, and Tricki Woo goes 'crackerdog'.
17-05-2025
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Series 3: 5. If Wishes Were Horses
Wesley Binks is the bane of Darrowby with petty thieving, but when his dog contracts distemper, he turns over a new leaf and resolves to work hard to pay for treatment.
22-03-2025
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Series 1: 3. It Takes All Kinds
James seems to be falling into the routine of being a country vet, but the peace is shattered when Siegfried employs a secretary and James meets Helen Alderson.
26-10-2024
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Series 1: 6. Nothing Like Experience
James makes a date with Helen, without Tristan's help. The practice loses a customer, with Tristan's help. Siegfried stops smoking, which doesn't help anyone.
02-11-2024
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Series 3: 13. Will To Live
It's bad enough when a dog loses its sight, but the vets have the difficult job of breaking the news to its owner.
12-04-2025
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Series 4: 10. For Richer, For Poorer
Young James performs at the piano recital, and Siegfried 'performs' the perfect operation.
31-05-2025
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Series 4: 9. City Slicker
City banker Andrew Bruce, an old school friend of James's, visits Darrowby to experience a few days of rural bliss, but very soon it begins to look like a rural nightmare.
31-05-2025
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Series 4: 2. Barks And Bites
James and Tristan examine a consignment of sheep for export to Russia, and for Tristan, the Russian woman vet is perfect confirmation of his prejudice.
03-05-2025
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Series 2: 4. Beauty Of The Beast
A scrap merchant who ill-treats his horses does not treat the vets much better. Siegfried manages to find the right charge for the problem.
18-01-2025
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Series 1: 1. Horse Sense
Newly qualified, James Herriot arrives in the Yorkshire town of Darrowby to be interviewed for his first job. It's 1936, and work is hard enough to find, but his prospective emp ...
19-10-2024
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Series 4: 4. The Pig Man Cometh
Smallholder Lionel Brough has a motley collection of stock, but when an inheritance allows him to go in for pig keeping in a big way, James diagnoses a case of swine fever.
10-05-2025
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