All Creatures Great and Small - Scottish Country Dancing episode...

[Joshua]

My wife has just completed watching the entire series of All Creatures Great and Small, it's a 70's-era television series about the life and stories of James Herriot in WW2 England (in the fictional town of Darrowby, but filmed in North Yorkshire). Some of the show's "fashion inaccuracies" throw me off a little (wrong shirt collars, beefy shoulderpads on tweed jackets, wide lapels, and other items easily overlooked in the 70's) but it's still a decent show.

There was an episode I recently watched with her where one of the main characters takes part in a Scottish dance festival. Jokes ensue such as "He's came down with a sudden case of Scottish Ancestry". I noted that the character in the show that is Scottish wore a full PC getup with "those dreadful ghillies" to a daytime event, and the English character in question was decked out in a fairly nice grey argyle with brown cap-toed oxfords.

Anyway, interesting episode... I enjoyed it.


*Note: It was the episode "Hail Caeser" S4 E5 with highlights from this Youtube vid http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aAjx8u1FocE

[McClef]

Then you will have seen my late father in it - he played a farmer in one episode and the "knacker man" in another when the cow runs away from him as he is driving it to market and returns to its stall.

I don't think I have managed to see the episode you refer to. however.

There is to be a mini series shown over Christmas on the BBC about the young James Heriot at Glasgow Veterinary School with a Scots accent that he never had in the original series!

[madmacs]

I remember watching them... Suspect I probably didnt appreciate them though (i was only young)

[kilted scholar]

There is to be a mini series shown over Christmas on the BBC about the young James Heriot at Glasgow Veterinary School

For those who like to take records of such things, in the first episode a student is seen in the background in a kilt on a couple of occasions.

[mookien]

Then you will have seen my late father in it - he played a farmer in one episode and the "knacker man" in another when the cow runs away from him as he is driving it to market and returns to its stall. ...

"All Creatures ..." and MOTG are my wife's and my favorite TV series. We just began watching the former for the 2nd time. We'll watch for your father as the "knacker man". In which episode did your father play a farmer? Do you know his stage name, or can you describe the episode? Thanks.

John

[Michael Flemming]

Then you will have seen my late father in it - he played a farmer in one episode and the "knacker man" in another when the cow runs away from him as he is driving it to market and returns to its stall.

I do remember the knacker man, but more from the books than the TV series, which I haven't seen in ages.

Just as a point of interest, the real Alfred White, who wrote the books under the pen name of James Herriot, lived in one (can't recall the details at the moment) of the real adjacent towns of Thirsk and Sowerby, which gave rise to the fictional Darrowby.

[auld argonian]

You know that this just goes to support my theory that everybody in the UK is an actor and that they have appeared in at least one episode off something that we see on Masterpiece Theatre over here...or maybe a Doctor Who...

Best

AA

[Jimmy]

Then you will have seen my late father in it - he played a farmer in one episode and the "knacker man" in another when the cow runs away from him as he is driving it to market and returns to its stall.

I don't think I have managed to see the episode you refer to. however.

There is to be a mini series shown over Christmas on the BBC about the young James Heriot at Glasgow Veterinary School with a Scots accent that he never had in the original series!

I've been watching the Young James Herriot, the third and final episode is shown tonight (Tuesday), I've found it quite a good and interesting programme mostly populated with good Scots actors with true Scots accents.
In the first episode one of the young students was wearing a kilt at the vet college, he is the actor that potrays Charlie in the Scots soap 'River City'

[Charlie]

There is to be a mini series shown over Christmas on the BBC about the young James Heriot at Glasgow Veterinary School with a Scots accent that he never had in the original series!

James Heriot - true name Alf Whyte - was Scottish and settled in Yorkshire. The BBC chose not to have him speak with a Scottish accent in All Creatures Great and Small. The new mini series of the student days on BBC1 (December 2011) has just finished and is very good. It even had some Scottish Dancing!

[McClef]

I knew he was Scots as that was clear in the books. What I was querying was the consistency of the BBC.