Format:
Video disc
Title:
All creatures great & small. The specials
Other title(s):
Specials
Uniform Title:
All creatures great & small (Television program : 1978-1990). Selections.
ISBN:
9780780661288
Publication:
[London, England] : BBC Worldwide Americas, Inc. ; Burbank, CA : Distributed in the USA and Canada by Warner Home Video Inc., 2010.
Physical Description:
1 videodisc (approximately 179 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
General Note:
Title from container.
From the books by James Herriot.
Extras: on location featurette ; who's who in the cast.
Contents:
1983 special / adapted by Brian Finch ; directed by Terence Dudley -- 1985 special / adapted by Johnny Byrne ; directed by Peter Moffatt.
Summary:
The 1983 special: "James returns to Darrowby following his wartime service in the R.A.F. though little has changed in the Dales in the intervening six years, James finds it difficult to adjust to the peacetime routine and to friends and family who seem like strangers"--Container.
The 1985 special: "Siegfried waxes lyrical about the accelerating rate of scientific progress as James proceeds to plod along with tried and tested remedies. How long can the practice and the surrounding countryside resist the oncoming tide of progress?--Container.
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