Christmas Special, All Creatures Great & Small - Anglophile Friday

James Herriot and Helen
played by
Christopher Timothy and Helen Drinkwater

Photo via DailyMail.co.uk

When All Creatures Great & Small was on PBS in the 1980s, I looked forward to Sunday evenings when I'd make a cup of cocoa and get it ready just in time to sit down and hear that cheerful opening tune of 'All Creatures.' That, of course, is where my love of Yorkshire began.

The TV series was based on the books by 'James Herriot' (Alf Wight), who began his veterinary practice in c. 1940 in the Yorkshire Dales and Moors, working out of 23 Kirkgate in the town of Thirsk.

From YouTube, my very favorite episode of All Creatures Great & Small

(or at least one of my favorite. I loved so many of them!)

It's one of the Christmas specials, the one with

the REAL Helen.

From left to right: Robert Hardy (Sigfried) has a long, long list of movies to his credit, including Sherlock Holmes, Foyle's War, and Inspector Morse. Christopher Timothy dropped off my radar until I saw him in an old mystery movie.  Margaretta Scott (Mrs. Pomfrey) turned up in a Dorothy L. Sayers' movie as Lord Peter's mother, and Peter Davison (Tristan) was Dr. Who and Campion, among his many credits (and some discredits, I think, like Distant Shores.)  

I don't know how anyone can grow up in Yorkshire and ever move away.
Photo via DailMail.co.uk

 The Dispensary
Now part of the World of James Herriot museum
at 23 Kirkgate, Thirsk

 The Kitchen
Now part of The World of James Herriot museum

So this evening, go make yourself a cup of cocoa and enjoy the above YouTube video, which will take you to that wonderful world of All Creatures Great & Small set in the 1940s Yorkshire. You won't be sorry.

This post was written earlier in the week and scheduled to publish. I will be away from the computer today to spend time with my daughter who is visiting from Texas. Have a wonderful weekend and thanks for stopping in!

See you next week. 

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Movie Lines - 'Where there's a key...'

From My Junk Drawer

'Where there's a key, there must be a door 

- and I intend to find it!' 

- Mary from The Secret Garden

'Curtains and fountains of roses'

The Secret Garden was such a sweet movie. Our youngest daughter had nearly the entire script memorized when she was little. I remember the line, 'The moors are ugly,' Mary's assessment of the Yorkshire moors, after being moved from India when her parents were killed in a cholera epidemic. I won't make a comment on the Yorkshire moors, for I'd be happy to be in Yorkshire just about any time, although I must say that the moors aren't as pretty as the Dales, in my opinion.

All that to say that even today, when I see a skeleton key, especially, that movie pops into my mind and I hear Mary (and our little daughter) saying,

'Where there's a key, there must be a door, and I intend to find it!'

Isn't it odd how little things, like a skeleton key in a junk drawer, trigger memories like that!  How about you? What's your memory story? What's the movie line that pops into your head now and then?  Okay, here's one more of mine:

'Doctor Marvin! Doctor Leo Marvin!'  

Anyone know what that's from?

Okay, your turn!

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