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All Creatures Great and Small - The Complete Collection

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Having the entire All Creatures Great and Small collection is really terrific in that you can view all episodes in order including the specials. This series is not just a vetinary saga but the life of a North country community and how this changes over time. Sensitively filmed, it is a timeless portrayal - history in a fun way if you like.

Have almost finished watching the whole collection and it is almost addictive. It's relaxing to spend time with some beautiful people especially if you are an animal lover. It is money well spent.Those Brits are the best.

Few if any productions in the very history of television have resulted in such unanimous approval and delight throughout the world as have the wonderfully warm and humorous films emanating from the writings of James Herriott, the late British veterinarian now known to have practiced in real life as Alf Wight. And small wonder in an age when beauty and human warmth for their own sake are virtually lost to humankind. I can say with honesty and openness that never in my 38 years of reviewing films have I encountered anything produced for television that exceeds the sheer unbridled joy of the Herriott stories. Any words I might humbly contribute will fade one day like desert-blown dust, but I am convinced that these masterpieces will live long beyond the breath and memory of anyone readings these words. I am enthralled each and every time I revisit the series, which I try to do every 18-24 months!

We received the All Creatures Great & Small-The Complete Collection and am so thrilled the quality-- (and, of course, the stories)! Speed of delivery great as always as well...just love Amazon!

But, because, just under the image of the dvd set under "Better Together" section it said "buy this dvd with All Creatures Great & Small-the Specials" we made the mistake of assuming the specials were NOT included in the set. We know with the Little House on the Prairie dvd's we had to purchase specials seprately.

The complete collection with this All Creatures set means just that! So when the specials we ordered as "better together" arrive we will need to return it. I did read about the set but never read about the specials being part of the set. The "better together" section threw me off, I guess.

We highly recommend this series for anyone. It is a great series to view again & again! We would give it 10 stars, if we could! Enjoy

Absolutely marvelous---read all of the books, then watched the programs years ago on television, never forgot them, and welcomed the opportunity to be able to watch them again (and again!)

I was delighted to get the complete DVD collection of all episodes and specials for the BBC series All Creatures Great And Small. Besides the terrific episodes, there are special features such as an interview with the real James Herriot as well as cast members. As a history teacher I enjoy the touches to bring to life the 1930s, 1940s and 1950s.
This is one of the few television shows that is funny, wholesome and riveting. The challenge of a vet trying to heal patients who cannot talk using the (now) primative medicines of the 1930s is almost as engaging as the human interactions.
With the deplorable (might one say depraved) state of American television, this is an excellent alterntive for great story telling.

Here is what is in the set I own: ASIN: B0011V7PSM.

All 90 TV episodes that were ever made according to jamesherriot dot org. Yep every single one is here, including the 3 specials.


Sliding up the cover of the heavy outer display box reveals 7 seasonal box sets inside plus another box with a single disc containing two specials. Each of the 8 are exactly as individually pictured elsewhere at Amazon. The Season 7 box includes the 1990 special. The "specials" package has the 1983 and 1985 specials.

28 Dvds in all.

Along the way there are extras, including a long interview session with the cast, and a reunion made by them a few years later as well. Three episodes have a full length running audio commentary by the cast. A program about the museum, another about the production.

Now the books are of course not in this set of videos. But anyway, here is list of all Wight's printed books of stories about Dr. James Herriot. Other books of Herriot stories, such as the 'dog' and 'cat' books, are merely selections taken from out of these.

All the American editions:
# 1972 ALL CREATURES GREAT AND SMALL
# 1974 ALL THINGS BRIGHT AND BEAUTIFUL
# 1977 ALL THINGS WISE AND WONDERFUL
# 1981 THE LORD GOD MADE THEM ALL
# 1992 EVERY LIVING THING

Original British set:(Same material in this edition as the American. Because the first six British were combined together into 3 double volumes in the American printings).

# If Only They Could Talk (1970)
# It Shouldn't Happen to a Vet (1972)
# Let Sleeping Vets Lie (1973)
# Vet in Harness (1974)
# Vets Might Fly (1976)
# Vet in a Spin (1977)
# The Lord God Made Them All (1981)
# Every Living Thing (1992)

By the way, a matching boxset (8 v. British format) in white paperback is available (I have a set bought Amazon UK, ISBN 978-0-330-44726-3).

Another box set can be found that omits "Every Living Thing" because that set was produced before 1992.

I wish Amazon has six stars to award this show, or sixty. It earns them all, I promise you that.

My wife and I started watching this series together about two years ago, one episode per week, every Sunday night. What a sweet dream that has been! Every week the five of us (wife, two cats, one dog, one husband) would gather in the bedroom, open the sacred Netflix envelope, click the lights off and the TV on, and proceed to "go to Yorkshire". Oh!

What to say about this wonderful, beautiful, transporting, inspiring, entertaining miracle of a TV show? I guess I just said it. In both of our opinions it is the very best television ever.

To wrap this up, let me say that we put our money where our hearts are. After finishing the series out through Netflix, we just had to own it ourselves so that we could go through it again and again whenever we wanted. It's a lot of money. We are not well-to-do. But we are far richer now than we were before All Creatures Great & Small. Enjoy.

After the hit-and-miss watching of this series on PBS, it is great to finally have all the episodes
and in their correct order! How wonderful to see the Britain that was, and no longer is. If you
like animals -- or people -- there's a lot to enjoy here.

well produced and acted series ...i enjoyed reading the James Herriot books years ago and rarely do movie or television series based on books do justice to the actual printed material...was i ever amazed with this production..it brought the characters to life as you follow rural vets through their daily lives starting in pre-war England right through to the early 50's...theres so much humor in the old farmers and their pets and livestock and the scenery of the English Dales is breath taking...i highly recommend this series to anyone...whether or not you have read the books you will really enjoy these films over and over again!!!K.Crawford