![]() ![]() Herriot’s wife Helen was originally played by Carol Drinkwater, who became a rural sex symbol and received mailbags full of marriage proposals. The most memorable was posh Mrs Pumphrey’s pampered Pekingese called Tricky Woo. ![]() They tended to a mix of agricultural animals (spending many a scene with their arms inside cows) and local pets. Skeldale House surgery in the fictional North Yorkshire village of Darrowby (filmed mostly in Askrigg) was staffed by three vets: Herriot himself (Christopher Timothy), his eccentric tweed-clad boss Siegfried Farnon (Robert Hardy) and Siegfried’s hapless “little brother” Tristan (Peter Davison). Before it does, why not whet your appetite by revisiting the nourishingly nostalgic original adaptation? A remake of the classic James Herriot memoirs arrives on Channel 5 this spring to coincide with the 50th anniversary of the bestselling books. ![]()
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