All Creatures Great & Small (S03)

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Clearly, I remembered to toss a post up for series/season 3.

(This year I'm just adding episode remarks in the comments on this one post, especially with the season nearly being over. Contextual note: For the first two seasons on PF, I tried to have a separate post for each episode as my family watched the show each week. In this archival process, I might follow suit with season 3 and have a bunch of comments on just one post per season.)

Originally posted on Pillowfort on 15 February 2023.

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Pre-Xmas Special Musing, originally commented on PF on 16 February 2023.

James Alfred Wight, aka James Herriot, did enlist in November 1942.

The 1979 series ended the first portion in 1980 with Siegfried and James enlisting at the end of season 3 (not immediately after war is declared in episode 9). The 1983 Xmas special cuts to James returning from the war and having trouble adjusting to civilian life, and from the sounds of reading Wikipedia episode lists, the 1985 Xmas special and second portion starting in 1988 are all clearly post-war.

Quite frankly, I'm not sure what this series is going to do about James and Tristan enlisting immediately after war is declared. The writers aren't really beholden to 1942 or anything, but I also don't really know that we're going to see someone go off to war. I just don't really get the impression that the 2020 series is chomping at the bit to suddenly become a gruesome front-lines war story.

However, I do know there's going to be a series/season 4, so we'll get some view of the beginning of the war at least (probably spring of 1940 to Xmas 1940). [Yeah, the US series/season breakdown includes the Xmas special as our finale, so next week's episode for Xmas 1939 will probably answer some of these questions. For all I know, there's going to be a reserve list or whatever.]