All Creatures Great and Small (Seasons 1–7)

All Creatures Great and Small (1978) is a BBC drama series you can watch online on iFILM. Fresh out of veterinary college, James Herriot joins a country practice in the Yorkshire Dales and finds that livestock medicine means muddy fields, stubborn farmers, and animals that ignore everything he learned at school. Christopher Timothy plays Herriot opposite Robert Hardy as the mercurial Siegfried Farnon and Peter Davison as Farnon's younger brother Tristan.

The show ran on BBC from 1978 to 1990, adapted from the autobiographical books of James Herriot — pen name of James Alfred Wight, an actual country vet from Thirsk, North Yorkshire. What keeps it worth watching is the tone: warm without tipping into saccharine, funny without needing a laugh track, and exact about the rhythms of rural England in the 1930s and 40s. Stream All Creatures Great and Small online on iFILM.